Hisham Bravo Groover is nearing the close of his first season leading several QC orchestras. And the articulate, passionate conductor is earning key bravos along the way.

We correct when it gets egregious and we scold when they nettle and pinch too hard, but for some reason, this moronic thought that the Quad Cities music scene is crippled or lesser prevails through the times.

What's a “year in review” compendium edition without the best new music recommendations from the Quad Cities' region's independently owned local and regional radio-station programmers, disc jockeys, and musical artists and producers?

A little more than a year after breathing buoyant new life into the long vacant former downtown Moline library, Sound Conservatory is writing an ambitious new movement in its sprawling, surging score.