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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...
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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...
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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...
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Matt Mendez
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Bang on a Can All-Stars Mix It Up at Andriessen 75 Festival

There are two things to say about Bang on a Can’s Louis Andriessen ties. The first is that no one ha...
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Matt Mendez
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Production Pretense Unsettles Maya Beiser’s All Vows at Yerba Buena

On the weekend of March 21, 2014, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts hosted the debut of “All Vows,” a...
Author
Danny Clay
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Ensemble LPR: Greenwood and Dessner as Bartok’s Descendants

Le Poisson Rogue is hardly a small venue, but March 7, 2014, with André de Ridder conducting the Ens...
Author
Evan Burke
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London Contemporary Music Festival Celebrates Bernard Parmegiani

Britannia House, a large building just off Brick Lane in London’s East End, used to be a carpet fact...
Author
Paul Kilbey
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All Andriessen, All the Time, at Atlas Performing Arts Center

This here was a tale of two halves, one part of the program devoted to Andriessen’s myriad piano min...
Author
Matt Mendez
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Andriessen 75: A Retrospective at Strathmore Mansion

The retrospective, that staple of the visual arts world, ought to be more popular in new music circl...
Author
Matt Mendez
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No Revolution in Monica Germino’s Roadmaps and Diaries II

An unaccompanied violin recital is a daunting proposition. Without pianistic relief, the listener ca...
Author
Matt Mendez
Louis Andriessen

Iconoclast Andriessen’s La Commedia at National Gallery of Art

Performance spaces don't get much more “official” than the National Gallery of Art’s palatial West G...
Author
Matt Mendez
So Percussion & Buke and Gase - Photo by Daniel Gilliam

New Music recap of Big Ears 2014 in Knoxville, TN

After a four-year hiatus, Big Ears Festival returned to Knoxville from March 28 to 30, presented by...
Author
Daniel Gilliam
John Adams conducting - Photo by Lambert Orkis

TSO’s New Creations Festival: Slonimsky’s Earbox

Toronto Symphony Orchestra celebrated the 10th anniversary of their New Creations Festival this year...
Author
Joanne Lam
Bang on a Can All-Stars - Photo by Monika Graff

Ecstatic Music Festival 2014: Bang on a Can All-Stars

Before Kickstarter, before buzz words like “crowd-funding” and even before the internet was introduc...
Author
Daniel Garrick
Rene Hell

Harmonic Series presents a one-off special PAN showcase night at the Southbank Centre

Over the last five years, Bill Kouligas' independent record label, PAN, has grown to be an incredibl...
Author
Daniel Emmerson
Ben Connor (Amazonier), Rupert Enticknap (Europäer) and members of the Wiener KammerOrchesters - Photo by Armin Bardel

Mare Nostrum is child’s play at Theater an der Wien Kammeroper

There is a quaintness to Mauricio Kagel’s Mare Nostrum (1975, rev. 1997). Its heavy-handed metaphors...
Author
Caitlin Smith
Kronos Quartet - Photo by Jay Blakesberg

Kronos Quartet premieres Mary Kouyoumdjian’s Under 30 commission at Z-Space

The extended weekend of February 6 thru 9 was a particularly exciting one for the Bay Area, as the m...
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Danny Clay
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Berkeley Symphony Premieres Samuel Carl Adams’ Violin Concerto

The Berkeley Symphony’s concert on Thursday, February 6 in UC Berekely’s Zellerbach Hall featured th...
Author
Kelsey Walsh
Composer Fausto Romitelli

An Index of Metals at Theater an der Wien not quite a furnace of sensations

The late composer Fausto Romitelli, who passed away in 2004 at the age of 41 from a tragic illness,...
Author
Caitlin Smith
ACO - Photo by Christopher Smith

American Composers Orchestra’s Lines on a Point at Carnegie Hall

While the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (or ASCAP to its friends), has been...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
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Imani Winds and Gilbert Kalish Warm Up Winter in Oberlin

Imani Winds—Valerie Coleman (flute), Toyin Spellman-Diaz (oboe), Mariam Adama (clarinet), Jeff Scott...
Author
Arlene & Larry Dunn
Jennifer Koh - Photo by Jenny Anderson

Bach, Revisited: Bach and Saariaho at Miller Theatre

The magnificent geometries of Johann Sebastian Bach don't really need any assistance in being kept c...
Author
Kurt Gottschalk
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