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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
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
Vancouver New Music wrapped its season on Saturday, April 18, 2015 with a sold-out concert at the Or…
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Joanne Lam
Pianist, composer and educator Nils Vigeland (b. 1950) was born in Buffalo, NY into a musical family…
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Don Clark
Composer and conductor Renée Baker is a dynamic force in the creative music scene in Chicago. She ha…
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival 2015 [caption id=”attachment_1591″ align=”alignnone” width=…
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Sam Reising
The 4-Step Process to Inspire Music Entrepreneurs to Optimal Achievement Whether I am teaching conse…
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Astrid Baumgardner
I thought I had had my fill of surprises that day, but about halfway through the Meredith Monk &…
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Rebecca Lentjes
New York Composers Circle: New Music for Winds and Piano [caption id=”attachment_15312″ align=”align…
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Sam Reising
There are many examples of ensembles struggling to successfully pair music by living composers with…
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Aaron Holloway-Nahum
Cellist Maya Beiser has captivated audiences all over the world by reimagining the sonic possibiliti…
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Confronted with the title “A Space Odyssey,” memories of HAL 9000’s all-knowing red gaze and my own…
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Norman Cahn
