Category
Concert
I thought I had had my fill of surprises that day, but about halfway through the Meredith Monk &...
Author
Rebecca Lentjes
There are many examples of ensembles struggling to successfully pair music by living composers with...
Author
Aaron Holloway-Nahum
The Metropolitan Museum’s Temple of Dendur exhibition space is an unlikely, compelling and acoustica...
Author
Kurt Gottschalk
The acclaimed vocal trio Mirror Visions Ensemble, comprised of Vira Slywotzky (soprano), Scott Murph...
Author
Lauren Ishida
“Please take a blanket; the heating will be turned off during the performance.” Closing the sixth an...
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Lana Norris
In February and March of 1968, Karlheinz Stockhausen sheltered with his family in a snow-bound house...
Author
Jennifer Stock
Fusion was the self described “f-word” in the forward to the American Composers Orchestr...
Author
Elias Blumm
Someone get pianist Vicky Chow some ice. If you counted her or percussionist David Cossin’s rapid, e...
Author
Daniel Hautzinger
The Composer Portrait Series at Miller Theatre offers a relatively unusual listening pleasure for co...
Author
Jennifer Stock
It’s not uncommon, at least from what I’ve experienced living in New York and Brooklyn, for new musi...
Author
Rebecca Lentjes
On January 30th, The Riot Ensemble presented an adventurous selection of experimental, contemporary...
Author
Angelina Panozzo
Someday there ought be a few lines in this country’s historical record about Sufjan Stevens. The man...
Author
Elias Blumm
Recently I was shocked to discover that the Metropolitan Opera has not programmed a woman composer s...
Author
Rebecca Lentjes
Dedicating itself to the performance of recent masterworks in the Western contemporary music canon,...
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Christian Gentry
The Wet Ink Ensemble is something of a new music perpetual motion machine, counting among its seven...
Author
Kurt Gottschalk
From Bach’s Klavier Übung to Ligeti’s 18 Etudes, etudes are designed to both discipline and dazzle.
Author
Elias Blumm
The evening of Tuesday, November 18 at the Ottawa National Arts Centre’s 4th Stage marked the eighth...
Author
Curtis Perry
“Meredith Monk’s music invites us into new worlds,” said Derek Bermel, the artistic director of the...
Author
Rebecca Lentjes
It’s very likely that John Adams needed a strong adult beverage after the highs and lows of th...
Author
Elias Blumm
Maybe it’s just because it was October, but a listing with the name “Roomful of Teeth” evoked a bit...
Author
Elias Blumm
Vancouver New Music Festival celebrated its 2014 edition from October 16 to October 19 with the them...
Author
Joanne Lam
On September 5, 2014, John Cage, the preeminent composer of ‘chance music,’ who brought the tenets o...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
