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Let’s play a word association game. If I say, “prepared piano,” many of you might think “John Cage.”…
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Andrew Lee
Just over one hundred years since the sinking of the Titanic. The tragedy was immortalized with emot…
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Steven Berryman
Artistic director Steven Schick and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players (SFCMP) concluded t…
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Kelsey Walsh
Last March, and for two nights only, Brooklyn Village was performed in Downtown Brooklyn. Advertised…
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Thomas Deneuville
Kronos Quartet with Rula Jebreal, Marjane Satrapi, and Tony Kushner @ the Metropolitan Museum
May 11, 2012
One would think that music and spoken word are two of the most complimentary art forms. They seem li…
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Evan Burke
With three more concerts to go, the 26th season of North River Music at Greenwich House Music is not…
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Thomas Deneuville
The concluding concert in Composers Inc.’s season took place on April 24 at San Francisco’s Old Firs…
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Kelsey Walsh
You might credit Leonard Berstein for inspiring this CD, who described the “many-sidedness” of Ameri…
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Andrew Lee
Throughout his career, much ink has been spilled concerning Fazil Say’s place at a cultural crossroa…
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Evan Burke
5 questions to Experiments in Opera (composers collective: Jason Cady, Aaron Siegel, and Matthew Welch)
May 3, 2012
On Thursday, May 10 and Friday, May 11 at 8pm, Experiments in Opera, the new collective founded by c…
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Thomas Deneuville
There are rare moments in history when political and social upheaval come together with artistic inn…
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David Pearson
Violinist Aisha Orazbayeva presented a compelling programme of contemporary violin works on April 23…
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Steven Berryman
The versatile Brooklyn Rider String Quartet is one of a number of chamber groups seeking to take the…
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David Pearson
As this season was drawing to an end, the Metropolitan Museum was announcing the next, a couple of w…
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Thomas Deneuville
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
The small audience who braved a rare San Francisco thunderstorm to get to Redshift’s concert on Apri…
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Kelsey Walsh
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
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
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
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
Yesterday, somebody Googled Pelleas et Melisande Pronunciation and landed on I Care if You Listen. I…
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Thomas Deneuville
Sunday April first (no joke!) was the fifth annual Switchboard Music Festival. One of several new mu…
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Kelsey Walsh
Music from Copland House and Music from China, part of the Ecstatic Music Festival @ Merkin Hall
Apr 11, 2012
Chinese composers, writing in the second half of the twentieth century, faced a problem: how to writ…
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Evan Burke