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Rebecca Lentjes

Rebecca Lentjes is an assistant editor at RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, independent writer/scholar, and amateur pianist.
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Jaap van Zweden conducts New York Philharmonic in world premiere of Julia Wolfe's Fire in My Mouth at David Geffen Hall

Fire in my mouth: Julia Wolfe Examines Immigration and the Labor Movement

I didn’t think it was possible for Julia Wolfe to outdo her 2014 Anthracite Fields, but I was wrong.
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Rebecca Lentjes
Melanie Zeck

5 Questions to Melanie Zeck (Research Fellow, Center for Black Music Research)

Melanie Zeck is an ethnomusicologist, editor, and research librarian who has served a fundamental ro...
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Rebecca Lentjes
Lucy Dhegrae in Lincoln Center’s production of The Force of Things at the 2018 Mostly Mozart Festival

Ashley and Adam Fure’s The Force of Things at Mostly Mozart Festival

“I feel like I’m inside a glacier,” my friend commented to me as we made our way out of Ashley and A...
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Rebecca Lentjes
Dianne Berkun Menaker and Brooklyn Youth Chorus present Silent Voices

Silent Voices, Sounding Alarms: On Gendered Spaces in the New Music World

Well, here I am, once again tasked with writing about the underrepresentation and tokenism of women...
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Rebecca Lentjes
Ellen Reid--Photo by James Matthew Daniel

5 Questions to Ellen Reid (Composer, Co-founder of Luna Composition Lab)

Composer and sound artist Ellen Reid’s output includes chamber, choral, film, stage, opera, pop, and...
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Rebecca Lentjes
Niloufar Nourbakhsh

5 Questions to Niloufar Nourbakhsh (Founder, Iranian Female Composers Association)

Niloufar Nourbakhsh is a versatile composer and pianist who has collaborated with Symphony Number On...
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Rebecca Lentjes
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5 Questions to Liza Lim (composer) About Tree of Codes

Composer and professor of composition (University of Huddersfield; University of Sydney) Liza Lim ha...
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Rebecca Lentjes
Ione in The Nubian Word for Flowers--Photo by Reuben Radding

Stunning Posthumous Pauline Oliveros Opera at Roulette

On November 30, 2017, just a few days after the first anniversary of her death, Pauline Oliveros’ ph...
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Rebecca Lentjes
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5 Questions to Melissa Smey (Executive Director, Miller Theatre)

As executive director at Miller Theatre, Melissa Smey has concerned herself with commissioning works...
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Rebecca Lentjes
Momenta Quartet

A Deep Breath of Momenta Quartet’s “Air from Another Planet”

The annual Momenta Festival, now in its third iteration, got off to a great start on October 1, 2017...
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Rebecca Lentjes
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5 Questions to Soosan Lolavar (composer of ID, Please)

Soosan Lolavar wears many hats: she has degrees in composition, musicology, and social & politic...
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Rebecca Lentjes
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Exploring the fluidity of time and space: Lisa Bielawa’s Vireo

When I settled into my seat, pen and taco notebook in hand, to review Lisa Bielawa’s Vireo, I was no...
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Rebecca Lentjes
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5 Questions to Lisa Bielawa (composer) About Vireo

Lisa Bielawa is a composer, vocalist, and co-founder of the MATA Festival whose works frequently dra...
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Rebecca Lentjes
Nouveau Classical Project--Photo by Julia Comita

“Currents:” Nouveau Classical Project at National Sawdust

On May 25, 2017, the stage at National Sawdust played home to a collection of talented and political...
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Rebecca Lentjes
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88 Keys (plus strings, mallets, & music boxes) at MATA’s Piano Night

Composer and performer Du Yun stated that “this program is dear to my heart” prior to a...
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Rebecca Lentjes
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5 Questions to Sugar Vendil (Nouveau Classical Project)

Filipino-American pianist & founder of the new music collective Nouveau Classical Project (NCP) ...
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Rebecca Lentjes
Contemporaneous

Contemporaneous Brings “Transcendental Geometry” to Brooklyn

The air at Roulette was permeated by unusual musical lines and shapes on April 11, 2017, as new musi...
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Rebecca Lentjes
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One World Symphony’s “Defiant:” An Orchestra Resists

On January 22, the night after women across the globe marched in protest of systemic sexism, racism,...
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Rebecca Lentjes
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“Alumni collaborations” at ISSUE Project Room

On January 19th, the night before the inauguration of Donald Trump, an assortment of sounds ranging...
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Rebecca Lentjes
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5 Questions to Elisabeth Blair (Listening to Ladies)

In a country whose preeminent opera house can go a century without programming any women composers,...
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Rebecca Lentjes
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Ensemble Pi Presents Moving Black Lives Matter Concert

“We never in our wildest dreams imagined that this concert would happen two days after the ele...
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Rebecca Lentjes
American Composers Orchestra. Photo credit: RMK Photos

American Composers Orchestra Presents “Contemposcary” Concert

I’ll admit I was skeptical to attend a concert of “contemposcary” music; I am a gr...
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Rebecca Lentjes
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O’Connor and Kampmeier Present The Way Things Go

Flutist Tara Helen O’Connor‘s recent Bridge Records album release, The Way Things Go, is...
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Rebecca Lentjes
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Tallinn Music Week: Contemporary Classical Showcase at the Museum of Estonian Architecture

After concerts at a renovated warehouse the first night, and in an 800-year-old church the second ni...
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Rebecca Lentjes
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