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Taktus Raise Their Mallets for Ann Southam

On Friday, July 17, 2015, percussion duo Taktus hosted the launch of their CD Glass Houses for Marim...
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Bruce A. Russell
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Clio Em Premieres GRAVITY WING in Montreal

Do you know Clio Em? If so, perhaps you know her as a writer, or a poet? Oh no, you’re right, she’s...
Author
Maurice Du Berger
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Sound, movement and truly strange wigs with Herbert Fritsch at the Wiener Festwochen

Speaking in a post-show chat about his opera Ohne Titel No. 1, which was performed as part of the Wi...
Author
Caitlin Smith
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Margaret Brouwer’s Blue Streak Ensemble at The National Opera Center

On Monday, July 13, 2015 the National Opera Center hosted Margaret Brouwer’s Blue Streak Ensem...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
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Brigitte Poulin and Jean Marchand: Two Pianos at Music and Beyond

Ottawa’s Music and Beyond festival is one of two major chamber music festivals in Canada’s capital.
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Curtis Perry
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Ifè: Three Yorùbá Songs U.S. Premiere in San Francisco

It has been 81 years since the premiere of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. The opera’s then-controversial...
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Norman Cahn
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eighth blackbird and the Altius Quartet at the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival

Despite misled efforts by some of the twentieth century’s great thinkers, the expression of emotion...
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Justin Rito
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Radiant Ragas: Contemporary Classical Indian Music That Thrills

The stage was set in the traditional Indian style and featured bright lights and cushions. The size...
Author
Angelina Panozzo
Alarm Will Sound

Alarm Will Sound Breathes Life Into The Player Piano

On Friday, June 26, 2015 preeminent chamber band Alarm Will Sound descended upon the Whitney Museum...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
String Orchestra of Brooklyn

Meditations: An Evening with the String Orchestra of Brooklyn

Since the demise of the Brooklyn Philharmonic in 2012, the borough has been without an orchestral vo...
Author
Sam Reising
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Nouveau Classical Project at The Center for Fiction

“21-year-old Danny wouldn’t believe this was happening!” At an evening of his music curated by Nouve...
Author
Lana Norris
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Bruce Brubaker and the Music of Philip Glass at Le Poisson Rouge

On Tuesday, June 16, pianist Bruce Brubaker took to the stage at Le Poisson Rouge to celebrate Glass...
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Sam Reising
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Avanti! Chamber Orchestra gets carte blanche at Chelsea Music Festival

Sounds that gallivanted, catapulted, zigzagged, and, eventually, tangoed: granted “free license” to...
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Rebecca Lentjes
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Chelsea Music Festival brings Finland and Hungary to NYC

The Chelsea Music Festival’s Opening Night Gala took place at Canoe Studios, a warehouse practically...
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Lana Norris
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George Lewis premieres “Afterword” at Roulette

“Black folks do not issue ultimatums to white folks in Mississippi … we had to get out!” rang tenor...
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Lana Norris
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Glenn Kotche’s Wild Sound is Unexpectedly Brilliant

“Here is your audience instrument; you take it apart like chopsticks,” said the usher, handing me a...
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Rebecca Lentjes
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Spektral Quartet presents Comic Cadences at Constellation

A string quartet walks into a bar. The cellist gets up on stage and does his best Lenny Bruce impres...
Author
Daniel Hautzinger
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Hercules in Mato Grosso brings South American opera to New York

In Argentinian composer Esteban Insinger’s chamber opera Hercules in Mato Grosso (2014), two men cap...
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Rebecca Lentjes
Exceptet

New Ensemble Exceptet debuts at Cloud City

Walking through Brooklyn’s Cloud City art space on May 17, 2015, you passed a vintage sink full of d...
Author
Lana Norris
Composer Frederic Rzewski

Frederic Rzewski in Pittsburgh: Eluding expectations

Frederic Rzewski didn’t expect a crowd. It was a sunny Saturday afternoon in April, and he was perfo...
Author
Elizabeth Bloom
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Reich’s Three Tales in IMAX at the London Science Museum

Steve Reich wrote his rarely performed Three Tales between 1998 and 2002, and each concerns a key ev...
Author
Aaron Holloway-Nahum
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An Evening with Barrière and Saariaho

Billed by Soundstreams as an “intimate concert plus a discussion,” this was a rare opportunity to wa...
Author
Bruce A. Russell
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Nedudim: A collaboration between Fifth House Ensemble and Baladino

There is an old saying that goes something like, “No one is a prophet in their homeland.” In music,...
Author
Justin Rito
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Mary Kouyoumdjian’s Silent Cranes gives voice to a century of turmoil in U.S. première at Roulette

How refreshing to experience an entire evening of works by a woman, even if the subject matter—the c...
Author
Rebecca Lentjes
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