It was surprising to see so many people present at the Niguliste Kirik (St. Nicholas Church) on the...
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Rebecca Lentjes
If you had told me a few weeks ago that I’d spend the night of March 31 in a recently renovate...
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Rebecca Lentjes
The final night of the seventh annual Avant Media Festival, which took place on March 5, 2016, was m...
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Rebecca Lentjes
Conductor Kristjan Järvi has achieved acclaim for his innovative programming, thinking outside the b...
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Rebecca Lentjes
The sounds and stories of Stacy Garrop’s Mythology Symphony (2007-2013), recently recorded and relea...
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Rebecca Lentjes
“For many years now, I’ve been obsessed with the notion of music as place, and place as...
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Rebecca Lentjes
The lyric tale Into the Little Hill (2006) and the opera Written on Skin (2009-2012), both joint eff...
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Rebecca Lentjes
Sounds that gallivanted, catapulted, zigzagged, and, eventually, tangoed: granted “free license” to...
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Rebecca Lentjes
“Here is your audience instrument; you take it apart like chopsticks,” said the usher, handing me a...
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Rebecca Lentjes
In Argentinian composer Esteban Insinger’s chamber opera Hercules in Mato Grosso (2014), two men cap...
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Rebecca Lentjes
How refreshing to experience an entire evening of works by a woman, even if the subject matter—the c...
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Rebecca Lentjes
“I’ll sing one more before I collapse,” Meredith Monk laughed after her 50th anniversary concert at...
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Rebecca Lentjes
MATA Festival artistic director Du Yun, telling the audience how she and the other directors had rec...
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Rebecca Lentjes
I thought I had had my fill of surprises that day, but about halfway through the Meredith Monk &...
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Rebecca Lentjes
It’s not uncommon, at least from what I’ve experienced living in New York and Brooklyn, for new musi...
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Rebecca Lentjes
Recently I was shocked to discover that the Metropolitan Opera has not programmed a woman composer s...
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Rebecca Lentjes
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