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  • May 3, 2024

    "The Hug" Jazzletter, July 15, 1982, by Gene Lees   “David Raksin called that morning, May 17, 1981, and said simply, "Hugo is gone," and my eyes misted, even though we had known he was going to die. He was eighty, he [...]

  • March 25, 2024

      “Nevertheless” was composed for, recorded by, and premiered at Carnegie Hall by Trio Casals – Alexandr Kislitsyn, violin, Anna Kislitsyna, piano, & Ovidiu Marinescu, cello. Click to hear Trio Casals perform Nevertheless on YouTube

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“An impression of musicality which is very pleasant, indeed… a convincing sense of an overall mood… knows what he wants … sure of what he’s doing.”

– Aaron Copland

“…a musician who blends superior craftsmanship with a colourful, expressive sense of narrative.”

– Donald Rosenberg, Gramophone
on TIME, STILL

“Like a master sculptor of sonic marble, Babcock carves out wonderfully energetic dissonances; never allowing an unneeded doubling to disrupt his perfect balance.”

– Casey Cook, judge, The American Prize
on Be Still