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There is an old saying that goes something like, “No one is a prophet in their homeland.” In music,…
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Justin Rito
American Contemporary Music Ensemble | Pop-Up Concerts Timo Andres – Photo by Michael Wilson T…
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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…
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Rebecca Lentjes
Summer is officially here! For many of us, it means a change in routine and the opportunity to do th…
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Astrid Baumgardner
“I’ll sing one more before I collapse,” Meredith Monk laughed after her 50th anniversary concert at…
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Rebecca Lentjes
Solo pianist Bruce Levingston‘s Heavy Sleep, released this year on the Sono Luminus label, car…
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Curtis Perry
American Immersion | Clemens Gadenstätter [caption id=”attachment_1389″ align=”alignnone” width=”600…
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Sam Reising
Composer and historian George Lewis is the Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music at Columbia Uni…
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Lana Norris
Friday, May 1, 2015 marked the opening of the fourteenth annual Look and Listen Festival, a series d…
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Christian Kriegeskotte
Úlfur Hansson is an Icelandic composer and musician currently based in California. His latest work I…
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Joanne Lam
The debate between absolute and programmatic music has been a point of contention for several centur…
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Norman Cahn
The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) has produced some of America’s best…
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Lana Norris
Notes on Fiction: “Heart of Darkness” Recital Featuring Megan Ihnen and Jennifer Ellis D…
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Sam Reising
Titles that make any sort of bold claim usually push me away. When I was asked to review Powerhouse…
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Jarrett Goodchild
Monday, April 13, 2015 marked the final of three consecutive sold-out shows by Chilly Gonzales &…
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Joanne Lam
Dancing lamps, a tortured piano: Illuminating objects and heavy concepts at the MATA Festival
May 13, 2015
MATA Festival artistic director Du Yun, telling the audience how she and the other directors had rec…
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Rebecca Lentjes
Keeping up with 2015 Ojai Festival Music Director Steven Schick is no easy task. Schick leads a mult…
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Hearing Voices: Music of Kate Soper Erin Lesser (L) and Kate Soper (R) – Still from “Onl…
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Sam Reising
Composer Mary Kouyoumdjian has just returned from Armenia where she joined in the observance of the…
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
As Executive Director Todd Tarantino impressively boasted during his remarks at MATA‘s opening…
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Christian Kriegeskotte
Composition is such a solitary act. So much so that we can easily forget just how huge and diverse t…
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Jay Derderian
Brooklyn-based composer Patrick Castillo is the vice-chair of the board of directors for the America…
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
John King Curates The Stone John King John King’s residency at The Stone is an immersion into…
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Sam Reising
