Category
Concert
Walking through Brooklyn’s Cloud City art space on May 17, 2015, you passed a vintage sink full of d...
Author
Lana Norris
Frederic Rzewski didn’t expect a crowd. It was a sunny Saturday afternoon in April, and he was perfo...
Author
Elizabeth Bloom
Steve Reich wrote his rarely performed Three Tales between 1998 and 2002, and each concerns a key ev...
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Aaron Holloway-Nahum
Billed by Soundstreams as an “intimate concert plus a discussion,” this was a rare opportunity to wa...
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Bruce A. Russell
There is an old saying that goes something like, “No one is a prophet in their homeland.” In music,...
Author
Justin Rito
How refreshing to experience an entire evening of works by a woman, even if the subject matter—the c...
Author
Rebecca Lentjes
“I’ll sing one more before I collapse,” Meredith Monk laughed after her 50th anniversary concert at...
Author
Rebecca Lentjes
Friday, May 1, 2015 marked the opening of the fourteenth annual Look and Listen Festival, a series d...
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Christian Kriegeskotte
The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) has produced some of America’s best...
Author
Lana Norris
Monday, April 13, 2015 marked the final of three consecutive sold-out shows by Chilly Gonzales &...
Author
Joanne Lam
MATA Festival artistic director Du Yun, telling the audience how she and the other directors had rec...
Author
Rebecca Lentjes
As Executive Director Todd Tarantino impressively boasted during his remarks at MATA‘s opening...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
Vancouver New Music wrapped its season on Saturday, April 18, 2015 with a sold-out concert at the Or...
Author
Joanne Lam
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...
Author
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...
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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
