Category
Concert
“As long as I gaze on Waterloo sunset, I am in paradise.” Ray Davies of the Kinks’ lyric...
Author
Caroline Potter
The Boston-based orchestra A Far Cry and Grammy award winning singer Luciana Souza brought their lat...
Author
Amanda Cook
Critical composition was the order of the day at the 2017 Donaueschinger Musiktage. This year’s week...
Author
Andrew Chung
The prototypical classical concert experience in a former warehouse converted to event space in the...
Author
Kevin Baldwin
The annual Momenta Festival, now in its third iteration, got off to a great start on October 1, 2017...
Author
Rebecca Lentjes
On Thursday, September 28, 2017, eminent singer, actress, radio and podcast host Helga Davis mediate...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
In an unprecedented programming feat, Opera Philadelphia’s inaugural season opening festival, O17, s...
Author
Amanda Cook
“You are not the same as a composer after working with Roomful of Teeth.” Composer Richard Beaudoin...
Author
Amanda Cook
“The Forest Speaks” invited the counsel nature might have for humans through the work of three conte...
Author
Lana Norris
Alexander Calder’s first use of sound in sculpture was accidental. “You have weight, form, size, col...
Author
Lana Norris
On June 2, 2017, Brooklyn’s contemporary music sanctuary National Sawdust cleared away the chairs an...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
Within the last two years, MATA’s call for scores received a sudden influx of Iranian pieces. Submis...
Author
Lana Norris
On June 20, 2017, patrons of Brooklyn’s progressive-music proscenium, Roulette, were treated to a co...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring: has any piece of music written since 1913 been so genuine yet so alien,...
Author
Aaron Wolff
When I settled into my seat, pen and taco notebook in hand, to review Lisa Bielawa’s Vireo, I was no...
Author
Rebecca Lentjes
A determining factor for any music festival, at least for this reporter, is not what is fun or excit...
Author
Kurt Gottschalk
The flute unfolded itself into kaleidoscope of characters and sounds in the hands of Claire Chase on...
Author
Aaron Wolff
The Chelsea Music Festival is a placemaker. One doesn’t feel that they must speak a foreign language...
Author
Lana Norris
The 71st Ojai Music Festival took place in Ojai, CA from June 8-11, 2017 with pianist and composer V...
Author
Aaron Wolff
On May 25, 2017, the stage at National Sawdust played home to a collection of talented and political...
Author
Rebecca Lentjes
SPOR is on a mission to prove that “music has the same potential for exploratory curation as all oth...
Author
Amanda Cook
Combining six chamber operas, four stellar singers, five instrumentalists, one intrepid conductor, a...
Author
Lauren Ishida
One of the many goals of Denmark’s annual SPOR festival is to feature contemporary art that is sound...
Author
Amanda Cook
