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Hits & Misses at Zankel Hall

Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho is in residence at Carnegie Hall this season, and this past Monday n...
Author
David Pearson
Missy Mazzoli - Photo Stephen Taylor

Missy Mazzoli’s Song from the Uproar: A Masterpiece of Modern Opera

On March 3, NYC new music hotspot The Kitchen packed the house for the final performance of the worl...
Author
Lauren Ishida
Zentripetal Duo - Photo by Glenn Cornett

Gene Pritsker’s Chamber Opera, “William James’ Varieties of Religious Experience” at Le Poisson Rouge, with Zentripetal Duo, The International Street Cannibals, and Greg Baker

Gene Pritsker is a musician who understands the importance of frequent experimentation when devising...
Author
Evan Burke
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American Mavericks: Chamber music by Partch, Cowell, Riley and Subotnick

The third concert in the San Francisco Symphony’s American Marvericks series (fourth if the new Harr...
Author
Kelsey Walsh
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Roomful of Teeth and Glasser at Merkin Hall

On Saturday, February 25th, Roomful of Teeth gave an exciting concert on the Ecstatic Music Festival...
Author
Lauren Ishida
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David Lang at Carnegie Hall

2012 is an important year for Bang on a Can and it looks like it will be paved with a series of exci...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the SFS in the Opening Concert of the American Mavericks Festival.

Dead American Mavericks, but sides of them rarely seen…

The San Francisco Symphony’s Centennial Season has featured many interesting events, notably lengthe...
Author
David Gottlieb
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AbsoLUTEly New: Jozef van Wissem and Jim Jarmusch @ Le Poisson Rouge

In a museum, 1,000 years from now, beside the wing of long extinct animals that contains the taxider...
Author
Elias Blumm
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Artistry that Runs in the Blood

Pianist Ursula Oppens and the Jack String Quartet provided insightful performances of music by two o...
Author
David Pearson
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Nick Zammuto and Jason Treuting with Janus, Daisy Press, and Grey McMurray @ Ecstatic Music Festival

Frank Zappa famously asked, “Does humor belong in music?”. He asked this question using an absurdist...
Author
Evan Burke
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yMusic, Richard Reed Parry and Son Lux at Merkin Hall

For a vegetarian, going to a vegetarian restaurant (or an allergen free restaurant for someone suffe...
Author
Thomas Deneuville

Austin TX Offers New Sounds at the Gershwin Hotel

The Fast Forward Austin new music festival brought the noise to NYC with a concert February 23rd at...
Author
David Pearson
Crouch End Festival Chorus

Crouch End Festival Chorus/David Temple: Barbican, London

The Crouch End Festival Chorus, directed by David Temple, has established itself as a leading chorus...
Author
Steven Berryman
Brooklyn Rider - Photograph by Sarah Small

Premiere Commission 10th anniversary concert at Le Poisson Rouge

The Premiere Commission 10th Anniversary Concert at Le Poisson Rouge, February 13th, 2012, featured...
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Matt Weber
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A Far Cry, Slow Six and This Will Destroy You at Ecstatic Music Festival

Music is often colorfully compared to alchemy. Both arts involve the careful meeting of scientific l...
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Evan Burke
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Sxip Shirey and Angélica Negrón at Ecstatic Music Festival

The length of an usual article on this blog would probably not be enough to merely list the differen...
Author
Matt Weber
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Indie-Classical Guitars: Music for 1, 2, 3, and 4 guitars at LPR

On January 26, I spent the evening at Le Poisson Rouge for a show called Indie-Classical Guitars: Mu...
Author
Evan Flath
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Jherek Bischoff and the Wordless Music Orchestra open the 2012 Ecstatic Music Festival

This year’s edition of Ecstatic Music Festival just started and even if it won’t feature Judd Greens...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Kronos Quartet - Photograph by Michael Wilson

Kronos Quartet’s Early Music at the Barbican, London

The Kronos Quartet completed their week-long residence with the Barbican Centre in London with a typ...
Author
Paul Kilbey

James Noyes’ Imaginings at Our Saviour’s Atonement

James Noyes James N...
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Evan Burke
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A folk-inspired evening with Bridget Kibbey at Le Poisson Rouge

"Who's ever been to a harp recital?" A couple of hands were shyly raised. "And who's ever been to a...
Author
Thomas Deneuville

Posing Questions: Wolfgang Rihm at 60

2012 sees the 60th birthday of the prolific composer Wolfgang Rihm and the London Sinfonietta curate...
Author
Steven Berryman
Sharla Nafziger (soprano), and Michael Slattery (tenor)

Focus on Schoenberg at the Austrian Cultural Forum

On January19th, the Austrian Cultural Forum presented the first concert in a new lieder series led b...
Author
Lauren Ishida

An earthly abode for ethereal sounds: Claire Chase’s “Terrestre” release party

On January 17th, Claire Chase celebrated the arrival of her new CD, Terrestre (earthly in French, Ed...
Author
Neil Prufer
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