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Festival Recap: 2017 Donaueschinger Musiktage

Critical composition was the order of the day at the 2017 Donaueschinger Musiktage. This year’s week…
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Andrew Chung
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5 Questions to Melissa Smey (Executive Director, Miller Theatre)

As executive director at Miller Theatre, Melissa Smey has concerned herself with commissioning works…
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Rebecca Lentjes
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Track Premiere: Valentine’s by R WE WHO R WE

Today, we are premiering “Valentine’s” from R WE WHO R WE’s upcoming album &…
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Stephen Hartke - Photo by Philip Channing/USC

This week: concerts in New York (November 13, 2017 – November 19, 2017)

Ensemble Connect Ensemble Connect performs a free concert of Brahms’s Trio in E-flat Major for Violi…
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Sam Reising
Andy Akiho

Emerald City Music Presents Andy Akiho Artist Spotlight in Seattle

The prototypical classical concert experience in a former warehouse converted to event space in the…
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Kevin Baldwin
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5 Questions to Conrad Winslow (composer, The Perfect Nothing Catalog)

The Perfect Nothing Catalog is the debut CD by Brooklyn based composer Conrad Winslow. Scheduled for…
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Don Clark
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A Retrospective Prequel: Yarn/Wire’s Currents Vol. 0

Currents Vol. 0 is everything a retrospective of an early collaborative project should be, and anyon…
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Kathleen McGowan
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5 Questions to R.B. Schlather (opera director)

R.B. Schlather is an opera director known for questioning production methods and form. November 11-1…
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Lana Norris
American Brass Quintet

This week: concerts in New York (November 6, 2017 – November 12, 2017)

American Brass Quintet The American Brass Quintet makes their annual Juilliard appearance, featuring…
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Sam Reising
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New Morse Code Debut Album Simplicity Itself (New Focus Recordings)

Back in 2011 while they were still students at Yale, cellist Hannah Collins and percussionist Michae…
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Gemma Peacocke
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5 Questions to Paul Pinto (composer, Thomas Paine in Violence)

Thomas Paine in Violence is one of those experiences that I tell other people about when they ask, “…
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Megan Ihnen
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Video Premiere: LAPQ Performs Matt McBane For Triangles

Another day, another awesome Four/Ten Media video premiere. Today’s video features the Los Ang…
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5 Questions to the Composers of The Blue Hour

On November 4, 2017 in Washington, D.C., the Boston-based string orchestra A Far Cry and Grammy-winn…
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Amanda Cook
Conrad Tao - Photo by Elizabeth Farmer

This week: concerts in New York (October 30, 2017 – November 5, 2017)

Ceremony Vocalist Charmaine Lee premieres Ceremony, a collaborative work developed with pianist and…
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Sam Reising
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Scott Wollschleger’s Soft Aberration Conjures Forms from Darkness

New York based composer Scott Wollschleger describes his work, Soft Aberration, in the following man…
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Christian Kriegeskotte
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Du Yun’s Pulitzer Prize Winning Angel’s Bone on VIA Records

Angel’s Bone, awarded the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Music, was premiered at the 2016 PROTOTYPE festiva…
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Lauren Ishida
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5 Questions to Ed Yim (President, American Composers Orchestra)

The 2017-2018 season marks the 40th year of the American Composers Orchestra, the only orchestra in…
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Jarrett Goodchild
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Gallois Conducts Boulez with the International Contemporary Ensemble

Pierre Boulez led a multi-faceted career, but those of composer and conductor made him a household n…
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Don Clark
Missy Mazzoli-- Photo by Stephen Taylor

This week: concerts in New York (October 23, 2017 – October 29, 2017)

Ensemble Connect Ensemble Connect kicks off its second season with a performance at Carnegie Hall, f…
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Sam Reising
Momenta Quartet

A Deep Breath of Momenta Quartet’s “Air from Another Planet”

The annual Momenta Festival, now in its third iteration, got off to a great start on October 1, 2017…
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Rebecca Lentjes
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Zero, Minimal Music for 2 Pianos by Jeroen Elfferich (Arabesque)

First, if you’ll allow a brief diversion before I begin this review, I must say it is good to be bac…
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Andrew Lee
Kelly Moran

This week: concerts in New York (October 16, 2017 – October 22, 2017)

Hallucinations | Kelly Moran Experimental pianist Kelly Moran presents Hallucinations, influenced by…
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Sam Reising
JACK Quartet--Photo by Matt Zugale for Miller Theatre

5 Questions to JACK Quartet About Soundscape America

“Explosive virtuosity” “Mind-blowingly good” “Among the most stimulati…
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Justin Rito
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WNYC and Apollo Theater Present Black Creativity at The Greene Space

On Thursday, September 28, 2017, eminent singer, actress, radio and podcast host Helga Davis mediate…
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Christian Kriegeskotte
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