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Alexa Dexa at The Slowdown

Omaha Under the Radar 2018: New Music Meets Midwestern Sensibility

A new music festival possesses a certain Midwestern sensibility to begin with, really. Smart and ter...
Author
Megan Ihnen
Matt Haimovitz--Photo by Christopher Lane

Matt Haimovitz: Overtures to Bach’s Cello at the Chelsea Music Festival

In the gorgeous General Theological Seminary in Chelsea, cellist Matt Haimovitz paired classic works...
Author
Tristan McKay
Tigue performs at New Amsterdam Records' 10th anniversary celebratio

New Amsterdam Records and Le Poisson Rouge Celebrate 10th Anniversary

New Amsterdam Records put on a rollicking showcase of its vibe and vision at Le Poisson Rouge on Jun...
Author
Lana Norris
The Rose Elf

Descending into the Catacombs with David Hertzberg’s The Rose Elf

On Friday, June 8th, sometime around sunset, a small crowd began to gather just inside the imposing...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
Simulacrum

PATH New Music Theater Debuts with Simulacrum at 3LD Art & Technology Center

Simulacrum—PATH New Music Theater’s debut project performed on June 8-10th at the 3-Legged Dog...
Author
Clare Monfredo
i the opera

‘i’ the opera, ‘a love story’: Humans and a Neural Network in Collaboration

Is artificial intelligence taking over? James Oldham and Klara Kofen are billed as co-creators of ‘i...
Author
Caroline Potter
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innova’s Inn-fest 2018 in Minneapolis-St. Paul: Delightfully Adventurous

Do you know those musical events in which you practically know all of the sounds you’ll hear e...
Author
Megan Ihnen
Margaret Leng Tan

Margaret Leng Tan Performs “Cage, Crumb, and Beyond” at Ecstatic Music Festival

On Thursday, April 26, 2018 at Merkin Hall, Margaret Leng Tan performed a program entitled “Cage, Cr...
Author
Tristan McKay
ONE Festival The Dharma at Big Sur

Opera Omaha’s Inaugural ONE Festival: “Flyover at Your Own Peril”

Opera Omaha just took a big step towards the national spotlight on new opera with their inaugural ON...
Author
Megan Ihnen
Talea Ensemble--Photo by Beowulf Sheehan

Talea Ensemble Tackles Complex Works at St. Peters Chelsea

The dark, cavernous interior of St. Peters Chelsea seemed to demand whispered, hushed voices from th...
Author
Stephanie Boyd
Contemporaneous MATA

MATA Festival 2018 Concludes with Contemporaneous: Stop Motion

“What was once a failure or challenge is now commonplace…over the past twenty years, we have embrace...
Author
Clare Monfredo
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Mazzoli and Vavrek’s Proving Up at Opera Omaha ONE Festival

A makeshift sawhorse, an oval stock tank, miniature flowers, and a collection of liquor bottles dott...
Author
Megan Ihnen
Liminar

MATA Festival 2018 Opens With Liminar: Out of Bounds

For the past twenty years, the MATA festival has championed diversity. The 2018 festival opened on A...
Author
Alyssa Kayser-Hirsh
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Lawrence Brownlee Previews Cycles of My Being at The Greene Space

On Wednesday, March 28th at the Jerome L. Greene Performance Space, those who had gathered for the e...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
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Big Ears Festival 2018: Pushing the Boundaries

Unlike the programming in years previous, the Big Ears 2018 lineup was particularly jazz- and Appala...
Author
Tracy Monaghan
Mivos Quartet

Mivos Quartet and Iceberg New Music at Tenri Cultural Institute

From the wine reception at the beginning of the March 23rd ICEBERG New Music concert at Tenri Cultur...
Author
Stephanie Boyd
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Big Ears Festival 2018: Experiential Trademarks

From March 22 to March 25, 2018, Knoxville, Tennessee hosted another iteration of the Big Ears Festi...
Author
Tracy Monaghan
Jenny Berger Myhre

Borealis 2018: When Gender Balance Transcends Tokenism

The week before the 2018 Borealis festival, the PRS Foundation announced its new Keychange initiativ...
Author
Amanda Cook
Borealis audience

Borealis 2018: The Importance of Failure in Experimental Music

“Listening to the same piece again is nostalgic—nostalgia is the worst kind of disease to have.” In...
Author
Amanda Cook
Natacha Diels’ Papillon and the Dancing Cranes

Borealis 2018: a Festival for Radical Hospitality and Accessibility

From March 7-11, an international roster of eclectic performing artists descended upon Bergen, Norwa...
Author
Amanda Cook
Ariadne Greif in Six.Twenty.Outrageous

SIX.TWENTY.OUTRAGEOUS Transforms Gertrude Stein Plays into Opera

Daniel Thomas Davis’ new chamber opera, Six.Twenty.Outrageous: Three Gertrude Stein Plays in the Sha...
Author
Gemma Peacocke
Winnipeg New Music Festival

Winnipeg New Music Festival: “Music, Politics, and the Personal”

“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” -Universal Declaration of Human Ri...
Author
Kevin Baldwin
Bang on a Can All Stars

Bang on a Can: The 2018 People’s Commissioning Fund Concert

Merkin Hall was completely packed on Thursday, February 15, 2018 for the Bang on a Can All-Stars 201...
Author
Tristan McKay
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Morphs and Magpies: Ligeti Quartet at London’s Steiner Recital Hall

To paraphrase Stravinsky, great composers don’t borrow, they steal. “Morphs and Magpies”...
Author
Caroline Potter
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