Category
Concert
Movie composer John Williams turned 81 in February, and no orchestra stepped up to celebrate the pas...
Author
Sam Zelitch
To celebrate the release of 5, a new album of posthumously discovered works by Ann Southam, the accl...
Author
Justin Rito
For a full week (March 20 to March 27, 2013), the Park Avenue Armory opened its 2013 season with a r...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
As a fitting finale for its 20th anniversary season, newEar Contemporary Chamber Ensemble departed f...
Author
Don Clark
This is the first post of Technology Editor Dana Wen's two-part coverage of the seventh annual Music...
Author
Dana Wen
Japanese electronic composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda's relentlessly ambitious 2012 conception...
Author
Daniel Emmerson
The lights were just dimming as I skidded haphazardly around a corner at Carnegie Hall, bag and coat...
Author
Forrest Wu
Benjamin Britten's exquisitely styled short operas from the mid-1960s are full of broad strokes and...
Author
Caitlin Smith
The Northwestern University Bienen School of Music's Side by Side music festival featured an impres...
Author
Sam Zelitch
New music enthusiasts gathered to experience “When Strange Birds Passing Meet: Memory and Mimesis in...
Author
Sam Reising
Characteristically distinctive sounds rang out throughout the day during the sixth annual Switchboar...
Author
Kelsey Walsh
The Temple University Symphony Orchestra performed the New York premiere of Michael Daugherty’s Refl...
Author
Rob Wendt
Written on Skin, the highly anticipated first full-length opera by British composer George Benjamin,...
Author
Aaron Holloway-Nahum
"What is important for the lucid ordering of the work – for its crystallization,” Igor Stravinsky te...
Author
Caitlin Smith
This belated review covers an event prior to the negotiations breakdown that happened in San Francis...
Author
Kelsey Walsh
Fonema Consort’s Mirrors II concert dazzled like the Swarovki crystal-studded images by their host,...
Author
Arlene & Larry Dunn
The Bang on a Can All-Stars presented the seventh concert of the quickly growing Ecstatic Music Fest...
Author
Daniel Garrick
Chicago is a hot burning bonfire of contemporary music, bursting with talented composers, expert pla...
Author
Arlene & Larry Dunn
Kansas City's major classical music ensembles have focused on melding visual and musical art for the...
Author
Don Clark
While this reporter was not quite sturdy enough to make it through the entire seven-hour evening, th...
Author
Caitlin Smith
Berlin based composer and media artist Arnold Dreyblatt and North Carolina based psychedelic folk ba...
Author
Adrianne Koteen
Can gnarly, upmarket mid-century modernism really make nice with the populist mores of the “alt-clas...
Author
Matt Mendez
Chicago’s flourishing contemporary music scene is not simply growing and expanding in its impact on...
Author
Arlene & Larry Dunn
