The weeklong Andriessen 75 festival moved down the road to Armstrong Concert Hall, Shenandoah Conser...
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Matt Mendez
There are two things to say about Bang on a Can’s Louis Andriessen ties. The first is that no one ha...
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Matt Mendez
This here was a tale of two halves, one part of the program devoted to Andriessen’s myriad piano min...
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Matt Mendez
The retrospective, that staple of the visual arts world, ought to be more popular in new music circl...
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Matt Mendez
An unaccompanied violin recital is a daunting proposition. Without pianistic relief, the listener ca...
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Matt Mendez
Performance spaces don't get much more “official” than the National Gallery of Art’s palatial West G...
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Matt Mendez
Does the word “modernism” still mean anything? The Uptown-Downtown wars of the Eighties are fast fad...
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Matt Mendez
It’s the simplest thing to come up with a new sound. Sinister resonance, cosmic pulses, aftertones o...
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Matt Mendez
History is a relentless homogenizer. What begins life as a blooming, buzzing confusion, continuously...
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Matt Mendez
It’s probably true that the myth of the suffering artist is well and truly dead – if Duchamp’s pisso...
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Matt Mendez
The programming on this, the ninth volume in Bridge’s long-running Elliott Carter Edition, is unexpe...
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Matt Mendez
From internet memes, Korean knockoffs, and cloned stem cells to 3D printers, Elvis impersonators, an...
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Matt Mendez
Mellifluous gondoliers, bloodthirsty La Scala patrons, and rotund Neapolitans belting “O sole mio”:...
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Matt Mendez
Alan Pierson is the conductor and artistic director of both the Brooklyn Philharmonic and Alarm Will...
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Matt Mendez
From Pythagoras’ hammers and Boethius’ musica mundana to Beethoven’s Pastoral and Strauss’ Alpensinf...
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Matt Mendez
One should know about all the structures of fantasy and the fantasies of structures, and mix surpris...
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Matt Mendez
On April 5, 2013 at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, the ACO will present its next Orchestra Undergroun...
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Matt Mendez
Can gnarly, upmarket mid-century modernism really make nice with the populist mores of the “alt-clas...
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Matt Mendez
Even as part of a scene where being more-eclectic-than-thou is a fundamental shibboleth and musical...
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Matt Mendez
The delightfully prickly Frederic Rzewski once commented somewhere that he couldn’t abide French mus...
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Matt Mendez
