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Carnegie Hall today announced the lineup for the summer 2021 season of Carnegie Hall Citywide, the Hall’s free concert series that brings live music to all five boroughs of New York City. The series continues the Hall’s 45-year tradition of bringing free concerts throughout New York City’s neighborhoods.

Photo: Marlene Mey and Nikolaj Lund, courtesy Bergen International Festival  Composer Missy Mazzoli and violinist Johan Dalene Bergen International Festival, the largest curated festival for music and performing arts in the Nordic region, launches tomorrow 26 May. This year provides audiences worldwide with digital access to 30 events with highlights including, among many others, 2021 Festival Composer Missy Mazzoli and young violinist Johan Dalene, winner of the 2019 Norwegian Soloist Prize. ...

When Bay Area-based The Onyx decided to record their latest album, its five members turned to Womens Audio Mission in San Francisco. The all-Black womens group spent several days in the nonprofits studios South of Market last December laying down eight new songs. Due to the COVID pandemic, the group had to split up who could be in the recording booth on different days. Masks had to be worn the entire time, and everyone had to abide by social distancing requirements. "They had great COVID protoc...

Artpark & Company Announces 2021 Season The season includes a concert series held at the Artpark Ampitheater, featuring Fitz and the Tantrums, Brothers Osborne, Wilco, Glass Animals, and more.by BWW News Desk Artpark & Company announces its 2021 season, which kicks off on May 15, 2021 with interactive tour Sonic Trails curated and co-produced by Sozo Creative and designed by the Holladay Brothers. The season also includes a concert series held at the Artpark Ampitheater, featuring Fitz and the...

Last modified: 11/5/2014 7:07:04 PM From polka to post-modern, and John Williams to John Zorn, accordionist Guy Klucevsek has expanded the repertoire of his versatile instrument for more than 40 years. He’ll bring his squeeze box to the Monadnock Center for History and Culture Friday, at 7:30 p.m. at the beginning of his first residency at The MacDowell Colony. Klucevsek, busy with composing, performing in his own groups, or recording for others, hasn’t found time for an artist’s res...

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In 2017, Sarah Jarosz became the second recipient of the FreshGrass Composition Commission, a grant to compose "a long-form piece of music for an ensemble that includes elements of traditional string band instrumentation." Guitar whisperer Bill Frisell preceded the Wimberley native, while Rhiannon Giddens and the Kronos Quartet followed. As she began to write, her mother battled breast cancer in the wake of Hurricane Harvey having ravaged the Texas coast and decimating Port Aransas, a summer me...

A still from Unseen Skies, by Yaara Bou Melhem Courtesy of Participant Media A photograph of the sky by Trevor Paglen can look like a massive abstraction, except for a tiny speck, a surveillance drone, spotted like a malignant dot on a chest x-ray. His images of secluded military sites in Nevada can also ooze with colour from the churning heat and dust. In the new documentary film Unseen Skies, directed by Yaara Bou Melhem, Paglen calls the effect “impressionistic ...

Monday, May 3 Global Village is both folky and funky this time as we mark birthdays of musicians and activists James Brown and Pete Seeger. We’ll hear music from Brown along with several African artists inspired by his deep funk style. And along with music from Seeger, we’ll hear selections from a recent album from Kronos Quartet celebrating his music. We’ll also hear music from Beolach, who just took home two Canadian Folk Music Awards, and a new release from Made Kuti, the son of Femi K...

2021-04-30T09:41:00   Sitting with the members of the Kronos Quartet in their hotel lobby I am struck by a curious paradox. Although their instrumentation is famous for its musical democracy, the Kronos is equally famous for redefining these very rules. Other members may have input, but it’s the founding first violinist David Harrington who has always served as music director and resident visionary. Any ensemble could field this question, but it seems particularly pertinent here: is ...