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Elias Blumm

Eli is a native New Yorker who plays classical guitar, currently works for Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., and sometimes writes about music.
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EOY Album Listicle Covers 2025

Our Top Contemporary Classical and Experimental Albums of 2025

It’s that time of year again, and we’re excited to share a list of our contributors̵...
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The ACO presents Sins and Songs at Carnegie Hall

Fusion was the self described “f-word” in the forward to the American Composers Orchestr...
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Elias Blumm
Imani Uzuri - Photo by Yossi Michaeli

5 Questions to Imani Uzuri (composer)

The Sixth Annual Avant Music Festival (February 27-28, March 6-7), will highlight four American vang...
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Elias Blumm
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Sufjan Stevens Takes the Bull by the Horns: Round-Up at BAM

Someday there ought be a few lines in this country’s historical record about Sufjan Stevens. The man...
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Practice, practice, practice: Philip Glass’s Complete Piano Etudes at BAM

From Bach’s Klavier Übung to Ligeti’s 18 Etudes, etudes are designed to both discipline and dazzle.
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Elias Blumm
Sally Whitwell

5 Questions to Sally Whitwell (pianist, composer)

20 years in the making, Philip Glass's complete Piano Etudes will be performed at BAM on December 5...
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Elias Blumm
John Adams - Photo by Margaretta Mitchell

John Adams Kicks Off CONTACT! at SubCulture

It’s very likely that John Adams needed a strong adult beverage after the highs and lows of th...
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Elias Blumm
Bryce Dessner - Photo by Anne Mie Dreves

5 Questions to Bryce Dessner about Black Mountain Songs

Black Mountain Songs, co-commissioned by BAM and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, will receive its world p...
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Elias Blumm
Roomful of Teeth

Words Can’t Do It Justice: Roomful of Teeth / White Light Festival

Maybe it’s just because it was October, but a listing with the name “Roomful of Teeth” evoked a bit...
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Elias Blumm
Threefifty Duo - Photo by Jordan Matter

New Sounds on the Rise: Threefifty’s “Collapses” debuts at SubCulture

Threefifty’s first record, released in 2006, is a testament to the duo’s pedigree and finesse as cla...
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Joel Frederiksen and Ensemble Phoenix Munich: Requiem for a Pink Moon, An Elizabethan Tribute to Nick Drake

On Joel Frederiksen’s Requiem for a Pink Moon, an Elizabethan Tribute to Nick Drake, selections from...
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Elias Blumm
Duo Orfeo - Photo by Tristan Chambers

Duo Orfeo’s I sing the body electric: the charge of the soul

“They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them…” In the poem “I Sing the Body Electr...
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Elias Blumm
David Leisner - Photo by Lisa-Marie Mazzucco

Guitar Plus: David Leisner and Jon Klibonoff at Symphony Space

Classical guitar is a pain in the ass. The way you're meant to sit: weird/humiliating. The disparity...
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Elias Blumm
John Darnielle, Anonymous 4, Owen Pallett - Photo by David Andrako

The Mountain Goats and Anonymous 4: voices from the past, words for the present

Ask a fan of The Mountain Goats what they listen for in the music of John Darnielle and there's a ve...
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Elias Blumm
Meg Zervoulis conducting Ung's ... still life after death

Grand Opening: The Debut of Hotel Elefant @ The DiMenna Center for Classical Music

The Norman S. Benzaquen Hall at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music has the appearance of a spruc...
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AbsoLUTEly New: Jozef van Wissem and Jim Jarmusch @ Le Poisson Rouge

In a museum, 1,000 years from now, beside the wing of long extinct animals that contains the taxider...
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Elias Blumm

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