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Filmmaker or Playwright? Composer Paul Lansky Premieres Textures

Around 2004, composer Paul Lansky famously made an about-face. After over 40 years of pioneering wor…
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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This week: concerts in New York (October 28 – November 3, 2013)

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Sam Reising
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Bassoonist Peter Kolkay Shines in Joan Tower Premiere

Composer Joan Tower’s newest work, Red Maple, premiered on October 4, 2013, at the Koger Center for…
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Thomas Dempster
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Daníel Bjarnason’s Over Light Earth: Familiar Language, Daring Lexicon

Sometimes contemporary orchestral music is abrasively radical. And sometimes the revolution is much…
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Daniel Kushner
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Nico Muhly’s Two Boys: A thrilling production at the Metropolitan Opera

Monday, October 21, 2013 marked the New York premiere of Nico Muhly’s opera Two Boys at the Metropol…
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Sam Reising
Arvo Pärt - Photograph by K. Kikkas

Arvo Pärt: Soul Replenishing at Soundstreams Toronto Season Opener

Many season openers tend to displays of bravado and vivacity. Soundstreams’ sold-out opener at Royal…
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Joanne Lam
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10 things to consider when you’re submitting an album for review

As the editor-in-chief of I CARE IF YOU LISTEN, I have been receiving a growing number of submission…
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Thomas Deneuville
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When man and machine play together: Andrew May’s Imaginary Friends (navona)

Aptly named in an age of technology-induced isolation, Imaginary Friends (navona) explores the relat…
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Amanda Cook
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eighth blackbird Soars with Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble

Three-time Grammy winners eighth blackbird returned to their nest for a concert with the Oberlin Con…
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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5 questions to Elena Dubinets (new music scholar, artistic advisor for Seattle Chamber Players)

A champion of contemporary and experimental music, Seattle-based scholar Elena Dubinets balances her…
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Dana Wen
Krzysztof Penderecki

This week: concerts in New York (October 21 – October 27, 2013)

Atmospheric Shift: Music of the Elements/The Water: FLOOD [caption id=”attachment_3331″ align=”align…
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Sam Reising

Thomas Adès in San Francisco: A Warm, Welcoming Concert Among Friends

Early October saw the San Francisco Symphony continuing it’s commendable streak of new music program…
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Danny Clay
Lisa Bielawa

5 questions to Lisa Bielawa (composer)

Following a successful round of performances in Berlin, Lisa Bielawa is bringing the next installmen…
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Thomas Deneuville
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Ryan Muncy Breaks New Sonic Ground for Saxophone in Chicago

Michael Lewanski, conductor of Chicago’s Ensemble Dal Niente, introduced saxophonist (and EDN Execut…
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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A Rake’s Progress for the Television Age at Theater an der Wien

In his 1964 essay for the Cambridge Opera Handbooks’ Igor Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress, the compo…
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Caitlin Smith
John Zorn at Jazz Middelheim 2012 (photo credit: Bruno Bollaert, Flickr, used under Creative Commons license. Via walkerart.org)

Zorn@60: The Improvisatory Embrace of New York and Japan

Composer and alto saxophonist John Zorn, known to me mostly as the founder of East Village not-for-p…
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Rob Wendt
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Shifting Treks by Sydney Hodkinson on navona

Shifting Treks, a recent navona release, catapults us into the sound world of a formidable champion…
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Gavin Gamboa
Aleph Guitar Quartett

This week: concerts in New York (October 14 – October 20, 2013)

American Brass Quintet American Brass…
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Sam Reising
Daníel Bjarnason

5 questions to Daníel Bjarnason (composer)

Daníel Bjarnason is an Icelandic composer, conductor and pianist who has worked with such varied art…
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Daniel Kushner
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New Sounds on the Rise: Threefifty’s “Collapses” debuts at SubCulture

Threefifty’s first record, released in 2006, is a testament to the duo’s pedigree and finesse as cla…
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Elias Blumm
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So Percussion’s Benefit Party and Silent Auction

On September 25, 2013, So Percussion held its Benefit Party and Silent Auction on a beautiful roofto…
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Thomas Deneuville
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Mood Indigo: Symphonic Music of Erik Lotichius on Navona Records

Erik Lotichius has been an island unto himself as a composer for most his career. Proudly voicing hi…
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Jarrett Goodchild
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Graphic Scores, a touring project

If you live in Leeds or Oxford, there is still time to catch Graphic Scores, a touring project takin…
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Thomas Deneuville
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When Evil Knocks: Šimon Voseček’s Biedermann und die Brandstifter

Šimon Voseček’s operatic adaptation of Max Frisch’s 1950s play Biedermann und die Brandstifter (Bied…
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Caitlin Smith
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