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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…
Author
Kelsey Walsh
Nadia Sirota - Baroque

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…
Author
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…
Author
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…
Author
Thomas Deneuville
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Concert Black, Ensemble, et al., Iktus Percussion at Galapagos [Slideshow]

On March 26, 2013, Concert Black, Ensemble, et al., and Iktus Percussion shared the bill at Galapago…
Author
Thomas Deneuville
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Fonema Consort Dazzles with Mirrors II in Chicago

Fonema Consort’s Mirrors II concert dazzled like the Swarovki crystal-studded images by their host,…
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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Suzanne Farrin: Corpo di Terra on New Focus Recordings

The first release exclusively devoted to the music of Suzanne Farrin can be described as a quasi-aut…
Author
Xenia Pestova
Laura Kaminsky

5 questions to Laura Kaminsky (composer, Artistic Director of Symphony Space) about “How To Get Started”

On April 2, Symphony Space will celebrate John Cage’s centenary with this rare performance of Cage’s…
Author
Thomas Deneuville
The Attacca Quartet

This week: concerts in New York (March 25 – March 31, 2013)

Vital Vox Festival | Vox Electronics: Philip Hamilton / Loom Trio / Sarah Bernstein VITAL VOX: A VOC…
Author
Sam Reising
Bang on a Can All-Stars - Photo by David Andrako

Ecstatic Music Festival 2013: Bang on a Can All-Stars

The Bang on a Can All-Stars presented the seventh concert of the quickly growing Ecstatic Music Fest…
Author
Daniel Garrick
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Another #ChicagoNewMusicPlethora

Chicago is a hot burning bonfire of contemporary music, bursting with talented composers, expert pla…
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Hsin-Yun Huang

5 questions to Hsin-Yun Huang (violist)

On Monday, March 25, the American Modern Ensemble will present American Stories, a program of contem…
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Julia Adolphe

This week: concerts in New York (March 18 – March 24, 2013)

Atmospheric Shift: Music of the Elements & The Ice:STORM/The Wind:TORNADO | Two Sides Sounding &…
Author
Sam Reising
Clint Mansell - Photo by Chris Owyoung

5 questions to Clint Mansell (composer, singer, guitarist)

You might know Clint Mansell from the band Pop Will Eat Itself (former lead singer and guitarist), o…
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Patricia Alessandrini

5 questions to Patricia Alessandrini (composer and installation artist)

Patricia Alessandrini’s compositions and sound installations often involve live electronics, usually…
Author
Xenia Pestova
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Ashley Paul: Line the Clouds on rel records

Upon coming to terms with the exceptional caliber this album bears, one must be prepared for the exp…
Author
Daniel Emmerson
R. Andrew Lee

This week: concerts in New York (March 11 – March 17, 2013)

Simons @60 – The Music of David Simons [caption id=”attachment_5056″ align=”aligncenter” width=”600″…
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Sam Reising
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newEar Ensemble’s “Strangely Familiar” in Kansas City

Kansas City’s major classical music ensembles have focused on melding visual and musical art for the…
Author
Don Clark
Maurice Ravel

French Composers’ Names – Maurice Ravel

What better day to post this than on his birthday? Joseph-Maurice Ravel (March 7, 1875 – December 28…
Author
Thomas Deneuville
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$100 Guitar Project on Bridge Records

This is a Golem monster of musical compilations, a crazy idea that got out of control. “We are kind…
Author
Sam Zelitch
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More Highlights From 2013 IMPULS Marathon Concert

While this reporter was not quite sturdy enough to make it through the entire seven-hour evening, th…
Author
Caitlin Smith
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Ecstatic Music: Arnold Dreyblatt and Megafaun Fuse the Avant-Garde

Berlin based composer and media artist Arnold Dreyblatt and North Carolina based psychedelic folk ba…
Author
Adrianne Koteen
Charles Blandy

The House I Live In: American Art Songs of the 20th and 21st Century. Blandy & Lister

Can gnarly, upmarket mid-century modernism really make nice with the populist mores of the “alt-clas…
Author
Matt Mendez
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Sugar crash: Fourth New Music Bake Sale at Roulette

Yesterday, Sunday, March 3, the fourth New Music Bake Sale took place at Roulette in Brooklyn. A gre…
Author
Thomas Deneuville
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