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Missy Mazzoli - Photo Stephen Taylor

Missy Mazzoli’s Song from the Uproar: A Masterpiece of Modern Opera

On March 3, NYC new music hotspot The Kitchen packed the house for the final performance of the worl…
Author
Lauren Ishida
Zentripetal Duo - Photo by Glenn Cornett

Gene Pritsker’s Chamber Opera, “William James’ Varieties of Religious Experience” at Le Poisson Rouge, with Zentripetal Duo, The International Street Cannibals, and Greg Baker

Gene Pritsker is a musician who understands the importance of frequent experimentation when devising…
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Evan Burke
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American Mavericks: Chamber music by Partch, Cowell, Riley and Subotnick

The third concert in the San Francisco Symphony’s American Marvericks series (fourth if the new Harr…
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Kelsey Walsh
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Roomful of Teeth and Glasser at Merkin Hall

On Saturday, February 25th, Roomful of Teeth gave an exciting concert on the Ecstatic Music Festival…
Author
Lauren Ishida
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WANTED: a labyrinth, an abstraction, an escape from the spiritual void in the post-empire age

Three composers – each aiming to create modern music in which form has been replaced by “structures”…
Author
Rob Wendt
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David Lang at Carnegie Hall

2012 is an important year for Bang on a Can and it looks like it will be paved with a series of exci…
Author
Thomas Deneuville

I Care if You Listen in a few figures… [infographic]

In preparation of tomorrow’s 3rd New Music Bake Sale, I created an infographic and thought I s…
Author
Thomas Deneuville

5 questions to John Schneider

PARTCH, a unique ensemble specializing in the music and instruments of the iconoclastic composer Har…
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the SFS in the Opening Concert of the American Mavericks Festival.

Dead American Mavericks, but sides of them rarely seen…

The San Francisco Symphony’s Centennial Season has featured many interesting events, notably lengthe…
Author
David Gottlieb
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AbsoLUTEly New: Jozef van Wissem and Jim Jarmusch @ Le Poisson Rouge

In a museum, 1,000 years from now, beside the wing of long extinct animals that contains the taxider…
Author
Elias Blumm
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Artistry that Runs in the Blood

Pianist Ursula Oppens and the Jack String Quartet provided insightful performances of music by two o…
Author
David Pearson
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Nick Zammuto and Jason Treuting with Janus, Daisy Press, and Grey McMurray @ Ecstatic Music Festival

Frank Zappa famously asked, “Does humor belong in music?”. He asked this question using an absurdist…
Author
Evan Burke
Composer Ann Southam

Handwritten vs. digitally engraved scores, an opinion post by R. Andrew Lee

Earlier this week, a tweet by R. Andrew Lee (a wonderful New Music pianist that you should really di…
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Thomas Deneuville
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5 questions to Danya Katok (Soprano)

You have one of the most interesting repertoire lists I have ever seen. Your operatic roles move acr…
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Lauren Ishida
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Sonic Art Saxophone Quartet’s new album of works by Glass and Nyman

There are two multi-movement works by Philip Glass and one by Michael Nyman on the new album release…
Author
Matt Weber
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yMusic, Richard Reed Parry and Son Lux at Merkin Hall

For a vegetarian, going to a vegetarian restaurant (or an allergen free restaurant for someone suffe…
Author
Thomas Deneuville

Austin TX Offers New Sounds at the Gershwin Hotel

The Fast Forward Austin new music festival brought the noise to NYC with a concert February 23rd at…
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David Pearson
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5 questions to Joan La Barbara (composer, performer, educator)

This weekend’s Ne(xt)works’ Music Without Dance—a multi-event festival focusing on recent and histor…
Author
Thomas Deneuville

Arvo Pärt Spans the Millenial Divide with Timeless Gems (Naxos)

Pärt Piano Music by Naxos features pianist Ralph van Raat interpreting the Estonian composer’s music…
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Rob Wendt
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Hanging out with Timothy Andres | Hang #3

For this Hang #3, Timothy Andres welcomed us in his Brooklyn apartment. We talked about his Nonesuch…
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Nicole Lizée

5 questions to Nicole Lizee (Composer)

In Death to Kosmische you have the string quartet use a stylophone and an omnichord. In the past you…
Author
Paul Kilbey
Crouch End Festival Chorus

Crouch End Festival Chorus/David Temple: Barbican, London

The Crouch End Festival Chorus, directed by David Temple, has established itself as a leading chorus…
Author
Steven Berryman
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Claire Chase releases Terrestre on New Focus Recordings

On her new album Terrestre, Claire Chase achieves every woodwind player’s fantasy: playing with a pe…
Author
David Pearson
Brooklyn Rider - Photograph by Sarah Small

Premiere Commission 10th anniversary concert at Le Poisson Rouge

The Premiere Commission 10th Anniversary Concert at Le Poisson Rouge, February 13th, 2012, featured…
Author
Matt Weber
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