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Like many readers of this blog, I am on the mailing list for Bang on a Can. A recent email described…
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Rob Wendt
There are many elements of music which we take for granted, especially in traditional Western music,…
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Neil Prufer
I felt fortunate to attend the final concert that formed part of a short series at Kings Place, Lond…
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Steven Berryman
The Delos label’s new disc of Tchaikovsky’s complete works for violin and piano delivers consistentl…
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David Pearson
Last Sunday evening, the innovative Manhattan-based choir Choral Chameleon presented an eclectic pro…
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Lauren Ishida
On Sunday, November 20th, at Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn, singer/songwriter/composer/pianist/gui…
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Matt Weber
Born in Paris from an aristocratic family, d’Indy studied with César Franck at the Conservatoi…
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Thomas Deneuville
It was a big night yesterday for New Amsterdam Records. The New York based label was having a double…
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Thomas Deneuville
I’m always keen to hear concerts that attempt to fuse genres and London Sinfonietta’s Written/Unwrit…
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Steven Berryman
Violinist Aisha Orazbayeva’s debut album Outside released 31st October 2011 on the UK-based Nonclass…
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Steven Berryman
Alan Hovhaness would have been 100 this year, and for this occasion Delos is releasing American Myst…
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Thomas Deneuville
In “Sheet Music in Colour”, you explore the relationship between music and art/design. What motivate…
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Thomas Deneuville
The third composer in this French composers’ names series that was part of Ensemble l’Itinéraire (al…
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Thomas Deneuville
Fred Ho’s new work, The Sweet Science Suite: A Scientific Soul Honoring of Muhammad Ali seemed to ch…
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David Pearson
The best music is often that which makes the perfect soundtrack for its time, sounding completely “i…
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David Pearson
Two weeks ago, the Nouveau Classical Project presented an ambitious production at Galapagos Art Spac…
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Jeremy Howard Beck
Francisco Goya’s famous series of prints Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War) were crea…
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Jeremy Howard Beck
I finally made it to Le Poisson Rouge, which I have heard so much about, to hear this tribute concer…
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Rob Wendt
It is no exaggeration to say that something of a crisis has existed in classical music for several d…
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David Pearson
Astral Vinyl is an album of new works by Texan composer Stephen Barber released in May of this year…
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Matt Weber
Our next installment in our French Composers’ Names series is one of the most exciting French compos…
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Thomas Deneuville
The British composer Nicholas Maw (1935 – 2009) received mixed reception during his life; dubbed a ‘…
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Steven Berryman
“Isotone: A Collision of Music and Physics” (Symphony Space, Leonard Nimoy Thalia, October 24th) cer…
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Matt Weber