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Olivier Messiaen

Mingjia Chen -- Photo by Haley Freedlund

ListN Up Playlist: Mingjia Chen (April 24, 2025)

ListN Up playlists are commissioned by American Composers Forum. Artists are selected by ACF staff (...
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Armando Bayolo--Photo by Eric Schultz

ListN Up: Armando Bayolo (November 4, 2022)

ListN Up is a series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of contempora...
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ListN Up: Layale Chaker (April 8, 2022)

ListN Up is a weekly series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of con...
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Composer Suzanne Farrin

This week: live streamed concerts (May 25, 2020 – May 31, 2020)

Virtual Commissions: Brandon Stirling Baker | Works & Process Every Sunday and Monday, Works &am...
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Sam Reising
Marilyn Nonken

This week: concerts in New York (March 11, 2019 – March 17, 2019)

Marilyn Nonken | Pop-Up Concerts Pianist Marilyn Nonken explores the relationship between teacher an...
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Sam Reising
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Dark Music Days 2016 Recap: Day Two

The wind screams and howls in Reykjavík. It is strong enough to disturb your gait and to push you ar...
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Gavin Gamboa
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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...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Karl Larson

This week: concerts in New York (January 26 – February 1, 2014)

The Debussy "Six" | Music Mondays Thoma...
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Sam Reising
Ken Thomson

This week: concerts in New York (October 13 – October 19, 2014)

Music of Gordon Beeferman featuring the Momenta Quartet and Four Parts Five [caption id="attachment_...
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Sam Reising
Anthony Davis Notes From The Underground/BMOP

An Arresting Release: Anthony Davis “Notes from the Underground”

Practically every work by composer Anthony Davis could have been composed today. Long, overlapping r...
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Thomas Dempster
John Zorn

This week: concerts in New York (September 30 – October 6, 2013)

Collaborations | Wet Ink Fall Festival...
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Sam Reising
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Lee Hyla: My Life on the Plains on Tzadik

One should know about all the structures of fantasy and the fantasies of structures, and mix surpris...
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Matt Mendez
Jukka Tiensuu - Photo: Maarit Kytöharju / Fimic

ICE Give Birds a Home at Mostly Mozart 2012

On August 5, ICE began their residency at New York's annual Mostly Mozart Festival with an explosion...
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Andrew Tham
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...
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Sam Reising
Philippe Quint - Photo Lisa-Marie Mazzucco

This week: concerts in New York (July 30, 2012 – August 5, 2012)

Natasha Paremski and Philippe Quint Philippe Quint – Photo Lisa-Marie Mazzucco Pianist Natasha...
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Sam Reising

This week: concerts in New York (July 16, 2012 – July 22, 2012)

Harumi Rhodes, Caroline Stinson, Makoto Fujimura, and Molly Morkoski Harumi Rhodes, Caroline Stinson...
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Sam Reising
DJ Spooky - Photo by Mike Figgis

Highlights of the 2012-2013 season at the Met Museum

As this season was drawing to an end, the Metropolitan Museum was announcing the next, a couple of w...
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Thomas Deneuville
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Apocalyptic Klezmer and “The End of Time” – David Krakauer at Joe’s Pub

More than seventy years since its composition, Messiaen's "Quartet for the End of Time" swells with...
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Evan Burke
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French Pieces’ Names — Quatuor pour la fin du temps

A kind reader recently asked me in a comment to cover some titles of Olivier Messiaen pieces. Of cou...
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Thomas Deneuville
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)

French Composers’ Names – Olivier Messiaen

Since I hear a lot of people (professors, performers, composers, etc.) having a hard time pronouncin...
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Thomas Deneuville

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