Articles
Schubertiade Remix | Mostly Mozart Festival In the spirit of Schubert’s famous musical soirées, arti…
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Sam Reising
Alexander Calder’s first use of sound in sculpture was accidental. “You have weight, form, size, col…
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Lana Norris
“Thanks for this royal gift,” writes György Kurtág (b. 1926) in the album on which Reinb…
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Thea Derks
INTERSECT: Featuring the Music of Billy Childs The two-day music festival is a rare opportunity to e…
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Sam Reising
On June 2, 2017, Brooklyn’s contemporary music sanctuary National Sawdust cleared away the chairs an…
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Christian Kriegeskotte
Within the last two years, MATA’s call for scores received a sudden influx of Iranian pieces. Submis…
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Lana Norris
The Idea of Red and Grey and Yellow | Okkyung Lee John Zorn’s Stone Commissioning Series premieres a…
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Sam Reising
The new album Bells for the South Side, released by ECM Records on June 16, 2017, features multi-ins…
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Alexander Rothe
The Mizzou International Composers Festival (MICF), lead by artistic director Stefan Freund (Alarm W…
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Jay Derderian
Liminal Highway & In a Grove | Tim Munro and Christopher Cerrone An evening of flute and electro…
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Sam Reising
New York based Hat Trick Trio (April Clayton, flute, David Wallace, Viola, and Kristi Shade harp) wa…
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Don Clark
On June 20, 2017, patrons of Brooklyn’s progressive-music proscenium, Roulette, were treated to a co…
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Christian Kriegeskotte
On July 14-15, 2017, Bang on a Can, Gong Linna, and Lao Luo bring you Cloud River Mountain as part o…
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Kevin Baldwin
New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival The New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival is the…
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Sam Reising
Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring: has any piece of music written since 1913 been so genuine yet so alien,…
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Aaron Wolff
When I settled into my seat, pen and taco notebook in hand, to review Lisa Bielawa’s Vireo, I was no…
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Rebecca Lentjes
VIREO, a made-for-film opera in 12 episodes What could opera be if it wasn’t constricted to a single…
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Sam Reising
A determining factor for any music festival, at least for this reporter, is not what is fun or excit…
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Kurt Gottschalk
Our new track premiere today comes to us from Dublin composer Jonathan Nangle and Crash Ensemble, Ir…
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
The flute unfolded itself into kaleidoscope of characters and sounds in the hands of Claire Chase on…
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Aaron Wolff
The Chelsea Music Festival is a placemaker. One doesn’t feel that they must speak a foreign language…
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Lana Norris
Distinguished Concerts Singers International Francisco Núñez, founder/artistic director of the Young…
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Sam Reising
The 71st Ojai Music Festival took place in Ojai, CA from June 8-11, 2017 with pianist and composer V…
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Aaron Wolff
