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JACK Quartet Maneuvers in the Dark 

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
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Peter Maxwell Davies’ Symphony No. 10 Explores Emotion and Mortality

On March 14, 2016, I was sitting in my studio listening to Peter Maxwell Davies’ 10th and fina…
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Angelina Panozzo
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Peck and Dessner Bring The Most Incredible Thing to NYC Ballet

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
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eighth blackbird’s Filament Attracts Grammy and MacArthur Awards

On February 12, 2016, preeminent contemporary music pioneers eighth blackbird donned their evening w…
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Christian Kriegeskotte
Wet Ink Trio

Wet Ink Trio Blurs Boundaries in Oberlin

Wet Ink Trio blurred the lines between composition and performance and music and noise in a dynamic…
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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loadbang’s Lungpowered: New, Confident, and Weird

Brassy, brazen, unexpected: for experimental-minded people, this is how new music should be. The qua…
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Daniel Hautzinger
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Dark Music Days 2016 Recap: Day Three

The third and final day of concerts at Dark Music Days began with Guðný Einarsdóttir presenting a su…
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Gavin Gamboa
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Seattle Symphony Orchestra does New York School

In the Grand Lobby of Benaroya Hall on February 5, 2016 at 10:00pm, the Seattle Symphony Orchestra’s…
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Kevin Baldwin
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Beyond Language: Lois V Vierk’s Words Fail Me

Lois V Vierk’s (b.1951) latest release on New World Records, Words Fail Me, encapsulates a mus…
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Jay Derderian
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This week: concerts in New York (February 29 – March 6, 2016)

Either/Or: Precursors and Parallels | Pop-Up Concerts This Pop-Up celebrates a number of groundbreak…
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Sam Reising
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Jeffrey Leiser The Summit on Discovery Music & Vision

Ever since Beethoven added a chorus to his Ninth Symphony in 1824, the symphony as a musical form ha…
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Don Clark
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Dark Music Days 2016 Recap: Day Two

The wind screams and howls in Reykjavík. It is strong enough to disturb your gait and to push you ar…
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Gavin Gamboa
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Album premiere: Adrian Knight’s Obsessions by R. Andrew Lee

Adrian Knight: Obsessions is pianist R. Andrew Lee’s tenth album and we’re honored to of…
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Thomas Deneuville
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Qasim Naqvi’s Preamble (NNA Tapes)

Qasim Naqvi is probably best known as the drummer for Dawn of Midi, a group that, alongside The Neck…
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Danny Clay
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Dark Music Days 2016 Recap: Day One

The Dark Music Days Festival takes place within Harpa, a 21st century space of giant proportions; a…
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Gavin Gamboa
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5 Questions to Molly Herron (composer)

Brooklyn-based composer Molly Herron is one fourth of the West 4th New Music collective and finds in…
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Thomas Deneuville
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Nkeiru Okoye’s Opera in Praise of Harriet Tubman

In her opera Harriet Tubman: When I Crossed that Line to Freedom, composer-librettist Nkeiru Okoye d…
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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This week: concerts in New York (February 15 – February 21, 2016)

loadbang | Pop-Up Concerts This Pop-Up includes the folk-inspired soundworld of Taylor Brook’s Ouari…
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Sam Reising
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Career Satisfaction for Music Entrepreneurs: Take the Career Assessment

No matter where you are in your career– whether you are just starting out in your music career…
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Astrid Baumgardner
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Sō Percussion in Seattle and in Your Living Room

An excited audience waited in anticipation for the 7:30 pm downbeat by Sō Percussion in Meany Theate…
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Kevin Baldwin
Finnegan Shanahan Credit Jonah Rosenberg

Track Premiere: The Two Halves by Finnegan Shanahan

Another premiere on I CARE IF YOU LISTEN. Today we’re sharing The Two Halves from the eponymou…
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Thomas Deneuville
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5 Questions to Lia Kohl and Nick Meryhew (Mocrep)

Mocrep, one of the newer ensembles on the burgeoning Chicago contemporary music scene, is making wav…
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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Kahane’s The Fiction Issue: Loss, Love, and Distant Memories

There is no one quite like Gabriel Kahane. Straddling the worlds of pop, classical, and musical thea…
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Sam Reising
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5 Questions to Leah Barclay (composer, sound activist)

Dr. Leah Barclay is a true inter-disciplinarian. A scientist, composer, and artist, she creates imme…
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Zoë Madonna
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