Category
Concert

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

Despite it being the year 2013, the notion of art music is generally equated exclusively with the We...
Author
David Pearson

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