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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Thomas Deneuville

Posing Questions: Wolfgang Rihm at 60

2012 sees the 60th birthday of the prolific composer Wolfgang Rihm and the London Sinfonietta curate...
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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...
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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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Flirting with extremes, ensemblebash at Kings Place

The percussion quartet ensemblebash celebrate their twenty years of musical success with a series of...
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Steven Berryman
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Apocalyptic Klezmer and “The End of Time” – David Krakauer at Joe’s Pub

More than seventy years since its composition, Messiaen's "Quartet for the End of Time" swells with...
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Evan Burke
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In the fertile shadow of Schoenberg

Somewhere in the world of contemporary music, in among all the solo bassoon CDs and Tom Waits arrang...
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Paul Kilbey
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“Miranda”, Kamala Sankaram’s steampunk murder-mystery chamber opera at HERE

First, before we go any further, let's review the basics of Kamala Sankaram's Miranda: it is a "stea...
Author
Evan Burke
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Huang Ruo’s Inventive Synergies

Huang Ruo assembled an exceptional group of young musicians for performances of three of his new com...
Author
David Pearson
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Benoît Delbecq, and Jiri Slavik/Fred Thomas Duo at Kings Place

I'm a regular visitor to Hall Two at Kings Place, London, and it was lovely to see how well lighting...
Author
Steven Berryman
John Zorn

Wasabi-Eating Contest: John Zorn Composer Portrait @ Miller Theater

Last month, Miller Theater presented a concert of John Zorn's music as part of its Composer Portrait...
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Jeremy Howard Beck
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