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Kettle Corn New Music Closes 4th Season with Epitaphs and Fairytales

On Friday, May 27, 2016, the DiMenna Center opened its doors to a moderate but dedicated crowd of su...
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Christian Kriegeskotte
Kaija Saariaho-- Photo by Priska Ketterer

2016 Ojai Music Festival: Saariaho’s La Passion de Simone

The third “station” of Kaija Saariaho‘s La Passion de Simone begins with two tumul...
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Zoë Madonna
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Music on Main presents One Night Stand: Caroline Shaw

Caroline Shaw has made a noticeable and meaningful impact on Vancouver’s artistic scene ever s...
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Joanne Lam
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JFK by David T. Little/Royce Vavrek Premieres in Fort Worth

John and Jaqueline Kennedy are iconic popular figures in American history–not only did they re...
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Jarrett Goodchild
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Paul Moravec’s “The Shining”: World Premiere at Minnesota Opera

Stephen King crafts stories revealing that the scariest things that go bump in the night are not sup...
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Megan Ihnen
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MATA Festival 2016: The Music Speaks for Itself

“We like to call this MATA masala,” said Executive Director Todd Tarantino of “Neither Land, Nor Sea...
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Lana Norris
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Tallinn Music Week: Contemporary Classical Showcase at the Museum of Estonian Architecture

After concerts at a renovated warehouse the first night, and in an 800-year-old church the second ni...
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Rebecca Lentjes
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Big Ears Festival: eighth blackbird and Bonnie “Prince” Billy

The composer David Rakowski recently tweeted, “The problem with having genres is that people claim t...
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Zoë Madonna
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Tallinn Music Week: Contemporary Classical Showcase at Niguliste Kirik

It was surprising to see so many people present at the Niguliste Kirik (St. Nicholas Church) on the...
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Rebecca Lentjes
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Big Ears Festival: Steven Schick and the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra

Knoxville’s 2016 Big Ears Festival, a three-day marathon of the experimental sides of pop, jazz, and...
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Zoë Madonna
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Tallinn Music Week Opening Night at Kultuurikatel

If you had told me a few weeks ago that I’d spend the night of March 31 in a recently renovate...
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Rebecca Lentjes
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Gibson’s Apparitions of the Four Pillars: 2016 Avant Media Festival

The final night of the seventh annual Avant Media Festival, which took place on March 5, 2016, was m...
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Rebecca Lentjes
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Sō Percussion and Friends Blend Rock and the Avant-Garde at Carnegie Hall

Since Sō Percussion first came across my radar, it’s been abundantly clear that the quartet is all a...
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Daniel Kushner
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JACK Quartet Maneuvers in the Dark 

Just as John Cage taught us important musical lessons about silence (in both his germinal book on th...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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Peck and Dessner Bring The Most Incredible Thing to NYC Ballet

On Thursday, February 11, 2016 at the David H. Koch Theater, the New York City Ballet and its orches...
Author
Daniel Kushner
Wet Ink Trio

Wet Ink Trio Blurs Boundaries in Oberlin

Wet Ink Trio blurred the lines between composition and performance and music and noise in a dynamic...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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Dark Music Days 2016 Recap: Day Three

The third and final day of concerts at Dark Music Days began with Guðný Einarsdóttir presenting a su...
Author
Gavin Gamboa
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Seattle Symphony Orchestra does New York School

In the Grand Lobby of Benaroya Hall on February 5, 2016 at 10:00pm, the Seattle Symphony Orchestra’s...
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Kevin Baldwin
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This week: concerts in New York (February 29 – March 6, 2016)

Either/Or: Precursors and Parallels | Pop-Up Concerts This Pop-Up celebrates a number of groundbreak...
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Sam Reising
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Dark Music Days 2016 Recap: Day Two

The wind screams and howls in Reykjavík. It is strong enough to disturb your gait and to push you ar...
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Gavin Gamboa
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Dark Music Days 2016 Recap: Day One

The Dark Music Days Festival takes place within Harpa, a 21st century space of giant proportions; a...
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Gavin Gamboa
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Nkeiru Okoye’s Opera in Praise of Harriet Tubman

In her opera Harriet Tubman: When I Crossed that Line to Freedom, composer-librettist Nkeiru Okoye d...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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Sō Percussion in Seattle and in Your Living Room

An excited audience waited in anticipation for the 7:30 pm downbeat by Sō Percussion in Meany Theate...
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Kevin Baldwin
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PROTOTYPE Presents David T. Little’s Dog Days

The PROTOTYPE festival in New York City has quickly emerged as a rite of the New Year. Founded in 20...
Author
Sam Reising
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