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Jherek Bischoff and the Wordless Music Orchestra open the 2012 Ecstatic Music Festival

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
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Kronos Quartet’s Early Music at the Barbican, London

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

James Noyes’ Imaginings at Our Saviour’s Atonement

James Noyes James N…
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Evan Burke
Judd Greenstein

5 questions to Judd Greenstein (Composer)

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
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A folk-inspired evening with Bridget Kibbey at Le Poisson Rouge

“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
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Dennis Russell Davies in rehearsal (Philip Glass, Symphony No. 9 – US Premiere)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUS-u5LoSX0   Today, on his 75th birthday, the American Compose…
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Thomas Deneuville

Posing Questions: Wolfgang Rihm at 60

2012 sees the 60th birthday of the prolific composer Wolfgang Rihm and the London Sinfonietta curate…
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Steven Berryman
Sharla Nafziger (soprano), and Michael Slattery (tenor)

Focus on Schoenberg at the Austrian Cultural Forum

On January19th, the Austrian Cultural Forum presented the first concert in a new lieder series led b…
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Lauren Ishida
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Beauty from Ugliness

Discussing aesthetic principles and ideals is always a subjective topic, with the totality of what i…
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Tai Livingston

An earthly abode for ethereal sounds: Claire Chase’s “Terrestre” release party

On January 17th, Claire Chase celebrated the arrival of her new CD, Terrestre (earthly in French, Ed…
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Neil Prufer

Asphalt Orchestra at the Met Museum

To celebrate the renovation of the Metropolitan Museum’s New American Wing Galleries for Paint…
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Thomas Deneuville
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Flirting with extremes, ensemblebash at Kings Place

The percussion quartet ensemblebash celebrate their twenty years of musical success with a series of…
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Steven Berryman
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Apocalyptic Klezmer and “The End of Time” – David Krakauer at Joe’s Pub

More than seventy years since its composition, Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time” swells with…
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Evan Burke
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Don’t Judge an Album by its Cover: Steve Reich’s WTC 9/11

Following a fair amount of controversy regarding scandalous album art, Steve Reich released a new al…
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George Heathco
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In the fertile shadow of Schoenberg

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

Holiday CDs come and go.  Some fade out while others become lasting favorites.  My prediction is tha…
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Lauren Ishida
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“Miranda”, Kamala Sankaram’s steampunk murder-mystery chamber opera at HERE

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
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Huang Ruo’s Inventive Synergies

Huang Ruo assembled an exceptional group of young musicians for performances of three of his new com…
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David Pearson
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Impossible to ignore

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
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Benoît Delbecq, and Jiri Slavik/Fred Thomas Duo at Kings Place

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
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Thomas Adès: In Seven Days (London Sinfonietta/Signum Records)

A fascinating new release from Signum Classics, and the second with the London Sinfonietta, is In Se…
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Steven Berryman
John Zorn

Wasabi-Eating Contest: John Zorn Composer Portrait @ Miller Theater

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
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5 questions to Fred Ho (Composer)

While exploring many different sounds and concepts, your jazz compositions maintain strong roots in…
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David Pearson
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French Composers’ Names – Nadia and Lili Boulanger

After a brief Facebook/Twitter survey, Nadia Boulanger emerged as a good candidate for this French C…
Author
Thomas Deneuville
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