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JACK Quartet

This week: concerts in New York (May 7, 2018 – May 13, 2018)

Border Crossing: Music of Derek Bermel with JACK Quartet Composer and clarinetist Derek Bermel joins…
Author
Sam Reising
ONE Festival The Dharma at Big Sur

Opera Omaha’s Inaugural ONE Festival: “Flyover at Your Own Peril”

Opera Omaha just took a big step towards the national spotlight on new opera with their inaugural ON…
Author
Megan Ihnen
Talea Ensemble--Photo by Beowulf Sheehan

Talea Ensemble Tackles Complex Works at St. Peters Chelsea

The dark, cavernous interior of St. Peters Chelsea seemed to demand whispered, hushed voices from th…
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Stephanie Boyd
Majel Connery

Video Premiere: Oracle Hysterical’s Bolero with the Chicago Composers Orchestra

Today’s video premiere features a live orchestral arrangement of “Bolero,” a track…
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Dolce Suono American Canvas

Dolce Suono Trio’s American Canvas: A “Neo-Romantic Snapshot”

I, constantly, must remind myself that when I first heard contemporary music, it was not a headlong…
Author
James May
Xavier Foley

This week: concerts in New York (April 30, 2018 – May 6, 2018)

Cutting Edge Concerts: Cygnus Ensemble The final concert of Cutting Edge Concerts 21st season featur…
Author
Sam Reising
Contemporaneous MATA

MATA Festival 2018 Concludes with Contemporaneous: Stop Motion

“What was once a failure or challenge is now commonplace…over the past twenty years, we have embrace…
Author
Clare Monfredo
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Mazzoli and Vavrek’s Proving Up at Opera Omaha ONE Festival

A makeshift sawhorse, an oval stock tank, miniature flowers, and a collection of liquor bottles dott…
Author
Megan Ihnen
Jonathan Bailey Holland--Photo by Robert Torres

5 Questions to Jonathan Bailey Holland (composer, educator)

Composer and educator Jonathan Bailey Holland, a mainstay of the contemporary music scene in Boston,…
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Tigue--Photo by Catalina Kulczar

Exclusive Album Stream: Tigue’s Strange Paradise (New Amsterdam/NNA Tapes)

Today, we have an exclusive album stream of Strange Paradise, the sophomore album from Brooklyn-base…
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Evan Ziporyn - Photo by Standa Merhout

This week: concerts in New York (April 23, 2018 – April 29, 2018)

Cutting Edge Concerts: Hub New Music Boston-based Hub New Music performs Laura Kaminsky’s The…
Author
Sam Reising
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Crazy: Songs by T. Patrick Carrabré (Winter Wind Records)

Crazy, a song cycle by T. Patrick Carrabré, seeks to explore the line necessary in the creative proc…
Author
Kevin Baldwin
Sophia Subbaya Vastek

5 Questions to Sophia Subbayya Vastek (pianist, multidisciplinary artist)

Sophia Subbayya Vastek is a pianist and multidisciplinary artist who has performed in South Africa,…
Author
Bruce A. Russell
Liminar

MATA Festival 2018 Opens With Liminar: Out of Bounds

For the past twenty years, the MATA festival has championed diversity. The 2018 festival opened on A…
Author
Alyssa Kayser-Hirsh
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5 Questions to Dianne Berkun Menaker (Founder and Artistic Director, Brooklyn Youth Chorus)

Dianne Berkun Menaker is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Brooklyn Youth Chorus. Under her d…
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Jarrett Goodchild
andPlay

This week: concerts in New York (April 16, 2018 – April 22, 2018)

Yuko Fujiyama Ensemble: Album Release Celebration After a 15-year hiatus, pianist Yuko Fujiyama retu…
Author
Sam Reising
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Lawrence Brownlee Previews Cycles of My Being at The Greene Space

On Wednesday, March 28th at the Jerome L. Greene Performance Space, those who had gathered for the e…
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
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Big Ears Festival 2018: Pushing the Boundaries

Unlike the programming in years previous, the Big Ears 2018 lineup was particularly jazz- and Appala…
Author
Tracy Monaghan
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The 21st Century Orchestra: Garikayi Tirikoti’s Telephone to God

Kirk Pearson is a Thomas J. Watson Fellow traveling the world on an odyssey of invented instruments,…
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Kirk Pearson
Nick Dunston--Photo by Zosha Warpeha

Turning Up the Volume: Nick Dunston (Bassist, Composer)

Turning Up the Volume is a collection of interviews that focuses on the individual stories of up and…
Author
Jessica Griggs
Tarik O'Regan

This week: concerts in New York (April 9, 2018 – April 15, 2018)

Great Choir: Immigrants – A Celebration of What Makes New York Great Instrumental ensemble Rose of t…
Author
Sam Reising
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5 Questions to Mariana Green Hill (Artistic Advisor, Project STEP)

Violinist Mariana Green Hill is concertmaster of the Soulful Symphony in Baltimore and a former memb…
Author
Amanda Cook
Mivos Quartet

Mivos Quartet and Iceberg New Music at Tenri Cultural Institute

From the wine reception at the beginning of the March 23rd ICEBERG New Music concert at Tenri Cultur…
Author
Stephanie Boyd
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Big Ears Festival 2018: Experiential Trademarks

From March 22 to March 25, 2018, Knoxville, Tennessee hosted another iteration of the Big Ears Festi…
Author
Tracy Monaghan
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