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A few things you wanted to know about contemporary classical music and weren’t afraid to ask: Anne Midgette offers an orientation for the curious.
BroadStage has announced its 2025/26 Season featuring unparalleled performances of opera, classical music, contemporary music ...
Certainly, classical music should should challenge and evoke. It just shouldn't sound like bus crashes. Proponents of modern symphonic music cast unhappy audiences as unenlightened.
The BBC ran a story yesterday about a computer at the University of Malaga in Spain, dubbed “Iamus” after a mythical Greek prophet who could translate birdsong, that’s capable of composing ...
WHAT: A two-part concert of contemporary and classical chamber music works WHEN: 7:30 p.m., Monday, March 27 WHERE: Dixon Hall, Tulane University campus, New Orleans ...
Founded in 1969 as Boston's first ensemble devoted to contemporary music, BMV has been presenting invigorating programs since, each usually featuring at least one world premiere.
David Martijn: War of the Worlds . Allowing ourselves to forget it’s the soundtrack to a science fiction disaster series, David Martijn’s score for War of the Worlds (2020) is ambient and meditative..
There’s Big Money in Contemporary Classical Music A $10 million gift from financier Henry Kravis will allow the New York Philharmonic to create a two-year-long Composer-in-Residence position.
The ongoing growth of modern classical music, a cause long championed by Columbus community leaders Jack and Zoe Johnstone, led to the creation of the Johnstone Fund for New Music. Since 2008, the ...
I share many of Barton Swaim’s views on modern classical music, but he is wrong to lump Igor Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” in with music he says no one wants (“Songs Without Listeners ...