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Remaking a Rug Concert: Boulez at 100

February 20, 2025 Christian Carey

Sound On: A Tribute to Boulez The New York Philharmonic, Conducted by David Robertson Jane McIntyre, Soprano David Geffen Hall, January 25, 2025 By Christian Carey – Sequenza 21 NEW…

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Momenta Festival IX: Ives at 150 and a Quartet at 20

October 25, 2024 Adam Sherkin

On Thursday evening in New York, Momenta Quartet’s October festival – now nine years running – closed with an assorted program, enthusiastically curated by violist/composer Stephanie Griffin. Griffin is the…

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Concert Review: NY Philharmonic performs Ligeti

November 12, 2023 Christian Carey

New York Philharmonic, Susanna Mälkki, conductor Jenõ Lisztes, Cimbalom David Geffen Hall November 4, 2023 NEW YORK – Franz Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 (1851) is such a challenging barnstormer…

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Boston Symphony at Tanglewood, 7/30/2023 (Concert Review)

August 7, 2023 Christian Carey

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Anna Rakitina, conductor Joshua Bell, violin Eliza Bagg, Martha Cluver, and Sonja Dutoit Tengblad, vocalists July 30, 2023 LENOX – The Boston Symphony’s offerings on the weekend…

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Boulez and Berio highlight Morlot’s farewell [untitled] concert at Seattle Symphony

April 22, 2019 Michael Schell

Seattle Symphony’s series was inaugurated in 2012 by its then-new Music Director, Ludovic Morlot. Three Fridays a year, small groupings of Symphony and visiting musicians set up in the Grand…

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Best Orchestra Portrait CD: BMOP Plays Peterson

December 30, 2017 Christian Carey

Wayne Peterson Transformations Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose, conductor; PRISM Quartet BMOP/sound 1053 Composer Wayne Peterson (b. 1927) served as one of his generation’s fixtures on the West Coast…

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Interview: Julia Adolphe

July 24, 2017 Christian Carey

This week, The New York Philharmonic premieres their second commission by composer Julia Adolphe. The first, 2016’s Unearth, Release, was a warmly received viola concerto for Philharmonic Principal Violist Cynthia…

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RIP Sir Peter Maxwell Davies

March 18, 2016 Cortlandt Matthews

English composer and conductor Peter Maxwell Davies died on Monday, March 14th 2016. At the age of 81, Davies passed away in his Orkney home. The cause of death was…

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The Changing Same: Numinous New Music from Joseph C. Phillips, Jr.

June 10, 2015 Chris Becker

If you’re a fan of new music, be it “indie-classical” or whatever it’s being labeled this week, then you must check out the music of composer and conductor Joseph C.…

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Maximum Minimalism at Disney Hall

April 12, 2014 Paul Muller

On Tuesday April 9, 2014 downtown Los Angeles was the scene of the centerpiece concert for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Minimalism Jukebox series. Over four hours of music was presented…