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Vijay Iyer

Big Ears 2025 Wadada Leo Smith's Radio Light and Orange Wave Electric -- Photo by Andy Feliu

Big Ears Festival 2025 Reminds Us to Open Ourselves to Wild and Wonderful Sounds

During the weekend of Big Ears, music is everywhere in Knoxville, Tennessee. Market Square, a centra...
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Vanessa Ague
Vijay Iyer and Manchester Collective Members -- Courtesy of Wigmore Hall

At London’s Wigmore Hall, Manchester Collective Celebrates the Multifaceted Work of Vijay Iyer

The return to live music after a long period of pandemic recovery has been marked by a myriad of new...
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Michelle Hromin
Isaac Schankler -- Photo by Chris Schell

ListN Up Playlist: Isaac Io Schankler (July 27, 2023)

ListN Up is a series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of contempora...
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Editor’s Picks: 2022 New Music Albums

For me, 2022 was a paradoxical year filled with confusing contradictions. I attended significantly m...
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Amanda Cook
John Schaefer--Photo by Daniel Randall

After 40 Years of New Sounds, John Schaefer is Still Actively Listening

When John Schaefer started broadcasting his WNYC show New Sounds in 1981, he was just playing music...
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Vanessa Ague
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Three Projects Play to See — What is America to Me?

“History doesn’t repeat itself; but it does often rhyme.” Imma need to disagree with whomever said t...
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A. Kori Hill
Layale Chaker--Photo by Anna Rakhvalova

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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ganavya -- Photo by Massinissa Selmani

ListN Up: Ganavya Doraiswamy (June 25, 2021)

ListN Up is a weekly series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of con...
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Imani Winds BRUITS

“We Cannot Continue This Way:” Imani Winds’ BRUITS Calls for Change

Amidst the social and political turmoil that has erupted in the United States over the past year, ma...
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Dalanie Harris
Matana Roberts--Photo by Evan Hunter McKnight

ListN Up: Matana Roberts (December 11, 2020)

ListN Up is a series of weekly artist-curated playlists. Born from a desire to keep artists sharing...
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Jennifer Koh Limitless

Jennifer Koh Spotlights Composer-Performer Collaborators on Limitless

Limitless is an imaginative album featuring collaborations between violinist Jennifer Koh and eight...
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Kevin Baldwin
Lembit Beecher

This week: live streamed concerts (May 18, 2020 – May 24, 2020)

Virtual Commissions: Evita Arce | Works & Process Every Sunday and Monday, Works & Process w...
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Sam Reising
Conrad Tao

This week: live streamed concerts (April 27, 2020 – May 3, 2020)

Virtual Commissions: Conrad Tao | Works & Process Every Sunday and Monday, Works & Process w...
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Sam Reising
Lara Pellegrinelli--Photo by Annina Pellegrinelli-Smith

5 Questions to Lara Pellegrinelli (arts journalist and scholar)

Lara Pellegrinelli is a writer whose work covers contemporary classical music; her pieces range from...
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Stephanie Boyd
Erin Gee

This week: concerts in New York (September 2, 2019 – September 8, 2019)

Resonant Bodies Festival Night 1: Charmaine Lee & Conrad Tao, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Jane Sheldo...
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Sam Reising
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
Ljova Solo Opus

Ljova’s SoLò Ópus Explores Improvisation with Fadolín and Loop Pedal

Composer, arranger, and violinist/violist Lev Zhurbin, a.k.a. Ljova, has a diverse array of musical...
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James May
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...
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Bruce A. Russell
Patricia Alessandrini

This week: concerts in New York (October 1, 2018 – October 7, 2018)

The Mahler Question: Fatal Cracks For the opening concert of the 9th edition of Moving Sounds, Argen...
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Sam Reising
Nick Dunston--Photo by Zosha Warpeha

Turning Up the Volume: Nick Dunston (Bassist, Composer)

Turning Up the Volume is a collection of interviews that focuses on the individual stories of up and...
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Jessica Griggs
Tyshawn Sorey (photo: John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation)

This week: concerts in New York (March 26, 2018 – April 1, 2018)

Brentano Quartet The Brentano Quartet present works by Haydn and Brahms as well as the New York prem...
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Sam Reising
Missy Mazzoli-- Photo by Stephen Taylor

This week: concerts in New York (October 23, 2017 – October 29, 2017)

Ensemble Connect Ensemble Connect kicks off its second season with a performance at Carnegie Hall, f...
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Sam Reising
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Colorful Rites by Stravinsky and Iyer at Ojai Music Festival

Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring: has any piece of music written since 1913 been so genuine yet so alien,...
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Aaron Wolff
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Chase & Sorey Forge Extra-Terrestrial Paths at Ojai Music Festival

The flute unfolded itself into kaleidoscope of characters and sounds in the hands of Claire Chase on...
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Aaron Wolff
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