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Castle of our Skins'

Celebrity Series of Boston Streams Castle of our Skins’ “Remember King”

As part of their online “At Home” performances, the Celebrity Series of Boston premiered...
Author
Jennifer Jolley
They Will Take My Island--Photo by Ego Film Arts

They Will Take My Island: Collective Memory and Preservation

They Will Take My Island is a multi-disciplinary collaboration between Armenian-American composer Ma...
Author
Yaz Lancaster
La Indita Cautiva at PROTOTYPE 2021--Photo by Raven Chacon

PROTOTYPE 2021: Diffusive and Exploratory Music-Theater

PROTOTYPE Festival has become known for nurturing intense, anguished music-theater pieces that go on...
Author
Lana Norris
Ninth Planet presents On Being

Ninth Planet’s First Virtual Concert Muses “On Being” in the Present

After over a year of no performances due to COVID-19 restrictions, new music collective Ninth Planet...
Author
Padideh Aghanoury
The Blackbox Ensemble--Photo by Toby Winarto

BlackBox Ensemble Presents “Elegy,” Reflecting on Loss and Mourning

With over 300,000 deaths related to COVID-19 in the United States, this is more fitting a time than...
Author
Esteban Meneses
Stardust--Photo courtesy Helios Opera

Helios Opera Presents Stardust by Felix Jarrar and B.L. Foxley

As the performing arts continue to suffer from the ongoing repercussions of COVID-19, presenting org...
Author
Tristan McKay
nineteen ways of looking--Photo by Ning Zhou

Instagram Opera nineteen ways of looking is a Voyeuristic Time Capsule

nineteen ways of looking is an opera that watches you back. “The camera is now my eye…” reads the fi...
Author
Chrysanthe Tan
Riot Ensemble Zeitgeist Commissions--Photo courtesy HCMF/Riot Ensemble

Riot Ensemble Zeitgeist Commissions Pivot Online for HCMF 2020

The Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (HCMF) has been a highlight of the new music calendar i...
Author
Caroline Potter
HOCKET performs Christopher Stark's Les barricades quotidiennes for #What2020SoundsLike

HOCKET Premieres Fifty New Works by Asking #What2020SoundsLike

In tandem with the evolving norms of the past year, Los Angeles based piano duo HOCKET (the combined...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
Damian Norfleet--Screenshot courtesy Ensemble Pi

Reparations NOW! Ensemble Pi Draws Inspiration from Kendi and Coates

On Thursday, October 29, 2020, new music collective Ensemble Pi presented Reparations NOW! at The Ce...
Author
Jillian DeGroot
Roberta Gumbel in dwb (Driving While Black)--Screenshot courtesy of BPAC

Reimagined for Streaming, dwb (Driving While Black) Examines Black Motherhood

Mamie Till altered history by insisting that the world see her murdered child. We are accustomed, an...
Author
Lana Norris
Cris Derksen, Isidora Nojkovic, Olivia Shortt, and Aliayta Foon-Dancoes--Screenshot courtesy of the artists

Cross-Continental “Orbit” Features New Works by Indigenous Composers

On October 18, 2020, audiences across multiple time zones gathered to watch cellist Isidora Nojkovic...
Author
Julia Kuhlman
Third Coast Percussion performs Resounding Earth, mvt. 2 by Augusta Read Thomas--Screenshot courtesy Third Coast Percussion

Two World Premieres by Third Coast Percussion at BGSU New Music Festival

On October 16, 2020, the Chicago-based performing group Third Coast Percussion presented an evening...
Author
Tracy Monaghan
Lucas Yasunaga performs at High Zero 2020--Screenshot provided by Christian Kriegeskotte with permission from High Zero

Baltimore’s High Zero 2020 Brings Spontaneous Music Making Online

“No, no, no, NO, NO!” began M. C. Schmidt, acting president of Baltimore’s High Zero Foundation. “Th...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
Tête à Tête presents Persephone's Dream--Photo by Clare Shovelton

Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2020, in London and Online

What is an opera? Take your preconceptions and throw them in the recycling bin. Founded in 1997, the...
Author
Caroline Potter
Ellen Reid SOUNDWALK--Photo by Lana Norris

Ellen Reid’s Immersive SOUNDWALK Premieres in Central Park

Central Park, New York City, 96th Street. Curling violins, Young People’s Chorus of New York City, s...
Author
Lana Norris
Nnenna Ogwo and Sterling Strings

Nnenna Ogwo’s Fifth Annual Juneteenth Celebration Pulls from the Archives

Origin stories can say it all. For the narrator of Sam Cooke’s song “A Change is Gonna Come,” having...
Author
Nick Stevens
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Strange Intimacy in the Uncanny Valley: Bang on a Can Marathon June 2020

Since its 1987 inauguration at Exit Art in SoHo, the annual Bang on a Can Marathon has been a New Yo...
Author
Tristan McKay
Jennifer Koh Alone Together Week Nine

Jennifer Koh Champions New Works From Isolation with “Alone Together”

On Saturday, June 6, 2020, New York-based violinist Jennifer Koh took to the internet to present the...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
Connecting ACO Community streaming presentation featuring Sakari Dixon Vanderveer--Photo courtesy American Composers Orchestra

Connecting ACO Community: Sakari Dixon Vanderveer and Derek Bermel

Overwhelmed by the wave of livestream? As amazing as all the archives are, I’m finding myself drawn...
Author
Lana Norris
Sweet Land--Photo by Casey Kringlen for The Industry

The Industry’s Immersive Opera Sweet Land Mythologizes Itself

Sweet Land was originally an immersive “historical pageant” opera presented in Los Angeles, March 20...
Author
Lana Norris
Kamraton--Photo courtesy Beyond 2020 Microtonal Music Festival

University of Pittsburgh Hosts Beyond 2020 Microtonal Music Festival

From Friday, February 28 through Sunday, March 1, 2020, Pittsburgh played host to an unprecedented a...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
Julian Otis and Margaret Morris at Frequency Festival 2020--Photo by Ricardo Adame

Katinka Kleijn and Julian Otis Conclude Chicago’s Frequency Festival 2020

On Sunday, March 1, 2020, the Frequency Festival, in its fifth year programming contemporary and exp...
Author
Meg Huskin
Du.0--Photo by Will Marshall

Texture, Trance, Trash: Du.0 at Tenri Cultural Institute

Aimée Niemann and Charlotte Munn-Wood are the artists behind Du.0 (du-point-oh), a self-described fe...
Author
Tristan McKay
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