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Daniel Kushner

Daniel J. Kushner is an arts journalist and opera librettist who swoons anytime he hears the phrase “creative collaboration.”
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Lost in Sound: My Top 5 Moments From the 2017 Big Ears Festival

Despite an almost impossibly diverse lineup of musical artists and styles, there was one constant th...
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Daniel Kushner
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Big Ears Festival 2017: Vocal Mysticism and Pop Music Flair

The 2017 Big Ears Festival continued its eclectic programming on March 25-26 with performances by Me...
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Daniel Kushner
Shara Nova

Big Ears Festival 2017 Presents Remarkable Solo Sets

Since 2009, the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN has presented complex and challenging programs th...
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Daniel Kushner
Jace Clayton

5 Questions to Jace Clayton (composer, author, DJ)

Composer and author Jace Clayton is an artist in tireless pursuit of sonic inspiration. His artistic...
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Daniel Kushner
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Sō Percussion and Friends Blend Rock and the Avant-Garde at Carnegie Hall

Since Sō Percussion first came across my radar, it’s been abundantly clear that the quartet is all a...
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Daniel Kushner
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Peck and Dessner Bring The Most Incredible Thing to NYC Ballet

On Thursday, February 11, 2016 at the David H. Koch Theater, the New York City Ballet and its orches...
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Daniel Kushner
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Dense Transcendence: Aheym by Bryce Dessner and the Kronos Quartet

Aheym—released by Anti- on November 5—marks guitarist Bryce Dessner’s recorded debut as featured com...
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Daniel Kushner
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Daníel Bjarnason’s Over Light Earth: Familiar Language, Daring Lexicon

Sometimes contemporary orchestral music is abrasively radical. And sometimes the revolution is much...
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Daniel Kushner
Daníel Bjarnason

5 questions to Daníel Bjarnason (composer)

Daníel Bjarnason is an Icelandic composer, conductor and pianist who has worked with such varied art...
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Daniel Kushner
Happiness is the problem

Colloquial Opera: Jason Cady’s Happiness is the Problem

If  television’s IFC produced operas in addition to off-kilter films and quirky sitcoms, composer Ja...
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Daniel Kushner
David Lang's Death Speaks

The Light that Shadows Make: David Lang’s death speaks

In the program notes for the song cycle death speaks (recording released on April 30 via Cantaloupe...
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Daniel Kushner
Nadia Sirota - Baroque

Nadia Sirota’s Baroque: The Business of Creating a Canon

Nadia Sirota may very well become known as the most important violist of her generation. With elite...
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Daniel Kushner
David T. Little - Soldier Songs (Innova)

David T. Little’s Soldier Songs: The Composer as War Correspondent

I have uncles who fought in the Vietnam War, and I’ve never once talked to them about their wartime...
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Daniel Kushner
Leaha Maria Villarreal and Mary Kouyoumdjian

5 questions to Leaha Maria Villarreal and Mary Kouyoumdjian (composers, artistic/executive directors of Hotel Elefant)

Experiments in Opera has commissioned 10 composers to present new operas that last no more than 10 m...
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Daniel Kushner

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