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Eötvös Conducts Filarmonica della Scala in World Premiere

The Hungarian composer Péter Eötvös is not reluctant to take on challenging contemporary topics. His...
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James Imam
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MATA Festival 2017 Concludes with “Dangerous Currents”

Diversity is important to MATA, said Artistic Director Du Yun, and diversity beyond race: “diverse e...
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Lana Norris
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88 Keys (plus strings, mallets, & music boxes) at MATA’s Piano Night

Composer and performer Du Yun stated that “this program is dear to my heart” prior to a...
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Rebecca Lentjes
Bearthoven

Bearthoven Debut Album Release at (Le) Poisson Rouge

Whether you learned by watching Leonardo DiCaprio get clobbered in The Revenant or from your dutiful...
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Christian Kriegeskotte
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The Summer King: Pittsburgh Opera’s First World Premiere

On April 29, 2017 at the Benedum Center, Pittsburgh Opera launched a world premiere performance for...
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Amanda Cook
Contemporaneous

Contemporaneous Brings “Transcendental Geometry” to Brooklyn

The air at Roulette was permeated by unusual musical lines and shapes on April 11, 2017, as new musi...
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Rebecca Lentjes
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Lost in Sound: My Top 5 Moments From the 2017 Big Ears Festival

Despite an almost impossibly diverse lineup of musical artists and styles, there was one constant th...
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Daniel Kushner
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Big Ears Festival 2017: Vocal Mysticism and Pop Music Flair

The 2017 Big Ears Festival continued its eclectic programming on March 25-26 with performances by Me...
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Daniel Kushner
Shara Nova

Big Ears Festival 2017 Presents Remarkable Solo Sets

Since 2009, the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN has presented complex and challenging programs th...
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Daniel Kushner
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Visions and Voices “Stages” The Industry’s Hopscotch

The University of Southern California’s Arts and Humanities Initiative—Visions and Voices—plan...
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Gavin Gamboa
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Bolcom’s New Opera Dinner at Eight at Minnesota Opera

Minnesota Opera’s New Works Initiatives project has a stunning track record of premiere productions,...
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Megan Ihnen
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Orchestre National de Lyon Pairs Connesson Premiere with Ravel

The Orchestre National de Lyon’s last American tour took place in 2003, and their highly-antic...
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Lauren Ishida
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One World Symphony’s “Defiant:” An Orchestra Resists

On January 22, the night after women across the globe marched in protest of systemic sexism, racism,...
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Rebecca Lentjes
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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...
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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...
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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...
Author
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...
Author
Rebecca Lentjes
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