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A Short Piece about Long Play 2024

May 3, 2024 Gail Wein

Long Play …. Not long enough! This year’s Long Play schedule is particularly dizzying. The annual festival presented by Bang on a Can in Brooklyn, now in its third year,…

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“Angel Island” by Huang Ruo at the Prototype Festival

Jan 14, 2024 Gail Wein

The special sauce that has made Prototype, the annual opera/theater festival, a success for over a decade is a straightforward formula: socially relevant, edgy vocal works that are high on…

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Think cool thoughts (Book Review)

Jul 27, 2011 Christian Carey

Book of Ice by Paul D. Miller with an introduction by Brian Greene Mark Batty; 128 pages ISBN: 978-1935613145 Paul D. Miller is probably best known as DJ Spooky, out electronica…

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Kraft, Transit, Talea, ACO, BAM

Oct 12, 2010 James Holt

There are a few more concerts happening in New York this week that you should know about, and then I’ll give the concert updates a rest for a while. Promise.…

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A House in Bali (and in Boston and New York)

Oct 6, 2010 James Holt

Finally, it’s almost here, after over a year of waiting, the east coast premiere of Evan Ziporyn’s new opera A House in Bali. Our friends in Boston get to check…

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Order, Not Chance, Reigns in Philip Glass’ Kepler

Nov 29, 2009 Michael McDonagh

Philip Glass always does the unexpected. Or, as he said to me when we were talking on the phone about his subsequently Oscar-nominated score for Errol Morris’ 2003 The Fog…