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  • Tuesday, May 13, 2025

    "Congratulations on Song of the Earth—remarkable record," Kreative Kontrol host Vish Khanna says of his guest David Longstreth's new album. "The scope and ambition of it is something to behold." Longstreth talks with Khanna about the new album, performed with his band Dirty Projectors and the chamber ensemble s t a r g a z e. You can hear their conversation here.

  • Monday, May 12, 2025

    John Adams's new opera Antony and Cleopatra, which opens at the Metropolitan Opera in NYC tonight, was featured on NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday. NPR's Jeff Lunden spoke with stars Julia Bullock and Gerald Finley, director Elkhanah Pulitzer, and the composer, who concludes: "Part of composing is creating an alchemy between the colors and the gestures of the orchestra and the beauty of the voice. And, of course, in this case, I've got Shakespeare's language, which is incomparably wonderful." You can hear it here.

  • Monday, May 12, 2025

    David Longstreth is on the podcast Beginnings with Andy Beckerman to discuss his early life and influences, following the recent release of his Song of the Earth, performed by Longstreth with his band Dirty Projectors and the chamber ensemble s t a r g a z e. "It's fantastic!" Beckerman says of the album. You can hear their conversation here.

Artist Spotlight

  • Lady on the Bike—the debut album from cinematic electro-pop duo Ringdown, featuring Danni Lee Parpan and Pulitzer and Grammy winner Caroline Shaw—celebrates the feeling of possibility in myriad forms: the possibility of love; the possibility of creating connection and community in a world trying to pull those things apart; the possibility of making music in new ways. The songs were collaboratively written and recorded by the duo. New Body Electric members Leah Vautar and Aaron K…

  • Composer and trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire’s album honey from a winter stone, which he calls a “self-portrait,” features improvisational vocalist Kokayi, pianist Sam Harris, Chiquitamagic on synthesizer, drummer Justin Brown, and the Mivos Quartet. “For arguably the most technically gifted trumpeter of his generation, a lot of Ambrose Akinmusire’s breakthroughs actually come from letting go of standards and structures," says the New York Times. "Lately Akinmusire has been…

  • About Ghosts features eight new compositions by guitarist/composer Mary Halvorson, performed with her sextet Amaryllis, the improvisatory band featured on her critically praised albums Amaryllis, Belladonna, and Cloudward: Patricia Brennan (vibraphone), Nick Dunston (bass), Tomas Fujiwara (drums), Jacob Garchik (trombone), and Adam O’Farrill (trumpet). Saxophonists Immanuel Wilkins and Brian Settles join the ensemble on five tunes, and Halvorson adds…

  • Rhiannon Giddens reunites with her former Carolina Chocolate Drops bandmate Justin Robinson on What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow. Produced by Giddens and Joseph "joebass" DeJarnette, the album features Giddens on banjo and Robinson on fiddle, playing eighteen of their favorite North Carolina tunes. Many were learned from their late mentor, legendary North Carolina Piedmont musician Joe Thompson; one is from another musical hero, the late Etta Baker. Giddens and Robinson…

  • The twenty-seven disc box set Steve Reich Collected Works features music recorded during the composer's forty years on the label—six decades of his compositions, including first recordings of his two latest works, Jacob’s Ladder and Traveler’s Prayer—plus two extensive booklets with new essays by Robert Hurwitz, Michael Tilson Thomas, Russell Hartenberger, Judith Sherman, and Nico Muhly, and a comprehensive listener’s guide by Timo Andres. Nonesuch made its first…

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St. James Church
Chipping CampdenUnited Kingdom
Chipping Campden Music Festival
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St. James Church
Chipping CampdenUnited Kingdom
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Sankei Hall Breeze
OsakaJapan
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OsakaJapan
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Hanzas Perons
RigaLatvia
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Hanzas Perons
RigaLatvia
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Sandler Center for the Performing Arts
Virginia Beach, VAUnited States
Tue, May 13
Sandler Center for the Performing Arts
Virginia Beach, VAUnited States