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“A younger generation of New Zealand composers … have abandoned the country’s Romantic search for…
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Steven Berryman
Bassoon, trombone, tuba, double bass, cello – in many musical textures, low voices are employed as a…
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Rob Wendt
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
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
More than anything else, words like natural and effortless come to mind when listening to Chris Thil…
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Evan Burke
It is not everyday that an American icon turns 75. Of course, Elliott Carter turned 103 last Decembe…
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Thomas Deneuville
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 lit up the Ij Haven last night in Amsterdam’s Muzikgebouw…
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Rob Wendt
I always find it interesting to read discussions on the validity of extended techniques and less con…
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Steven Berryman
Twitter has surprised me. I initially was one of the skeptics, assuming that the 140 character limit…
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Andrew Lee
The final concert of the San Francisco Symphony’s Mavericks festival began with Steve Reich’s Music…
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Kelsey Walsh
Placing the pianist Brad Mehldau into a particular genre or category seems tricky; being defined as…
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Steven Berryman
In keeping with the idea of the Mavericks Festival presenting “new classics,” the entire first half…
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Kelsey Walsh
Ann Southam, who passed away at the age of 73 in 2010, was one of Canada’s foremost composers. Befor…
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Kelsey Walsh
From the Brooklyn Phil website: Over two nights at Roulette Theater in Brooklyn (509 Atlantic Avenue…
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Thomas Deneuville
Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho is in residence at Carnegie Hall this season, and this past Monday n…
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David Pearson
On March 3, NYC new music hotspot The Kitchen packed the house for the final performance of the worl…
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Lauren Ishida
Gene Pritsker is a musician who understands the importance of frequent experimentation when devising…
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Evan Burke
The third concert in the San Francisco Symphony’s American Marvericks series (fourth if the new Harr…
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Kelsey Walsh
On Saturday, February 25th, Roomful of Teeth gave an exciting concert on the Ecstatic Music Festival…
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Lauren Ishida
Three composers – each aiming to create modern music in which form has been replaced by “structures”…
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Rob Wendt
2012 is an important year for Bang on a Can and it looks like it will be paved with a series of exci…
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Thomas Deneuville
In preparation of tomorrow’s 3rd New Music Bake Sale, I created an infographic and thought I s…
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Thomas Deneuville