Ljova’s “Signal Strength” Via Subway Wi-Fi
Our old friend Ljova was showing off his conductor chops in Bryant Park recently, leading a varied group of NYC […]
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New Music
John Adams Conducts the Yale Philharmonia and Brentano Quartet
by Nick Stubblefield Bernstein. Mahler. Stravinsky. These men were all highly-respected composer/conductors found in music history textbooks. Flip to the
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White Light Festival: Roomful of Teeth Perform Music by Eckert, Amidon, Wells and Shaw
About a year ago, vocal octet Roomful of Teeth offered the first complete NYC performance of Caroline Shaw's Pulitzer Prize-winning Partita for
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Museum Music: Ryoji Ikeda’s “superposition” at the Met Museum; Sound/Source at MoMA PS1
Are art museums the new concert halls? Not exactly, but, there is a long and storied tradition of presenting live
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Nonesuch at BAM: Laurie Anderson’s “Landfall” with Kronos Quartet
Over the past 40 years, the Kronos Quartet has been responsible for more new music than any other institution, commissioning
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Strange and Beautiful: A Celebration of the Music of John Lurie at Town Hall
by Steven Pisano Photo: Steven Pisano Even back in his heyday, in the 1980s and 1990s, it was a challenge
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Ear Heart Music Series Opens with Richard Reed Parry, yMusic Ensemble, and Nico Muhly at Roulette
by Steven Pisano Photo: Steven Pisano If nights of the week have a music personality, and Friday and Saturday nights
Eighth Blackbird Opens the Season at Miller Theatre
by Nick StubblefieldHiroyuki Ito for The New York Times I've attended many great presentations of new music in New York
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Preview: Celebration of John Lurie and the Lounge Lizards at Town Hall
by Robert Leeper John Lurie and the Lounge Lizards in the early 1980s Le Poisson Rouge's festival tribute to American
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