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UnCaged Toy Piano Festival Extravaganza Full of Premieres

A blizzard that snarled traffic throughout New York City was not enough to keep the performers or th…
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Jherek Bischoff - Photo by Thomas Deneuville

This week: concerts in New York (January 6 – January 12, 2014)

Yefim Bronfman, Lindberg, Rouse, and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 Composer Christopher Rouse (photo…
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Sam Reising
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Taxonomic Affinities: Johnson’s Chord Catalogue and Vriezen’s Within Fourths/Within Fifths

In the world of composed music, Tom Johnson’s work verges on concept art. And within the realm of co…
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Kurt Gottschalk
Winter 2013 Mixtape

The Winter 2013 Mixtape is out!

What a better way to ring in the new year than with some fresh new music? We are extremely happy to…
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Thomas Deneuville
Composer Christopher Rouse (photo credit: christopherrouse.com)

This week: concerts in New York (December 30, 2013 – January 5, 2014)

Here and Now Winter Festival John Zorn Featuring music by Sandeep Bhagwati, Michael Brown, Victoria…
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Sam Reising

This week: concerts in New York (December 23 – December 29, 2013)

It seems that Christmas has put new music concerts in New York City on hold for now. But some exciti…
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Sam Reising
The Mindset of Success:Four Pillars for Today’s Music Entrepreneurs Part 2

The Mindset of Success: Four Pillars for Today’s Music Entrepreneurs Part 2

Last time, we examined the mindset of success of today’s music entrepreneurs, featuring four Yale Sc…
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Astrid Baumgardner
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Lubomyr Melnyk: Three Solo Pieces on Unseen Worlds

The music of Lubomyr Melnyk (b. 1948) has enjoyed a resurgence of late. In 2007, the fantastic label…
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Andrew Lee
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This week: concerts in New York (December 16 – December 22, 2013)

Daniel Lippel Daniel Lippel…
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Sam Reising
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Contemporaneous Shines in Music At First Concert

For those unfamiliar with New York-based Contemporaneous, you need to learn about what you’re missin…
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Sam Reising
Andrew Poppy rehearses with the BBC Concert Orchestra for 19 eighties : the rhythm of a decade, part of The Rest Is Noise Festival at the Southbank Centre - Copyright: BBC/Mark Allan

BBC Orchestra’s “19 eighties : the rhythm of a decade” part of The Rest Is Noise

As part of the Southbank Centre’s year-long retrospective festival The Rest Is Noise, the BBC Concer…
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Daniel Emmerson
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The Mindset of Success: Four Pillars for Today’s Music Entrepreneurs Part 1

It is a fascinating, challenging time to be a musician. Traditional institutions struggle to remain…
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Astrid Baumgardner
Mason Currey - Photo by Stephen Kozlowski

5 questions to Mason Currey (writer, editor) about Daily Rituals

By writing this book, I feel that you were trying to debunk the poisonous and lasting 19th c. myth o…
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Thomas Deneuville
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Arthur Berger: Words for Music, Perhaps on BMOP Sound

History is a relentless homogenizer. What begins life as a blooming, buzzing confusion, continuously…
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Matt Mendez
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Esprit Orchestra Celebrates Gamelan Music in Toronto

Esprit Orchestra’s second concert of the season, held Sunday November 17, 2013, at Koerner Hall, Roy…
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Joanne Lam
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5 questions to Luke Rinderknecht (Percussionist)

Percussionist Luke Rinderknecht has recently returned to the Cleveland area after working from a New…
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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5 questions to Ed Bennett (composer)

Ed Bennett is a Northern-Irish composer based in London. His collaborators include the BBC Symphony…
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Xenia Pestova
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New Music for the Math-Rock Set: Wertmüller with Steamboat Switzerland

The incorporation of ideas, tone colours and material from popular music into art music compositions…
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Caitlin Smith
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Georg Friedrich Haas’ in vain by the London Sinfonietta at Southbank

On Friday, December 7, London Sinfonietta descended into pre-natal darkness in a spectacular renditi…
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Xenia Pestova
JACK Quartet - Photo by Henrik Olund

This week: concerts in New York (December 9 – December 15, 2013)

Yarn/Wire | Pop-Up Concert Yarn/Wire -…
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Sam Reising
Composer Caroline Shaw

Roomful of Teeth and Holly Herndon at (le) poisson rouge

On Monday, November 4, 2013, the a cappella ensemble Roomful of Teeth took to the stage at (le) pois…
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Sam Reising
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5 questions to Phyllis Chen (Director, UnCaged Toy Piano Festival)

Phyllis Chen is an accomplished pianist, both on the full-sized concert instrument and on the pint-s…
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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Invisible Cities in LA: An operatic tour de force

Los Angeles’s Union Station, which will be celebrating its 75th anniversary next year, was the site…
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Gavin Gamboa
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Morton Subotnick Performs a Sorcerer’s Brew of Music at MOCA Cleveland

Morton Subotnick, a true pioneer of electronic music, celebrated his 80th birthday this year. Yet on…
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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