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Mexico’s Juan Trigos Wins First Azrieli Commission for International Music;...
Sweeping Canadian vistas. 15th-century Aztec poetry. The Book of Psalms. The philosophy of Maimonides. The inspirations for the 2024 winners of the Azrieli Music Prizes range from vast exterior...
View ArticleConcert Review: Fourth Wall Ensemble Sings Caroline Shaw’s Pulitzer-Winning...
At not even a year old, New York City vocal group Fourth Wall Ensemble is making a big noise. That was literally so this past weekend, as eight a cappella singers conducted by Christopher Allen...
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Interview: Composer Yair Klartag on His Azrieli Prize Commission ‘The Parable...
Yair Klartag For many years Israeli composer Yair Klartag wanted his music to be “completely universal.” But in recent years, he discovered something unexpected: that the type of universality he was...
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Interview: Composer Jordan Nobles, Winner of 2024 Azrieli Commission for...
I write songs. Not for a living, but because my brain works that way. Sometimes the germ of a new song comes to me when I’m out in the wide world – especially when I’m hiking. And I’m in good company:...
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Interview: Composer Josef Bardanashvili, Winner of 2024 Azrieli Prize for...
Sometimes new music develops from a flash of inspiration, or a prompting from current events in politics or culture. Other new pieces arise from decades of thought and study. Such is the case with...
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Exclusive Interview: Jessica Gould on New, ‘Seminal’ Recording of Alessandro...
Prolific and popular during his short and violently-cut-short life, Italian composer Alessandro Stradella (1643–1682) may not be as familiar to lovers of Baroque music today as some of his...
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Concert Review: The Marian Consort – Music from Renaissance Scotland
Early music is something of a niche interest. But within that niche there are the popular kids – the William Byrds, the Josquins – and the obscure, dusty corners. Composers of whom we know little...
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Music Review: Benedict Sheehan — ‘Ukrainian War Requiem’ with Axios Men’s...
With his Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom and Vespers Benedict Sheehan has established his status as one of our preeminent modern masters of liturgical choral music. His new Ukrainian War Requiem, out...
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Concert Review: The Dessoff Choirs – ‘Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight’ by...
To mark its centennial year the Dessoff Choirs delved into its 1920s playbook. Back then the choir’s concerts included lieder as well as choral music. So on Thursday night music director and conductor...
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Concert Review: Bach’s St. Matthew Passion at St. John the Divine
Great Music in a Great Space Where better to experience a work as capacious, and as religious, as the St. Matthew Passion by J.S. Bach than in one of the world’s most cavernous churches? On March 8...
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