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Matt Irwin performs -- Photo by Lydia Smith

Review: <MASS> at The Museum of Russian Art

A sign on the door outside The Museum of Russian Art listed something between a manifesto and a user…
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Dustin Nelson
Patrick Shiroishi -- Photo by David Haskell

5 Questions to Patrick Shiroishi (multi-instrumentalist, composer)

Patrick Shiroishi has a signature mode of spiritual intensity that he expresses through his saxophon…
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
Rossen Milanov and the Columbus Symphony Orchestra -- Photo by Randall Schlieber

Review: Gregory Spears and Davóne Tines at the Columbus Symphony Orchestra

The Ohio Theater can easily swallow one’s attention. The vibrancy of the Spanish-Baroque style is a…
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A. Kori Hill
Holland Andrews and yuniya edi kwon -- Photo by Richard Termine

Review: Holland Andrews and yuniya edi kwon “How does it feel to look at nothing”

How does it feel to look at nothing? The title of Holland Andrews and yuniya edi kwon’s experimental…
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Lana Norris
Peter Mattei as Lincoln and Everett Sobers as Willie Lincoln in Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek's

Review: “Lincoln in the Bardo” at The Metropolitan Opera

I heard the wind rushing as soon as I stepped into the Metropolitan Opera House on the evening of Oc…
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Stephanie Boyd
Dale Trumbore -- Photo by Arnaud Pivka

ListN Up Playlist: Dale Trumbore (Oct. 22, 2026)

Dale Trumbore is a Los Angeles-based composer and writer whose music has been called “devastatingly…
Carl Stone and Lou Mallozzi at Experimental Sound Studio -- Photo by Alex Inglizian

What A Day of Live Music in Chicago Sounds Like

On a cloudless, crisp Saturday afternoon, a crowd of more than a hundred people are huddled in the b…
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Hannah Edgar
Marina Kifferstein -- Photo by Titilayo Ayangade

Review: Marina Kifferstein “Strand Line”

The violin doesn’t always sound like a violin on Marina Kifferstein’s new album, Strand Line (Oct. 2…
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Chrysanthe Tan
Poiesis Quartet -- Photo by Curtis Perry

Review: Poiesis Quartet “Surfacing”

The ancient Greek concept of poiesis is the creation of something that has never existed before. Tru…
Author
Katie Brown
Shelley Washington and Wild Up -- Photo by Angel Origgi

Review: Wild Up and Shelley Washington “How We Hold Together”

Within the sonically contained black box theater at REDCAT, a prismatic playroom of toys, knick-knac…
Author
Isabel Li
Talea Ensemble -- Courtesy of artist

Review: Talea Ensemble Composer Spotlight on Amadeus Regucera

There is no music without the body. String players live with rock-hard finger callouses. Wind and br…
Author
Daniele Sahr
Mali Obomsawin -- Photo by Fivish

Mali Obomsawin is Looking for the Breaking Point

The double bass is one of several tools that Mali Obomsawin uses in a career that spans free jazz, e…
Author
A. Kori Hill
Alyssa Weinberg -- Photo by Cody Pickens

ListN Up Playlist: Alyssa Weinberg (Oct. 8, 2026)

Alyssa Weinberg uses color, texture, and gesture to channel big emotions, creating music that is “qu…
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Juri Seo -- Photo by Joanna Malecka Photography

5 Questions to Juri Seo (composer)

Juri Seo thrives in the balance of complex compositional processes and aesthetic bliss. In an essay…
Author
Jacob Kopcienski
Julia Edith Rigby performs

Review: Julia Edith Rigby “Lithic Breathing”

As voices and footsteps of incoming audiences echoed within the First Congregational Church of Los A…
Author
Isabel Li
LARAAJI and Michael Brook perform at MEZAME festival -- Photo by David Iskra

Review: LARAAJI x Michael Brook at MEZAME Festival

Recorded interactions between LARAAJI and Michael Brook are scarce. Though they were both fixtures o…
Author
Raphael Helfand

Review: Nwando Ebizie “Ecsta­sy of the Virtues”

The desire to bring the music of Hildegard von Bingen into the modern day is not an uncommon one. As…
Author
Michelle Hromin
iiisa -- Photo by Leslie Mok

5 Questions to iiisa (interdisciplinary artist)

It would be futile to impose a narrative on isabel crespo pardo’s art and artmaking — the Brooklyn-b…
Author
Chrysanthe Tan
Vox Urbane -- Photo by Ben Roberts

Review: Vox Urbane at The Ditch

The Ditch doesn’t exactly sound like the name of a classical music venue. Situated in a fashionable…
Author
Caroline Potter
Weston Olencki -- Photo by Cy Klock

5 Questions to Weston Olencki (composer, multi-instrumentalist)

Weston Olencki is a U.S.-born, Berlin-based musician and composer whose work is fundamentally concer…
Author
Clover Nahabedian
Violeta Garcia at Ultima Festival 2026 -- Photo by Nabeeh Samaan

Review: Ultima Festival 2026

Ever heard of a wolpertinger? The mythical creature is said to inhabit the forests of southern Germa…
Author
Amanda Cook
Andrea Clearfield -- Photo by Chris Kendig

5 Questions to Andrea Clearfield (composer, curator)

Andrea Clearfield is a composer whose music reaches across histories and artistic boundaries, transf…
Author
Yaz Lancaster
Leo Chang -- Courtesy of Venue

Review: Raven Chacon + Tashi Dorji + Alex Zhang Hungtai // Leo Chang at Roulette

Noise improvisation: the craft of experimenting with sound, sculpting a world for the listener to in…
Author
Vanessa Ague
Nursalim Yadi Anugerah -- Courtesy of artist

ListN Up Playlist: Nursalim Yadi Anugerah (Sept. 17, 2026)

Nursalim Yadi Anugerah is a musician and composer whose works are shaped by deep engagement with the…
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