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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
The Talea Ensemble brought precision and warmth to an evening of chamber works by the Austrian compo…
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Caitlin Smith
Chamber music is hard. It’s hard to play and even harder to write. Both composer and performer are e…
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Daniel Garrick
Something quite remarkable is happening in Chicago. Equal parts drama, music, history, and social ac…
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
On October 18, 2012 I stumbled upon City of London Sinfonia’s performance of works by two of the mos…
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Brian Mark
Major Orchestral Works | Morton Feldman Morton Feldman The 100-piece Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava (J…
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Sam Reising
On Friday, October 26, the Berlin Philharmonic took to the stage to perform works by Benjamin Britte…
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Sam Reising
I have sometimes found performances and recordings of Elliot Carter’s music to be physically trying,…
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Caitlin Smith
The Scottish-Italian violinist Nicola Benedetti has an unorthodox choice of repertoire. She was elec…
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Thea Derks
httpv://youtu.be/6ijpII593Fo We met with composers Leaha Maria Villarreal and Mary Kouyoumdjian as t…
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Thomas Deneuville
Because of Hurricane Sandy, please double check each website to see if the events actually happen, a…
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Sam Reising
Note that the 2012 Vital Vox Vocal Festival, which was scheduled to take place October 29 and 30 at…
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Thomas Deneuville
On Thursday, October 25, a heartfelt applause rang out after the last flutterings of Toshio Hosokawa…
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Thea Derks
On Sunday, September 30, 2012, Third Coast Percussion performed the premiere of Augusta Read Thomas&…
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Thomas Deneuville
Swiss composer and performer Martin Schlumpf (b. 1947) is little known in this country. In fairness,…
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Jay Greenberg
On Tuesday, October 16, MATA held its 15th annual benefit gala at the Tibet House in New York City.
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Thomas Deneuville
