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2011 Outsound New Music Summit lineup announced

May 2, 2011 Polly Moller

Once upon a time in 2000, there was a brand-new underground music collective in the San Francisco Bay Area, presenting a monthly concert series named “Static Illusion/Methodical Madness”. The SIMM…

Awards Composers Contemporary Classical Deaths File Under? Songs

RIP Peter Lieberson (1946-2011)

April 23, 2011 Christian Carey

We’re saddened to learn from David Starobin of the passing of composer Peter Lieberson in Israel, due to complications from Lymphoma. He had been battling the disease since 2006 and…

Composers Experimental Music Festivals Improv Just Intonation Microtonalism Opportunities San Francisco Sound Art

Call for Proposals: Music for People and Thingamajigs, 2011

April 21, 2011 Polly Moller

The San Francisco Bay Area is home to a sizable community of sound artists, instrument inventors, and intonation innovators who spend all their time developing original and never-before-heard ways of…

Composers Experimental Music Festivals File Under? New York

Phat Beats from Princeton

April 21, 2011 Christian Carey

Some of you might know Elliot Cole as a composer of concert music, Contributing Editor here at Sequenza 21, or as a doctoral student at Princeton. But do you know…

Composers Contemporary Classical Dance Houston Opera Premieres

Interview with Opera Singer Misha Penton

April 11, 2011 Chris Becker

Opera Singer Misha Penton as Klytemnestra (photo by Kerry Beyer) (Houston, TX) Houston based opera singer Misha Penton opens her unique performance space Divergence Vocal Theater this Friday, April 15th.…

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Listening to Istanbul

April 4, 2011 Steve Layton

Turkish pianist Seda Röder has been around these parts more than a few times; sometimes for her wonderful playing and sometimes for her wonderful podcasts. Now an Associate at Harvard,…

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Reich on Reich

April 4, 2011 Christian Carey

Steve Reich turns 75 this coming October, and the celebrations have already begun. Later this month is a concert at Carnegie Hall on April 30th. It features the Kronos Quartet…

Boston Composers Contemporary Classical Interviews

An interview with Sir Harrison Birtwistle

March 24, 2011 Christian Hertzog

Miss Music Nerd (AKA composer/keyboardist Linda Kernohan) recently had an opportunity to chat with Sir Harrison Birtwistle after hearing his Violin Concerto premiered by Christian Tezlaff and the Boston Symphony…

Chamber Music Composers Concerts Contemporary Classical Houston Strings

Musiqa presents: The Art Of Conversation

March 22, 2011 Chris Becker

Spring in Houston is an intensely visual experience as the grass now nourished by rain and sun turns from brown to green. Flowers are blooming in unexpected places while birds…

Choral Music Composers Concert review Contemporary Classical Los Angeles Minimalism

Full passages and empty passions

March 18, 2011 Paul Bailey

Last Saturday night I caught a trio of Philip Glass‘s slightly more obscure music, performed by a well-rehearsed Pacific Symphony and Pacific Chorale (based in Orange County, California) as part…