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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...
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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...
Author
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...
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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
Vancouver Chamber Choir

Soundstreams: Canadian Choral Celebration at Koerner Hall

Canada is an expansive country in terms of its geography as well as its musical diversity. Soundstre...
Author
Joanne Lam
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San Francisco Symphony’s Beethoven and Bates Festival

On Saturday January 18, 2014, Michael Tilson Thomas conducted the San Francisco Symphony in their se...
Author
Kelsey Walsh
Photo by Karjaka Studios, Photographed at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music.

Kettle Corn, Beer and a Laid Back Approach to New Music

Friday evening, January 24, 2014, at the DiMenna Center began with the distinct smell of kettle corn...
Author
Daniel Garrick
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St. Louis Symphony Connects Brett Dean and Beethoven

Although advertising for the St Louis Symphony's January 24-25, 2014 concerts prominently featured t...
Author
Don Clark
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Falling for Kate Soper’s Sirens’ Songs at Dixon Place Theater

There are many things one might say – would, in fact, want to say – about Morningside Opera's produc...
Author
Kurt Gottschalk
JACK Quartet - Photo by Henrik Olund

Georg Friedrich Haas and JACK Quartet Make Music in Darkness

On Tuesday, November 19, 2013, audience members filed into the small Clark Studio Theater at Lincoln...
Author
Sam Reising
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UnCaged Toy Piano Festival Extravaganza Full of Premieres

A blizzard that snarled traffic throughout New York City was not enough to keep the performers or th...
Author
Arlene & Larry Dunn
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Contemporaneous Shines in Music At First Concert

For those unfamiliar with New York-based Contemporaneous, you need to learn about what you’re missin...
Author
Sam Reising
Andrew Poppy rehearses with the BBC Concert Orchestra for 19 eighties : the rhythm of a decade, part of The Rest Is Noise Festival at the Southbank Centre - Copyright: BBC/Mark Allan

BBC Orchestra’s “19 eighties : the rhythm of a decade” part of The Rest Is Noise

As part of the Southbank Centre's year-long retrospective festival The Rest Is Noise, the BBC Concer...
Author
Daniel Emmerson
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