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The Crouch End Festival Chorus, directed by David Temple, has established itself as a leading chorus…
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Steven Berryman

On her new album Terrestre, Claire Chase achieves every woodwind player’s fantasy: playing with a pe…
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David Pearson

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

Music is often colorfully compared to alchemy. Both arts involve the careful meeting of scientific l…
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Evan Burke

Leah Kardos was in town this week and I am so happy I got to hang out with her (and her friend Liz).
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Thomas Deneuville

The length of an usual article on this blog would probably not be enough to merely list the differen…
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Matt Weber
Your third solo show, “Twenty-first Century Freemasonry”, opened on January 21 at The Proposition. W…
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Thomas Deneuville

On January 26, I spent the evening at Le Poisson Rouge for a show called Indie-Classical Guitars: Mu…
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Evan Flath

This year’s edition of Ecstatic Music Festival just started and even if it won’t feature Judd Greens…
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Thomas Deneuville

The Kronos Quartet completed their week-long residence with the Barbican Centre in London with a typ…
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Paul Kilbey

As the 2012 edition of the Ecstatic Music Festival is about to start, we asked 5 questions to Judd G…
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Thomas Deneuville

“Who’s ever been to a harp recital?” A couple of hands were shyly raised. “And who’s ever been to a…
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Thomas Deneuville

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
Not just another Christmas CD: Etherea Vocal Ensemble’s Ceremony of Carols on Delos Music
Jan 19, 2012
Holiday CDs come and go. Some fade out while others become lasting favorites. My prediction is tha…
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Lauren Ishida