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“Don’t Even,” Contemporaneous at P.S. 142 for Neighborhood Classics

On Monday, February 12, 2013, the new music ensemble Contemporaneous presented Don’t Even, a concert…
Author
Sam Reising
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Village in Volume: Percussion Double Music | Make Music Winter 2012

httpv://youtu.be/gKUVtXQRD4g From the Make Music Winter website: “Inspired by the collaboratio…
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Hugues Dufourt

Hugues Dufourt: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2

The delightfully prickly Frederic Rzewski once commented somewhere that he couldn’t abide French mus…
Author
Matt Mendez
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Christina Petrowska Quilico Performs Caravassilis Piano Works

Solo piano recitals focussing exclusively on the works of a single contemporary composer are relativ…
Author
Justin Rito
Quatuor Bozzini

Still Image: Chamber Music of Owen Underhill

In many ways, this is an intimate recording of intimate music. Still Image is a recording of two qua…
Author
David Dies
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Ligeti Quartet “Hay Fever” at Southbank Centre

The UK-based Ligeti Quartet is making great strides across Britain, gaining national attention throu…
Author
Brian Mark
Keeril Makan - Photo by Scott Irvine

5 Questions to Keeril Makan (composer)

Described by The New Yorker as “an arrestingly gifted young American composer,” and by the New York…
Author
Christian Gentry
Randy Gibson First Pillar Performance

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

Don’t Even | Contemporaneous Contempo…
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Sam Reising
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BBC Symphony Sounds from Japan: Takemitsu, Kondō, & Fujikura

The BBC Symphony Orchestra Total Immersion series gives London audiences the opportunity to spend a…
Author
Aaron Holloway-Nahum
Bill Band - Photo credits Tim Darwish, Bill Ryan

5 questions to Bill Ryan (composer)

This Sunday, February 10, Bill Ryan’s Billband is having a release concert at Le Poisson Rouge. “Tow…
Author
Thomas Deneuville
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Henryk Gorecki’s Concerto-Cantata on Naxos

Most musicians and audience members alike know Henryk Mikolaj Górecki (1933-2010) primarily for his…
Author
Kelsey Walsh
Randy Gibson

5 Questions to Randy Gibson (composer, co-founder of Avant Media)

Randy Gibson is a composer and performer living and working in New York City. He is the co-founder o…
Author
Andrew Lee
From Moog to Mac CD Cover

Herbert Deutsch: From Moog to Mac

From Moog to Mac sets about curating a documentation of processes, experimentation, and resulting ef…
Author
Daniel Emmerson
Leaha Maria Villarreal and Mary Kouyoumdjian

5 questions to Leaha Maria Villarreal and Mary Kouyoumdjian (composers, artistic/executive directors of Hotel Elefant)

Experiments in Opera has commissioned 10 composers to present new operas that last no more than 10 m…
Author
Daniel Kushner
Bill Band - Photo credits Tim Darwish, Bill Ryan

This week: concerts in New York (February 4 – February 10, 2013)

Kevin Puts & Friends | NYFOS Next…
Author
Sam Reising
Steven Mackey

5 questions to Steven Mackey (composer) about One Red Rose

On February 12, the Brentano String Quartet will perform  the world premiere of a composition by Ste…
Author
Thomas Deneuville
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Beethoven Could Have Used More Dinosaurs

Kids, Graphic Scores, & How Music Education is a Two-Way StreetI suppose I should open with a di…
Author
Danny Clay
Warsaw Philharmonic

Fire and Time, American works for orchestra on Navona

None of the works on this compilation disc, composed from 1993 to 2009, are particularly adventurous…
Author
Don Clark
The Firehouse Space, 246 Frost St. Brooklyn, NY 11211

5 questions to Chris Graham (percussionist, curator)

Tomorrow, Friday, February 1, Iktus Percussion kicks off The Firehouse New Music Series with Cadilla…
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Thomas Deneuville
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These Dreams: ICE and Carla Kihlstedt at Ecstatic Music Festival

Do you dream? I do. My dreams are like bizarre television shows, and, unfortunately, I only sometime…
Author
Will Roane
Bruce Brubaker

Bruce Brubaker at the University of Denver

This is a review that I hadn’t intended to write. I’ve had the pleasure of hearing Bruce Brubaker pe…
Author
Andrew Lee
Composer Christopher Rouse (photo credit: christopherrouse.com)

Oberlin Orchestra Plays Christopher Rouse NY Premiere at Carnegie Hall

One night after an impressive performance by the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble at DiMenna Cent…
Author
Marina Kifferstein
Martin Boykan Photo by BMOP Website

5 Questions to Martin Boykan

As a composer, scholar, and teacher, Martin Boykan’s influence pervades the spectrum of recent compo…
Author
Christian Gentry
George Benjamin - Copyright F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd

This week: concerts in New York (January 28 – February 3, 2013)

FOCUS! 2013: The British Renaissance Chamber Concert George Benjamin – Copyright F. Hoffmann-L…
Author
Sam Reising
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