As we celebrate the centennial year of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) and t...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
The guest recitals at the biennial Oberlin Percussion Institute are eagerly anticipated highlights o...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
For its season-ending Sampler Pack, the Spektral Quartet invaded another iconic Chicago venue not o...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Laurie Anderson's performance with the San Francisco-based Kronos Quartet at the Barbican on Friday,...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Though I was certainly not outraged, I was yet somewhat disappointed of missing the other performanc...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Chicago, the wellspring of collaborative artistic ventures like the Association for the Advancement...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Scott J. Hunter is a modern renaissance man. Raised in a musical family, he majored in science in co...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Fonema Consort’s Mirrors II concert dazzled like the Swarovki crystal-studded images by their host,...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Chicago is a hot burning bonfire of contemporary music, bursting with talented composers, expert pla...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Chicago’s flourishing contemporary music scene is not simply growing and expanding in its impact on...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Doyle Armbrust, creator and curator of the (Un)familiar Music Series, scored another hit for Chicago...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
The UK-based Ligeti Quartet is making great strides across Britain, gaining national attention throu...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
To some it was a rare experience. For fans of Philip Glass, attending a live performance of Koyaani...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
It is hard to imagine a contemporary composer of more exhilarating artistry and warmhearted spirit t...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
When composer Marcos Balter heard the news that Superstorm Sandy had ransacked the headquarters of N...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Avant-garde composer/trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith delivered a stirring midwest premiere of his...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Kyle Vegter is a composer, sound designer, and producer based in Chicago. He co-founded Manual Cinem...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
The wind quintet The City of Tomorrow (TCOT) blew into the Windy City to perform a lively slate of c...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Something quite remarkable is happening in Chicago. Equal parts drama, music, history, and social ac...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
On October 18, 2012 I stumbled upon City of London Sinfonia’s performance of works by two of the mos...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Third Coast Percussion gave the world premiere of Resounding Earth by Augusta Read Thomas, at DeBart...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Composer Chinary Ung, Professor of Music at UC San Diego and the first American recipient of the int...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
New music dynamo Ensemble Dal Niente presented a stirring program of music by Cambodian-American com...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
