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Laura J. Bowler - Photo by Claire Shovelton

No punches pulled in Size Zero Opera’s Women Box in London

Opera’s tough. You can’t just stand there and sing. The minimum requirement for an opera singer is t...
Author
Paul Kilbey
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Kettle Corn New Music Satisfies Audience’s Sweet Tooth

On Saturday, June 14, 2014, I made the journey over to The DiMenna Center for Classical Music to hea...
Author
Sam Reising
Jesse Stewart - Photo Hanhong Dan

“I’m not saying it was aliens… but it was aliens”: Jesse Stewart visits Ottawa Chamberfest

What would be the gold standard of record remixes? I may have heard it. "This is a present from a sm...
Author
Curtis Perry
Capital Chamber Choir

New Choral Works Take Flight in Ottawa

Ottawa's Music & Beyond – one of two chamber music festivals Canada's capital is fortunate to ha...
Author
Curtis Perry
Julian Armour - Photo Credit Couvrette/Ottawa

Five Ottawa Composers Premiere Variations You Can Warm To

Ottawa, Canada has had the privilege of playing host to two of the largest chamber music festivals i...
Author
Curtis Perry
HK Gruber's Gloria – A Pig Tale, led by Alan Gilbert at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Photo by Chris Lee)

HK Gruber’s Appealing “Gloria — A Pig Tale” Opens NY Phil Biennial

On Thursday, May 29, 2014, Alan Gilbert, the young and enterprising maestro of the New York Philharm...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
Seattle Symphony with Conductor/Music Director Ludovic Morlot

Spring for Music Goes Out With a Bang

Established in 2010, Spring for Music brings together orchestras from around the country, presenting...
Author
Sam Reising
Bluthaus - Photo by Ruth Walz

Emotional details in Haas’ Bluthaus at Wiener Festwochen in Vienna

In a pre-concert chat at the Theater an der Wien on Sunday, June 15, composer Georg Friedrich Haas s...
Author
Caitlin Smith
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Denk closes Ojai Music Festival with Ligeti, Ives, Beethoven

In California's quiet and secluded Ojai valley persists a rugged individualist sensibility which is...
Author
Gavin Gamboa
Arvo Pärt - Photo by Peeter Langovits

Arvo Pärt’s Sonic Journeys at Carnegie Hall

In the 11th century Guido of Arezzo, music theorist and monk, created a scale. He called the first b...
Author
Jennifer Stock
Marc-André Hamelin - Photo by Sim Canetty-Clarke

Marc-André Hamelin performs Feldman’s For Bunita Marcus

On Sunday afternoon, May 25, 2014, celebrated pianist-composer Marc-André Hamelin performed Morton F...
Author
Bruce A. Russell
Britten Sinfonia

Explorations: The Sound of Nonesuch Records at Barbican

2014 marks the 50th anniversary of Nonesuch Records, the American record label whose catalogue embra...
Author
Steven Berryman
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Seattle’s Spectrum Dance Theater Explores American String Quartets

“American music! What’s its stylistic range, and what’s its dance potential?” asked New York Times d...
Author
Dana Wen
newEar Contemporary Music Ensemble. Photo Credit: Scott Unrein

newEar’s Distant Travels in Kansas City

Kansas City's  newEar Contemporary Music Ensemble concluded its 21st season Saturday, May 3 at All S...
Author
Don Clark
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Powerplant Plays New Will Gregory Commission in Bristol

Powerplant, a trio of percussion, live visuals and sound design, commissioned a new piece from Goldf...
Author
Richard Barnard
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The Arditti Quartet, 40 Years Young

The Arditti Quartet hosted a day long 40th Birthday celebration on 26 April 2014 in the recently ope...
Author
Aaron Holloway-Nahum
Anthony Braxton

Roulette offers a glimpse at the now and future of opera

From April 17 through April 22, 2014, Brooklyn’s progressive new music venue Roulette presented thre...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
Gabrielle Herbst

Gabrielle Herbst’s Bodiless premiere at Roulette

On Tuesday, April 8, 2014, Roulette presented the premiere of Gabrielle Herbst’s opera Bodiless in B...
Author
Sam Reising
David Lang

(post)folk: David Lang’s collected stories at Carnegie Hall

As holder of the 2013-2014 Richard and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair at Carnegie Hall, David Lang ha...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
On the set of the ravens & radishes music video. L-R: composer/electric guitarist, George Heathco; Daniel Saenz, cello; soprano & artistic director, Misha Penton; dancer, Meg Brooker. Photo by Dave Nickerson

Ravens & Radishes: new operatic song cycle premieres in Houston, Texas

On Sunday, April 27, the operatic song cycle Ravens & Radishes received its world premiere in Ho...
Author
Shannon Langman

Gorecki’s Symphony No. 4: World Premiere at Southbank Centre

The World Premiere of Henryk Gorecki's Symphony No. 4 (2010) was always going to create a feeling of...
Author
Daniel Emmerson
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Marcos Balter premiere at ACO’s Border Vanguards in Zankel Hall

Friday, April 4, 2014, was another rainy day. While many of the folks scurrying down Seventh Avenue...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
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Art of Time Ensemble: I Send You This Cadmium Red

Wednesday, April 9, 2014, marked the first return of Art of Time Ensemble's entrancing I Send You Th...
Author
Joanne Lam
Louis Andriessen

A more personal side of Andriessen at Shenandoah Conservatory

The weeklong Andriessen 75 festival moved down the road to Armstrong Concert Hall, Shenandoah Conser...
Author
Matt Mendez
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