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Friday Jun 12 | The Huffington Post

Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume Seventy-Six

Experimental-music master composer and author John Cage was born in Los Angeles in 1912 into a cerebral household.

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Related Topix: Los Angeles Metro, Los Angeles, CA, Classical, Schoenberg, The National, Entertainment, Television

Fri Jun 05, 2009

New Statesman

Fear of Music: Why People Get Rothko But Don't Get Stockhausen

The recent series Mad Men, set in early 1960s New York, garnered as much attention for its carefully placed period references as it did for its storylines.

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Related Topix: Stockhausen, Classical, Mad Men, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Morton Feldman

Thu Jun 04, 2009

All About Jazz

Peloton: Funeral, Circus and other music

This might be something of a confusing album to track down, going under the same name as a Norwegian jazz quintet, issued on a little-known Finnish label, and featuring a style that is hard to readily classify.

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Related Topix: Europe, Finland, World News, Classical

Tue May 26, 2009

Chicago Reader Online

Kyle Gann, Cory Smythe, and more upcoming classical

Marc Geelhoed has a nice roundup of upcoming classical events , including the return of critic and composer Kyle Gann--a former Reader freelancer--to Chicago to lecture on John Cage.

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Related Topix: Classical, Messiaen

Sat May 23, 2009

Edmonton Journal

Jazz-based Clayton lives on the cutting edge

Where: Yardbird Suite When: Tonight at 9 Tickets: $20 for members, $24 for guests, from Ticketmaster or at the door After years of dedication to working music's cutting edge, the versatile New York singer Jay Clayton still finds herself dropped into the wrong box.

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Related Topix: Classical, Steve Reich, Black Entertainment, Jazz, John Coltrane

Fri May 15, 2009

Gramophone

Uploading dreams

Anastasia Tsioulcas analyses what the YouTube Symphony experiment achieved 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Upload, upload, upload,' proclaimed Michael Tilson Thomas near the start of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra's concert at the famed venue on April 15th.

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Related Topix: Startups, YouTube, Symphony, Arts, Classical, Michael Tilson Thomas, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven

Fri Apr 17, 2009

New River Valley Current

Large performance painting debuts

Beat-box performer Shodekeh and soprano Nancy McDuffie will take part of the Kandinsky Beat Down concert at Tech on Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Painting, Classical

TechBeat

Google Goes to Carnegie Hall

As I settled into my seat Wednesday evening for the debut of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, New Yorka s most regal of music venues, I had no idea what to expect.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Symphony, Arts, Classical, Mozart, Tchaikovsky

Wed Apr 08, 2009

Columbia Spectator

Modernizing the movie score

Original film scores have always been underappreciated and overlooked, particularly ones that lean towards the classical tradition.

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Related Topix: Harry Potter, Classical, John Adams, Steve Reich, Pride and Prejudice, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, The Hours

Thu Apr 02, 2009

Voice of America

Avant-Garde Music for Toys, 'Playing' in New York

Avant-garde musical artists have always liked to stretch the limits of what traditional musical instruments can do.

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Related Topix: Classical, Mozart, Leopold Mozart, Listen, Thriller, Mystery Movies

Wed Mar 25, 2009

Rochester City Newspaper

Classical Preview: Ossia

PHOTO PROVIDED If the death of classical music is its oldest, finest tradition, no one has bothered to tell Ossia.

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Related Topix: Classical, J.S. Bach, Spain, World News, University of Colorado Boulder, UC San Diego, Music, Entertainment

Tue Mar 24, 2009

Jerusalem Post

Concerto for violin and rock band

Modern classical music may be a paradoxical term, but Israeli composer Avner Dorman revels in such contradictions.

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Related Topix: Classical, Beethoven, Classic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Symphony, Arts

Wed Mar 18, 2009

All About Jazz

Jim Pugliese: Live @ Issue Project Room NYC

In the tradition of raucously creative Downtown NYC jazz-rock bands like Curlew and Naked City, Jim Pugliese's Phase III burns with passion that is both musical and conceptually bold and is a great working band, not just a thrown-together collection of accomplished soloists.

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Related Topix: Classical, Philip Glass

Mon Mar 16, 2009

Commercial Appeal

Concert review: Memphis Symphony Orchestra's new music gets tepid reception

As Maestro David Loebel explained, the two-movement piano concerto uses its own musical vocabulary.

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Related Topix: Symphony, Arts, Classical, George Crumb, Luciano Berio, Berio

Sun Mar 08, 2009

All About Jazz

Curtis Clark, Connie Crothers, and Joe Bonner: Exploring the World of Piano in Northampton, MA

Curtis Clark , Connie Crothers , Joe Bonner World of Piano Series Northampton Center of the Arts Northampton, Massachusetts Sitting at the piano before playing it is somewhat like sitting at a drawing table in ...

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Related Topix: Northampton, MA, Classical

Tue Mar 03, 2009

MinnPost.com

Filmmaker Chris Felver to attend local screening of his Cecil Taylor film

If you're in tune with the counterculture, you've seen Chris Felver's photographs: of Lou Reed, Patty Smith, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Angela Davis.

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Related Topix: Cecil Taylor, Jazz, Classical

Tue Feb 10, 2009

Kalamazoo Gazette

Schlime conquers tough program in local debut

Sunday evening's Gilmore Rising Stars Recital at the Wellspring Theatre marked the first time that the 27-year-old pianist and composer Francesco Tristano Schlime has performed for a Kalamazoo audience.

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Related Topix: Kalamazoo, MI, Classical, Igor Stravinsky, Stravinsky

Mon Jan 26, 2009

Art Research Communication

Thomson & Craighead at ARCO Madrid

Thomson & Craighead, 'Unprepared Piano', 2004, Software application, computer, grand piano, dimensions variable In Unprepared Piano , a Yamaha disklavier grand piano is connected to a database of music MIDI ...

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Related Topix: Madrid, Electronic, Computers, Classical

Wed Jan 07, 2009

NPR

Music Patron Betty Freeman Dies

Audio for today's show will be available at approx. 7:00 p.m. ET. G.Anderhub / Lebrecht Music & Arts Betty Freeman befriended and financed many modernist composers - from John Cage to John Adams.

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Related Topix: Classical, John Adams, Philip Glass

Fri Dec 19, 2008

All About Jazz

Eddie The Rat: Out Behind the 8-Ball

Eddie the Rat is the group moniker for San Francisco-based multi-instrumentalist Peter Martin and his merry quartet.

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Related Topix: Classical

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