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Chen Zhangyi--Photo by Stan Wang

Active Listening #10: CLIMA by Chen Zhangyi

Active Listening is a series that unites composers with audiences who care about social justice. The…
Author
Lior Willinger
MARANASATI 19111

MARANASATI 19111: Nina Keith’s Debut Album on Grind Select

Composer and multi-instrumentalist Nina Keith presents MARANASATI 19111, a debut full-length album o…
Author
Jillian DeGroot
Erin Gee

This week: concerts in New York (September 2, 2019 – September 8, 2019)

Resonant Bodies Festival Night 1: Charmaine Lee & Conrad Tao, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Jane Sheldo…
Author
Sam Reising
Anna Webber Septet--Photo by Liz Kosack

Clockwise by Anna Webber Expounds Upon the Essence of Timbre

As her biography states, Canadian-born/Brooklyn-based composer and multi-instrumentalist Anna Webber…
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
Cowboy hat--Photo by Clint McKoy on Unsplash

What Classical Music Can Learn From “Old Town Road:” Cultural Appropriation vs Memefication

Coming from the classical music and opera world, I can’t say very often that a popular hit has smash…
Author
Meg Huskin
Vanessa Rose--Photo by Julia Gang

5 Questions to Vanessa Rose (President, American Composers Forum)

The American Composers Forum began in 1973 as a University of Minnesota student club, formalising in…
Author
Gemma Peacocke
Argus Quartet and Juri Seo Respiri

Respiri: Juri Seo and Argus Quartet Debut Sophomore Portrait on innova

No composer works in a vacuum, but some show their influences more plainly than others. On Respiri,…
Author
Andrew Stock
Ned Rorem

This week: concerts in New York (August 26, 2019 – September 1, 2019)

Memories | CreArt Music Festival At the opening concert of CreArtBox’s 2019 music festival, Julia Ya…
Author
Sam Reising
Jasper String Quartet Unbound

Unbound: Jasper String Quartet Features Post-Minimal Composers

In the past decade, Jasper String Quartet have made a name for themselves as masterful interpreters…
Author
Adam O’Dell
We Cannot Leave--Photo by Sammy Sohn

Art for Art’s Sake: Steps to Prevent Tone Deaf Social Justice Concerts

A child dies locked in a detention center. Another black man is killed by police. A family mourns th…
Author
Alexander Lloyd Blake
The Exotica Album

The Exotica Album: Øyvind Torvund & BIT20 Ensemble Twist Pastiche into Nostalgia

Norwegian composer Øyvind Torvund’s recent release on Hubro Music, The Exotica Album, is a dreamlike…
Author
James May
Bushra El-Turk's Silk Moth--Photo by Lidia Crisafulli

Grimeborn Festival Stages Daring Triple Bill Featuring El-Turk’s “Silk Moth”

It’s summer opera festival season in the UK–so, are you a Glyndebourne or a Grimeborn person?…
Author
Caroline Potter
Thea Musgrave

This week: concerts in New York (August 19, 2019 – August 25, 2019)

Princess Maleine Dell’Arte Opera Ensemble presents the world premiere of Princess Maleine and opera…
Author
Sam Reising
ICE and IFCA at Mostly Mozart--Photo courtesy of DigitICE

ICE Showcases the Iranian Female Composers Association at Mostly Mozart

The Iranian Female Composers Association was founded in 2017 by Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Anahita Abbasi,…
Author
Lana Norris
American Rapture

American Rapture: RPO Showcases Three Generations of American Contemporary Music

American Rapture, the new release on the hitherto unknown to me Azica label, features Samuel Barber&…
Author
Don Clark
Nathalie Joachim--Photo by Josue Azor

Track Premiere: Nathalie Joachim & Spektral Quartet Perform “Alléluia”

Today’s track premiere features Spektral Quartet and flutist, composer, and vocalist Nathalie…
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Front Porch, Siegfried, & Boggs Transform National Sawdust With New Premieres

On the balmy evening of Sunday, July 28, the hard black and white geometry of National Sawdust seeme…
Author
Daniel Schreiner
Whitney George

This week: concerts in New York (August 12, 2019 – August 18, 2019)

Princess Maleine Dell’Arte Opera Ensemble presents the world premiere of Princess Maleine and opera…
Author
Sam Reising
p r i s m--Photo by Larry Ho

5 Questions to the Music Critics Association of North America (MCANA)

Upon recognizing that the Music Critics Association of North America (MCANA) Award for Best New Oper…
Author
Megan Ihnen
Frances Pollock--Photo by Lindley Battle

Active Listening #9: Transference by Frances Pollock

Active Listening is a series that unites composers with audiences who care about social justice. The…
Author
Lior Willinger
Errollyn Wallen--Photo by Azzura Primavera

5 Questions to Errollyn Wallen (composer, performer)

Equally recognized as a singer-songwriter and a contemporary classical composer, Errollyn Wallen is…
Author
Bruce A. Russell
Cassie Wieland

This week: concerts in New York (August 5, 2019 – August 11, 2019)

in a (once-)blossomed place Release Show People Places Records hosts a release show for the new Cass…
Author
Sam Reising
Cevanna Horrocks-Hopayian performs at Battersea Arts Centre during the 2019 Proms

Proms at Battersea Arts Centre Showcases UK Experimental Music Scene

For me, summer in London would be unimaginable without two things: complaining about the weather bei…
Author
Caroline Potter
Hollows out of time

Erik Griswold’s Hollows out of time Artistically Engages with the Lands of Australia

For nearly two decades, Australian-American composer Erik Griswold has been writing and performing m…
Author
Justin D. Wright
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