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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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Compelling and Visceral: “In a Grove” and Arooj Aftab at Prototype

January 23, 2025 Gail Wein

PROTOTYPE – OPERA | THEATRE | NOW defines itself as a “festival of visionary opera-theatre and music-theatre works”. Its presentation of In a Grove (January 16 – 19, 2025) was…

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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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Sphinx Virtuosi and New York Philharmonic Play Black American Composers

October 21, 2024 Gail Wein

Black American composers dominated the programming at two of New York City’s major institutions last week — a 180° turn from the typical fare of Dead White Men at most…

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Tonight: New York Premiere by Christian Carey

August 15, 2024 Gail Wein

Tonight, the Locrian Chamber Players gives the New York premiere of Quintet 2 by Christian B. Carey. Sequenza 21 readers know Carey very well through his insightful reviews of concerts…

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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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Saturday, March 30th: Kafka Fragments at Tenri

March 28, 2024 Christian Carey

Saturday, March 30th: Kafka Fragments at Tenri On Saturday at 8 PM, Kafka-Fragmente by György Kurtág will be performed at Tenri Cultural Institute (43A West 13th Street,New York NY), by…

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Takács Quartet Gives Birth to the Universe

March 14, 2024 Gail Wein

How does a composer write music? Whether she pulls interesting sounds out of the air, or creates an elaborate scheme of hieroglyphics – can an uninformed listener tell the difference?…

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NY Philharmonic – Unpacking the Spring 2024 Season for New Music Lovers

January 26, 2024 Gail Wein

A few months ago, I wrote an article that distilled the New York Philharmonic Fall 2023 season into enticing programs for contemporary music lovers. “When you see New York Philharmonic’s…

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The Chevalier: New York Premiere

January 18, 2024 Gail Wein

The Chevalier: The Life & Music of Joseph Bologne brings together two concepts that are hot today: music theater (or, theater with music), and recognition of figures in classical music…