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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...
Author
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...
Author
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...
Author
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...
Author
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...
Author
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...
Author
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...
Author
Thea Derks
Salvado Dalí - Persistence of Memory (1913)

Kronos Quartet explores memory at Carnegie Hall

I can't believe how many times I have seen the Kronos Quartet in the past 5 years: indoors, outdoors...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Jukka Tiensuu - Photo: Maarit Kytöharju / Fimic

ICE Give Birds a Home at Mostly Mozart 2012

On August 5, ICE began their residency at New York's annual Mostly Mozart Festival with an explosion...
Author
Andrew Tham
Clogs

Loop 2.4.3 and Clogs at Galapagos

Loop 2.4.3 and Clogs share not only group member Thomas Kozumplik, they also share impressive comman...
Author
Adrianne Koteen
Consortium5

NonClassical’s Biscuit Treat at V22

On 20 July, 2012, I had the chance to attend one of the NonClassical concert series, at the V22 Summ...
Author
Arlene & Larry Dunn
MoMA Summergarden

Fresh Music in MoMA’s Summergarden: New Juilliard Ensemble led by Joel Sachs

The Summergarden is a truly special place. It is the de facto backyard, if you will, of the Museum o...
Author
Neil Prufer
John Adams conducting - Photo by Lambert Orkis

On the Transmigration of Jazz and Modernity: John Adams at the Lincoln Center Festival

John Adams conducted the Orchestra of The Juilliard School and the Royal Academy of Music in three w...
Author
Rob Wendt
Melvyn Tan - Photo by Eoin Carey

Melvyn Tan plays Variations for Judith at Cheltenham Festival

A new set of pieces Variations for Judith got its second complete performance during Melvyn Tan’s so...
Author
Richard Barnard
Chen Ye Yuan-(Chou-En-lai), Maria Kanyova (Pat-Nixon) and Brian Mulligan (Richard Nixon) - Photo by Cory Weaver

John Adams’ Nixon in China: full production at the San Francisco Opera

Nixon in China. John Adams' first opera. San Francisco Opera’s series of performances (which began J...
Author
Kelsey Walsh
The Box is Empty - Photo by Brad Pierson

The Box is Empty & Nat Evans: An evening of premieres at Seattle’s Century Ballroom

Located at the heart of Seattle's hip Capitol Hill neighborhood, the historic Century Ballroom is th...
Author
Dana Wen
Build - Photo by Jen McManus

Contemporary Classical Meets Rock Band Format at Drom

June 12th at Drom in NYC was a meeting of contemporary art music sensibilities with a rock/pop forma...
Author
David Pearson
Ashley Bathgate performing Daniel Wohl's Saint Arc

Bang on a Can 25th Marathon [live blogging]

Welcome to the first live blogging event on I Care if You Listen! We are at the World Financial Cent...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Tilt Brass - Photo J. Christenson

A Blast of Brass on a Block of Greenwich Townhouses

New York’s West Village, once a center of radicalism in the arts and politics, is now home to a lot...
Author
David Pearson
Sleeping Giant - Line drawing by Timo Andres. Yes, Timo Andres.

Under the influence: Deviant Septet commissions Sleeping Giant

Igor Stravinsky once said that “A good composer does not imitate; he steals.” In Histories, a new pi...
Author
Adrianne Koteen
Eclipse Quartet - Photo by Stanford Lee Wilson

Eclipse Quartet’s Concert Full of Clarity and Conversation

What was most captivating about Eclipse String Quartet’s March 22 performance at Roulette in Brookly...
Author
David Pearson
Darcy James Argue

Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society @ Le Poisson Rouge

We all know, deep down, that classifying music is a fool's game, yet we can't seem to stop ourselves...
Author
Evan Burke
Marie Incontrera

Marie Incontrera’s Riot Girl Opera (A First)

Marie Incontrera’s At the Other Side of the Earth, a riot girl opera, received its exciting premiere...
Author
David Pearson
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