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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
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...
Author
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...
Author
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...
Author
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
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...
Author
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...
Author
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...
Author
Lana Norris
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