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Look + Listen Festival 2019--Photo by Idris Solomon

Look + Listen Festival 2019 Opening Night: “New and Honest Stories”

When host Terrance McKnight asked cellist Seth Parker Woods what comes to mind when hearing the word…
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Alyssa Kayser-Hirsh
TAK Ensemble--Photo by David Bird

Album Premiere: TAK Ensemble’s Oor (TAK Editions)

Today on I CARE IF YOU LISTEN, we have an exclusive album premiere of TAK Ensemble‘s Oor. TAK…
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Juan Pampin and Richard Karpin--Photos by Steve Korn

5 Questions to Juan Pampin and Richard Karpen (Creative Fellowships Initiative: JACK Quartet)

In March of 2016, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation made a generous grant of $750,000 to the Universit…
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Christian Kriegeskotte
Nina C. Young--Photo courtesy ninacyoung.com

This week: concerts in New York (May 13, 2019 – May 19, 2019)

Charles Ives Concert Series The Charles Ives Concert Series, presented by the Danbury Music Centre i…
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Sam Reising
Petra filament

filament: Kristina Warren’s Debut Solo Album as Petra

filament (Gold Bolus Recordings), the first solo album released by Petra (Kristina Warren), question…
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Jillian DeGroot
Hub New Music performs Pascal Le Boeuf's Media Control

Video Premiere: Hub New Music performs Media Control (Le Boeuf)

Today’s Four/Ten Media video premiere features Hub New Music performing Pascal Le Boeuf’…
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Rebecca Comerford--Photo by Johann Wolf

5 Questions to Rebecca Comerford (Founder, Ojai Youth Opera)

Ojai Youth Opera is the first and only standalone youth opera company in the United States, presenti…
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Tracy Monaghan
Héloïse Werner performs The Other Side of the Sea--Photo by Emma Werner

Héloïse Werner and The Hermes Experiment at Kings Place, London

On 25 April I went to see an excellent young quartet at Kings Place in London. Bored already? I’m bo…
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Caroline Potter
Eleonore Oppenheim

This week: concerts in New York (May 6, 2019 – May 12, 2019)

PREformances with Allison Charney Soprano Allison Charney, flutist Marya Martin, and pianist Donna W…
Author
Sam Reising
David Sanford Black Noise

David Sanford and BMOP’s Black Noise Resonates with History

In relation to music, noise occupies a particularly complex position in the history of African Ameri…
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Jacob Kopcienski
Ellen Reid's Playground at Opera Omaha's ONE Festival--Photo by T. Brady

ONE Festival 2019: Opera Omaha in Glass, Gounod, and Reid

Dotting the landscape of what can often seem like a stagnant operatic scene, festivals ensure that f…
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Andrew Stock
Errika Bridgeford and Judah Adashi

Active Listening #6: Love into Concrete by Judah Adashi

Active Listening is a series that unites composers with audiences who care about social justice. The…
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Lior Willinger
Niloufar Talebi and Aleksandra Vrebalov

5 Questions to Niloufar Talebi and Aleksandra Vrebalov about Abraham in Flames

Niloufar Talebi is an author, librettist, widely published writer, and translator, with several awar…
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Bruce A. Russell
Jessie Montgomery

This week: concerts in New York (April 29, 2019 – May 5, 2019)

The Abandoned Castle and Other Stories The New World Symphony, America’s Orchestral Academy (NWS), p…
Author
Sam Reising
Du Yun and Khaled Jarrar's Where We Lost Our Shadows performed by the American Composers Orchestra--Photo by Jennifer Taylor

American Composers Orchestra Confronts Glaring Truths of the Refugee Experience

The American Composers Orchestra concert on April 11, 2019 at the “medium-sized” Carnegie Hall, Zank…
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Stephanie Boyd
Daniela Candillari--Photo by Damjan Švarc

5 Questions to Daniela Candillari (conductor)

Daniela Candillari is a conductor, composer, and pianist whose recent calendar is chock-full with op…
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Stephanie Boyd
Annika Socolofsky Rise

Video Premiere: Hulting-Cohen and Shaneyfelt Perform Socolofsky’s Rise

Today’s Four/Ten Media video premiere features saxophonist Jonathan Hulting-Cohen and pianist …
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Märt-Matis Lill--Photo by Kaupo Kikkas

5 Questions to Märt-Matis Lill (Artistic Director, World Music Days 2019 Tallinn)

Each year, the International Society of Contemporary Music (ISCM) selects a city from one of its mem…
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Amanda Cook
Gelsey Bell

This week: concerts in New York (April 22, 2019 – April 28, 2019)

Amber Evans + Lena Vidulich Amber Evans and Lena Vidulich perform a varied program showcasing the po…
Author
Sam Reising
Adeliia Faizullina

Turning Up the Volume: Adeliia Faizullina (composer, multi-instrumentalist)

Turning Up the Volume is a collection of interviews that focuses on the individual stories of up and…
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Jessica Griggs
Dale Trumbore

5 Questions to Dale Trumbore (composer)

Composer Dale Trumbore is making waves for her powerful works, particularly within the realm of chor…
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Lauren Ishida
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Charlotte Bray: Chamber and Solo Works (Nimbus Records)

Composer Charlotte Bray has recently emerged as a significant voice in chamber music. The first albu…
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Kathleen McGowan
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5 Questions to Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade and Shruthi Rajasekar (composers)

Composers Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade and Shruthi Rajasekar both recently completed their studies at Prin…
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Gemma Peacocke
Huang Ruo

This week: concerts in New York (April 15, 2019 – April 21, 2019)

Bound Inspired by the news headline: “Diane Tran, Honor Student at Texas High School, Jailed for Mis…
Author
Sam Reising
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