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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 | Part 1: The Preservationist Last November, I began this post with the intention...
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Christian Gentry
Situated on the edge of the River Thames, The Queen Elizabeth Hall at Southbank Centre was the site...
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Daniel Emmerson
French twentieth-century organ composer Maurice Duruflé and contemporary American composer Gregory S...
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Daniel Garrick
"Why are we holding a new music fundraiser in a Chicago rock bar?" Organizer Doyle Armbrust was the...
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Sam Zelitch
The new music scene in New York offers plenty of premieres, ensembles, and concerts, yet there are s...
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David Pearson
Like the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, or the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia before...
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Paul Moon
The Brussels-based Ictus ensemble brought a three-hour marathon of music to Luxembourg on Thursday,...
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Xenia Pestova
Writing in 2009, Peter Adriaansz once compared his ideal conception of music to that of a tree. “Aki...
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Sasha Tartikovsky Jones
It is hard to imagine a contemporary composer of more exhilarating artistry and warmhearted spirit t...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
I’m not sure I’ve been to a solo instrumental recital as wide-ranging in its exploration of sounds a...
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David Pearson
Avant-garde composer/trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith delivered a stirring midwest premiere of his...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Finally. A new music festival in NYC without the shi shi Manhattan vibe or hipster Brooklyn pretenti...
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David Pearson
2012 is a big year for Crash Ensemble. They are celebrating 15 years since they were formed by now C...
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Chris Ledwidge
Every two years, Ensemble contemporain de Montréal (ECM+) provides four up-and-coming Canadian compo...
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Justin Rito
The Getting Nowhere festival and conference, organised by William Brooks and his troop of students a...
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Xenia Pestova
November 6, 2012, marked the opening of the Contempuls Contemporary Music Festival in Prague. In its...
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Sam Reising
Ask a typical concert patron to describe contemporary classical music in one word and the usual susp...
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Don Clark
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
am·phi·go·ry, noun [ˈamfəˌgōrē, amˈfigərē] a nonsense verse or composition a rigmarole with apparent...
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Caitlin Smith
The Talea Ensemble brought precision and warmth to an evening of chamber works by the Austrian compo...
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Caitlin Smith
Something quite remarkable is happening in Chicago. Equal parts drama, music, history, and social ac...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
