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Bassoonist Peter Kolkay Shines in Joan Tower Premiere

Composer Joan Tower’s newest work, Red Maple, premiered on October 4, 2013, at the Koger Center for...
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Thomas Dempster
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Nico Muhly’s Two Boys: A thrilling production at the Metropolitan Opera

Monday, October 21, 2013 marked the New York premiere of Nico Muhly’s opera Two Boys at the Metropol...
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Sam Reising
Arvo Pärt - Photograph by K. Kikkas

Arvo Pärt: Soul Replenishing at Soundstreams Toronto Season Opener

Many season openers tend to displays of bravado and vivacity. Soundstreams' sold-out opener at Royal...
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Joanne Lam
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eighth blackbird Soars with Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble

Three-time Grammy winners eighth blackbird returned to their nest for a concert with the Oberlin Con...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn

Thomas Adès in San Francisco: A Warm, Welcoming Concert Among Friends

Early October saw the San Francisco Symphony continuing it's commendable streak of new music program...
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Danny Clay
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Ryan Muncy Breaks New Sonic Ground for Saxophone in Chicago

Michael Lewanski, conductor of Chicago’s Ensemble Dal Niente, introduced saxophonist (and EDN Execut...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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A Rake’s Progress for the Television Age at Theater an der Wien

In his 1964 essay for the Cambridge Opera Handbooks’ Igor Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress, the compo...
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Caitlin Smith
John Zorn at Jazz Middelheim 2012 (photo credit: Bruno Bollaert, Flickr, used under Creative Commons license. Via walkerart.org)

Zorn@60: The Improvisatory Embrace of New York and Japan

Composer and alto saxophonist John Zorn, known to me mostly as the founder of East Village not-for-p...
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Rob Wendt
Threefifty Duo - Photo by Jordan Matter

New Sounds on the Rise: Threefifty’s “Collapses” debuts at SubCulture

Threefifty’s first record, released in 2006, is a testament to the duo’s pedigree and finesse as cla...
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Elias Blumm
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So Percussion’s Benefit Party and Silent Auction

On September 25, 2013, So Percussion held its Benefit Party and Silent Auction on a beautiful roofto...
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Thomas Deneuville
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When Evil Knocks: Šimon Voseček’s Biedermann und die Brandstifter

Šimon Voseček's operatic adaptation of Max Frisch’s 1950s play Biedermann und die Brandstifter (Bied...
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Caitlin Smith
Liminal Space - Photo by Nicholas Leh Baker

Liminal Space kickoff: an evening of electro-accoustic music

On Wednesday, September 25, 2013 the Liminal Space Contemporary Music Ensemble—the only guitar and p...
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Shannon Langman
Hotel Elefant at Roulette - Photo Thomas Deneuville

Ear Heart Music’s season kickoff: Hotel Elefant at Roulette [Slideshow]

On Monday, September 23, Ear Heart Music—Amelia Lukas' new chamber music series hosted by Roulette—k...
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Thomas Deneuville
JACK Quartet - Photo by Henrik Olund

JACK Quartet Spans 600 Years of Surprising Sounds in Cleveland

The Cleveland Contemporary Players series, founded by composer and Cleveland State University profes...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
newEar Contemporary Music Ensemble. Photo Credit: Scott Unrein

newEar Contemporary Ensemble Shines in Season Opening Luminosity

Now in its 21st season, newEar Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, Kansas City's first and only professio...
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Don Clark
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No Exit: Entrée to the Cleveland New Music Scene

There is a burgeoning contemporary music scene in the Cleveland area, and its not restricted to the...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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MATA’s 16th Annual Benefit Gala

On September 1, 2013, MATA held its 16th Benefit Gala honoring Dawn Upshaw. Special guests were Donn...
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Thomas Deneuville
Sarah Joy Miller - Photo Credit Stephanie Berger

“I want to blow you all… a kiss”: Anna Nicole by the New York City Opera at BAM

To be fair I'll admit that as I sat voyeuristically at BAM's Next Wave Festival last Thursday, Septe...
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Marina Kifferstein
SubCulture - Bar

Subculture’s Grand Opening: Already Established

Even though a lot of things happen in New York, it is not every day that a major venue opens its doo...
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Thomas Deneuville
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BBC Prom Premieres Provocative Piano Concerto by Rzewski in London

The 50th BBC Prom of the 2013 season on August 19, 2013, promised to be something rather exceptional...
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Gwen Taylor
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The Poetry of Transience: ICE Performs David Lang’s the whisper opera at MoMo

From internet memes, Korean knockoffs, and cloned stem cells to 3D printers, Elvis impersonators, an...
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Matt Mendez
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McAllister Soars Down Under in John Adams’ Saxophone Concerto Premiere

By now, John Adams's status as a (if not the) major American voice in orchestral composition has lon...
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Jason Gerraughty
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The Rite: Contemporary and Contemporaneous in Music and Dance

As we celebrate the centennial year of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) and t...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Nils Frahm

Nils Frahm Leaves Enraptured Audience in his Wake at St. John Sessions

Nils Frahm, German mutli-keyboardist and composer of elctro-acoustic contemporary music, gave a rous...
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Daniel Emmerson
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