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5 Questions to Idith Meshulam and Eleanor Cory (Ensemble Pi)

New York based Ensemble Pi presents “Music and Captivity” on Saturday, October 10, 2015, at the new...
Author
Arlene & Larry Dunn
Composer and conductor Tania León

5 Questions to Tania León (composer, Composers Now)

Cuban-born composer, conductor, and educator Tania León founded Composers Now in 2010 to celebrate a...
Author
Arlene & Larry Dunn
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5 questions to Nick Hallett (singer, composer, multi-arts producer)

Composer, vocalist, and curator-producer Nick Hallett presents a concert of his songs later this mon...
Author
Arlene & Larry Dunn
David Lang

(post)folk: David Lang’s collected stories at Carnegie Hall

As holder of the 2013-2014 Richard and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair at Carnegie Hall, David Lang ha...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
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Marcos Balter premiere at ACO’s Border Vanguards in Zankel Hall

Friday, April 4, 2014, was another rainy day. While many of the folks scurrying down Seventh Avenue...
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Christian Kriegeskotte
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Ensemble LPR: Greenwood and Dessner as Bartok’s Descendants

Le Poisson Rogue is hardly a small venue, but March 7, 2014, with André de Ridder conducting the Ens...
Author
Evan Burke
Photo by Karjaka Studios, Photographed at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music.

Kettle Corn, Beer and a Laid Back Approach to New Music

Friday evening, January 24, 2014, at the DiMenna Center began with the distinct smell of kettle corn...
Author
Daniel Garrick
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Falling for Kate Soper’s Sirens’ Songs at Dixon Place Theater

There are many things one might say – would, in fact, want to say – about Morningside Opera's produc...
Author
Kurt Gottschalk
JACK Quartet - Photo by Henrik Olund

Georg Friedrich Haas and JACK Quartet Make Music in Darkness

On Tuesday, November 19, 2013, audience members filed into the small Clark Studio Theater at Lincoln...
Author
Sam Reising
Composer Caroline Shaw

Roomful of Teeth and Holly Herndon at (le) poisson rouge

On Monday, November 4, 2013, the a cappella ensemble Roomful of Teeth took to the stage at (le) pois...
Author
Sam Reising
Up Close - Credit: Kevin Yatarola / Courtesy Lincoln Center

Music and its Visual Alter-Ego: Michel van der Aa at Lincoln Center

What we see affects what we hear. And while classical music concerts are no exception to this rule,...
Author
Troy Herion
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Nico Muhly’s Two Boys: A thrilling production at the Metropolitan Opera

Monday, October 21, 2013 marked the New York premiere of Nico Muhly’s opera Two Boys at the Metropol...
Author
Sam Reising
John Zorn at Jazz Middelheim 2012 (photo credit: Bruno Bollaert, Flickr, used under Creative Commons license. Via walkerart.org)

Zorn@60: The Improvisatory Embrace of New York and Japan

Composer and alto saxophonist John Zorn, known to me mostly as the founder of East Village not-for-p...
Author
Rob Wendt
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A Stirring Four Pianos + Percussion Rite of Spring, But No Riot

The riotous 1913 premiere performance of Igor Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring...
Author
Forrest Wu
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Alarm Will Sound: Nationalism, Serialism, and Minimalism

The lights were just dimming as I skidded haphazardly around a corner at Carnegie Hall, bag and coat...
Author
Forrest Wu
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Daugherty, Temple U. Transport NYC to the Banks of the Mississippi

The Temple University Symphony Orchestra performed the New York premiere of Michael Daugherty’s Refl...
Author
Rob Wendt
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Ecstatic Music: Arnold Dreyblatt and Megafaun Fuse the Avant-Garde

Berlin based composer and media artist Arnold Dreyblatt and North Carolina based psychedelic folk ba...
Author
Adrianne Koteen
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ICE Presents Gubaidulina Composer Portrait at Miller Theatre

When I discovered that the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) was putting on an all-Gubaiduli...
Author
David Pearson
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Seth Woods: A Concert More Experienced Than Heard

I’m not sure I’ve been to a solo instrumental recital as wide-ranging in its exploration of sounds a...
Author
David Pearson

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