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Morphs and Magpies: Ligeti Quartet at London’s Steiner Recital Hall

To paraphrase Stravinsky, great composers don’t borrow, they steal. “Morphs and Magpies”…
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Caroline Potter
Layale Chaker

5 Questions to Layale Chaker (composer, violinist)

Layale Chaker has appeared as a soloist, performer, improviser and composer in Europe, the Middle Ea…
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Bruce A. Russell
Philip Glass

This week: concerts in New York (February 26, 2018 – March 4, 2018)

Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra The Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra make their Carnegie Hall debut…
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Sam Reising
Philipp Rumsch

Track Premiere: Philipp Rumsch Ensemble Performs “Part IV”

Today, and we have a track premiere from German composer, pianist, and sound designer Philipp Rumsch…
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Winnipeg New Music Festival Composers Institute

Fresh Faces at the Winnipeg New Music Festival Composers Institute

The Forks, where the two rivers in Winnipeg meet, is host to one of the longest ice skating trails i…
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Kevin Baldwin
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5 Questions to Peter Meanwell (Artistic Director, Borealis 2018)

Borealis is a festival for experimental music and adventurous listening held annually in Bergen, Nor…
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Amanda Cook
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NYCB New Combinations: Another Step in New Music Journey

If you keep waiting for the New York Philharmonic to program more new music, you need not look furth…
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Stephanie Boyd
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This week: concerts in New York (February 19, 2018 – February 25, 2018)

Dan Lippel | Kettle Corn New Music Kettle Corn New Music presents guitarist Dan Lippel in a program…
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Sam Reising
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Transient Canvas’ Debut Album Sift Features New England Composers

In the sweepstakes of contemporary music, the marimba and the bass clarinet have—for different reaso…
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Colin Holter
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Winter at the Winnipeg New Music Festival: New Music like Nowhere Else

In an inconspicuous Canadian city due north of Minnesota, at times a meeting point between Fahrenhei…
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Kevin Baldwin
Nina Shekhar

Turning Up the Volume: Nina Shekhar (composer, flutist)

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

5 Questions to Lawrence Brownlee (Cycles of My Being)

Operatic tenor Lawrence Brownlee is one of today’s most in-demand singers in the bel canto operas of…
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Derek Bermel - Photo by James Pomerantz

This week: concerts in New York (February 12, 2018 – February 18, 2018)

ECCO | Music Mondays The East Coast Chamber Orchestra (ECCO) performs classics by Dvořák, Shostakovi…
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Sam Reising
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“A Modern Classic:” Ben Reimer’s Katana of Choice (Red Shift Records)

When I was a lad in the ’60s, one of my favorite LPs was the RCA release Jungle Drums featurin…
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Don Clark
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Systemic Discrimination: the Burden of Sameness in American Orchestras

Classical music lovers feel a rush of excitement each year when orchestras release their plans for a…
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Douglas Shadle
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Brooklyn Rider Conjures Spontaneous Symbols (In a Circle Records)

Peeling away the plastic wrapping around Brooklyn Rider’s Spontaneous Symbols yields a rush of dopam…
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Jillian DeGroot
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Boston Opera Collaborative Brings Kaminsky’s As One to Cambridge

Rarely do the words “intimacy” and “opera” historically appear together. Staged in gilded halls with…
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Amanda Cook
Kronos Quartet (photo: Jay Blakesberg)

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

Kronos Quartet & Face the Music | Ecstatic Music Festival The Kronos Quartet joins NYC’s youth n…
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Sam Reising
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In DiEugenio/Solomon’s Into the Silence, a Touching Stucky Tribute

The legacy of the late American composer, conductor and longtime Cornell University professor Steven…
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Andrew Stock
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5 Questions to Eunbi Kim (pianist, entrepreneur)

New York City-based Eunbi Kim is a virtuoso pianist and genre-defying creator and performer. Her 201…
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Bruce A. Russell
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What’s Old is New: Mackey and Treuting’s Orpheus Unsung

On October 6, 2017, New Amsterdam records released Steven Mackey’s and Jason Treuting’s inaugural co…
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Tracy Monaghan
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60th Annual GRAMMY Awards (New Music) Winners

Let’s take a look at the classical music winners from the 60th Annual GRAMMY Awards, and specificall…
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Amanda Cook
David Lang

This week: concerts in New York (January 29, 2018 – February 4, 2018)

the whisper opera | David Lang the whisper opera, with words and music by Pulitzer Prize-winner Davi…
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Sam Reising
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PROTOTYPE 2018: The Echo Drift Explores Human Nature

Walker Loats’ day revolves around soup. The arrival of lunch is one of two ways she keeps track of t…
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Lana Norris
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