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Muhal Richard Abrams, Roscoe Mitchell, and George Lewis-- Photo by R.I. Sutherland-Cohen

AACM Celebrates 50th Anniversary at Bohemian National Hall

The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) has produced some of America’s best...
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Lana Norris
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Chilly Gonzales and Kaiser Quartett at Barbican Centre

Monday, April 13, 2015 marked the final of three consecutive sold-out shows by Chilly Gonzales &...
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Joanne Lam
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Dancing lamps, a tortured piano: Illuminating objects and heavy concepts at the MATA Festival

MATA Festival artistic director Du Yun, telling the audience how she and the other directors had rec...
Author
Rebecca Lentjes
Talea Ensemble--Photo by Beowulf Sheehan

Three Nights at MATA Keeps Your Ear on its Toes

As Executive Director Todd Tarantino impressively boasted during his remarks at MATA‘s opening...
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Christian Kriegeskotte
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Voices and Strings concludes Vancouver New Music season

Vancouver New Music wrapped its season on Saturday, April 18, 2015 with a sold-out concert at the Or...
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Joanne Lam
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Voices, voices in space, and spaces: Thoughts on 50 years of Meredith Monk

I thought I had had my fill of surprises that day, but about halfway through the Meredith Monk &...
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Rebecca Lentjes
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The Britten Sinfonia presents Locatelli, Coult and Abrahamsen

There are many examples of ensembles struggling to successfully pair music by living composers with...
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Aaron Holloway-Nahum
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Jóhann Jóhannsson’s Drone Mass at The Temple of Dendur

The Metropolitan Museum’s Temple of Dendur exhibition space is an unlikely, compelling and acoustica...
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Kurt Gottschalk
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A Journey Through Song with the Mirror Visions Ensemble

The acclaimed vocal trio Mirror Visions Ensemble, comprised of Vira Slywotzky (soprano), Scott Murph...
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Lauren Ishida
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Avant Music Festival Presents Randy Gibson’s Apparitions…

“Please take a blanket; the heating will be turned off during the performance.” Closing the sixth an...
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Lana Norris
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Theatre of Voices Presents Stimmung at Carnegie Hall

In February and March of 1968, Karlheinz Stockhausen sheltered with his family in a snow-bound house...
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Jennifer Stock
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The ACO presents Sins and Songs at Carnegie Hall

Fusion was the self described “f-word” in the forward to the American Composers Orchestr...
Author
Elias Blumm
Bang on a Can All Stars

Quicksilver: Bang on a Can All-Stars in Oberlin

Someone get pianist Vicky Chow some ice. If you counted her or percussionist David Cossin’s rapid, e...
Author
Daniel Hautzinger
Missy Mazzoli-- Photo by Stephen Taylor

Missy Mazzoli: Composer Portrait Series at Miller Theatre

The Composer Portrait Series at Miller Theatre offers a relatively unusual listening pleasure for co...
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Jennifer Stock
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A Delightfully Devious Valentine from Tenth Intervention at Bowery Poetry Club

It’s not uncommon, at least from what I’ve experienced living in New York and Brooklyn, for new musi...
Author
Rebecca Lentjes
Riot Ensemble

A Revolution of Experimental Music from The Riot Ensemble

On January 30th, The Riot Ensemble presented an adventurous selection of experimental, contemporary...
Author
Angelina Panozzo
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Sufjan Stevens Takes the Bull by the Horns: Round-Up at BAM

Someday there ought be a few lines in this country’s historical record about Sufjan Stevens. The man...
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Elias Blumm
Bora Yoon - Photo by Cory Weaver

Bora Yoon’s Sunken Cathedral at the Prototype Festival

Recently I was shocked to discover that the Metropolitan Opera has not programmed a woman composer s...
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Rebecca Lentjes
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Sound Icon performs Le Noir de l’Etoile in Boston

Dedicating itself to the performance of recent masterworks in the Western contemporary music canon,...
Author
Christian Gentry
Wet Ink Ensemble

Wet Ink Ensemble “Book of Returns” at St. Peter’s Church

The Wet Ink Ensemble is something of a new music perpetual motion machine, counting among its seven...
Author
Kurt Gottschalk
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Practice, practice, practice: Philip Glass’s Complete Piano Etudes at BAM

From Bach’s Klavier Übung to Ligeti’s 18 Etudes, etudes are designed to both discipline and dazzle.
Author
Elias Blumm
ECM+ - Photo Laurent Castellucci

ECM+ Presents Generation2014 in Ottawa

The evening of Tuesday, November 18 at the Ottawa National Arts Centre’s 4th Stage marked the eighth...
Author
Curtis Perry
Meredith Monk

ACO’s Monk’s Sphere at Carnegie Hall

“Meredith Monk’s music invites us into new worlds,” said Derek Bermel, the artistic director of the...
Author
Rebecca Lentjes
John Adams - Photo by Margaretta Mitchell

John Adams Kicks Off CONTACT! at SubCulture

It’s very likely that John Adams needed a strong adult beverage after the highs and lows of th...
Author
Elias Blumm
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