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An Echo from Heaven: Orchestral Works of Julian Anderson on LPO

It’s the simplest thing to come up with a new sound. Sinister resonance, cosmic pulses, aftertones o…
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Matt Mendez
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Falling for Kate Soper’s Sirens’ Songs at Dixon Place Theater

There are many things one might say – would, in fact, want to say – about Morningside Opera’s produc…
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Kurt Gottschalk
Jenny Q Chai

This week: concerts in New York (January 20 – January 26, 2014)

Jenny Q. Chai Jenny Q Chai Je…
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Sam Reising
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French Composers’ Names – Germaine Tailleferre

French composer Germaine Tailleferre (1893-1983) is best-known today as the only female member of th…
Author
Kendra Leonard
Jonathan Biss - Photo by Benjamin Ealovega

5 questions to Jonathan Biss (pianist, educator)

Tomorrow, Friday, January 17, Jonathan Biss “one of the most thoughtful and technically accomplished…
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Thomas Deneuville
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Redefining mixed-media collaboration: Ingram Marshall and Jim Bengston’s Alcatraz (Starkland)

Composer Ingram Marshall and photographer Jim Bengston have joined the ranks of Steve Reich and John…
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Amanda Cook
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5 questions to Madeleine Cocolas (composer)

At the beginning of 2013, Seattle-based composer Madeleine Cocolas made a resolution to write one pi…
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Dana Wen
Joseph Keckler

This week: concerts in New York (January 13 – January 19, 2014)

Mohammed Fairouz, Daniel Roumain, Carl Hancock Rux and Bora Yoon [caption id=”attachment_10128″ alig…
Author
Sam Reising
JACK Quartet - Photo by Henrik Olund

Georg Friedrich Haas and JACK Quartet Make Music in Darkness

On Tuesday, November 19, 2013, audience members filed into the small Clark Studio Theater at Lincoln…
Author
Sam Reising
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

5 questions to Isaac Thompson (Director of Artistic Planning, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra)

During the 2012-13 season, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra presented two concerts that caught my at…
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David Dies
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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…
Author
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…
Author
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
Three Solo Pieces

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…
Author
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…
Author
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…
Author
Matt Mendez
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