Articles
Sounds that gallivanted, catapulted, zigzagged, and, eventually, tangoed: granted “free license” to…
Author
Rebecca Lentjes
The Chelsea Music Festival’s Opening Night Gala took place at Canoe Studios, a warehouse practically…
Author
Lana Norris
Ensemble LPR The program will feature the world premiere of Solstice, a new work by composer David H…
Author
Sam Reising
Following up his 2009 debut album, Enter Houses Of (on John Zorn’s Tzadik label), Minnesota-bo…
Author
Thomas Deneuville
“Black folks do not issue ultimatums to white folks in Mississippi … we had to get out!” rang tenor…
Author
Lana Norris
“Here is your audience instrument; you take it apart like chopsticks,” said the usher, handing me a…
Author
Rebecca Lentjes
A string quartet walks into a bar. The cellist gets up on stage and does his best Lenny Bruce impres…
Author
Daniel Hautzinger
Perceiving and thinking about the way things change, we can sometimes pierce through to the elementa…
Author
Gavin Gamboa
In Argentinian composer Esteban Insinger’s chamber opera Hercules in Mato Grosso (2014), two men cap…
Author
Rebecca Lentjes
Composer and pianist Gabriela Lena Frank is as busy as she can imagine being. She has just completed…
Author
Arlene & Larry Dunn
Walking through Brooklyn’s Cloud City art space on May 17, 2015, you passed a vintage sink full of d…
Author
Lana Norris
Frederic Rzewski didn’t expect a crowd. It was a sunny Saturday afternoon in April, and he was perfo…
Author
Elizabeth Bloom
Steve Reich wrote his rarely performed Three Tales between 1998 and 2002, and each concerns a key ev…
Author
Aaron Holloway-Nahum
Billed by Soundstreams as an “intimate concert plus a discussion,” this was a rare opportunity to wa…
Author
Bruce A. Russell
Composer-pianist Gregg Kallor is completing the first of a two-season residency at New York CityR…
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
Ilari Kaila is a Finnish-born composer, based in Hong Kong and with strong ties in New York City. He…
Author
Lana Norris
There is an old saying that goes something like, “No one is a prophet in their homeland.” In music,…
Author
Justin Rito
American Contemporary Music Ensemble | Pop-Up Concerts Timo Andres – Photo by Michael Wilson T…
Author
Sam Reising
Mary Kouyoumdjian’s Silent Cranes gives voice to a century of turmoil in U.S. première at Roulette
May 29, 2015
How refreshing to experience an entire evening of works by a woman, even if the subject matter—the c…
Author
Rebecca Lentjes
Summer is officially here! For many of us, it means a change in routine and the opportunity to do th…
Author
Astrid Baumgardner
“I’ll sing one more before I collapse,” Meredith Monk laughed after her 50th anniversary concert at…
Author
Rebecca Lentjes