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Juilliard String Quartet

Daguerreotypes

Q&A: Gabriel Kahane On Distracted Listening, Internet Addiction, And The Golden Age Of Pop That Was 2003

​This week in the Voice I profiled the Brooklyn composer-songwriter-singer-multiinstrumentalist Gabriel Kahane, whose new album Where Are The Arms (Second Story Sound) is being celebrated at Littlefield next Wednesday. A couple of days before our chat, he posted a provocative rant on Spotify a ... More >>

Meeting Jonny Greenwood Isn't Easy: Why Aren't The Radiohead Guitarist's Symphonic Works For Sale?

Jason Evans​Whereas Radiohead's distribution methods can seem more precious by the year--pay-what-you-wish downloads! "newspaper editions" bundled with 400-plus tiny works of art!--the classical music written over the same period by Jonny Greenwood, the band's lead guitarist, has been almost h ... More >>

Q&A: Maria Schneider On Boys' Clubs, Brazilian Influences, And Being A "COM-PO-SER"

Dani Gurgel​ Maria Schneider laughs at your genre distinctions; like Duke Ellington, she aims for a stylistic plateau "beyond category." For decades, that has meant music that can be both soaringly lyrical--no apologies, academics--even as it finds root in some deeply original orchestration. ... More >>

'MATA Festival'

Dani Gurgel​ Maria Schneider laughs at your genre distinctions; like Duke Ellington, she aims for a stylistic plateau "beyond category." For decades, that has meant music that can be both soaringly lyrical--no apologies, academics--even as it finds root in some deeply original orchestration. ... More >>

Joel Harrison Septet

Dani Gurgel​ Maria Schneider laughs at your genre distinctions; like Duke Ellington, she aims for a stylistic plateau "beyond category." For decades, that has meant music that can be both soaringly lyrical--no apologies, academics--even as it finds root in some deeply original orchestration. ... More >>

Avant-Garde Composer Glenn Branca Recounts His Cacophonic Symphonies One-By-One

Tony Cenicola Branca's wife and musician counterpart, Reg and Glenn (far left) Call Glenn Branca the "guitar guy" and see how fast the spiky-haired composer swears, sneers, or stalks out of the room. Though his retuned axes gave conceptual inspiration (and sidemen gigs) to Sonic Youth, and have oft ... More >>

STRING SET

Enterprising violinist finds like minds

STRINGING COUTURE

The opera finally gets fashionable

Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra

The opera finally gets fashionable

Wordless Music Series Announces Fall 2009 Lineup, Starring Destroyer, No Age, Mount Eerie, Tim Hecker, Broadcast, and Micachu and the Shapes

Here we have the fourth-annual slate of Wordless Music fetes, pairing as always electronic and indie-rock types with classical musicians, to presumably horizon-expanding effect. We kick off in September with that bananas Warp Records birthday-party deal (feature Battles, !!!, Flying Lotus etc.), ... More >>

'Summertime Classics: Born on the Fourth of July'

Here we have the fourth-annual slate of Wordless Music fetes, pairing as always electronic and indie-rock types with classical musicians, to presumably horizon-expanding effect. We kick off in September with that bananas Warp Records birthday-party deal (feature Battles, !!!, Flying Lotus etc.), ... More >>

'Baroque Wind Trio Extravaganza'

Here we have the fourth-annual slate of Wordless Music fetes, pairing as always electronic and indie-rock types with classical musicians, to presumably horizon-expanding effect. We kick off in September with that bananas Warp Records birthday-party deal (feature Battles, !!!, Flying Lotus etc.), ... More >>

Live: Grizzly Bear and Final Fantasy Get Orchestral at BAM

Grizzly Bear encore Deep Blue Sea at BAM from lofi.tv on Vimeo. Grizzly Bear and Final Fantasy with the Brooklyn Philharmonic BAM Howard Gilman Opera House Saturday, February 28 Indie rock met the orchestra on Saturday, and the only thing more powerful than the 37-piece Brooklyn Philharmonic was t ... More >>

Twi the Humble Feather

Grizzly Bear encore Deep Blue Sea at BAM from lofi.tv on Vimeo. Grizzly Bear and Final Fantasy with the Brooklyn Philharmonic BAM Howard Gilman Opera House Saturday, February 28 Indie rock met the orchestra on Saturday, and the only thing more powerful than the 37-piece Brooklyn Philharmonic was t ... More >>

Final Fantasy & Grizzly Bear

Grizzly Bear encore Deep Blue Sea at BAM from lofi.tv on Vimeo. Grizzly Bear and Final Fantasy with the Brooklyn Philharmonic BAM Howard Gilman Opera House Saturday, February 28 Indie rock met the orchestra on Saturday, and the only thing more powerful than the 37-piece Brooklyn Philharmonic was t ... More >>

"I, Barack Hussein Obama..."

12:00 p.m. Well, we have a new Vice-President at least. Biden swears in with J.P. Stevens. 12:03 p.m. Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma and an all-star band play "Air and Simple Gifts" written by Star Wars composer John Williams. Giant crowd is quiet and respectful. 12:08 p.m. Here we go. Chief Justice R ... More >>

LET'S DANCE

Put on your ballet shoes and dance the blues

Clip Job: Chamber Music Crackdown!

Put on your ballet shoes and dance the blues

The H. Purcell Show: King Arthur

'What danger from a naked foe?' Ask Mark Morris.

Note Man's Land

Primary Stages' latest is not such a classical gas

IDM Takes a Few Stuffy Stabs at Classical Precision

Primary Stages' latest is not such a classical gas

Wolfgang and Friends

Composer and choreographer share a happy journey

Strings Attached

Classical music without confines

Second-Term Blues

Avant or retro, unplugged or wired, guerrilla musicians defy the neocon millennium

Tweaking Their Legacies: Composers Reinvent Themselves

Avant or retro, unplugged or wired, guerrilla musicians defy the neocon millennium

Classical

Avant or retro, unplugged or wired, guerrilla musicians defy the neocon millennium

Music

Avant or retro, unplugged or wired, guerrilla musicians defy the neocon millennium

Crossover Cats

Jazz masters Savion Glover and Robert Sadin marry tap riffs to classical standards

Hall of Mirrors

Trained in technology, Anthony De Ritis fools the ear by mixing DJ Spooky with orchestra

Julie Taymor Blows a Breath of Fresh Air Into The Magic Flute

Trained in technology, Anthony De Ritis fools the ear by mixing DJ Spooky with orchestra

Classical Music

Trained in technology, Anthony De Ritis fools the ear by mixing DJ Spooky with orchestra

A piano-playing lion from Lyon, France, is set wild this season

Trained in technology, Anthony De Ritis fools the ear by mixing DJ Spooky with orchestra

Fall Classical

Two Venues Are Ready to Spark a New Power Surge This Season

Classical/Opera

Two Venues Are Ready to Spark a New Power Surge This Season

Big Wolpe

A Virtuoso Evens the Score

What's Opera Now, Doc?

While Broadway Lives the Puccinian Past, William Bolcom Gives the Met a New 'View'

Head of the Class

Soprano Lauren Skuce gets high marks

Classical/Opera

Soprano Lauren Skuce gets high marks

Clash of the Titans

James Levine and His Met Orchestra Take Down the Stars

Class Act

Orchestral Maneuvers Hit the Mark

Quite by Chants

England's Choral Tradition Still Nurtures That Nation's Boldest Composers

Roll Over Beethoven

Progressives Shake Up Classical Music

Season Prelude

Classical Music Builds to a Crescendo

Rattling the Stones

Glenn Branca and Friends Shake the Brooklyn Bridge

Opera by the Book

Today’s Composers Search for Inspiration in Novels, Plays, and Even Films

New Turf

Today’s Composers Search for Inspiration in Novels, Plays, and Even Films

The Great American Opera

The vast increase in operatic venues reopens an old unsettled question