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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Daniel Emmerson
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Esprit Orchestra Celebrates Gamelan Music in Toronto

Esprit Orchestra's second concert of the season, held Sunday November 17, 2013, at Koerner Hall, Roy...
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Joanne Lam
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New Music for the Math-Rock Set: Wertmüller with Steamboat Switzerland

The incorporation of ideas, tone colours and material from popular music into art music compositions...
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Caitlin Smith
Georg Friedrich Haas

Georg Friedrich Haas’ in vain by the London Sinfonietta at Southbank

On Friday, December 7, London Sinfonietta descended into pre-natal darkness in a spectacular renditi...
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Xenia Pestova
Composer Caroline Shaw

Roomful of Teeth and Holly Herndon at (le) poisson rouge

On Monday, November 4, 2013, the a cappella ensemble Roomful of Teeth took to the stage at (le) pois...
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Sam Reising
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Invisible Cities in LA: An operatic tour de force

Los Angeles's Union Station, which will be celebrating its 75th anniversary next year, was the site...
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Gavin Gamboa
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Morton Subotnick Performs a Sorcerer’s Brew of Music at MOCA Cleveland

Morton Subotnick, a true pioneer of electronic music, celebrated his 80th birthday this year. Yet on...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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Yale in New York Concert Champions the Legacy of Paul Hindemith

Despite this concert having been anticipated in The Wall Street Journal and The Jewish Week (as well...
Author
Rob Wendt
ensemble, et al. - Photo by Thomas Deneuville

This week: concerts in New York (November 25 – December 1, 2013)

The Washington Soloists Chamber Orchestra perform Beethoven and Hickey Tonight’s program inclu...
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Sam Reising
Zbigniew Preisner - Photo Anna Wloch

Zbigniew Preisner and Lisa Gerrard: Diaries of Hope

On Saturday, October 12, 2013, Polish film composer Zbigniew Preisner conducted the Britten Sinfonia...
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Daniel Emmerson
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Esprit Orchestra Launches New Era in Toronto Season Opener

Esprit Orchestra's opening concert on Thursday, October 24, 2013, in Koerner Hall at Royal Conservat...
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Joanne Lam
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Introverted Music With a Dramatic Flourish From Ensemble die reihe

Focusing on the subtle, quiet textures of a small chamber ensemble in a still room can be a meditati...
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Caitlin Smith
Up Close - Credit: Kevin Yatarola / Courtesy Lincoln Center

Music and its Visual Alter-Ego: Michel van der Aa at Lincoln Center

What we see affects what we hear. And while classical music concerts are no exception to this rule,...
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Troy Herion
Crissy Broadcast. Photo Credit: James Block

Lisa Bielawa’s Crissy Broadcast: Field of Possibilities

It is truly difficult to objectively review a work like Lisa Bielawa's Crissy Broadcast. The hour-lo...
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Danny Clay
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Outsourced Music From Germany at Bowling Green New Music Festival

Chicago-based Ensemble Dal Niente brought the controversial young German composer Johannes Kreidler...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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34th Annual Bowling Green New Music Festival

Every autumn since 1980, Bowling Green State University has transformed into an  international hub o...
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Jason Charney
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Transcendent Pathways Concerts Debut at San Francisco Conservatory

The San Francisco Conservatory of Music hosted the Inaugural Concert of the Transcendent Pathways co...
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Danny Clay
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Sexist portrayal of poverty in Harlot’s Progress at Theater an der Wien

In 1731, the British artist William Hogarth made a series of six paintings titled “A Harlot’s Progre...
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Caitlin Smith
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Filmmaker or Playwright? Composer Paul Lansky Premieres Textures

Around 2004, composer Paul Lansky famously made an about-face. After over 40 years of pioneering wor...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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