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18 Musicians × 3: Steve Reich at the Park Avenue Armory
To mark the 90th birthday of Steve Reich, Staged Variations sees three ensembles tackle the composer’s seminal Music for 18 Musicians.
Atom Egoyan's movie Adoration is revived as an opera
The show benefits from a strong cast and Mary Kouyoumdjian’s score worked wonderfully well, but it remains a weird story, unbalanced and ultimately unsatisfying.
Unexpected promise: Bryce Dessner at the Elbphilharmonie
Launching a new “Reflektor” series of short festivals, Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie invited Bryce Dessner to curate two days of concerts.
Education, levitation, and mountain bears in collected stories: “(post)folk”
The U.S. première of Richard Ayres’s No. 42 In the Alps was musically delightful, visually whimsical, and all-around hilarious.
Crash Ensemble plays a spread of text settings and folkloric magics at Carnegie Hall
On Friday night, the Irish new music group Crash Ensemble produced some sonic pyrotechnics to match the Scriabinian lights display at Carnegie Hall’s recently renovated Zankel Hall.
Brooklyn Festival in Los Angeles a mixed bag
The Brooklyn Festival, a week-long celebration of the new music scene from New York City’s “most dynamic borough”, was launched on Tuesday 16 April with a Green Umbrella concert at Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles.Interestingly enough, the festival came hard on the heels of another festival which ended Sunday, the Hear Now Music Festival.