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Ethel - Heavy

Ethel: Heavy

Since its beginnings in the late 1990s, the string quartet Ethel has grown to become a powerful forc…
Author
Sam Reising
Jeffrey Means - Photo by Jesse Weiner

5 questions to Jeffrey Means (Conductor)

Jeffrey Means is not only a founder and the artistic director of the ambitious Sound Icon, he is the…
Author
Christian Gentry
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The Re-(w)Rite of Spring: Darryl Brenzel and Mobtown Modern Big Band

As the Rite of Spring approaches 100 years of public life, interest in Stravinsky’s masterpiece is s…
Author
Richard Barnard

25th Bang on a Can Marathon [Video]

On Sunday, June 17 the 25th Bang on a Can Marathon took place at the World Financial Center’s…
Author
Thomas Deneuville

This week: concerts in New York (July 23, 2012 – July 29, 2012)

The Knights The Knights is an orchestra of friends from a broad spectrum of the New York music worl…
Author
Sam Reising
MoMA Summergarden

Fresh Music in MoMA’s Summergarden: New Juilliard Ensemble led by Joel Sachs

The Summergarden is a truly special place. It is the de facto backyard, if you will, of the Museum o…
Author
Neil Prufer
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Joel Frederiksen and Ensemble Phoenix Munich: Requiem for a Pink Moon, An Elizabethan Tribute to Nick Drake

On Joel Frederiksen’s Requiem for a Pink Moon, an Elizabethan Tribute to Nick Drake, selections from…
Author
Elias Blumm
John Adams conducting - Photo by Lambert Orkis

On the Transmigration of Jazz and Modernity: John Adams at the Lincoln Center Festival

John Adams conducted the Orchestra of The Juilliard School and the Royal Academy of Music in three w…
Author
Rob Wendt

This week: concerts in New York (July 16, 2012 – July 22, 2012)

Harumi Rhodes, Caroline Stinson, Makoto Fujimura, and Molly Morkoski Harumi Rhodes, Caroline Stinson…
Author
Sam Reising
Melvyn Tan - Photo by Eoin Carey

Melvyn Tan plays Variations for Judith at Cheltenham Festival

A new set of pieces Variations for Judith got its second complete performance during Melvyn Tan’s so…
Author
Richard Barnard
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Truly Nonclassical: Gabriel Prokofiev and Peter Gregson’s Cello Multitracks

Nonclassical are an organisation with big plans for music’s future, intent on taking the “classical”…
Author
Paul Kilbey
Chen Ye Yuan-(Chou-En-lai), Maria Kanyova (Pat-Nixon) and Brian Mulligan (Richard Nixon) - Photo by Cory Weaver

John Adams’ Nixon in China: full production at the San Francisco Opera

Nixon in China. John Adams’ first opera. San Francisco Opera’s series of performances (which began J…
Author
Kelsey Walsh
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This week: concerts in New York (July 9, 2012 – July 15, 2012)

Music and Poetry in the Village The Washington Square Music Festival opens on Tuesday with a free co…
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Thomas Deneuville
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Evan Ziporyn’s “Big Grenadilla / Mumbai”

Evan Ziporyn’s new recording, Big Grenadilla /Mumbai, manages to be futuristic while playing with tr…
Author
Evan Burke
The Box is Empty - Photo by Brad Pierson

The Box is Empty & Nat Evans: An evening of premieres at Seattle’s Century Ballroom

Located at the heart of Seattle’s hip Capitol Hill neighborhood, the historic Century Ballroom is th…
Author
Dana Wen
Say it ain't so, Joe

5 questions to Curtis K. Hughes (composer)

Say It Ain’t So, Joe is a chamber opera composed by Curtis K. Hughes in 2009 with a subsequent premi…
Author
Christian Gentry

This week: concerts in New York (July 2, 2012 – July 8, 2012)

The season might seem over but there are still some great things to hear in the city (some are free)…
Author
Sam Reising
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Alejandro Rutty’s Conscious Sleepwalker: fast forward tango

Alejandro Rutty’s new album The Conscious Sleepwalker is both a tour de force of the tango form,  a…
Author
Matt Weber
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Music I’m Buying

Since joining the I Care if You Listen team, I have been privileged to have the opportunity to revie…
Author
Andrew Lee
Duo Orfeo - Photo by Tristan Chambers

Duo Orfeo’s I sing the body electric: the charge of the soul

“They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them…” In the poem “I Sing the Body Electr…
Author
Elias Blumm
Build - Photo by Jen McManus

Contemporary Classical Meets Rock Band Format at Drom

June 12th at Drom in NYC was a meeting of contemporary art music sensibilities with a rock/pop forma…
Author
David Pearson
Lisa Pegher

This week: concerts in New York (June 25, 2012 – July 1, 2012)

Charlie Siem, violin Violinist Charlie Siem and pianist Kyoung Im Kim perform the music of Ysaÿe, Vi…
Author
Sam Reising

The Summer 2012 Mixtape is out!

I am very pleased to announce that the Summer 2012 Mixtape is out! It is completely free and just a…
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Erik Satie

French Composers’ Names – Erik Satie and his Vexations

I don’t really know why it took me so long to feature Erik Satie in this French Composers&#821…
Author
Thomas Deneuville
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