It’s hard to say for sure, but something special happens when an old instrument meets contemporary creativity. These aren’t ...

“I meet with orchestra conductors and I am puzzled. Why is there so little interest in or enthusiasm for new music?'' So wonders the composer Tina Davidson in her new book, “Let Your Heart Be Broken: ...

For some, summer music means jam bands and nostalgia acts. Connecticut Summerfest provides a true alternative with free indoor concerts of contemporary classical music with guest acts from other parts ...

The worlds of orchestral music and dance will collide this Friday with At Play, presented by Kinetic Ensemble and with guest partner Frame Dance Productions. A fusion between melody and choreography, ...

Berlin, Germany, April 3, 2024 — Orchestral Tools announces Monolith by Richard Harvey, the latest collaboration between the Berlin-based sample library designers and the celebrated composer. Monolith ...

A critic unpacks the month-long program featuring 430 artists and presenting more than 70 pieces of music for the very first time, most by Illinois composers. Like a blue moon, a festival with a ...

Spurred by a weekly radio deadline, David Rose was fast becoming America’s most prolific contemporary composer. Last week, for the eighth week in a row, he presented an original composition on his ...

New York Composers Circle will present a Celebration of Contemporary Masters concert on Wednesday, May 18 at 7:00 PM at Church of the Transfiguration ("Little Church Around the Corner"), 1 East 29th ...

Wolfgang Rihm, one of the most influential German composers of the post-World War II generation, died on Friday at the age of 72, his wife said. Born in the western German city of Karlsruhe, Rihm was ...

The fourth of a series of seven public lectures by Professor W. R. Spalding '87, of the Department of Music, on "Modern Composers, the Characteristics and Tendencies of their Music," will be given in ...