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Post-Classical Meets Rock-n-Roll: Todd Rundgren and ETHEL in Chicago

The Northwestern University Bienen School of Music's Side by Side music festival  featured an impres...
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Sam Zelitch
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Contemporary Portland Orchestra Project: Flock of Strange Birds

New music enthusiasts gathered to experience “When Strange Birds Passing Meet: Memory and Mimesis in...
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Sam Reising
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Distinctive Sounds at Sixth Annual Switchboard Music Festival

Characteristically distinctive sounds rang out throughout the day during the sixth annual Switchboar...
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Kelsey Walsh
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Daugherty, Temple U. Transport NYC to the Banks of the Mississippi

The Temple University Symphony Orchestra performed the New York premiere of Michael Daugherty’s Refl...
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Rob Wendt
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George Benjamin’s Written on Skin: The Power of Restraint

Written on Skin, the highly anticipated first full-length opera by British composer George Benjamin,...
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Aaron Holloway-Nahum
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Dionysus Overwhelms Apollo in HK Gruber’s Realization of Oedipus Rex

"What is important for the lucid ordering of the work – for its crystallization,” Igor Stravinsky te...
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Caitlin Smith
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San Francisco Symphony Plays Peer Gynt

This belated review covers an event prior to the negotiations breakdown that happened in San Francis...
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Kelsey Walsh
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Fonema Consort Dazzles with Mirrors II in Chicago

Fonema Consort’s Mirrors II concert dazzled like the Swarovki crystal-studded images by their host,...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Bang on a Can All-Stars - Photo by David Andrako

Ecstatic Music Festival 2013: Bang on a Can All-Stars

The Bang on a Can All-Stars presented the seventh concert of the quickly growing Ecstatic Music Fest...
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Daniel Garrick
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Another #ChicagoNewMusicPlethora

Chicago is a hot burning bonfire of contemporary music, bursting with talented composers, expert pla...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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newEar Ensemble’s “Strangely Familiar” in Kansas City

Kansas City's major classical music ensembles have focused on melding visual and musical art for the...
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Don Clark
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More Highlights From 2013 IMPULS Marathon Concert

While this reporter was not quite sturdy enough to make it through the entire seven-hour evening, th...
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Caitlin Smith
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Ecstatic Music: Arnold Dreyblatt and Megafaun Fuse the Avant-Garde

Berlin based composer and media artist Arnold Dreyblatt and North Carolina based psychedelic folk ba...
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Adrianne Koteen
Charles Blandy

The House I Live In: American Art Songs of the 20th and 21st Century. Blandy & Lister

Can gnarly, upmarket mid-century modernism really make nice with the populist mores of the “alt-clas...
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Matt Mendez
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Fifth House Ensemble coming soon at MCA Chicago

Chicago’s flourishing contemporary music scene is not simply growing and expanding in its impact on...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Benjamin P. Wenzelberg, Sara Jakubiak, Lauren Worsham, Sharmay Musacchio - Photo by Richard Termine

Benjamin Britten’s Turn of the Screw, NYCO at BAM

This season the New York City Opera presents 4 new productions: two at BAM, and two at New York City...
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Thomas Deneuville
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Blending the Auditory With the Visual at IMPULS 2013

The concept of combining visual and auditory elements to build a musical composition was highlighted...
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Caitlin Smith
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Then and Now: Canadian Music of the Past, Present, and Future

If you ask a group of classical music fans to make a list of American masterworks, they might write...
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Justin Rito
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Cerha Conducts die reihe’s 55th Anniversary Concert

This season marks the 100th anniversary of the Vienna Concert House, a massive building with four st...
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Caitlin Smith
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Hour of Power: Chicago Q Ensemble on (Un)Familiar Music Series

Doyle Armbrust, creator and curator of the (Un)familiar Music Series, scored another hit for Chicago...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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ICE Presents Gubaidulina Composer Portrait at Miller Theatre

When I discovered that the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) was putting on an all-Gubaiduli...
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David Pearson
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I Sing Beijing at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall

Despite it being the year 2013, the notion of art music is generally equated exclusively with the We...
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David Pearson
Enno Poppe (photo credit: Kai Bienert)

IMPULS 2013 Opening Yields Mixed Results from Young Composers

The recent 2012 Grammy awards highlighted the current trend in pop music towards the commercializati...
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Caitlin Smith
Contemporaneous

“Don’t Even,” Contemporaneous at P.S. 142 for Neighborhood Classics

On Monday, February 12, 2013, the new music ensemble Contemporaneous presented Don't Even, a concert...
Author
Sam Reising
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