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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...
Author
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...
Author
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
Roomful of Teeth

Words Can’t Do It Justice: Roomful of Teeth / White Light Festival

Maybe it’s just because it was October, but a listing with the name “Roomful of Teeth” evoked a bit...
Author
Elias Blumm
Hildegard Westerkamp

Sonic Topographies / Vancouver New Music Festival 2014

Vancouver New Music Festival celebrated its 2014 edition from October 16 to October 19 with the them...
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Joanne Lam
Maya Lahyani (Palestinian Woman) and Jesse Kovarsky (Omar) in The Death of Klinghoffer. Photo credit: Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera

Met Opera premiere of John Adams’ The Death of Klinghoffer

Aubrey Allicock (Mamoud), Paulo Szot...
Author
Sam Reising
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Avant Media presents Cage’s “Song Books (1970)”

On September 5, 2014, John Cage, the preeminent composer of ‘chance music,’ who brought the tenets o...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
Sandbox Percussion Quartet - Photo by Noah Stern Weber

Kettle Corn Hosts Sandbox Percussion

The first thing that strikes you when attending a Kettle Corn Concert is the atmosphere.  The popcor...
Author
Aaron Holloway-Nahum
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
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