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Kathleen McGowan

Kathleen McGowan (she/her) writes and plays her trombones while studying musicology at the University of Illinois. She regularly contributes to Women's Philharmonic Advocacy (wophil.org).
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The Ethics of a Personal Canon: Resisting the Lifestyle-ification of Music

In discussions of art music, it’s impossible to escape talking about “the canon” and how it colors o...
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Kathleen McGowan
Oni Buchanan--Photo by Mark Wilson Images

5 Questions to Oni Buchanan (Ariel AVANT Impact Performance Competition)

An ad for Oni Buchanan’s most recent venture with Ariel Artists might read: “Pianist, po...
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Kathleen McGowan
Meredith Monk Memory Game

Arranging the Pieces: Meredith Monk’s Memory Game

Meredith Monk is a composer, musician, and interdisciplinary artist who has been experimenting with...
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Kathleen McGowan
Anna Höstman and Cheryl Duvall Harbour

Harbour (Redshift Records): Cheryl Duvall & Anna Höstman’s Debut Album

Pianist Cheryl Duvall and composer Anna Höstman have an enviable collaborative relationship—one that...
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Kathleen McGowan
Donnacha Dennehy's The Hunger

The Hunger: Dennehy and Alarm Will Sound Confront the Legacy of The Famine

2019 has been a banner year for composer Donnacha Dennehy. He collaborated with playwright Enda Wals...
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Kathleen McGowan
Projeto Arcomusical Spinning in the Wheel

Projeto Arcomusical Celebrates the Berimbau on Spinning in the Wheel

Spinning in the Wheel (March 2019, National Sawdust Tracks) is the second album by Projeto Arcomusic...
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Kathleen McGowan
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Charlotte Bray: Chamber and Solo Works (Nimbus Records)

Composer Charlotte Bray has recently emerged as a significant voice in chamber music. The first albu...
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Kathleen McGowan
Everything the Rises

Everything that Rises: John Luther Adams Celebrates Landscapes

John Luther Adams‘ new album Everything That Rises (2018) was produced by Cold Blue Music, an...
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Kathleen McGowan
Notorious RBG in Song

Notorious RBG in Song Celebrates the Life and Work of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I can’t remember the last time I was this excited for a CD to come in the mail. From the momen...
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Kathleen McGowan
Dorothy Hindman Tightly Wound

Dorothy Hindman’s Tightly Wound: Music for Strings (innova Recordings)

Dorothy Hindman is Associate Professor of Composition at the Frost School of Music at the University...
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Kathleen McGowan
Longleash Passage

Longleash Presents Debut Album Passage on New Focus Recordings

With their debut album Passage (New Focus Recordings, 2017), the members of the string trio Longleas...
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Kathleen McGowan
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A Retrospective Prequel: Yarn/Wire’s Currents Vol. 0

Currents Vol. 0 is everything a retrospective of an early collaborative project should be, and anyon...
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Kathleen McGowan
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Sean Hickey’s A Pacifying Weapon: a New Look at the Concerto

Music relies on listeners’ expectations to present its material—a kind of portable structure t...
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Kathleen McGowan

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