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Winnipeg New Music Festival Composers Institute

Fresh Faces at the Winnipeg New Music Festival Composers Institute

The Forks, where the two rivers in Winnipeg meet, is host to one of the longest ice skating trails i...
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Kevin Baldwin
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NYCB New Combinations: Another Step in New Music Journey

If you keep waiting for the New York Philharmonic to program more new music, you need not look furth...
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Stephanie Boyd
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Winter at the Winnipeg New Music Festival: New Music like Nowhere Else

In an inconspicuous Canadian city due north of Minnesota, at times a meeting point between Fahrenhei...
Author
Kevin Baldwin
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Boston Opera Collaborative Brings Kaminsky’s As One to Cambridge

Rarely do the words “intimacy” and “opera” historically appear together. Staged in gilded halls with...
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Amanda Cook
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PROTOTYPE 2018: The Echo Drift Explores Human Nature

Walker Loats’ day revolves around soup. The arrival of lunch is one of two ways she keeps track of t...
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Lana Norris
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New York Philharmonic’s CONTACT! at National Sawdust

On January 8, 2018, musicians from the New York Philharmonic traveled to Brooklyn’s National Sawdust...
Author
Alyssa Kayser-Hirsh
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American Composers Orchestra Highlights Mentors and Protégés

Shimmering columns of light danced up the wall of Zankel Hall on the evening of December 8, 2017, an...
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Danika Paskvan
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Piano, Percussion, and Video: Vicky Chow and Ben Reimer at Roulette

On December 16, 2017, pianist Vicky Chow and percussionist Ben Reimer presented a program of music b...
Author
Tristan McKay
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An Intimate Evening with andPlay at The DiMenna Center

Despite the icy cold winter day outside, a still and quiet warmth filled Benzaquen Hall at The DiMen...
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Alyssa Kayser-Hirsh
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Momenta Quartet’s Theatrical Children’s Work The Lost String Quartet

On a chilly Friday in early December about fifty second-graders arrived on buses from Title 1 public...
Author
Gemma Peacocke
Argus Quartet

Argus Quartet Sets the Stage for Kettle Corn New Music’s Sixth Season

On Saturday, December 9, 2017, New York City’s tastiest contemporary music series, Kettle Corn...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
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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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I, Object: Opera Double Bill at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts

“Opera can be a useful provocation for conversations about mental ‘otherness,'” sa...
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Caroline Potter
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R.B. Schlather’s The Mother of Us All in Hudson: Unusual Coherence

Hudson Hall in Hudson, N.Y. hosted a two-week community exhibition directed by R.B. Schlather in Nov...
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Lana Norris
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Christine Ott and the Ondes Martenot at London’s IKLECTIK Art Lab

“As long as I gaze on Waterloo sunset, I am in paradise.” Ray Davies of the Kinks’ lyric...
Author
Caroline Potter
A Far Cry

A Far Cry and Luciana Souza Present The Blue Hour in Boston

The Boston-based orchestra A Far Cry and Grammy award winning singer Luciana Souza brought their lat...
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Amanda Cook
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Festival Recap: 2017 Donaueschinger Musiktage

Critical composition was the order of the day at the 2017 Donaueschinger Musiktage. This year’s week...
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Andrew Chung
Andy Akiho

Emerald City Music Presents Andy Akiho Artist Spotlight in Seattle

The prototypical classical concert experience in a former warehouse converted to event space in the...
Author
Kevin Baldwin
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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WNYC and Apollo Theater Present Black Creativity at The Greene Space

On Thursday, September 28, 2017, eminent singer, actress, radio and podcast host Helga Davis mediate...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
Opera Philadelphia presents the world premiere of Daniel Bernard Roumain and Marc Bamuthi Joseph's

Opera Philadelphia’s O17 Festival Reimagines Going to the Opera

In an unprecedented programming feat, Opera Philadelphia’s inaugural season opening festival, O17, s...
Author
Amanda Cook
Roomful of Teeth--Photo by Bonica Ayala

Roomful of Teeth Astounds in Commissioning Residency at MASS MoCA

“You are not the same as a composer after working with Roomful of Teeth.” Composer Richard Beaudoin...
Author
Amanda Cook
International Contemporary Ensemble

How Forests Think: ICE Considers Nature’s Voice at Mostly Mozart

“The Forest Speaks” invited the counsel nature might have for humans through the work of three conte...
Author
Lana Norris
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Christian Marclay and Okkyung Lee Play with Calder at the Whitney

Alexander Calder’s first use of sound in sculpture was accidental. “You have weight, form, size, col...
Author
Lana Norris
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