Category
Concert
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
This season the New York City Opera presents 4 new productions: two at BAM, and two at New York City...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
The concept of combining visual and auditory elements to build a musical composition was highlighted...
Author
Caitlin Smith
If you ask a group of classical music fans to make a list of American masterworks, they might write...
Author
Justin Rito
This season marks the 100th anniversary of the Vienna Concert House, a massive building with four st...
Author
Caitlin Smith
Doyle Armbrust, creator and curator of the (Un)familiar Music Series, scored another hit for Chicago...
Author
Arlene & Larry Dunn
When I discovered that the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) was putting on an all-Gubaiduli...
Author
David Pearson
