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Colorado Music Festival’s Radiohead+Brahms Mash-up Misfires

Colorado classical music organizations are embracing the summer crossover concert with Indie-fied pa...
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Ruth Carver
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Energy is Eternal Delight: A Tribute to Steve Martland

This was not so much a remembrance of the late Steve Martland, but a celebration of his work, his de...
Author
Daniel Emmerson
Michael Hall and Mara Gibson

UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance’s annual Composition Workshop

Under the direction of composer Mara Gibson, the UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance's annual Compo...
Author
Don Clark
Composer Fausto Romitelli

ManiFeste 2013 Celebrates European Composers Rarely Heard Abroad

Running from 29 May until 30 June, 2013, ManiFeste festival and academy can be seen as a reincarnati...
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Xenia Pestova
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Daniel Wohl’s Corps Exquis a Fitting End to Ear Heart Music Season

The 2012-2013 season of Ear Heart Music came to a close on Wednesday, June 5, 2013 with performances...
Author
Joanne Lam
Coming Together/Attica - Photo by Julie Lemberger

Coming Together / Attica Shows Dignity in the Face of Atrocities

Over a year ago I heard Arundhati Roy barraged with a series of idiotic questions from a couple coll...
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David Pearson
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A Stirring Four Pianos + Percussion Rite of Spring, But No Riot

The riotous 1913 premiere performance of Igor Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring...
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Forrest Wu
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Violist Michael Hall Recital Closes UMKC Summer Composition Workshop

The closing concert of the University of Missouri-Kansas City Summer Composition Workshop on June 21...
Author
Don Clark
Composer Mauricio Kagel

Unstable Center Waylays Mauricio Kagel’s Compass Rose

The London Sinfonietta gave an exceptional - though unfortunately rather lightly attended - performa...
Author
Aaron Holloway-Nahum
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Luke Bedford in Portrait: London Sinfonietta Presents Renewal

The London Sinfonietta continue to experiment with different approaches in their presentation of con...
Author
Steven Berryman
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Jonathan Biss, Elias Quartet Juxtapose Schumann, Purcell, and Andres

There couldn't be a more appropriate time for American pianist Jonathan Biss to bring the "deeply pe...
Author
Daniel Emmerson
Nico Muhly - Photo by Matthew Murphy

Certainly not outraged by Muhly’s curated weekend of new music at Barbican/LSO St Luke’s

Though I was certainly not outraged, I was yet somewhat disappointed of missing the other performanc...
Author
Arlene & Larry Dunn
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Ensemble Dal Niente Closes (Un)Familiar Music with 7 World-Premieres

Chicago, May 22, 2013 — The (Un)Familiar Music Series closed its season by presenting seven world pr...
Author
Sam Zelitch
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Soundstreams Mixes Canadian and Chinese Music in Toronto

For the past 30 years, the Toronto new music presenter Soundstreams has been commissioning, developi...
Author
Caitlin Smith
Composer, soprano, and Parlour Tapes+ co-founder Jenna Lyle (photo credit: parlourtapes.com)

Chicago New Music Label Parlour Tapes+ Makes a Killing

Just like Jay Gatsby (the literary version, not the current Luhrmann fiasco), Chicago's new music sc...
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Sam Zelitch
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W4 New Music: Ancient Instruments, Contemporary Sounds

In every musical era, composers have conversations with their instruments, and each conversation is...
Author
Sam Reising
Composer John Corigliano

Corigliano Stimulates the Mind in Fulcrum Point’s “Altered States”

Movie composer John Williams turned 81 in February, and no orchestra stepped up to celebrate the pas...
Author
Sam Zelitch
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Eve Egoyan Celebrates Ann Southam at Glenn Gould Studio

To celebrate the release of 5, a new album of posthumously discovered works by Ann Southam, the accl...
Author
Justin Rito
Karlheinz Stockhausen's OKTOPHONIE at Park Avenue Armory - Photo by Stephanie Berger

OKTOPHONIE at the Park Avenue Armory: trading rituals

For a full week (March 20 to March 27, 2013), the Park Avenue Armory opened its 2013 season with a r...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
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newEar Evolves with “Darwin” Chamber Opera in Kansas City

As a fitting finale for its 20th anniversary season, newEar Contemporary Chamber Ensemble departed f...
Author
Don Clark
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Jonathan Berger’s Visitations Paints Operatic Portraits of Hallucination

This is the first post of Technology Editor Dana Wen's two-part coverage of the seventh annual Music...
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Dana Wen
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Ikeda Probes the Human-to-Technology Connection in “superposition”

Japanese electronic composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda's relentlessly  ambitious 2012 conception...
Author
Daniel Emmerson
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Alarm Will Sound: Nationalism, Serialism, and Minimalism

The lights were just dimming as I skidded haphazardly around a corner at Carnegie Hall, bag and coat...
Author
Forrest Wu
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Britten Elicits Both Focus and Frenzy at Neue Oper Wien

Benjamin Britten's exquisitely styled short operas from the mid-1960s are full of broad strokes and...
Author
Caitlin Smith
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