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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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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...
Author
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
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