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Personal Collaborations Abound on Walters and Deyoe New Releases

Music doesn’t have to tell a story. However, when people collaborate to create music, the music ofte…
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Jacob Kopcienski
Clarice Assad

This week: concerts in New York (April 2, 2018 – April 8, 2018)

Divine Mysteries | MATA Festival The 20th MATA Festival kicks off with MATA Divine Mysteries, the pr…
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Sam Reising
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Alarm Will Sound Performs Johnson’s Mind Out of Matter on Tzadik

Scott Johnson’s Mind Out of Matter (Tzadik) is, among other things, an atheist oratorio. Most (but n…
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Colin Holter
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5 Questions to James Darrah (Artistic Director, ONE Festival)

When it comes to the words “trailblazing” and “influential” in terms of dire…
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Megan Ihnen
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RETURN by Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble (Innova)

The Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble’s (GVSUNME) newest album, RETURN, features the…
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Matthew Younglove
Jenny Berger Myhre

Borealis 2018: When Gender Balance Transcends Tokenism

The week before the 2018 Borealis festival, the PRS Foundation announced its new Keychange initiativ…
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Amanda Cook
Tyshawn Sorey (photo: John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation)

This week: concerts in New York (March 26, 2018 – April 1, 2018)

Brentano Quartet The Brentano Quartet present works by Haydn and Brahms as well as the New York prem…
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Sam Reising
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Our Commitment to Inclusion and Equitable Programming

When I took over as Editor-in-Chief of I CARE IF YOU LISTEN back in September, one of my top priorit…
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Amanda Cook
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Track Premiere: Invisible Anatomy Performs Facial Polygraph XVIA by Fay Wang

Today’s track premiere comes to us via the composer-performer ensemble Invisible Anatomy: Dani…
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Borealis audience

Borealis 2018: The Importance of Failure in Experimental Music

“Listening to the same piece again is nostalgic—nostalgia is the worst kind of disease to have.” In…
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Amanda Cook
Rebekah Heller

5 Questions to Rebekah Heller (Co-Artistic Director, ICE)

Since its founding in 2001, the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) has garnered acclaim not o…
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Lana Norris
Zeena Parkins

This week: concerts in New York (March 19, 2018 – March 25, 2018)

Portals To the Divine: Radiance From the North Great Music at St. Bart’s presents St. Bartholomew’s…
Author
Sam Reising
Natacha Diels’ Papillon and the Dancing Cranes

Borealis 2018: a Festival for Radical Hospitality and Accessibility

From March 7-11, an international roster of eclectic performing artists descended upon Bergen, Norwa…
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Amanda Cook
David Marín

The 21st Century Orchestra: David Marín’s Upcycled World

Kirk Pearson is a Thomas J. Watson Fellow traveling the world on an odyssey of invented instruments,…
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Kirk Pearson
Longleash Passage

Longleash Presents Debut Album Passage on New Focus Recordings

With their debut album Passage (New Focus Recordings, 2017), the members of the string trio Longleas…
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Kathleen McGowan
Ashley Windle

5 Questions to Ashley Windle (Artistic Director, Fair Trade Trio)

The Fair Trade Trio—Ashley Windle (violin), Hannah Levinson (viola), and Jeanette Stenson (cel…
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Lana Norris
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This week: concerts in New York (March 12, 2018 – March 18, 2018)

Of Beasts and Brutes Of Beasts and Brutes playfully and seriously shines light on the human and anim…
Author
Sam Reising
Erik Lotichus Anaitalrax

Tribute and Legacy: Erik Lotichius’ Anaitalrax (Solaire Records)

“To D. Scarlatti (1685–1757) with apologies”—so composer Erik Lotichius (1929–2015) dedicated his An…
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Jeremiah Cawley
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Video Premiere: New Morse Code Performs Lang’s Stuttered Chant

Today’s video premiere from Four/Ten Media and New Morse Code (Hannah Collins, cello; Michael…
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Portrait Album: Valentin Silvestrov’s Hieroglyphen der Nacht

Music should be so transparent that one can see the bottom and that poetry shimmers through this tra…
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Anne Goldberg-Baldwin
Ariadne Greif in Six.Twenty.Outrageous

SIX.TWENTY.OUTRAGEOUS Transforms Gertrude Stein Plays into Opera

Daniel Thomas Davis’ new chamber opera, Six.Twenty.Outrageous: Three Gertrude Stein Plays in the Sha…
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Gemma Peacocke
Lisa Bielawa

This week: concerts in New York (March 5, 2018 – March 11, 2018)

CompCord Big Band CompCord Big Band returns to The Cutting Room to premiere ten brand new compositio…
Author
Sam Reising
Winnipeg New Music Festival

Winnipeg New Music Festival: “Music, Politics, and the Personal”

“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” -Universal Declaration of Human Ri…
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Kevin Baldwin
Bang on a Can All Stars

Bang on a Can: The 2018 People’s Commissioning Fund Concert

Merkin Hall was completely packed on Thursday, February 15, 2018 for the Bang on a Can All-Stars 201…
Author
Tristan McKay
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