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The Parker Quartet premieres Jeremy Gill’s “Motherwhere”

May 12, 2022 Adam Sherkin

April the First proved a propitious date for the New York Classical Players’ much anticipated program featuring a new collaboration – and premiere – with the Parker Quartet. In the…

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Bang on a Can Long Play Festival 2022: An Interview with David Lang

April 24, 2022 Gail Wein

Two years ago, I was editing a 2020 interview with the composer David Lang about the new multi-day festival that Bang on a Can planned for that spring, Long Play,…

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Moog Celebrates Herb Deutsch with First Episode of GIANTS Series

February 9, 2022 Christian Carey

On Wednesday, February 9th, Herb Deutsch turned ninety years old. Deutsch has been an icon of sound synthesis both as a composer and hardware designer. One of the inventors of…

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George Crumb (1929-2022)

February 7, 2022 Christian Carey

We are saddened to learn of the loss of George Crumb, who passed away on February 6, 2022 at the age of 92. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the…

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Best of 2021 – Piano Music

December 16, 2021 Christian Carey

William Byrd and John Bull The Visionaries of Piano Music Kit Armstrong, piano Deutsche Grammophon CD In The Visionaries of Piano Music, Kit Armstrong plays two of the greatest English…

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Best of 2021: BMOP plays Piston and Barber

December 14, 2021 Christian Carey

Walter Piston: Concerto for Orchestra Variations on a Theme of Edward Burlingame Hill, Divertimento, Clarinet Concerto Michael Nosworthy, clarinet Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose, conductor BMOP/sound CD Samuel Barber:…

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Best of 2021 – Burned into the Orange by Peter Gilbert (CD Review)

December 7, 2021 Christian Carey

Burned into the Orange Music of Peter Gilbert Arditti String Quartet; Iridium Quartet, Emmanuele Arciuli, piano; et al. New Focus Records CD/DL This is composer Peter Gilbert’s second recording for…

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Best of 2021: Christian Baldini Conducts UC Davis Symphony (CD Review)

October 10, 2021 Christian Carey

Best of 2021: Varèse, Ligeti, Lutosławski, Baldini on Centaur Varèse, Ligeti, Lutosławski, Baldini Munich Radio Orchestra; UC Davis Symphony Orchestra Miranda Cuckson, violin; Maximilian Haft, violin Christian Baldini, conductor Centaur…

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Live, in person and new: Contemporary music festivals in the Northeast in Summer 2021

July 22, 2021 Gail Wein

LOUD Weekend, TIME:SPANS, Tanglewood and Bard are all back on stage this summer with in-person audiences Fans starved for live music over the past year and half can rejoice and…

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Remembering Louis Andriessen

July 2, 2021 Armando Bayolo

Louis Andriessen has died. He was a highly idiosyncratic composer of music that, like the man himself, inspires great love. Encountering his music as a young composer changed my life.…