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Avant-garde composer/trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith delivered a stirring midwest premiere of his…
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Arlene & Larry Dunn

Finally. A new music festival in NYC without the shi shi Manhattan vibe or hipster Brooklyn pretenti…
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David Pearson

A makeshift model of the Brooklyn Bridge built out of old cardboard boxes resides on the front of th…
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Justin Rito

Last May, I had the wonderful opportunity to present at a conference on time and the arts in Caen, F…
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Andrew Lee

Dana Wen, Technology Editor. As you’ve probably noticed from our site tagline, the mission of…
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Dana Wen

2012 is a big year for Crash Ensemble. They are celebrating 15 years since they were formed by now C…
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Chris Ledwidge

Multicultural Sonic Evolution (MuSE) is holding its 2012 Sounds of Arts Festival, a 5-day multi-medi…
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David Pearson

Plus One | W4 New Music This event is a benefit to raise money for West 4th’s 2013 concert ‘New Musi…
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Sam Reising

Every two years, Ensemble contemporain de Montréal (ECM+) provides four up-and-coming Canadian compo…
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Justin Rito

The Getting Nowhere festival and conference, organised by William Brooks and his troop of students a…
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Xenia Pestova

Music I’m Buying is a series dedicated to reviewing albums that are not sent gratis to I Care if You…
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Andrew Lee

Kyle Vegter is a composer, sound designer, and producer based in Chicago. He co-founded Manual Cinem…
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Arlene & Larry Dunn

Simone Dinnerstein with Pamelia Kurstin and Alvin Epstein | Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Poulenc Simone Din…
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Sam Reising

November 6, 2012, marked the opening of the Contempuls Contemporary Music Festival in Prague. In its…
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Sam Reising

Ask a typical concert patron to describe contemporary classical music in one word and the usual susp…
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Don Clark

Minimalist music seems a natural fit for setting texts of the Orthodox and Catholic churches. Both h…
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Andrew Lee

The wind quintet The City of Tomorrow (TCOT) blew into the Windy City to perform a lively slate of c…
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Arlene & Larry Dunn

am·phi·go·ry, noun [ˈamfəˌgōrē, amˈfigərē] a nonsense verse or composition a rigmarole with apparent…
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Caitlin Smith

Have you ever watched the “Midnight Sun” episode of the Twilight Zone? It’s set in New York City, th…
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Elizabeth Kennedy Bayer

coLABoratory: Playing It UNsafe (Workshop I) | American Composers Orchestra This season, coLABorator…
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Sam Reising

With the plethora of new music ensembles out there and the various instrumentations they employ, it’…
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David Pearson