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Big Ears Festival: Steven Schick and the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra

Knoxville’s 2016 Big Ears Festival, a three-day marathon of the experimental sides of pop, jazz, and…
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Zoë Madonna
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Martha Mooke’s No Ordinary Window on Monkmusic Records

Martha Mooke’s No Ordinary Window on Monkmusic Records is an amazing look into what is possible with…
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Jarrett Goodchild
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Tallinn Music Week Opening Night at Kultuurikatel

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
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The Spring 2016 Mixtape is out!

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

5 Questions to Yair Klartag (composer)

Yair Klartag is one of four composers commissioned by MATA, this year. His piece There’s no la…
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Lana Norris
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5 Questions to Stephen Miles and R.L. Silver (New Music New College)

Since 1998, series director Steve Miles and producer Ron Silver have been revving up the contemporar…
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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Gibson’s Apparitions of the Four Pillars: 2016 Avant Media Festival

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
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Sō Percussion and Friends Blend Rock and the Avant-Garde at Carnegie Hall

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
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5 Questions to Kristjan Järvi (conductor, curator)

Conductor Kristjan Järvi has achieved acclaim for his innovative programming, thinking outside the b…
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Rebecca Lentjes
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Stacy Garrop’s Mythology Symphony & Other Orchestral Works

The sounds and stories of Stacy Garrop’s Mythology Symphony (2007-2013), recently recorded and relea…
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Rebecca Lentjes
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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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