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“Alumni collaborations” at ISSUE Project Room

On January 19th, the night before the inauguration of Donald Trump, an assortment of sounds ranging...
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Rebecca Lentjes
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Musica nova Helsinki 2017: Van der Aa’s Breathtaking Blank Out

On February 4, 2017 in the intimate Almi Hall of the Ooppera Baletti, Musica nova Helsinki staged th...
Author
Amanda Cook
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2017 PROTOTYPE Festival: Funeral Doom Spiritual Mystifies

On Saturday, January 14, National Sawdust opened its doors for the New York premiere of M. Lamar and...
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Christian Kriegeskotte
Timo Andres

MusicNOW Festival 2017: Thorvaldsdottir, Ligeti, Andres, & Dessner

Audience members poured back into Cincinnati’s Taft Theatre on Saturday, January 14th for the final...
Author
Amanda Cook
Tyondai Braxton--Photo by Maarit Kytoharju

Musica nova Helsinki 2017 Draws New Audiences at G LiveLab

Perhaps one of the most important issues currently facing symphony orchestras and contemporary class...
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Amanda Cook
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Musica nova Helsinki 2017 Opens with Evening of Premieres

Musica nova Helsinki is Finland’s largest contemporary music festival, and this year’s twelve-day ev...
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Amanda Cook
Bang on a Can All Stars

Ecstatic Music Festival Rings in Bang on a Can’s 30th Anniversary

On Monday, January 9, 2017 within the cozy setting of the Kaufman Music Center’s Merkin Concer...
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Christian Kriegeskotte
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2017 PROTOTYPE Festival: Matt Marks’ Mata Hari

Mata Hari’s reputation as dancer spy has inspired plenty of retellings in film, literature, and a re...
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Lana Norris
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MusicNOW Festival 2017: Norman, Pintscher, and Folk Music

“A symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything.” Musical America’s 2017 Compos...
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Amanda Cook
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Ensemble Pi Presents Moving Black Lives Matter Concert

“We never in our wildest dreams imagined that this concert would happen two days after the ele...
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Rebecca Lentjes
American Composers Orchestra. Photo credit: RMK Photos

American Composers Orchestra Presents “Contemposcary” Concert

I’ll admit I was skeptical to attend a concert of “contemposcary” music; I am a gr...
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Rebecca Lentjes
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Timo Andres and Yevgeny Kutik Go Beyond Words

On Wednesday, October 19, 2016 National Sawdust served as the forum for a youthful combination of fo...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
Spektral Quartet--Photo by Drew Reynolds

Ear Taxi Festival 2016: Blowout Party!

Zoom out. The Ear Taxi Festival is (or rather, was) six days of music celebrating the contemporary c...
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Aaron Holloway-Nahum
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Ear Taxi Festival 2016: Spektral Quartet and Ensemble Dal Niente

When you arrive at the The Harris Theatre for Music and Dance, you come-in off a busy Chicago road,...
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Aaron Holloway-Nahum
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Breaking the Waves World Premiere at Opera Philadelphia

On Saturday, September 24, 2016, the curtain of the Perelman Theater rose in silence for the world p...
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Amanda Cook
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Maya Beiser’s TranceClassical: A Therapist at a Punk Hotel

Maya Beiser’s September 13, 2016 concert at Le Poisson Rouge was like seeing a therapist at a punk h...
Author
Lana Norris
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Lukas Ligeti Gets Modern at National Sawdust

On Sunday, August 14, 2016, National Sawdust presented the music of Austrian/Hungarian/American comp...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
Steve Reich - Photograph by Jeffrey Herman

Lincoln Center Salutes Steve Reich

Lincoln Center’s “Reich/Reverberations” festival proved Steve Reich’s musical effect can withstand p...
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Lana Norris
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SPLICE Ensemble Presents Stockhausen and More

The SPLICE Institute finished its second year as a unique festival and training ground for musicians...
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Jason Charney
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Hannah Lash’s Beowulf Premiered by Guerilla Opera

The idea and place called home, in all its comforts and dangers, is the theme skulking about in Hann...
Author
Christian Gentry
Claude Vivier

2016 Ojai Music Festival: Claude Vivier’s Kopernikus

A heavy sky hung over Libbey Bowl on the final afternoon of the 2016 Ojai Music Festival, as perform...
Author
Zoë Madonna
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“Transcendent” Fellow Travelers Premieres at Cincinnati Opera

On Friday, June 17, 2016—less than a week after 49 people were killed at a gay nightclub in Orlando,...
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Amanda Cook
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Experiments in Opera at Anthology Film Archives

Arriving for an evening of “Video Operas” one could be forgiven for not being certain what to expect...
Author
Hayley Roud
Caroline Shaw

2016 Ojai Music Festival: Works by Shaw, Adu, and Du Yun

On the first day of the 2016 Ojai Music Festival, artistic director Peter Sellars hoped that the aud...
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Zoë Madonna
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