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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
The Riot Ensemble

The Riot Ensemble Presents “Extinction Events” at Kings Place, London

Loss, degradation, toxic masculinity: these were the themes of The Riot Ensemble’s ‘Extinction Event...
Author
Caroline Potter
Bang on a Can All-Stars--Photo by David Andrako

Ecstatic Music Festival at 10: Bang on a Can People’s Commissioning Fund

On January 28, 2020, the Ecstatic Music Festival continued it’s 10-year run at the Kaufman Music Cen...
Author
Justin D. Wright
~Nois--Photo by Nick Zoulek

“Playfully Serious” Music: The Furies and ~Nois Take Scholes Street Studio

On Thursday, January 16, 2020, The Furies and ~Nois warmed Scholes Street Studio with a double-bille...
Author
Aaron Wolff
Magdalene--Photo by Maria Baranova

Magdalene Wrests Control from the Male Gaze in a Complicated Production at PROTOTYPE

Mary Magdalene is famous for her intimate position in Jesus’ inner circle at a time women were not c...
Author
Lana Norris
thingNY--Photo by Brian McCorkle

Music and Language Converge at thingNY’s “Hello. My Name Is…”

On December 18, 2019, enthusiasts of the playful, theatrical, and uncannily poignant thingNY (Jeffre...
Author
Tristan McKay
HEART CHAMBER, Director: Claus Guth, World premiere on 15 November 2019, Deutsche Oper Berlin, copyright: Michael Trippel

Deutsche Oper Berlin Stages Czernowin’s Heart Chamber

At one point in Heart Chamber, Chaya Czernowin’s fourth and latest opera, a filament bulb casts rust...
Author
Nick Stevens
GBSR Duo--Photo by Dejan Mrdja

GBSR Duo Play Feldman Tributes and New British Music in London

Like many of the London universities and conservatoires, City, University of London run a concert se...
Author
Caroline Potter
Gabriel Dharmoo's Anthropologies Imaginaires--Photo by Matthew Ricketts

Experimentation and Satire: Gabriel Dharmoo’s Anthropologies Imaginaires

Gabriel Dharmoo, an artistic polyglot whose work exists at the nexus of avant-garde vocal music, eth...
Author
Aaron Wolff
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