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Talvi Hunt performs Madli Marje Sink’s Dream Sequence of an Ancient Forest--Photo by Rene Jakobson

World Music Days 2019 and Estonian Music Days Converge in Tallinn

At an international gathering of people, there are certain expectations one might have about the com...
Author
Amanda Cook
Attacca Quartet performs an all-Caroline Shaw program at The Crypt Sessions--Photo by Steven Pisano

Attacca Quartet Performs Caroline Shaw Program at The Crypt Sessions

A hip group of concertgoers dressed mostly in black met on a chilly spring evening at the border of...
Author
Tristan McKay
Look + Listen Festival 2019--Photo by Idris Solomon

Look + Listen Festival 2019 Opening Night: “New and Honest Stories”

When host Terrance McKnight asked cellist Seth Parker Woods what comes to mind when hearing the word...
Author
Alyssa Kayser-Hirsh
Héloïse Werner performs The Other Side of the Sea--Photo by Emma Werner

Héloïse Werner and The Hermes Experiment at Kings Place, London

On 25 April I went to see an excellent young quartet at Kings Place in London. Bored already? I’m bo...
Author
Caroline Potter
Ellen Reid's Playground at Opera Omaha's ONE Festival--Photo by T. Brady

ONE Festival 2019: Opera Omaha in Glass, Gounod, and Reid

Dotting the landscape of what can often seem like a stagnant operatic scene, festivals ensure that f...
Author
Andrew Stock
Du Yun and Khaled Jarrar's Where We Lost Our Shadows performed by the American Composers Orchestra--Photo by Jennifer Taylor

American Composers Orchestra Confronts Glaring Truths of the Refugee Experience

The American Composers Orchestra concert on April 11, 2019 at the “medium-sized” Carnegie Hall, Zank...
Author
Stephanie Boyd
Arooj Aftab

Boston’s Stave Sessions Presents Arooj Aftab, Gyan Riley, and Tigue

Stave Sessions, presented by the Celebrity Series of Boston, is dedicated to sharing a diverse array...
Author
Anne Goldberg-Baldwin
Sarah Angliss--Photo by Agata Urbaniak

Uncanny resonances: Sarah Angliss at Kings Place, London

The word ‘unique’ is used on the flimsiest of pretexts to describe an artist, but for Sarah Angliss...
Author
Caroline Potter
Claire Chase, Peter Evans, and Joe McPhee--© Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. Photo: Bryan Conley

Chase, Evans, & McPhee Evoke Deep Listening at Pittsburgh’s Warhol Museum

On Saturday, March 23, in collaboration with the Carnegie Museum of Art’s 57th triennial Carnegie In...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
Ecstatic Music Festival presents Brooklyn Youth Chorus--Photo by David Andrako

Brooklyn Youth Chorus & Wye Oak Close the 2019 Ecstatic Music Festival

In the middle of her set with the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Jenn Wasner of the indie-rock duo Wye Oak t...
Author
Alyssa Kayser-Hirsh
Amanda Gookin's Forward Music Project 2.0--Photo by Jill Steinberg

Amanda Gookin Brings Forward Music Project 2.0 to National Sawdust

New York-based cellist Amanda Gookin is injecting the often-abstract world of new music with human e...
Author
Aaron Wolff
Cara Tolmie and Stine Janvin--Photo by Thor Brødreskift/Borealis

Borealis 2019 Encourages Two-Way Dialogues and Evokes Visceral Reactions

“Borealis is not a transaction, but a conversation,” reflected Artistic Director Peter Meanwell afte...
Author
Amanda Cook
Jennifer Walshe's The Site of an Investigation at New Music Dublin--Photo by Joanne Taaffe

New Music Dublin 2019 Celebrates the Irish Contemporary Music Scene

I’ve had the privilege of spending the last six months living and studying experimental sound practi...
Author
James May
Claire Chase's Density 2036: part vi--Photo by Karen Chester

Claire Chase Prophesies What’s Possible in “Density 2036, part vi” at The Kitchen

Claire Chase‘s last “Density 2036“ episode, Marcos Balters’ Pan, was a 90-mi...
Author
Lana Norris
Inbal Segev--Photo by Jill Steinberg

Inbal Segev Celebrates 21st Century Women (and One Man) at Roulette

On Thursday, February 28, 2019, an intimate group assembled within Brooklyn’s Roulette Intermedium t...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
New York Festival of Song

“Hyphenated-Americans” at NYFOS Features Multicultural Vocal Music

On February 20th at Merkin Hall, the New York Festival of Song‘s “Hyphenated-Americans&#...
Author
Tristan McKay
Helga Davis--Photo courtesy Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Helga Davis Brings New Perspectives to Boston’s Gardner Museum

“I woke up this morning thinking about planting seeds.” In her warm voice that exudes a characterist...
Author
Amanda Cook
Da Capo Chamber Players

Music on the Edge: Da Capo Chamber Players at the Warhol Museum

On Saturday, February 2, 2019, the Andy Warhol Museum welcomed New York’s storied Da Capo Cham...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
Composers Now 2019 Festival Opening Event--Photo by Nan Melville

Composers Now 2019 Festival Opening Event at National Opera Center

The Composers Now 2019 Festival Opening Event showed off an organization on target. Few evenings wra...
Author
Lana Norris
Continuum--Photo by Nicola Betts

Toronto Celebrates New Music with Sixth Annual 21C Music Festival

From January 16-20, 2019, the sixth annual 21C Music Festival found Toronto in the grip of an extrem...
Author
Bruce A. Russell
Wavefield Ensemble

Wavefield Ensemble: “Visible Traces” at National Sawdust

You may not be familiar with Wavefield Ensemble, but if you’ve spent any amount of time attending co...
Author
Tristan McKay
Jaap van Zweden conducts New York Philharmonic in world premiere of Julia Wolfe's Fire in My Mouth at David Geffen Hall

Fire in my mouth: Julia Wolfe Examines Immigration and the Labor Movement

I didn’t think it was possible for Julia Wolfe to outdo her 2014 Anthracite Fields, but I was wrong.
Author
Rebecca Lentjes
Face the Music with Mazz Swift

Kaufman Music Center’s Face the Music with Mazz Swift at Roulette

Face the Music, a Kaufman Music Center program, gives teenagers a glimpse into the world of composin...
Author
Stephanie Boyd
Philip Venables' 4.48 Psychosis at PROTOTYPE

Philip Venables’ 4.48 Psychosis at PROTOTYPE

“It’s absorbing, and even after two volumes I can’t figure out why.” The gentleman seated in front o...
Author
Lana Norris
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