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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...
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Sam Reising
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Christina Petrowska Quilico Performs Caravassilis Piano Works

Solo piano recitals focussing exclusively on the works of a single contemporary composer are relativ...
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Justin Rito
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Ligeti Quartet “Hay Fever” at Southbank Centre

The UK-based Ligeti Quartet is making great strides across Britain, gaining national attention throu...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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BBC Symphony Sounds from Japan: Takemitsu, Kondō, & Fujikura

The BBC Symphony Orchestra Total Immersion series gives London audiences the opportunity to spend a...
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Aaron Holloway-Nahum
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These Dreams: ICE and Carla Kihlstedt at Ecstatic Music Festival

Do you dream? I do. My dreams are like bizarre television shows, and, unfortunately, I only sometime...
Author
Will Roane
Bruce Brubaker

Bruce Brubaker at the University of Denver

This is a review that I hadn't intended to write. I've had the pleasure of hearing Bruce Brubaker pe...
Author
Andrew Lee
Composer Christopher Rouse (photo credit: christopherrouse.com)

Oberlin Orchestra Plays Christopher Rouse NY Premiere at Carnegie Hall

One night after an impressive performance by the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble at DiMenna Cent...
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Marina Kifferstein
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Hotel Elefant Brings Versatility To New Chamber Music

Last October, I CARE IF YOU LISTEN featured a video of the freshly deployed new music ensemble Hotel...
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Daniel Garrick
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Present Meets Past: Oberlin CME and ICE at DiMenna Center

I don't think there is any other place in the world quite like the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. It...
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Marina Kifferstein
Soldier Songs (L-R: Zac Ballard, Christopher Burchett) Photo credit Jill Steinberg

NYC premiere of David T. Little’s Soldier Songs at PROTOTYPE Festival

Classical music and warfare have always been covert bedfellows. Mozart’s forgeries of the Alla turca...
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Matt Mendez
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Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance at the Barbican

To some it was a rare experience.  For fans of Philip Glass, attending a live performance of Koyaani...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Jeffrey Means conducting Sound Icon (Michele McDonald/Boston-Globe)

Two Concerts in Boston: Preservationism or Progressivism? (part 2/2)

Sound Icon | Part 2: The Progressivist (read also Part 1: The Preservationist) If Boston Musica Viva...
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Christian Gentry
Boston Musica Viva (Photo by Aram Boghostan/Boston Globe)

Two Concerts in Boston: Preservationism or Progressivism? (part 1 of 2)

Boston Musica Viva | Part 1: The Preservationist Last November, I began this post with the intention...
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Christian Gentry
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London Sinfonietta New Music Show 3 at Southbank Centre

Situated on the edge of the River Thames, The Queen Elizabeth Hall at Southbank Centre was the site...
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Daniel Emmerson
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Two Modern Requiems Help To Reflect After Sandy

French twentieth-century organ composer Maurice Duruflé and contemporary American composer Gregory S...
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Daniel Garrick
The Empty Bottle

(Un)Familiar Music’s (Re) New Amsterdam Benefit Concert

"Why are we holding a new music fundraiser in a Chicago rock bar?" Organizer Doyle Armbrust was the...
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Sam Zelitch
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MuSE Sounds of Arts Festival a Multimedia Extravaganza

The new music scene in New York offers plenty of premieres, ensembles, and concerts, yet there are s...
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David Pearson
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