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

Apr 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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Noon to Midnight – Part 1

Apr 15, 2022 Paul Muller

On Saturday, April 9, after a pandemic-enforced hiatus of two years, the Noon to Midnight: A Day of New Music event returned to the Disney Concert Hall sponsored by the…

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

Jul 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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Urban Playground Gives New York Premiere of Florence Price Violin Concerto No. 2 (Concert Preview)

May 6, 2019 Christian Carey

On Wednesday May 8th, Urban Playground Chamber Orchestra presents the New York premiere of Florence Price’s Violin Concerto No. 2, music by Harry T. Burleigh, and a rarely heard oratorio,…

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Noon to Midnight at Disney Hall

Nov 26, 2017 Paul Muller

On Saturday, November 18, 2017, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles was given over to Noon to Midnight, an entire day of performances by local new music…

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“Milton Babbitt at 100” Collide-O-Scope Music performs Babbitt’s Arie da Capo, Wuorinen, Bunk, and Bailey this Friday

Jun 14, 2016 Joshua Banks Mailman

The centenary of the legendary composer Milton Babbitt (1916-2011) is ocassion to celebrate. After Augustus Arnone’s three recitals earlier this season playing Babbitt’s complete solo piano works, now his group Collide-O-Scope Music…

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The New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (NYCEMF) takes Manhattan

Jun 14, 2016 Joshua Banks Mailman

Most New Yorkers are walking about, minding their own business, completely oblivious to the international sonic earthquake vibrating through their midst all week: The New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival…

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Arnone plays Babbitt: A double bill

Feb 29, 2016 Joshua Banks Mailman

(This is an expansion of an earlier post for a concert ultimately postponed due to snowstorm Jonas in January) Augustus Arnone performs a double bill of Milton Babbitt’s solo piano works including the…

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Bach, Levit, and Abramović at the Armory

Nov 30, 2015 Garrett Schumann

At 7 PM on Monday, December 7, the Armory will debut a newly commissioned performance series that combines the talents of pianist Igor Levit and artist Marina Abramović. In Goldberg,…

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11/19: De Mare at Symphony Space

Nov 17, 2015 Christian Carey

Last month, I heard the second installment of Anthony De Mare’s Liasons: Re-Imagining Sondheim from the Piano project at Sheen Center. De Mare has commissioned dozens of composers to fashion…