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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…
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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…
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Elias Blumm
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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…
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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…
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Thomas Deneuville
Face the Music's Pannonia Quartet, David Harrington, Alexandra Vrebalov - Photo by Meg Goldman

5 questions to Vasudevan Panicker (pianist, composer, managing director of Face the Music)

Could you introduce yourself and Face the Music to our readers? My name is Vasudevan Panicker, but m…
Author
Thomas Deneuville
counter)induction

Group Theory by counter)induction

CDs are not live music. CDs have to compete for our attention in ways that concerts never do. They n…
Author
Andrew Lee

This week: concerts in New York (June 18, 2012 – June 23, 2012)

So Percussion’s International Night Of (Awesomeness) For one incredible night at LPR in New York Cit…
Author
Sam Reising
Ashley Bathgate performing Daniel Wohl's Saint Arc

Bang on a Can 25th Marathon [live blogging]

Welcome to the first live blogging event on I Care if You Listen! We are at the World Financial Cent…
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Thomas Deneuville
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French Composers’ Pieces – Le Noir de l’Etoile (Gérard Grisey)

“In 1967, a young astronomer detected in the heavens a rapidly varying radio signal, in the fo…
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Thomas Deneuville
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Richard Beaudoin’s Microtimings

Theory and aesthetics in new music are two very, very different things. There’s what goes in to a pi…
Author
Paul Kilbey
Evan Ziporyn - Photo by Andy Ryan

5 questions to Evan Ziporyn (composer, clarinetist, member of Bang on a Can All-Stars)

With the 25th Bang on a Can (BOAC) Marathon taking place at the end of the week (Sunday, June 17) we…
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Thomas Deneuville
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Cornelius Dufallo’s Journaling: Solo Violin, Seven Unique Composers

Violinist Cornelius Dufallo’s new CD Journaling presents the music of six contemporary composers liv…
Author
David Pearson
Winter Garden, 2009 Bang on a Can Marathon - Photo by Stephanie Berger

This week: concerts in New York (June 12, 2012 – June 18, 2012)

Just another week of concerts in New York City. Ubiquity not required but it could help… This…
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Thomas Deneuville
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The Brooklyn Youth Chorus at Roulette

I CARE IF YOU LISTEN met with Dianne Berkun, Artistic Director/Founder of the Brooklyn Youth Chorus…
Author
Thomas Deneuville
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