The Rite of Summer music festival closed out their 2016 season on Saturday afternoon at The Hills park on Governors Island. Music Director Amy Garapic led over 70 percussionists from several of New York City’s top percussion ensembles and schools and coming from the ranks of rock bands including Greg Saunier (Deerhoof), Brian Chase (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) in John Luther Adams’ “Inuksuite.”
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Among the orchestras, new music ensembles and violinists all taking part in this final week of Mostly Mozart, there was percussionist Steve Schick, who I first encountered during his Miller Theatre
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Pulitzer Prize winning composer John Luther Adams, who moved from Alaska to NYC earlier this year, made a ritualistic offering to his new hometown Friday night in the form of a
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For the past two years, Q2 Music has been a bastion of new music in the barren wasteland of classical radio – even if it's the sort of radio you
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by Robert Leeper Photo Credit: Brandon Patoc Photography The Seattle Symphony's trip to New York this week was more than just a touring gig to expose the orchestra to new
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Photo credit: Melanie Burford, NPR Music Being halfway around the world in New Zealand, I haven’t had much occasion to think about what’s happening in New York these days, but
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The fourth edition of the Ecstatic Music Festival got underway in earnest last week with a pair of shows that featured unique collaborations between musicians from both the indie and
