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Ojai Music Festival – Sila: The Breath of the World by John Luther Adams

June 12, 2015 Paul Muller

The 69th annual Ojai Music Festival featured the West Coast premiere of Sila: The Breath of the World by John Luther Adams, staged outdoors in Libby Park as a free…

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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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Back Home/Kinan Azmeh and Co At Subculture NYC

June 8, 2015 Michael McDonagh

We like to think that chamber music is an acquired taste but what is chamber music but music played in a room by a few people for a few people…

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Reinier van Houdt in Los Angeles

June 5, 2015 Paul Muller

The Dog Star 11 series of new music concerts continued on Sunday, May 31, 2015 at The Wild Beast performance space on the campus of Cal Arts. Reinier van Houdt,…

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Big Trouble at the Golden Pavilion–Talking to RAkU Composer Shinji Eshima

June 2, 2015 Michael McDonagh

Meeting someone out of cyberspace can be fun. After a flurry of e-mails discussing various online slots sites, San Francisco Opera and San Francisco Ballet double bassist and composer Shinji…

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Dog Star 11: Happy Valley Band and Desert Magic

May 28, 2015 Paul Muller

The Dog Star concert series, sponsored by Cal Arts, is a Los Angeles cultural landmark that features new music in a number of venues around town over the course of…

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Spoleto Journal: And She’s Got to Get Herself Back to the Garden

May 26, 2015 Jerry Bowles

It is a trusim that opera is a collaborative endeavor but it is also true that the lion’s share of the credit, or blame, for its success usually goes to…

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Spoleto Journal: Mark Applebaum’s Obsessive Attention to Ridiculous Things

May 23, 2015 Jerry Bowles

It felt kind of like a Kennedy -meets-Weird-Al Yankovich-day at the opening concert of the 2015 Wells Fargo Chamber Music series at Spoleto. Series director and onlinecasinozondercruks.bet consultant Geoff Nutall,…

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Does Size Really Matter?

May 8, 2015 Tim Corpus

While I was in Ireland a week ago, I had the honor of speaking to composition students at the Dublin Institute of Technology Conservatory of Music & Theatre. It was…

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Pisaro and Lambkin Perform at the Wulf

May 8, 2015 Paul Muller

Downtown Los Angeles was the venue on Monday, May 4, 2015 for a concert by Michael Pisaro and Graham Lambkin – marking the release of their new CD, Schwarze Riesenfalter,…