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Augusta Read Thomas

Akropolis Reed Quintet -- Photo by Jason Walker

5 Questions to Akropolis Reed Quintet

This fall, the Detroit-based Akropolis Reed Quintet will enter into its 16th season with all five of...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
Augusta Read Thomas -- Photo by Anthony Barlich

5 Questions to Augusta Read Thomas (composer)

As we approach Augusta Read Thomas’ 60th birthday, my memories of her visit to our undergrad composi...
Author
Stephanie Boyd
Augusta Read Thomas--Dream Catcher

Venturesome Soloist’s Debut ‘Dream Catcher’ Compiles Violin Works by Augusta Read Thomas

For violinist Clarissa Bevilacqua, the first-prize winner of the 14th International Mozart Competiti...
Author
Esteban Meneses
Min Kwon America/Beautiful

5 Questions to Min Kwon (pianist, America/Beautiful)

The United States is a country with a complex history of oppression, and contemporary society calls...
Author
Nebal Maysaud
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
Grossman Ensemble Fountain of Time

Fountain of Time: The Grossman Ensemble Provides Space for Creative Incubation

On August 21, 2020, the Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition’s Grossman Ensemble released its...
Author
Anne Goldberg-Baldwin
Jennie Oh Brown Giantess

Jennie Oh Brown’s Giantess Mines Courage and Love Through Loss

Flutist Jennie Oh Brown’s second solo album Giantess (innova) presents a collection of works dedicat...
Author
Jillian DeGroot
Anthony Braxton

This week: concerts in New York (June 10, 2019 – June 16, 2019)

Face the Music: Critical Mass with Claire Chase & Tri-Centric Foundation Face the Music joins fo...
Author
Sam Reising
Bearthoven

This week: concerts in New York (February 4, 2019 – February 10, 2019)

Anaïs Maviel: who is this ritual for and from? In collaboration with choreographer Daria Faïn, compo...
Author
Sam Reising
Spektral Quartet--Photo by Drew Reynolds

Ear Taxi Festival 2016: Blowout Party!

Zoom out. The Ear Taxi Festival is (or rather, was) six days of music celebrating the contemporary c...
Author
Aaron Holloway-Nahum
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This week: concerts in New York (November 7 – November 13, 2016)

We Remember The Dessoff Choir season opens with Mozart’s Requiem along with Steven Stucky’s Take Him...
Author
Sam Reising
Augusta Read Thomas - Photo by Jason Smith

5 Questions to Augusta Read Thomas (Composer, Curator)

According to their statistics, Augusta Read Thomas had more of her music performed in 2013-14 than a...
Author
Aaron Holloway-Nahum
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This week: concerts in New York (March 2 – March 8, 2015)

Rolf Schulte Tribute Concert Rolf Schu...
Author
Sam Reising
Krista Martynes

This week: concerts in New York (June 9 – June 15, 2014)

Silent Moons and Brahmsian Schoenbergs | Chelsea Music Festival [caption id="attachment_5131" align=...
Author
Sam Reising
Courtesy of The Americas Society

This week: concerts in New York (June 2 – June 8, 2014)

Gallos y Huesos Courtesy of The Amer...
Author
Sam Reising
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Third Coast Percussion’s Resounding Earth on New Focus Recordings

Resounding Earth was commissioned by the University of Notre Dame’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center...
Author
Aaron Holloway-Nahum
Jeffrey Milarsky

This week: concerts in New York (December 10 – December 16, 2012)

Juilliard’s AXIOM | Toru Takemitsu, John Adams [caption id="attachment_5075" align="aligncenter" wid...
Author
Sam Reising
Elliott Carter - Photo by M. Heuer

Brad Lubman conducts American music at the Wien Modern

I have sometimes found performances and recordings of Elliot Carter’s music to be physically trying,...
Author
Caitlin Smith
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Third Coast Percussion premieres Augusta Read Thomas’ Resounding Earth

On Sunday, September 30, 2012, Third Coast Percussion performed the premiere of Augusta Read Thomas&...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
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This week: concerts in New York (October 8 – October 14, 2012)

The Satie-Cage Connection | Red Light New Music The composer collective Red Light New Music performs...
Author
Sam Reising
Third Coast Percussion and Augusta Read Thomas - Photo by Kirk Richard Smith and Tadashi Omura, with kind permission

The Tolling of Bells: Third Coast Percussion Premieres Resounding Earth at Notre Dame University

Third Coast Percussion gave the world premiere of Resounding Earth by Augusta Read Thomas, at DeBart...
Author
Arlene & Larry Dunn
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Third Coast Percussion | Soundcheck and interview at MoMA

httpv://youtu.be/82yTH0uBKHs Third Coast Percussion, a Chicago-based percussion ensemble, is: Owen C...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Grand Band at the 25th BOAC Marathon

This week: concerts in New York (August 6, 2012 – August 12, 2012)

Grand Band w/ music for piano sextet by Steve Reich, Julia Wolfe, Kate Moore, and Philip Glass Grand...
Author
Sam Reising

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