Category
Concert
This interview has been edited for clarity. Composer Du Yun recalls when she sat down to start wri...
Author
Lana Norris
The stage at the University of Michigan’s Hill Auditorium was jam-packed with an assembly of celebri...
Author
Tristan McKay
A heap of ceramics sat in the middle of the floor at Roulette on Feb. 7, jumbled like a pile of jagg...
Author
Vanessa Ague
I’m not a nature person, so it was with trepidation that I trekked up the Santa Monica Mountains for...
Author
Chrysanthe Tan
Tangram, a collective of musicians who celebrate the interaction between contemporary Western and Ch...
Author
Caroline Potter
Does our perception of the space around us affect our experience of a musical work? As the audience...
Author
Donna Lee Davidson
Tucked away in Brooklyn, hidden behind an unassuming church facade, a community choir filled The Spa...
Author
Lana Norris
Launched in 2019, JACK Studio provides up to 15 composers each year with the opportunity to partake...
Author
Donna Lee Davidson
I’ve never found myself at a concert wondering where the other patrons were coming from or what they...
Author
Dalanie Harris
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (hcmf//) is a significant part of the contemporary and new...
Author
Michelle Hromin
In their debut opera, El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego, Grammy Award-winning composer Gabriela Lena...
Author
Dalanie Harris
On Nov. 15 I went to a nightclub in east London — OK, it was 7 p.m. and the Colour Factory in Hackne...
Author
Caroline Potter
New Oratorio by Tracy K. Smith and Aaron Siegel Gives Voice to Civil War-Era African American Troops
Merkin Hall is a beautiful venue, warm in both temperature and acoustics. On Nov. 2, Tracy K. Smith,...
Author
Donna Lee Davidson
In the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X, there are plenty o...
Author
Stephanie Boyd
Kaufman Music Center inaugurated its new “Artist as Curator” series on Thursday, Oct. 26 with Quince...
Author
Jennifer Jolley
Ellen Fullman’s Long String Instrument was almost invisible on stage at the Experimental Media and P...
Author
Vanessa Ague
The Park Avenue Armory, situated on New York City’s Upper East Side, essentially encompasses the com...
Author
Donna Lee Davidson
The Australian-born pianist and composer Zubin Kanga’s current research project, Cyborg Soloists, ex...
Author
Caroline Potter
When Han Chen finished his “Infinite Staircase” program at National Sawdust on Sept. 24, he had jour...
Author
Lana Norris
Attending the Mutual Mentorship for Musicians (M3) festival felt akin to sitting down at a warm dinn...
Author
Vanessa Ague
“Experimentalism” can mean different things; it doesn’t have many rules, except that tradition must...
Author
Donna Lee Davidson
Detroit’s annual new music celebration Strange Beautiful Music is back this week for its 16th year o...
Author
Tristan McKay
As the new artistic director of the International Contemporary Ensemble, George Lewis aspires for th...
Author
Jennifer Jolley
