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Third Annual New Music Bake Sale at Roulette

On Sunday, March 11, 2012 the Third Annual New Music Bake Sale took place at Roulette in Brooklyn: g…
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Thomas Deneuville
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Redshift: Kinetic Music (with storm) at Salle Pianos

The small audience who braved a rare San Francisco thunderstorm to get to Redshift’s concert on Apri…
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Kelsey Walsh
David Leisner - Photo by Lisa-Marie Mazzucco

Guitar Plus: David Leisner and Jon Klibonoff at Symphony Space

Classical guitar is a pain in the ass. The way you’re meant to sit: weird/humiliating. The disparity…
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Elias Blumm

DYGONG – The E·Sessions

Question: When is a group not a group? Answer: Don’t ask DYGONG. – CD Liner Notes The CD arrived in…
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Andrew Lee

5 questions to David Coll (Composer)

MATA 2012 is happening right now for the first time at Roulette, and we wanted to take the time to t…
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Thomas Deneuville
Georg Friedrich Haas

JACK Quartet · In the Dark

I used to be able to count the number of profound, live musical experiences I’ve had on one hand. It…
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Andrew Lee
Stéphane Degout (Pelléas) et Elena Tsallagova (Mélisande) - Photo by Charles Duprat

French Pieces’ Names – Pelléas et Mélisande

Yesterday, somebody Googled Pelleas et Melisande Pronunciation and landed on I Care if You Listen. I…
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Thomas Deneuville
Colin Stetson - Photo by Keith Klenowski

Colin Stetson at Glasslands Gallery

Colin Stetson – Photo by Keith Klenow…
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Evan Burke
Switchboard Music Festival

Switchboard Music Festival 2012 at Brava Theater

Sunday April first (no joke!) was the fifth annual Switchboard Music Festival. One of several new mu…
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Kelsey Walsh
Photo by David Andrako

Music from Copland House and Music from China, part of the Ecstatic Music Festival @ Merkin Hall

Chinese composers, writing in the second half of the twentieth century, faced a problem: how to writ…
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Evan Burke
Alfred Brendel - Photo by Betty Freeman

Performers as Co-Composers

I am not a governess who treats the composer like a child and tells him what he should compose. I tr…
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Andrew Lee
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Jonny Greenwood and Penderecki (Nonesuch)

I really want to like Jonny Greenwood’s compositional career. Radiohead were the first band I loved,…
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Paul Kilbey
David Bloom

5 questions to David Bloom (conductor, co-artistic director of Contemporaneous)

Contemporaneous’ bio states that the ensemble is “dedicated to performing the most excit…
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Thomas Deneuville
John Croft

The Body Electric: New Zealand composers at Kings Place, London

“A younger generation of New Zealand composers … have abandoned the country’s Romantic search for…
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Steven Berryman
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De Profundis: The Deep End – Yale in New York closes season with music for low instruments

Bassoon, trombone, tuba, double bass, cello – in many musical textures, low voices are employed as a…
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Rob Wendt
John Darnielle, Anonymous 4, Owen Pallett - Photo by David Andrako

The Mountain Goats and Anonymous 4: voices from the past, words for the present

Ask a fan of The Mountain Goats what they listen for in the music of John Darnielle and there’s a ve…
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Elias Blumm

Hanging out with Aisha Orazbayeva | Hang #4

Her name might ring a bell since Steven Berryman reviewed her first CD last year for I Care if You L…
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Thomas Deneuville
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Chris Thile and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, at Galapagos and Carnegie Hall

More than anything else, words like natural and effortless come to mind when listening to Chris Thil…
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Evan Burke
Philip Glass - Photo by Steve Pyke

Philip Glass at 75 at Carnegie Hall

It is not everyday that an American icon turns 75. Of course, Elliott Carter turned 103 last Decembe…
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Thomas Deneuville
Meg Zervoulis conducting Ung's ... still life after death

Grand Opening: The Debut of Hotel Elefant @ The DiMenna Center for Classical Music

The Norman S. Benzaquen Hall at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music has the appearance of a spruc…
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Elias Blumm

Jean-Guihen Queyras and Ensemble Resonanz, reconciling the classical and modern in Amsterdam

Jean-Guihen Queyras and Ensemble Resonanz lit up the Ij Haven last night in Amsterdam’s Muzikgebouw…
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Rob Wendt
Zubin Kanga

Piano: Inside/Out – Zubin Kanga @ Kings Place, London

I always find it interesting to read discussions on the validity of extended techniques and less con…
Author
Steven Berryman
Adrian Knight - Self-portrait

Time of My Life by Adrian Knight

Twitter has surprised me. I initially was one of the skeptics, assuming that the 140 character limit…
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Andrew Lee
Meredith Monk and Vocal Ensemble with members of the San Francisco Symphony - Photo by Kristen Loken

American Mavericks Finale in San Francisco

The final concert of the San Francisco Symphony’s Mavericks festival began with Steve Reich’s Music…
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Kelsey Walsh
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