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Britten Elicits Both Focus and Frenzy at Neue Oper Wien

Benjamin Britten’s exquisitely styled short operas from the mid-1960s are full of broad strokes and…
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Caitlin Smith
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Post-Classical Meets Rock-n-Roll: Todd Rundgren and ETHEL in Chicago

The Northwestern University Bienen School of Music’s Side by Side music festival  featured an impres…
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Sam Zelitch
Elliot Cole: Selkie, A Sea Tale

Selkie: Transformative creatures, transformative music

Selkie: A sea tale is a chamber opera collaboration between soprano Misha Penton and composer Elliot…
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George Heathco
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5 questions to Jennifer Kloetzel (cellist of the Cypress String Quartet)

On April 19, 2013, the Cypress Quartet will perform its 2013 Call & Response program, featuring…
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Thomas Deneuville
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Contemporary Portland Orchestra Project: Flock of Strange Birds

New music enthusiasts gathered to experience “When Strange Birds Passing Meet: Memory and Mimesis in…
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Sam Reising
Joshua Bell - Photo by Bill Phelps

This week: concerts in New York (April 15 – April 21, 2013)

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Sam Reising
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Distinctive Sounds at Sixth Annual Switchboard Music Festival

Characteristically distinctive sounds rang out throughout the day during the sixth annual Switchboar…
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Kelsey Walsh
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Daugherty, Temple U. Transport NYC to the Banks of the Mississippi

The Temple University Symphony Orchestra performed the New York premiere of Michael Daugherty’s Refl…
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Rob Wendt
Jonathan Berger

5 questions to Jonathan Berger (composer, founder of the Music & Brain Symposium)

Now in its seventh year, the 2013 Music & Brain Symposium begins on April 12 at Stanford Univers…
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Dana Wen
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Vagn Holmboe, Chamber Music (II) on Dacapo

From Pythagoras’ hammers and Boethius’ musica mundana to Beethoven’s Pastoral and Strauss’ Alpensinf…
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Matt Mendez
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Chihara Viola Music on Bridge Records

Born in Seattle in 1938, Paul Chihara’s first musical experiences were in popular music forms. He ha…
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Don Clark
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5 questions to Chris Paul Harman (composer)

The works of Canadian composer Chris Paul Harman have been performed by ensembles and orchestras inc…
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Xenia Pestova
Nina C. Young

This week: concerts in New York (April 8 – April 14, 2013)

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Sam Reising
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5 videos of goats screaming classical music (it’s Friday)

Few would deny that the latest internet sensation is goats—screaming goats—and it didn’t take…
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Thomas Deneuville
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Lee Hyla: My Life on the Plains on Tzadik

One should know about all the structures of fantasy and the fantasies of structures, and mix surpris…
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Matt Mendez
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George Benjamin’s Written on Skin: The Power of Restraint

Written on Skin, the highly anticipated first full-length opera by British composer George Benjamin,…
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Aaron Holloway-Nahum
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5 questions to Dan Visconti (composer)

On April 5, 2013 at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, the ACO will present its next Orchestra Undergroun…
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Matt Mendez
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Dionysus Overwhelms Apollo in HK Gruber’s Realization of Oedipus Rex

“What is important for the lucid ordering of the work – for its crystallization,” Igor Stravinsky te…
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Caitlin Smith
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5 Questions to Scott J. Hunter (contemporary music and art advocate)

Scott J. Hunter is a modern renaissance man. Raised in a musical family, he majored in science in co…
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Rebecca Saunders - Photo by Katrin Schander

This week: concerts in New York (April 1 – April 7, 2013)

coLABoratory: Playing It UNsafe (Workshop V) | American Composers Orchestra coLABoratory: Playing It…
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Sam Reising
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San Francisco Symphony Plays Peer Gynt

This belated review covers an event prior to the negotiations breakdown that happened in San Francis…
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Kelsey Walsh
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Nadia Sirota’s Baroque: The Business of Creating a Canon

Nadia Sirota may very well become known as the most important violist of her generation. With elite…
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Daniel Kushner
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Blind Ear Music at Big Foote Studio | Hang #6

Founded in 2009 by composers Jakub Ciupinski and Cristina Spinei, Blind Ear Music is a software/conc…
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Thomas Deneuville
Alec Hall

5 questions to Alec Hall (composer, co-director of Qubit)

On March 29 and 30, 2013, Qubit—a new contemporary music and performance art initiative founded in 2…
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Thomas Deneuville
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