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ICE Presents Gubaidulina Composer Portrait at Miller Theatre

When I discovered that the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) was putting on an all-Gubaiduli…
Author
David Pearson
Lisa Moore

Lisa Moore: Stainless Staining on Cantaloupe

Some albums are good. They are worthy of a listen, enjoyable, and an excellent way to pass the time.
Author
Andrew Lee
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I Sing Beijing at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall

Despite it being the year 2013, the notion of art music is generally equated exclusively with the We…
Author
David Pearson
Enno Poppe (photo credit: Kai Bienert)

IMPULS 2013 Opening Yields Mixed Results from Young Composers

The recent 2012 Grammy awards highlighted the current trend in pop music towards the commercializati…
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Caitlin Smith
Tristan Perich

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

ACA Composers Now! with 20>>21 As part of New York’s city-wide festival, Composers Now! the Am…
Author
Sam Reising
Contemporaneous

“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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
Author
Thomas Deneuville
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