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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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Resonance Works Pittsburgh Works to Diversify the Canon

On Sunday, November 3, 2019, Pittsburgh’s resident multimodal performing arts company, Resonance Wor...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
Afro Yaqui--Photo by David Roth

Afro Yaqui Music Collective Works to Resurrect Silenced Voices

On Thursday, October 24, 2019, the Afro Yaqui Music Collective took the stage on Pittsburgh’s North...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
~Nois and Kinds of Kings--Photo courtesy of Roulette

~Nois Celebrates Music by Kinds of Kings at Roulette

Chicago-based ~Nois is not a noise music ensemble, nor are they an electronic or computer-based band...
Author
Aaron Wolff
Steven Schick and ICE perform George Lewis' Soundlines: A Dreaming Track--Photo by Ian Douglas

Soundlines: Engaging Performances from ICE, Lewis, & Schick

Over the past decade, numerous projects have drawn composer George Lewis, percussionist Steven Schic...
Author
Jacob Kopcienski
Sphinx Virtuosi--Photo by Stephanie Berger

Sphinx Virtuosi “For Justice and Peace” Confronts Social Justice Issues

Music happens in real time. On Friday, October 11th, 2019, the Sphinx Virtuosi string orchestra conc...
Author
Lana Norris
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