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MATA 2012 is happening right now for the first time at Roulette, and we wanted to take the time to talk..
I used to be able to count the number of profound, live musical experiences I’ve had on one hand. It..
Yesterday, somebody Googled Pelleas et Melisande Pronunciation and landed on I Care if You Listen. I felt so bad that the..
Many musicians have tried to bring the avant-garde to the masses, and despite their best efforts, something fails to catch..
Sunday April first (no joke!) was the fifth annual Switchboard Music Festival. One of several new music festivals/marathon concerts in..
Chinese composers, writing in the second half of the twentieth century, faced a problem: how to write new music in..
I am not a governess who treats the composer like a child and tells him what he should compose. I..
I really want to like Jonny Greenwood’s compositional career. Radiohead were the first band I loved, and I think that..
Contemporaneous’ bio states that the ensemble is “dedicated to performing the most exciting music that […] captures the spirit of..
“A younger generation of New Zealand composers … have abandoned the country’s Romantic search for musical representations of landscape, and..
