Patrick Posey, Music Academy of the West's executive director, tells us how he renewed the 70-year-old festival through contemporary music.
George Lewis’s Afterword, an opera has an original premise, and some beautiful music, but there’s one big fly in the ointment.
Strong new music performed by Splinter Reeds, Kronos Quartet, and Ramon & Jessica’s sextet highlight a solid program.
Catherine Cook and the Music of Remembrance Ensemble deliver powerful music inspired by Holocaust horrors.
The Sitkovetsky Trio and David Shifrin deliver an emotionally complex, vibrant program.
In one of her final concerts with the ensemble, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg leads a program of NCCO-commissioned works, including a standout composition by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich.
Japanese chamber opera informs the composer’s multimedia A Line Becomes a Circle
The multimedia work commemorates Romani artist Ceija Stojka.
The intrepid ensemble explores the fringes of music and the universe with a world premiere and three recent compositions.
Murat Eyuboglu’s genre-melding project comes up short, but Roomful of Teeth, Glenn Kotche, and Jeffrey Zeigler deliver some high points.
