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Jessica Meyer Releases New Portrait Album I LONG AND SEEK AFTER On New Focus Recordings
by A.A. Cristi - February 06, 2024 Jessica Meyer releases her new composer/performer portrait album, 'I long and seek after,' featuring performances by Meyer, Lorelei Ensemble, and a collective of instrumentalists and vocalists. The album celebrates poetry by female and underrepresented writers, exploring themes of loneliness, desire...
William Brittelle Announces New Mini-Album 'Alive In The Electric Snow Dream'
by Michael Major - January 24, 2024 Developed and recorded during the pandemic with Metropolis Ensemble, Alive in the Electric Snow Dream features Jenn Wasner (Wye Oak, Bon Iver), Holland Andrews, and Eliza Bagg (Roomful of Teeth, Lisel) on vocals, Immanuel Wilkins on sax, Ben Cassorla on guitar, Paul Wiancko (Kronos Quartet, OWLS) on...
Mingjia Releases 'Star, Star'
by Michael Major - November 20, 2023 Mingjia releases new album 'star, star' via New Amsterdam Records....
Awadagin Pratt Releases 'Still Point' (single) via New Amsterdam Records
by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 02, 2023 Awadagin Pratt has released 'Still Point', the second single from his upcoming album STILLPOINT. Read more about the internationally acclaimed pianist's latest release and upcoming album on New Amsterdam Records....
The Crossing Releases 30th Album: Shara Nova's Titration, Out Today on Navona Records
by A.A. Cristi - April 28, 2023 Acclaimed Grammy Award-winning choir The Crossing, led by Donald Nally, releases its 30th album Titration, on Navona Records. Premiered at the Warren Miller Performing Arts Center in Big Sky, Montana in August 2022, Titration is another creative collaboration between The Crossing and Shara Nova, fou...
Ellis Ludwig-Leone (San Fermin) Shares 'Our Lady of the Dunes'
by Michael Major - January 26, 2023 False We Hope’s movements flicker through themes of hope and loss, connection and isolation: a prayer book for the nonbeliever. Featuring lyrics by MacArthur recipient and Pulitzer finalist Karen Russell (Swamplandia!) and poet Carey McHugh, False We Hope is an attempt for ritual and human connectio...
Ellis Ludwig-Leone (San Fermin) Announces First Album of Concert Works
by Michael Major - January 12, 2023 Ellis Ludwig-Leone, composer and creative force behind San Fermin will release his first album of concert works. The album, via Better Company Records, features Ludwig-Leone on piano and synthesizer, as well as string accompaniment by the GRAMMY-winning Attacca Quartet and vocalist Eliza Bagg (Lisel...
Explore Michael Harrison's Album Seven Sacred Names at Online Event
by A.A. Cristi - June 14, 2021 On Wednesday, June 30, 2021 at 7pm ET, Arts Letters & Numbers presents, as part of its exhibition in the CITYX Venice Italian Virtual Pavilion of the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, an exploration of composer/pianist Michael Harrison's new album, Seven Sacred Names, through musical performances a...
Michael Harrison Releases 'Seven Sacred Names'
by A.A. Cristi - May 20, 2021 On June 18, 2021, composer and pianist Michael Harrison releases his new album Seven Sacred Names on Cantaloupe Music....
Sarah Kirkland Snider Releases New Album 'Mass for the Endangered' Next Month
by A.A. Cristi - August 19, 2020 Composer Sarah Kirkland Snider is collaborating with interdisciplinary visual artist 'CandyStations,' aka Deborah Johnson, on a series of six videos that accompany the six movements of Snider's upcoming album Mass for the Endangered, out September 25 on New Amsterdam and Nonesuch Records. ...
LISEL Shares 'Die Trying' + Releases Double-Single with Woods' Jarvis Taveniere
by Robert Diamond - August 18, 2020 Following the previously released A-Side “Night & Day,” “Die Trying” is out now alongside a music video shot in Palm Springs....
Lisel Announces New Double-Single 'Specters' / 'Rabbit Rabbit'
by Kaitlin Milligan - March 04, 2020 Last year, Lisel - a.k.a. avant-pop singer, producer, multi-instrumentalist and artist Eliza Bagg - released her remarkable self-produced solo debut, Angels on the Slope, via Luminelle. Drawing on her vast areas of expertise to create an other-wordly landscape where one wanders between the gauzy and...
Nonesuch and New Amsterdam Records Announce Partnership
by Kaitlin Milligan - January 29, 2019 Nonesuch and New Amsterdam Records have joined forces to release approximately three albums per year over an initial three-year period. This partnership is the result of conversations between the two New York-based labels about their long-term shared values to support the work of several generations...
American Contemporary Music Ensemble Performs Triple Bill With Clarice Jensen and Carolina Eyck at DROM
by Tori Hartshorn - December 12, 2018 On Monday, January 7, 2019 at 8:30pm, German-born composer, vocalist, and internationally renowned theremin virtuosa Carolina Eyck; multi-faceted cellist Clarice Jensen; and the dynamic American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME) join forces for a performance at DROM (85 Avenue A), each performing a...
Celebrity Series of Boston Announces the 5th Annual Stave Sessions Lineup
by Kaitlin Milligan - November 27, 2018 The Celebrity Series of Boston announces the line-up for its 5th annual Stave Sessions, the unique music series showcasing the innovative, the experimental, and the collaborative approaches of emerging artists. The 2019 Stave Sessions take place March 19-23, 2019. ...
Works & Process at the Guggenheim Presents the Annual Rotunda Holiday Concert
by Kaitlin Milligan - November 21, 2018 Works & Process, the performing arts series at the Guggenheim, presents the annual Holiday Concert in the rotunda of the Guggenheim on December 16-17, 2018 at 7pm....
My Brightest Diamond Returns with New Studio Album A MILLION AND ONE
by Tori Hartshorn - October 30, 2018 My Brightest Diamond is excited to announce the November 23rd release of her new full-length studio album – A Million And One – via Rhyme & Reason Records. My Brightest Diamond's Shara Nova produced the new LP along with Grammy-nominated producer Anthony “The Twilite Tone” Khan (Gorillaz, Kanye Wes...
My Brightest Diamond Returns with New Studio Album A MILLION AND ONE
by Tori Hartshorn - October 19, 2018 My Brightest Diamond is excited to announce the November 23rdrelease of her new full-length studio album – A Million And One – via Rhyme & Reason Records. My Brightest Diamond's Shara Nova produced the new LP along with Grammy-nominated producer Anthony “The Twilite Tone” Khan (Gorillaz, Kanye West...
Owen Lake and The Tragic Loves Announces THE BEST OF YOUR LIES
by Tori Hartshorn - October 10, 2018 Owen Lake and the Tragic Loves' “electro-country” sound is both freshly nostalgic and startlingly unique. Hard-driving synthesizer licks meet tight three-part vocal harmonies, buttery bloops and bleeps, crying pedal steel, and pounding electronic beats in the band's first full-length record, “The Be...
Clarice Jensen Celebrates Debut Solo Album With Ambient Church Concert
by Tori Hartshorn - March 19, 2018 Cellist Clarice Jensen, artistic director of the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME), releases her debut solo album, For this from that will be filled, worldwide on Miasmah Recordings on April 6, 2018. She celebrates the release with a concert featuring music from the album presented by the ...
Cellist Clarice Jensen Releases Debut Solo Album
by Tori Hartshorn - February 26, 2018 Cellist Clarice Jensen, artistic director of the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME), releases her debut solo album, For this from that will be filled, worldwide on Miasmah Recordings on April 6, 2018. Building on a long and romantic tradition of solo cello repertoire, Jensen expands and con...
Ben Folds Welcomes Sara Bareilles, Caroline Shaw to Kennedy Center Series
by Emily Bruno - November 16, 2017 The National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) and Artistic Advisor Ben Folds welcome multi Grammy and Tony -nominated vocalist and composer Sara Bareilles and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and singer Caroline Shaw for a one-night-only performance as part of its DECLASSIFIED: BEN FOLDS PRESENTS series on ... |