
In Edgard Varèse’s Density 21.5, a solo flutist pushes and shoves through ever widening intervallic...
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Julia Kuhlman

In a 2023 concert review of the International Contemporary Ensemble featuring composer-performer Dou...
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Julia Kuhlman

From Tanglewood to Interlochen and beyond, summer programs supplement school-year music education by...
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Julia Kuhlman

Through the late 90s and early aughts, composer Sokio wrote several operas in quick succession. But...
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Julia Kuhlman

As composition competitions have come under closer scrutiny for their age biases and even exploitati...
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Julia Kuhlman

Tús, the debut album by Irish composer Finola Merivale, engages listeners with an experimental langu...
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Julia Kuhlman

As self-identified experimentalists, Leo Chang (voice/electronics) and Chris Williams (trumpet) use...
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Julia Kuhlman

When pianist Han Chen moved from Taiwan to the United States, it didn’t take long for him to become...
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Julia Kuhlman

In the world of visual art, perspective is what shows us how objects in a piece are related; it’s th...
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Julia Kuhlman

The first ten seconds of Elly Kace’s new album provokes a question that listeners will find themselv...
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Julia Kuhlman

At a roundtable discussion in early June 2021, Quinteto Latino’s founder and director Armando Castel...
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Julia Kuhlman

There’s a moment in Holland Andrews’ video introduction to Museum of Calm where their brow tenses an...
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Julia Kuhlman

When most musicians talk about “playing” music, what they mean is “performing.” But for improvisers...
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Julia Kuhlman

On October 18, 2020, audiences across multiple time zones gathered to watch cellist Isidora Nojkovic...
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Julia Kuhlman

As a duo, Gao Hong and Issam Rafea plan only two things about their performances: when and where. Th...
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Julia Kuhlman

It’s not just in writing or interpreting music that we consider time and place—listening is an act o...
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Julia Kuhlman

For a band that plays to sold-out stadiums alongside musicians like Paul Simon, Bon Iver, and Ben Fo...
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Julia Kuhlman