The choir shares the pacifist message of Michael Tippets’s A Child of Our Time to start 2024.
The singers put poetry first in this condensed version of John Adams’s opera-oratorio.
The principal player opens up about performing under pressure and the tools musicians shouldn’t use to cope.
The piano and percussion ensemble is mesmerizing in back-to-back concerts at a hip venue.
The new-music group counts 15 composers among its members, enough to justify building a season around their works.
Both Anthony Davis’s X and Daniel Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas are modern classics, and the Met gives them excellent productions.
Schick’s career at the forefront of contemporary classical music has been defined by major journeys, notably along the California coast.