Phyllis Chen is a pianist, toy pianist, composer, educator, curator, and founder/director of the UnC...
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Justin Rito
First impressions can tell you a lot. So the adage goes, the first seven seconds of an interview or...
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Justin Rito
Inspired by the imagery of the Tarot system of spiritual divination, Christian Kriegeskotte’s album...
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Justin Rito
It’s no secret that world premieres by early-career composers can often be extremely special events.
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Justin Rito
Despite misled efforts by some of the twentieth century’s great thinkers, the expression of emotion...
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Justin Rito
There is an old saying that goes something like, “No one is a prophet in their homeland.” In music,...
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Justin Rito
synesthesia | sinəsˈTHēZHə | n. the production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part o...
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Justin Rito
In a recent article that briefly examines some of the lasting impact that Beethoven has had on weste...
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Justin Rito
To celebrate the release of 5, a new album of posthumously discovered works by Ann Southam, the accl...
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Justin Rito
If you ask a group of classical music fans to make a list of American masterworks, they might write...
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Justin Rito
Solo piano recitals focussing exclusively on the works of a single contemporary composer are relativ...
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Justin Rito
A makeshift model of the Brooklyn Bridge built out of old cardboard boxes resides on the front of th...
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Justin Rito
