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This week: concerts in New York (August 4 – August 10, 2014)

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Sam Reising
Stephen Fine

5 questions to Stephen Fine (violist, educator)

Stephen Fine As a young mu…
Author
Amanda Cook
Julian Armour - Photo Credit Couvrette/Ottawa

Five Ottawa Composers Premiere Variations You Can Warm To

Ottawa, Canada has had the privilege of playing host to two of the largest chamber music festivals i…
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Curtis Perry
yMusic - Photo by Ilya Nikhamin

This week: concerts in New York (July 28 – August 3, 2014)

José González / yMusic yMusic – Photo by Ilya Nikhamin Modern-day troubadour González’s poigna…
Author
Sam Reising
Jean-Claude Risset

French Composers’ Names – Jean-Claude Risset

Another composer in our French Composers’ Names series: Jean-Claude Risset. Well, composer and resea… Learn how to pronounce Risset’s name in French!
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Thomas Deneuville
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Flux Quartet Delivers a Reference Recording of Feldman’s String Quartet No. 1

The FLUX Quartet have masterfully laid claim to the complete string quartets of Morton Feldman, beco…
Author
Bruce A. Russell
Tobias Picker - Photo by Harry Heleotis

5 Questions to Tobias Picker (Composer)

On July 20, 2014, the Glimmerglass Festival presented the premiere of a new version of composer Tobi…
Author
David Dies
Daniel Felsenfeld

This week: concerts in New York (July 21 – July 27, 2014)

The Knights The Knights perform music by Gyorgy Ligeti, Bela Bartok, Sufjan Stevens, Ljova, and Igor…
Author
Sam Reising
The Westerlies

5 questions to The Westerlies (New Music Brass Quartet)

Following the release of their debut album “Wish The Children Would Come On Home”, The Westerlies ma…
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Joanne Lam
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This week: concerts in New York (July 14 – July 20, 2014)

SyndaKit | Elliott Sharp SyndaKit is an algorithmic composition, an instruction set for a self-organ…
Author
Sam Reising
HK Gruber's Gloria – A Pig Tale, led by Alan Gilbert at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Photo by Chris Lee)

HK Gruber’s Appealing “Gloria — A Pig Tale” Opens NY Phil Biennial

On Thursday, May 29, 2014, Alan Gilbert, the young and enterprising maestro of the New York Philharm…
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Christian Kriegeskotte
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Live Your Values: 3 Steps to Help Music Entrepreneurs Walk the Talk

In my last post, we examined how music entrepreneurs can find their values in order to make empoweri…
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Astrid Baumgardner
Seattle Symphony with Conductor/Music Director Ludovic Morlot

Spring for Music Goes Out With a Bang

Established in 2010, Spring for Music brings together orchestras from around the country, presenting…
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Sam Reising
Troy Herion

This week: concerts in New York (July 7 – July 13, 2014)

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Sam Reising
Bluthaus - Photo by Ruth Walz

Emotional details in Haas’ Bluthaus at Wiener Festwochen in Vienna

In a pre-concert chat at the Theater an der Wien on Sunday, June 15, composer Georg Friedrich Haas s…
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Caitlin Smith
Two x Four, Koh and Laredo

Jennifer Koh and Jaime Laredo: Two x Four

It wasn’t until seventh grade that I met my first violin teacher; before then, I was largely self-ta…
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Norman Cahn
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Find Your Values: How Music Entrepreneurs Make Smart Career Choices

Values are your qualities of intrinsic worth and the principles that run your life. Core values help…
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Astrid Baumgardner
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This week: concerts in New York (June 30 – July 6, 2014)

LABA Presents: New Strings Attached Multi-faceted guitar virtuoso and a 2013/14 LABA fellow Nadav L…
Author
Sam Reising
Summer 2014 Mixtape

The Summer 2014 Mixtape is Out!

It’s here! What’s in it? The Summer 2014 Mixtape features some fantastic music from solo…
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Thomas Deneuville
Tim Benjamin - Photo Drew Forsyth

5 questions to Tim Benjamin (composer) about Madame X

Following his 2013 opera Emily, composer Tim Benjamin is back this August with Madame X, an operatic…
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Angelina Panozzo
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F*ck you. Pay me: Some Thoughts on Musicians and Money.

Yesterday morning, Ellen McSweeney wrote an excellent piece detailing payment trouble she and others…
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Andrew Lee
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Denk closes Ojai Music Festival with Ligeti, Ives, Beethoven

In California’s quiet and secluded Ojai valley persists a rugged individualist sensibility which is…
Author
Gavin Gamboa
Tracy Silverman

This week: concerts in New York (June 23 – June 29, 2014)

Tracy Silverman: Concerto for One | Performance and Party In Concerto for One Tracy takes orchestra…
Author
Sam Reising
Arvo Pärt - Photo by Peeter Langovits

Arvo Pärt’s Sonic Journeys at Carnegie Hall

In the 11th century Guido of Arezzo, music theorist and monk, created a scale. He called the first b…
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Jennifer Stock
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