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Birds, Typewriters, and Tone Rows (I Think)
The experimentalism of TIME:SPANS 2021 feels even fresher after 18 months away.
ReviewThe Curious Case of “Gold Dust”: The Music that Might Have Been
A surprise posthumous EP from the estate of Jóhann Jóhannsson leaves nothing but questions; in this mystery, the only clues lie in the music itself.
ReviewWhere We Are Now Didn’t Exist
Adam Tendler and String Orchestra of Brooklyn premiere Devonté Hynes's "Happenings" and perform Julius Eastman's "Gay Guerrilla" at Little Island.
ReviewExperiments in Tenderness: Jane in Ether’s Freshman Album Release
The sonic landscape crafted by Magda Mayas (piano), Miako Klein (recorders), and Biliana Voutchkova (violin and voice) pulls the listener beyond the realm of the sensual, arousing one’s memory and imagination in the spaces left untouched by tenuous gestures.
ReviewOpera and TV had a Baby, and There's A Lot to Love
It's a little weird seeing Hollywood actors pantomime opera, but this is a genre to watch.
ReviewYour Next Binge-Watch Includes Sopranos (But No Mobsters)
A collaboration between Boston Lyric Opera and Long Beach Opera creates a new genre: the opera miniseries.
Vocal MusicThird Coast Percussion and Two Assads Explore “The Stories That Connect Us All”
With a universal sentiment in mind — archetypes, after all, define human experience the world over — father and daughter began work on a monumental 12-movement cycle, each movement modeled after one of the archetypes proposed by Freudian psychoanalyst Carl Jung.
ReviewVocalist Charmaine Lee’s New LP Speaks, Gargles, and Whimpers For Itself
The consistently fresh arc of "KNVF" offers a sense that it might have been recorded a hundred different ways—a testament to the value of being such a curious, permeable performer.
ReviewTAK Ensemble Reaches for the Cosmos
Taylor Brook’s "Star Maker Fragments" evoke the extraterrestrial.
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