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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
PARTCH, a unique ensemble specializing in the music and instruments of the iconoclastic composer Har…
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Thomas Deneuville
The San Francisco Symphony’s Centennial Season has featured many interesting events, notably lengthe…
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David Gottlieb
In a museum, 1,000 years from now, beside the wing of long extinct animals that contains the taxider…
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Elias Blumm
Pianist Ursula Oppens and the Jack String Quartet provided insightful performances of music by two o…
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David Pearson
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…
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Evan Burke
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
You have one of the most interesting repertoire lists I have ever seen. Your operatic roles move acr…
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Lauren Ishida
There are two multi-movement works by Philip Glass and one by Michael Nyman on the new album release…
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Matt Weber
For a vegetarian, going to a vegetarian restaurant (or an allergen free restaurant for someone suffe…
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Thomas Deneuville
The Fast Forward Austin new music festival brought the noise to NYC with a concert February 23rd at…
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David Pearson
This weekend’s Ne(xt)works’ Music Without Dance—a multi-event festival focusing on recent and histor…
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Thomas Deneuville
Pärt Piano Music by Naxos features pianist Ralph van Raat interpreting the Estonian composer’s music…
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Rob Wendt
For this Hang #3, Timothy Andres welcomed us in his Brooklyn apartment. We talked about his Nonesuch…
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Thomas Deneuville
In Death to Kosmische you have the string quartet use a stylophone and an omnichord. In the past you…
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Paul Kilbey
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
