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Cara Tolmie and Stine Janvin--Photo by Thor Brødreskift/Borealis

Borealis 2019 Encourages Two-Way Dialogues and Evokes Visceral Reactions

“Borealis is not a transaction, but a conversation,” reflected Artistic Director Peter Meanwell afte...
Author
Amanda Cook
Jennifer Walshe's The Site of an Investigation at New Music Dublin--Photo by Joanne Taaffe

New Music Dublin 2019 Celebrates the Irish Contemporary Music Scene

I’ve had the privilege of spending the last six months living and studying experimental sound practi...
Author
James May
Claire Chase's Density 2036: part vi--Photo by Karen Chester

Claire Chase Prophesies What’s Possible in “Density 2036, part vi” at The Kitchen

Claire Chase‘s last “Density 2036“ episode, Marcos Balters’ Pan, was a 90-mi...
Author
Lana Norris
Inbal Segev--Photo by Jill Steinberg

Inbal Segev Celebrates 21st Century Women (and One Man) at Roulette

On Thursday, February 28, 2019, an intimate group assembled within Brooklyn’s Roulette Intermedium t...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
New York Festival of Song

“Hyphenated-Americans” at NYFOS Features Multicultural Vocal Music

On February 20th at Merkin Hall, the New York Festival of Song‘s “Hyphenated-Americans&#...
Author
Tristan McKay
Helga Davis--Photo courtesy Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Helga Davis Brings New Perspectives to Boston’s Gardner Museum

“I woke up this morning thinking about planting seeds.” In her warm voice that exudes a characterist...
Author
Amanda Cook
Da Capo Chamber Players

Music on the Edge: Da Capo Chamber Players at the Warhol Museum

On Saturday, February 2, 2019, the Andy Warhol Museum welcomed New York’s storied Da Capo Cham...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
Composers Now 2019 Festival Opening Event--Photo by Nan Melville

Composers Now 2019 Festival Opening Event at National Opera Center

The Composers Now 2019 Festival Opening Event showed off an organization on target. Few evenings wra...
Author
Lana Norris
Continuum--Photo by Nicola Betts

Toronto Celebrates New Music with Sixth Annual 21C Music Festival

From January 16-20, 2019, the sixth annual 21C Music Festival found Toronto in the grip of an extrem...
Author
Bruce A. Russell
Wavefield Ensemble

Wavefield Ensemble: “Visible Traces” at National Sawdust

You may not be familiar with Wavefield Ensemble, but if you’ve spent any amount of time attending co...
Author
Tristan McKay
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.
Author
Rebecca Lentjes
Face the Music with Mazz Swift

Kaufman Music Center’s Face the Music with Mazz Swift at Roulette

Face the Music, a Kaufman Music Center program, gives teenagers a glimpse into the world of composin...
Author
Stephanie Boyd
Philip Venables' 4.48 Psychosis at PROTOTYPE

Philip Venables’ 4.48 Psychosis at PROTOTYPE

“It’s absorbing, and even after two volumes I can’t figure out why.” The gentleman seated in front o...
Author
Lana Norris
Leah Coloff's ThisTree at PROTOTYPE 2019

Leah Coloff’s ThisTree: Storytelling and Song at PROTOTYPE

When the new year has just begun to settle in, the PROTOTYPE festival emerges to remind us of the ad...
Author
Alyssa Kayser-Hirsh
loadbang

loadbang Kicks off 10th Anniversary Celebration with “Music That Defines”

What do Charles Wuorinen, Reiko Füting, Eve Beglarian, Alexandre Lunsqui, Hannah Lash, and Andy Akih...
Author
Tristan McKay
Spitalfields Festival Ringside Symphony

Spitalfields Festival, London: “Ringside Symphony”

‘Is the pool open tonight as normal?’ It’s not a question you expect to hear on entering a concert v...
Author
Caroline Potter
Julia Wolfe's Anthracite Fields

Labor and Belief: Julia Wolfe’s Anthracite Fields at Carnegie Hall

Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer-prize winning oratorio Anthracite Fields returned to New York City and a full...
Author
Lana Norris
p r i s m--Photo by Noah Stern Weber

In Ellen Reid’s p r i s m, an Abstract Story Communicates Concrete Truths

Content warning: sexual assault In the opening act of Claude Debussy’s 1902 opera Pelleas et Melisan...
Author
Catherine Womack
Du Yun--Photo by Matt Zugale for Miller Theare

Du Yun Composer Portrait: Seeking the Personal and Profound

The auditorium was still only half-full at 8 PM on November 15 as Du Yun’s loyal fans were making th...
Author
Lauren Ishida
Red Wierenga and Kamala Sankaram in Experiments in Opera's Modularias

Experiments in Opera’s Modularias Fuses Voice and Modular Synthesizer

On November 2nd and 3rd, Experiments in Opera‘s “Modularias” presented four new wo...
Author
Stephanie Boyd
The Young People's Chorus of New York City

Young Voices Shine in Young People’s Chorus of NYC New Commissioning Project

What is it like to be a young person in today’s world? “Vocal Currents: Music in Our Changing World,...
Author
Alyssa Kayser-Hirsh
Kate Soper's IPSA DIXIT at Miller Theatre

Kate Soper’s IPSA DIXIT at Miller Theatre Composer Portraits Series

The 2018-29 Composer Portraits series at Miller Theatre kicked off on Saturday, October 27th with Ka...
Author
Tristan McKay
Momenta Festival IV

Momenta Festival IV: “Ocean Breakup” Curated by Stephanie Griffin

The Momenta Festival, an innovative series of four performances, showcases the Momenta Quartet’s abi...
Author
Alyssa Kayser-Hirsh
Paolo Bortolameolli

LA Phil Kicks Off its 100th with Young Composers and LA’s Newest Music

America’s “most important” orchestra may technically be turning 99 this month –– they performed thei...
Author
Catherine Womack
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