Kelly Moran at Roulette
The prepared piano – where a pianist places screws, forks and other foreign objects on the piano strings to create strange, eerie timbres – has long had a place in […]
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Hypercube at the DiMenna Center
(Photo: Michael Yu) Sometimes, when I look through all of the new music listings in NYC, it's honestly hard to tell one group from the next. And, with most of
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Ticket Giveaway: HYPERCUBE at the DiMenna Center on May 7
NYC-based new music ensemble HYPERCUBE has built a reputation for high-energy performances using the somewhat unusual combination of instruments: saxophone, acoustic/electric guitar, piano/accordion, and percussion. Next Tuesday, May 7, they'll be
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A Thousand Thoughts: Kronos Quartet with Sam Green at The Town Hall
"The string quartet repertoire was probably changed more by (Kronos Quartet) than by any other group." – Philip Glass What is a string quartet? That seems to have been the
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HereNowHear Piano Duo Closes Kettle Corn New Music’s 6th Season
by Nick Stubblefield HereNowHear, the dynamic new-music piano duo of Andrew Zhou and Ryan McCullough, closed out Kettle Corn New Music’s sixth season at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music
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Winter Jazzfest 2019: Medeski Martin & Wood with Alarm Will Sound at Brooklyn Steel
Winter Jazzfest ventured out to Bushwick's Brooklyn Steel on Wednesday night for a special evening with Medeski Martin and Wood and contemporary chamber orchestra Alarm Will Sound. For nearly 30
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“The Mile Long Opera” on The High Line
Composer David Lang has never been comfortable with standards of music presentation. Thirty years ago, he – along with Michael Gordon and Julia Wolfe – founded Bang on a Can
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Esa-Pekka Salonen’s “Foreign Bodies” at the New York Philharmonic
Photo: Chris Lee, NY Philharmonic When the New York Philharmonic reached out to Esa-Pekka Salonen several years ago to ask him to become an artistic partner, it was not, as
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ACME Play the Music of Jóhann Jóhannsson at Le Poisson Rouge
Over the past few years, I had several opportunities to see the Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson - perhaps best known as the Golden Globe-winning composer of The Theory of Everything, Arrival, and Sicario - perform
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