Category
Concert
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
On Monday, February 12, 2013, the new music ensemble Contemporaneous presented Don't Even, a concert...
Author
Sam Reising
Solo piano recitals focussing exclusively on the works of a single contemporary composer are relativ...
Author
Justin Rito
The UK-based Ligeti Quartet is making great strides across Britain, gaining national attention throu...
Author
Arlene & Larry Dunn
The BBC Symphony Orchestra Total Immersion series gives London audiences the opportunity to spend a...
Author
Aaron Holloway-Nahum
Do you dream? I do. My dreams are like bizarre television shows, and, unfortunately, I only sometime...
Author
Will Roane
This is a review that I hadn't intended to write. I've had the pleasure of hearing Bruce Brubaker pe...
Author
Andrew Lee
One night after an impressive performance by the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble at DiMenna Cent...
Author
Marina Kifferstein
Last October, I CARE IF YOU LISTEN featured a video of the freshly deployed new music ensemble Hotel...
Author
Daniel Garrick
I don't think there is any other place in the world quite like the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. It...
Author
Marina Kifferstein
Classical music and warfare have always been covert bedfellows. Mozart’s forgeries of the Alla turca...
Author
Matt Mendez
To some it was a rare experience. For fans of Philip Glass, attending a live performance of Koyaani...
Author
Arlene & Larry Dunn
Sound Icon | Part 2: The Progressivist (read also Part 1: The Preservationist) If Boston Musica Viva...
Author
Christian Gentry
Boston Musica Viva | Part 1: The Preservationist Last November, I began this post with the intention...
Author
Christian Gentry
