By fortuitous serendipity one Autumn evening in 1799, British traveler Edward Daniel Clarke, passing through the Norwegian town of Røros,..
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“[Polystylistics] … creates new possibilities for the musico-dramatic embodiment of ‘eternal’ problems—war and peace, life and death.” Today, composer Alfred..
From the 17th to the early-19th century, one might liberally classify a composer and his or her work as “German” or “French”..
For those who fear an impending “rise of the machines,” REACT (Ravello Records) offers some reassurance that freethinking automatons won’t be..
Explosive tendrils of electricity branching chaotically from the edges of a coin is the image of Étienne Léopold Trouvelot’s Electric..
Doug Aitken’s Multisensory Exploration of Time Premieres at LA Phil’s Noon to Midnight
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One World Symphony's "Defiant:" An Orchestra Resists
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For Teddy Abrams, Leading an Orchestra is a Musical and a Civic Responsibility
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Out of Context #4: The Muddy Ownership of Dreadlocks
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"I Didn't Notice My Hands Were Shaking:" Making Essential Music with Essential Tremor
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