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Rachel Barton Pine Blues Dialogues

Rachel Barton Pine’s Blues Dialogues Explores Blues and Classical Idioms

Rachel Barton Pine is a versatile violinist and advocate for both new music and the cataloguing of m…
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Clover Nahabedian
Karl Jenkins

This week: concerts in New York (January 21, 2019 – January 27, 2019)

The Music Of Sir Karl Jenkins: A 75th Birthday Celebration DCINY presents the US premiere of Sir Kar…
Author
Sam Reising
Yevgeny Kutik and Gity Razaz

Track Premiere: Yevgeny Kutik Performs Gity Razaz’s Cadenza for the Once Young

Today’s track premiere comes to us from “Meditations on Family,” violinist Yevgeny…
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Philip Venables' 4.48 Psychosis at PROTOTYPE

Philip Venables’ 4.48 Psychosis at PROTOTYPE

“It’s absorbing, and even after two volumes I can’t figure out why.” The gentleman seated in front o…
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Lana Norris
Natalie Draper

Active Listening #2: Until there is nothing left by Natalie Draper

Active Listening is a series that unites composers with audiences who care about social justice. The…
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Lior Willinger
Leah Coloff's ThisTree at PROTOTYPE 2019

Leah Coloff’s ThisTree: Storytelling and Song at PROTOTYPE

When the new year has just begun to settle in, the PROTOTYPE festival emerges to remind us of the ad…
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Alyssa Kayser-Hirsh
Mazz Swift

This week: concerts in New York (January 14, 2019 – January 20, 2019)

Face the Music On January 14, Face the Music performs at Roulette with Mazz Swift and the Internatio…
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Sam Reising
Unheard-of//Ensemble

Track Premiere: Unheard-of//Ensemble Performs Erin Rogers’ Family Picnic 2008

Today’s track premiere features Unheard-of//Ensemble performing Erin Rogers‘ Family Picn…
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inti figgis-vizueta

5 Questions to inti figgis-vizueta (composer)

inti figgis-vizueta is a non-binary Quechua/Latinx composer from Washington, D.C. As head of the Bou…
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Gemma Peacocke
Fuse Ensemble's 3: Music of Gina Biver

Space, Identity, Audio in 3: The Music of Gina Biver (Ravello Records)

3: The Music of Gina Biver (Ravello Records) begins with Gina Biver herself, speaking directly in fr…
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Hannah Rosa Schiller
Kamala Sankaram

5 Questions to Kamala Sankaram (Co-Artistic Director, Experiments in Opera)

Kamala Sankaram is not easily defined. It’s not so much that she defies labels but rather that she f…
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Lauren Ishida
Caroline Shaw

This week: concerts in New York (January 7, 2019 – January 13, 2019)

PROTOTYPE: Out of Bounds | PROTOTYPE Festival PROTOTYPE presents its third iteration of Out of Bound…
Author
Sam Reising
Zoe and Jack Johnstone

5 Questions to Jack and Zoe Johnstone (Johnstone Fund for New Music)

Columbus, Ohio tends not to attract much hype, despite being among the Midwest’s few fast-grow…
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Nick Stevens
Leah Dunbar

New Voices Essay Contest Third Place Winner: Leah Dunbar

Last year, I CARE IF YOU LISTEN partnered with 21CM to create the “New Voices” essay contest, inviti…
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Anjali Misra

New Voices Essay Contest Second Place Winner: Anjali Misra

Last year, I CARE IF YOU LISTEN partnered with 21CM to create the “New Voices” essay contest, inviti…
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Hillary LaBonte

New Voices Essay Contest First Place Winner: Hillary LaBonte

Last year, I CARE IF YOU LISTEN partnered with 21CM to create the “New Voices” essay contest, inviti…
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Bushra El-Turk--Photo courtesy www.bushraelturk.com

5 Questions to Bushra El-Turk (composer)

In her work, composer Bushra El-Turk blurs boundaries of several kinds: between cultures, discipline…
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Bruce A. Russell
p r i s m

This week: concerts in New York (December 31, 2018 – January 6, 2019)

The Infinite Hotel | PROTOTYPE Festival The Infinite Hotel invites live audiences to become ‘extras’…
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Sam Reising
Transient Canvas Wired

Transient Canvas’ Wired Features Electroacoustic Commissions

Transient Canvas is a bass clarinet (Amy Advocat) and marimba (Matt Sharrock) duo that actively comm…
Author
Matthew Younglove
New Amsterdam Co-Founders Judd Greenstein, Sarah Kirkland Snider, and William Brittelle

5 Questions to New Amsterdam Records on their 10th Anniversary

Navigating the ever-changing tides of album-based musical projects may seem like an immense risk, ev…
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Megan Ihnen
Wet Ink 20

Wet Ink 20: A Celebration of Creativity and Collaboration (Carrier Records)

Named the Best Ensemble of 2018 by the New York Times, Wet Ink Ensemble has been having a year of ce…
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Natalie Calma
John Zorn at Jazz Middelheim 2012 (photo credit: Bruno Bollaert, Flickr, used under Creative Commons license. Via walkerart.org)

This week: concerts in New York (December 24, 2018 – December 30, 2018)

Ned Rothenberg & John Zorn The John Zorn Commissioning Series celebrates Zorn’s revolutionary ve…
Author
Sam Reising
2018 albums

2018 Contemporary Classical Music Albums: Editor’s Picks

It’s the time of the year for “Best of…” lists, and while this is indeed a r…
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Amanda Cook
Brooklyn Youth Chorus Silent Voices

Brooklyn Youth Chorus’ Silent Voices Inspires Change

Spend an hour and twenty minutes with Silent Voices, the newest release from the Grammy-Award winnin…
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Jeremiah Cawley
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