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Arooj Aftab

Boston’s Stave Sessions Presents Arooj Aftab, Gyan Riley, and Tigue

Stave Sessions, presented by the Celebrity Series of Boston, is dedicated to sharing a diverse array…
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Anne Goldberg-Baldwin
Jessica Meyer's Gp BIG or Go HOME

Video Premiere: Nu Deco Performs Jessica Meyer’s Go BIG or Go HOME

Today’s video premiere features Nu Deco Ensemble performing Jessica Meyer’s Go BIG or Go…
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Photo by Samuel Zeller on Unsplash

Whose Pulitzer Prize? Reception History Behind the Brand-Name Prestige

There is nothing quite like the annual announcement of the Pulitzer Prize for Music to inspire skept…
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Julia Kuhlman
Sarah Angliss--Photo by Agata Urbaniak

Uncanny resonances: Sarah Angliss at Kings Place, London

The word ‘unique’ is used on the flimsiest of pretexts to describe an artist, but for Sarah Angliss…
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Caroline Potter
Hotel Elefant

This week: concerts in New York (April 8, 2019 – April 14, 2019)

Mia Zabelka, Phill Niblock, and Katherine Liberovskaya The Austrian Cultural Forum New York presents…
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Sam Reising
Claire Chase, Peter Evans, and Joe McPhee--© Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. Photo: Bryan Conley

Chase, Evans, & McPhee Evoke Deep Listening at Pittsburgh’s Warhol Museum

On Saturday, March 23, in collaboration with the Carnegie Museum of Art’s 57th triennial Carnegie In…
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Christian Kriegeskotte
Andrew McIntosh We See the Flying Bird/Five Songs

McIntosh’s We See the Flying Bird/Five Songs: Stunning Vocals and Delicate Percussion

In his newest 10” record release from Populist Records, We See the Flying Bird/Five Songs, Andrew Mc…
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Lauren Ishida
ShelleyShelley Washington--Photo by Peter Yankowsky Washington

Active Listening #5: Towers by Shelley Washington

Active Listening is a series that unites composers with audiences who care about social justice. The…
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Lior Willinger
Ecstatic Music Festival presents Brooklyn Youth Chorus--Photo by David Andrako

Brooklyn Youth Chorus & Wye Oak Close the 2019 Ecstatic Music Festival

In the middle of her set with the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Jenn Wasner of the indie-rock duo Wye Oak t…
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Alyssa Kayser-Hirsh
Kate Soper

This week: concerts in New York (April 1, 2019 – April 7, 2019)

Wet Ink: 20th Anniversary Bash Wet Ink Ensemble celebrates 20 years of music making in NYC and aroun…
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Sam Reising
Amanda Gookin's Forward Music Project 2.0--Photo by Jill Steinberg

Amanda Gookin Brings Forward Music Project 2.0 to National Sawdust

New York-based cellist Amanda Gookin is injecting the often-abstract world of new music with human e…
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Aaron Wolff
Thomas Buckner--Photo by Chris Bowen

5 Questions to Thomas Buckner (Founder and Artistic Director, Interpretations Series)

One of the most famous male voices in contemporary music in the United States, Thomas Buckner is a b…
Author
Colin Holter
Photo by Dayne Topkin on Unsplash

The Myth of the Composer-Genius

The following is an abridged version of a lecture given at the Overnight Composers Series at SUNY Fr…
Author
Evan Williams
Ashley Jackson performs Danielle Eva Schwob's The Long Way Down

Video Premiere: Ashley Jackson Performs Danielle Eva Schwob’s “The Long Way Down”

Today’s Four/Ten Media video premiere features harpist Ashley Jackson performing Danielle Eva…
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Tyshawn Sorey (photo: John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation)

This week: concerts in New York (March 25, 2019 – March 31, 2019)

CompCord Big Band CompCord Big Band runs amok on a program featuring premieres by Aaron Alter, John…
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Sam Reising
Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir Vernacular

VERNACULAR: Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir Performs Cello Works by Icelandic Composers

Cellist Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir dreams in Icelandic. Despite having spent the majority of her life ou…
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Jillian DeGroot
Cara Tolmie and Stine Janvin--Photo by Thor Brødreskift/Borealis

Borealis 2019 Encourages Two-Way Dialogues and Evokes Visceral Reactions

“Borealis is not a transaction, but a conversation,” reflected Artistic Director Peter Meanwell afte…
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Amanda Cook
Saariaho X Koh

Saariaho X Koh: Kaija Saariaho and Jennifer Koh Multiply Their Talents

The title graphics of this Cedille CD are more than appropriate: it is not titled Saariaho & Koh…
Author
Don Clark
Jennifer Walshe's The Site of an Investigation at New Music Dublin--Photo by Joanne Taaffe

New Music Dublin 2019 Celebrates the Irish Contemporary Music Scene

I’ve had the privilege of spending the last six months living and studying experimental sound practi…
Author
James May
Amanda Gookin

This week: concerts in New York (March 18, 2019 – March 24, 2019)

Cecilia Lopez: Dos (tres) / Bifurcations with Aki Onda For the first concert of her 2019 Roulette re…
Author
Sam Reising
Claire Chase's Density 2036: part vi--Photo by Karen Chester

Claire Chase Prophesies What’s Possible in “Density 2036, part vi” at The Kitchen

Claire Chase‘s last “Density 2036“ episode, Marcos Balters’ Pan, was a 90-mi…
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Lana Norris
Inbal Segev--Photo by Jill Steinberg

Inbal Segev Celebrates 21st Century Women (and One Man) at Roulette

On Thursday, February 28, 2019, an intimate group assembled within Brooklyn’s Roulette Intermedium t…
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
Joe Bergen

5 Questions to Joe Bergen (Mantra Youth Percussion)

Mantra Percussion hasn’t stopped moving since they were founded in 2009. Now heading into thei…
Author
Jay Derderian
Argus Quartet performs Andrew Norman's Peculiar Strokes

Video Premiere: Argus Quartet Performs Norman’s Peculiar Strokes

Today’s video premiere of Peculiar Strokes by Andrew Norman features Argus Quartet in collabor…
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