Category
Concert
Despite the icy cold winter day outside, a still and quiet warmth filled Benzaquen Hall at The DiMen...
Author
Alyssa Kayser-Hirsh
On a chilly Friday in early December about fifty second-graders arrived on buses from Title 1 public...
Author
Gemma Peacocke
On Saturday, December 9, 2017, New York City’s tastiest contemporary music series, Kettle Corn...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
On November 30, 2017, just a few days after the first anniversary of her death, Pauline Oliveros’ ph...
Author
Rebecca Lentjes
“Opera can be a useful provocation for conversations about mental ‘otherness,'” sa...
Author
Caroline Potter
Hudson Hall in Hudson, N.Y. hosted a two-week community exhibition directed by R.B. Schlather in Nov...
Author
Lana Norris
“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
