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Brad Mehldau with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in Vienna

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Caitlin Smith
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Ensemble contemporain de Montréal: Generation 2012

Every two years, Ensemble contemporain de Montréal (ECM+) provides four up-and-coming Canadian compo...
Author
Justin Rito
John Cage - Photo by Steven Gunther

Losseff Plays Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes at Getting Nowhere

The Getting Nowhere festival and conference, organised by William Brooks and his troop of students a...
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Xenia Pestova
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Schleiermacher, Talea Ensemble at Contempuls

November 6, 2012, marked the opening of the Contempuls Contemporary Music Festival in Prague. In its...
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Sam Reising
newEar Contemporary Music Ensemble. Photo Credit: Scott Unrein

newEar Contemporary Music Ensemble: “Hijinks”

Ask a typical concert patron to describe contemporary classical music in one word and the usual susp...
Author
Don Clark
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(Un)familiar Wind: The City of Tomorrow in Chicago

The wind quintet The City of Tomorrow (TCOT) blew into the Windy City to perform a lively slate of c...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Susanna Mälkki - Photo by Simon Fowler

Susanna Mälkki conducts the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra at Wien Modern 2012

am·phi·go·ry, noun [ˈamfəˌgōrē, amˈfigərē] a nonsense verse or composition a rigmarole with apparent...
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Caitlin Smith
Olga Neuwirth

Olga Neuwirth’s chamber music performed by the Talea Ensemble

The Talea Ensemble brought precision and warmth to an evening of chamber works by the Austrian compo...
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Caitlin Smith
The March: A Civil Rights Opera

The March: A Civil Rights Opera Emerging in Chicago

Something quite remarkable is happening in Chicago. Equal parts drama, music, history, and social ac...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
John Adams - Photo by Margaretta Mitchell

Listen to your dreams before composing…

On October 18, 2012 I stumbled upon City of London Sinfonia’s performance of works by two of the mos...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Jörg Widmann - Photo by Marco Borggreve

The Berlin Philharmonic performs Jörg Widmann’s Violin Concerto

On Friday, October 26, the Berlin Philharmonic took to the stage to perform works by Benjamin Britte...
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Sam Reising
Elliott Carter - Photo by M. Heuer

Brad Lubman conducts American music at the Wien Modern

I have sometimes found performances and recordings of Elliot Carter’s music to be physically trying,...
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Caitlin Smith
Toshio Hosokawa

Hosokawa’s The Raven: Gripping Monodrama

On Thursday, October 25, a heartfelt applause rang out after the last flutterings of Toshio Hosokawa...
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Thea Derks
Philip Glass - Photo Thomas Deneuville

MATA’s 15th Annual Benefit Gala

On Tuesday, October 16, MATA held its 15th annual benefit gala at the Tibet House in New York City.
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Thomas Deneuville
Rebecca Brandt

Rebecca Brandt’s “Numbers and Shapes” Release Party at Galapagos

On Friday, September 21, composer Rebecca Brandt held a release party for her album Numbers and Shap...
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Matt Weber
Samuel Carl Adams

The San Francisco Symphony performs Samuel Carl Adams and Gustav Mahler

Pairing Samuel Carl Adams' new work Drift and Providence with Mahler’s Fifth Symphony was a bold mov...
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Kelsey Walsh
Third Coast Percussion and Augusta Read Thomas - Photo by Kirk Richard Smith and Tadashi Omura, with kind permission

The Tolling of Bells: Third Coast Percussion Premieres Resounding Earth at Notre Dame University

Third Coast Percussion gave the world premiere of Resounding Earth by Augusta Read Thomas, at DeBart...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Ensemble Dal Niente - Photo by Max Anisimov, with kind permission

Resisting Silence, Inevitability: Dal Niente at the Beethoven Festival

For this year’s anniversary of September 11, Chicago’s second annual Beethoven Festival asked Ensemb...
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Andrew Tham
Ensemble Dal Niente

Confluence and Synchronicity: Ensemble dal Niente performs Chinary Ung at High Concept Laboratories

New music dynamo Ensemble Dal Niente presented a stirring program of music by Cambodian-American com...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Spektral Quartet at Empty Bottle - Photo Larry Dunn

Spektral Quartet’s Sampler Pack at The Empty Bottle in Chicago

Spektral Quartet served up a multi-layered sandwich of new and old music in their third annual Sampl...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Joby Burgess performing Thrashing the Sea God - Flickr/The-Queen'sHall

Thrashing the Sea God: Joby Burgess performs John McLeod’s short opera

The Tête à Tête Opera Festival at the Riverside Studios, London, seeks to present new and challengin...
Author
Steven Berryman
Inuksuit at Millennium Park - Photo Larry Dunn

A Rain-Soaked Inuksuit in Chicago Millennium Park

In a modern world too often marked by conflicts of humanity versus nature, an exhilarating human com...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
David Knotts - Photo Kevin Leighton

An Eye for an Eye: David Knotts’ Wild Evening with the Papin Sisters

It is not only complete works that are presented at The Tête à Tête Opera Festival (Riverside Studio...
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Steven Berryman
Emmy Storms - Photo Sanja Harris

NJO Summer Academy ends with a Bang

On August 19, the NJO Symphony Orchestra and conductor Antony Hermus ended their three-day concert t...
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Thea Derks
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