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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUS-u5LoSX0 Today, on his 75th birthday, the American Compose…
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Thomas Deneuville
2012 sees the 60th birthday of the prolific composer Wolfgang Rihm and the London Sinfonietta curate…
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Steven Berryman
On January19th, the Austrian Cultural Forum presented the first concert in a new lieder series led b…
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Lauren Ishida
Discussing aesthetic principles and ideals is always a subjective topic, with the totality of what i…
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Tai Livingston
On January 17th, Claire Chase celebrated the arrival of her new CD, Terrestre (earthly in French, Ed…
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Neil Prufer
To celebrate the renovation of the Metropolitan Museum’s New American Wing Galleries for Paint…
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Thomas Deneuville
The percussion quartet ensemblebash celebrate their twenty years of musical success with a series of…
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Steven Berryman
More than seventy years since its composition, Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time” swells with…
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Evan Burke
Following a fair amount of controversy regarding scandalous album art, Steve Reich released a new al…
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George Heathco
Somewhere in the world of contemporary music, in among all the solo bassoon CDs and Tom Waits arrang…
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Paul Kilbey
Holiday CDs come and go. Some fade out while others become lasting favorites. My prediction is tha…
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Lauren Ishida
First, before we go any further, let’s review the basics of Kamala Sankaram’s Miranda: it is a “stea…
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Evan Burke
Huang Ruo assembled an exceptional group of young musicians for performances of three of his new com…
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David Pearson
Every so often an album comes out with the right combination of substance and edge that you know rep…
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David Pearson
I’m a regular visitor to Hall Two at Kings Place, London, and it was lovely to see how well lighting…
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Steven Berryman
A fascinating new release from Signum Classics, and the second with the London Sinfonietta, is In Se…
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Steven Berryman
Last month, Miller Theater presented a concert of John Zorn’s music as part of its Composer Portrait…
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Jeremy Howard Beck
While exploring many different sounds and concepts, your jazz compositions maintain strong roots in…
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David Pearson
After a brief Facebook/Twitter survey, Nadia Boulanger emerged as a good candidate for this French C…
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Thomas Deneuville
Putting out a solo album for bassoon without any harmonic accompaniment is a daring move. The sound…
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David Pearson
Albany’s release of recent works by Jan Krzywicki captures the unique and coherent voice of this Phi…
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David Pearson
Last week, Make Music New York introduced a new annual event: Make Music Winter. For its first insta…
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Thomas Deneuville
Hippos Epos is the latest release by Italian percussionist Sebastiano de Gennaro, on Trovarobato’s P…
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George Heathco
