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

Jun 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…

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Cage and Beyond

Oct 26, 2012 George Grella

Just before intermission of the opening concert of the Beyond Cage Festival on October 22, I pulled out my iPhone…

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The Philadelphia Orchestra: 2.0

Oct 23, 2012 Jonathan Lakeland

Last Thursday evening, just before the lights dimmed at the Kimmel Center’s Verizon Hall, the audience purred in anticipation of…

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Ruggles: An American Rarity

Sep 24, 2012 Jonathan Lakeland

If you were having a conversation with fellow music lovers about the great American composers, Carl Ruggles would not be…

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Boulez on BBC Proms

Jul 27, 2012 Christian Hertzog

Today is the last day you can hear Derive 2 at the BBC’s web site–they stream for one week after…

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Princeton Symphony Plays Sarah Kirkland Snider

May 15, 2012 Christian Carey

Princeton Symphony Orchestra Richardson Auditorium, Princeton, NJ May 13, 2012 ChamberMusicianToday.com PRINCETON – The Princeton Symphony’s final concert of its…

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“Cold Shivers Seem Spine”: Are These Sketches of Sibelius’s Eighth Symphony?

Nov 16, 2011 Christian Hertzog

Big news from Finland: Sketches of what appear to be Sibelius’s Eighth Symphony (long thought destroyed by Sibelius) have emerged.…

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New music heard in San Diego recently

Jan 19, 2011 Christian Hertzog

They’ve been piling up, my reviews at sandiego.com, to be passed on to you here. Lots of good music heard…

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Holloway, Dove, and the Exploding Piano

Sep 13, 2010 Christian Hertzog

Two more pieces of recommended listening from the BBC Proms concerts: Robin Holloway’s Reliquary transforms Schumann’s, er, problematic Gedichte der…

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Martin Matalon at the BBC Proms and NOISE in Chihuahua, Mexico

Sep 8, 2010 Christian Hertzog

Perhaps I missed it if Rodney Lister posted about this, but fun spectral work, Lignes de fuite by Martin Matalon,…

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