FOR PHILIP GUSTON: A MEDITATION AND PRACTICE
Would you spend four and a half hours listening to this long piece? Would you enter the concert hall and embark on this unknown auditory journey? BY Di Fang On…
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Composer Hayes Biggs: Interview and Concert Preview
On May 31, 2023, four long-time champions of contemporary chamber music – violinist Curtis Macomber, violist Lois Martin, cellist Chris Gross, and pianist Christopher Oldfather – perform Hayes Biggs’ works…
Long Play Festival 2023
In a culture in which we are constantly reinventing ourselves, any event can be the first annual anything. And so it is with Bang on a Can’s Long Play Festival,…
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Turangalila at New York Philharmonic / Nightcap with Gamelan Dharma Swara
Just before the NY Philharmonic concert began playing Turangalila by Olivier Messiaen at David Geffen Hall on Saturday, the stranger sitting next to me asked if I thought he would…
Adam Tendler: Inheritances
When the pianist Adam Tendler received a windfall of cash a few years ago, he chose not to blow it on such ephemeral items as rent and groceries. Instead, he…
Buffalo Philharmonic honors Lukas Foss @ 100 at Carnegie
Buffalo Philharmonic and its music director JoAnn Falletta brought their considerable world class talent downstate to Carnegie Hall on Monday. The hall was full, despite persistent rain and the fact…
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Carnegie Hall: Highlights of contemporary music in the 2022-2023 season
Ironically, the first concert of flutist Claire Chase’s reign as Richard and Barbara Debs Creative Chair at Carnegie Hall in the 2022-23 season focuses on a dead composer. In honor…
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TIME:SPANS 2022 – Interview with Thomas Fichter
In the doldrums of summer, it seems like 80 percent of the population in New York City is away, presumably biding their time in cooler and/or more restful locales. That…
Bryan Senti and ACME – “Mantra” (Video)
Bryan Senti has shared a video of “Mantra,” the first single off of his forthcoming album Manu, out June 24th via naïve.
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The Parker Quartet premieres Jeremy Gill’s “Motherwhere”
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…