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Opera and theater director Peter Sellars is the Music Director for the 70th annual Ojai Music Festiv…
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Composer Sarah Kirkland Snider is in the midst of a whirlwind season with a new orchestral commissio…
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
“We like to call this MATA masala,” said Executive Director Todd Tarantino of “Neither Land, Nor Sea…
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Lana Norris
First impressions can tell you a lot. So the adage goes, the first seven seconds of an interview or…
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Justin Rito
After concerts at a renovated warehouse the first night, and in an 800-year-old church the second ni…
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Rebecca Lentjes
Matt Marks is a versatile composer, vocalist, and instrumentalist. He is a founding member of Alarm…
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Amanda Cook
Gender in Music is the theme of this month’s Monthly Music Hackathon. On April 30, at Spotify’s NYC…
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
The composer David Rakowski recently tweeted, “The problem with having genres is that people claim t…
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Zoë Madonna
It was surprising to see so many people present at the Niguliste Kirik (St. Nicholas Church) on the…
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Rebecca Lentjes
Knoxville’s 2016 Big Ears Festival, a three-day marathon of the experimental sides of pop, jazz, and…
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Zoë Madonna
Martha Mooke’s No Ordinary Window on Monkmusic Records is an amazing look into what is possible with…
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Jarrett Goodchild
If you had told me a few weeks ago that I’d spend the night of March 31 in a recently renovate…
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Rebecca Lentjes
In 1844, there was no December 31 in the Philippines. They went from December 30, 1844 to January 1,…
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Thomas Deneuville
Yair Klartag is one of four composers commissioned by MATA, this year. His piece There’s no la…
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Lana Norris
Since 1998, series director Steve Miles and producer Ron Silver have been revving up the contemporar…
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
The final night of the seventh annual Avant Media Festival, which took place on March 5, 2016, was m…
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Rebecca Lentjes
Since Sō Percussion first came across my radar, it’s been abundantly clear that the quartet is all a…
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Daniel Kushner
Conductor Kristjan Järvi has achieved acclaim for his innovative programming, thinking outside the b…
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Rebecca Lentjes
The sounds and stories of Stacy Garrop’s Mythology Symphony (2007-2013), recently recorded and relea…
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Rebecca Lentjes
Just as John Cage taught us important musical lessons about silence (in both his germinal book on th…
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
On March 14, 2016, I was sitting in my studio listening to Peter Maxwell Davies’ 10th and fina…
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Angelina Panozzo
On Thursday, February 11, 2016 at the David H. Koch Theater, the New York City Ballet and its orches…
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Daniel Kushner
On February 12, 2016, preeminent contemporary music pioneers eighth blackbird donned their evening w…
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Christian Kriegeskotte
