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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...
Author
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...
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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...
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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...
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Sam Reising
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Vancouver Opera Presents Nico Muhly’s Dark Sisters

Thursday, December 10, 2015 marked the penultimate performance of Nico Muhly‘s Dark Sisters fo...
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Joanne Lam
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Meredith Monk and Anne Waldman Conjure Old New York at Danspace

On Friday, December 18, 2015, Danspace Project — a forum for experimentation in choreography — prese...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
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Steel Hammer: An American Legend Brought to Life at BAM

In the realm of American folklore, almost nothing quite compares to the tale of John Henry. The Appa...
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Sam Reising
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An Eclectic Night of Premieres at Wayward Music Series

A large and eager crowd attended the Good Shepherd Center’s Wayward Music Series for a concert of pr...
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Kevin Baldwin
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Vancouver New Music: Tim Hecker

Vancouver New Music‘s concert series for the 2015-2016 season opened with Tim Hecker‘s s...
Author
Joanne Lam
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