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  • John Adams profile
    Monday, July 11, 2011
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    John Adams Focus of Q2's "The New Canon," Featured in Cleveland Orchestra's Lincoln Center Festival Series

    John Adams is "this summer's hottest composer," says Q2, with recent stagings of two of his operas and, this week, a Lincoln Center Festival series in which the Cleveland Orchestra pairs his orchestral works with Bruckner symphonies. Watch Adams and Cleveland Music Director Franz Welser-Möst discuss the creative process in a video here. Tune in to Q2's The New Canon for a live chat about Adams with soprano Jessica Rivera (A Flowering Tree) and flautist Eric Lamb (Son of Chamber Symphony).

  • Christina Courtin horiz guitar mural by Autumn De Wilde
    Monday, July 11, 2011
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    Christina Courtin Concert at NYC's Poisson Rouge Airs on Q2's "Cued Up"; Listen Here

    Christina Courtin recently performed at (Le) Poisson Rouge in NYC, with longtime and frequent collaborators Brooklyn Rider opening. The show was broadcast on Q2's Cued Up. "While taking cues from their classical training," says Q2, "these artists have broken down the conventional walls of a music conservatory and are comfortable playing anything from Philip Glass's string quartets to playing backup on Nashville-inspired tunes." Listen to Courtin's set here.

  • Bjork: "Crystalline"
    Wednesday, June 29, 2011
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    Björk Unveils "Biophilia": Lead Single "Crystalline" Available Now, Apps to Come

    Björk today announces Biophilia, her most ambitious and interdisciplinary project to date, with the release of the lead single, "Crystalline," on iTunes. Biophilia is a multimedia project, comprising a studio album, apps, a new website, custom-made musical instruments, live shows, and educational workshops. The Biophilia live show will have its world premiere tomorrow as part of the Manchester International Festival, where Björk is in residence for a three-week run.

  • The Low Anthem: "Paste" inaugural mPlayer cover, June 2011
    Tuesday, June 28, 2011
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    The Low Anthem Featured in Cover Story of Paste's Inaugural Digital mPlayer

    The Low Anthem is featured on the cover of the inaugural issue of Paste magazine's new weekly digital, multimedia mPlayer, which includes a cover story on the band, exclusive photos, a download of "Boeing 737" off the band's new album, Smart Flesh, and a short documentary video shot at the band's album release concert at the Rhode Island pasta sauce factory in which the album was recorded. The Independent says the band was "kicking up a storm" at Glastonbury this weekend, "enjoying themselves to an almost fevered extent ... Playing to this audience seems to be as special as being in it."

  • Chris Thile & Michael Daves: NPR Tiny Desk Concert
    Monday, June 13, 2011
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    Listen: Chris Thile & Michael Daves Perform NPR "Tiny Desk Concert"

    As Chris Thile and Michael Daves gear up to perform live at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival this Friday, NPR has posted a Tiny Desk Concert featuring the mandolin-and-guitar duo performing songs off their debut album, Sleep with One Eye Open, recently released on Nonesuch. You can listen to the complete performance here. "What stands out between these two musicians when they play traditional music," says NPR's Bob Boilen, "is the level of extremity they achieve. This is small-town music with New York City intensity."

  • Timothy Andres
    Monday, June 6, 2011
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    Timothy Andres to Appear on Q2's "The New Canon"

    Timothy Andres will appear on today's episode of The New Canon on Q2, the online stream from New York's WQXR dedicated to new music, along with fellow composer/performer Gabriel Kahane, to discuss the blurring line between classical and pop musics. The show will also include recordings of their music, as well as that of Sufjan Stevens and Chris Thile. Andres will perform a solo concert at Brooklyn's Bargemusic on Thursday.

  • Philip Selway by Kevin Westenberg
    Thursday, May 26, 2011
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    Philip Selway Talks Solo Career, Radiohead with Drowned in Sound at Liverpool Sound City Festival

    Philip Selway "emerged from a couple of months in the Radiohead lair," as he puts it, to give a solo performance at the Liverpool Sound City festival this past Saturday. While there, he spoke with Drowned in Sound about his debut solo album, Familial, and the challenges of developing as a solo artist after all these years in the band. He also shares his thoughts on band mate Thom Yorke's dance performance in the video for Radiohead's "Lotus Flower." Selway performs another solo set this summer at the UK's Truck Festival in July.

  • Jonny Greenwood: "Norwegian Wood" Soundtrack [cover]
    Wednesday, May 25, 2011
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    Jonny Greenwood's "Doghouse" US Concert Premiere, Featuring Music of "Norwegian Wood," Now Available on NPR.org

    Jonny Greenwood's orchestral piece Doghouse, featuring music used in his Norwegian Wood film score, received its US premiere in concerts with works by Philip Glass and György Ligeti at the NY Society for Ethical Culture last weekend. The concert is now available online at npr.org. "As with so much of Glass' output, there's something innately cinematic about Greenhouse's work," says NPR, "as well as a regal self-containment that evokes his hero Ligeti and is matched with a thrillingly dark tension." NPR calls it a concert "rich with ideas and emotions." The New York Times calls Doghouse "consistently involving."

  • John Adams: "Son of Chamber Symphony / String Quartet" [cover]
    Tuesday, May 24, 2011
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    NPR Contributor Covers Week in the Life of ICE Executive Director; Ensemble Performs on John Adams's "Son of Chamber Symphony"

    John Adams's new album, featuring his Son of Chamber Symphony performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), led by Adams, and his String Quartet, performed by the St. Lawrence String Quartet, is out next Tuesday, May 31. All this week, NPR's Lara Pellegrinelli is following ICE's executive director, flautist Claire Chase, as she goes about her exhausting daily schedule, reporting via Twitter and preparing a piece to air at a later date on NPR.

  • Carolina Chocolate Drops: Daytrotter Session, May 2011
    Thursday, May 19, 2011
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    Carolina Chocolate Drops' "Daytrotter" Session Now Available to "Bust You Out of Your Stupor"

    The Carolina Chocolate Drops are today's Daytrotter artist: their session of five songs has now been published. The band's infectious sounds brighten even the deepest doldrums brought on by a relentlessly sodden spring, according to the site. "They bust you out of your stupor and you're immediately more agile, only because you've got to keep up with your heart rate," says Daytrotter. "We feel good again ... We're at a hoedown that was put together just for us, just to build us back up into people who could appreciate a clear blue, bright yellow day."

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