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Feb 15, 2012 • On Saturday, March 24th, composer/bandleader Darcy James Argue and his acclaimed big band, Secret Society, will be the featured guest artists at the 50th annual Tarleton Jazz Festival at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas. This longstanding festival is designed to give junior high and high school musicians the opportunity to both hear and interact...
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Feb 8, 2012 • Just ahead of tonight’s concert at the Merkin Concert Hall as part of the 2012 Ecstatic Music Festival, video has been put up of tonight’s performing ensemble, yMusic, along with collaborating composers Richard Reed Parry (Arcade Fire) and Ryan Lott (Son Lux). The videos feature yMusic rehearsing works by Parry and Lott, and are sure...
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Feb 6, 2012 • William Robin of the New York Times recently gave an in-depth profile of yMusic in conjunction with their upcoming performance at the Ecstatic Music Festival (with Ryan Lott and Richard Reed Parry). The article offers a close look at how the ensemble works with each other and composers such as Ryan Lott, defying genre and...
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Feb 3, 2012 • Click above to play trailer video Composer extraordinaire Missy Mazzoli is gearing up for the world premiere run of her sure-to-be-amazing fully staged new opera Song from the Uproar, a large-scale work based on the life and writing of Swiss adventurer Isabelle Eberhardt. The project features NOW Ensemble, soprano Abby Fischer, film by Stephen Taylor,...
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Jan 20, 2012 • Last year’s New Amsterdam Records releases continue to accumulate an impressive roster of accolades. In the Wall Street Journal’s year-end discussion of the best music of 2011, classical music critic Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim named two New Amsterdam albums as her favorite contemporary classical discs of the year: Gregory Spears’ Requiem and the Chiara Quartet’s rendition...
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Jan 12, 2012 • Beautiful Mechanical is the widely acclaimed debut by the genre-transcending ensemble yMusic. Equally at home in both classical and pop music settings, the six virtuosi of yMusic dazzle with a set of compositions written by an adventurous group of musical minds from both sides of the indie/classical fence–including Annie Clark (St. Vincent), Judd Greenstein, Gabriel...
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Jan 12, 2012 • Gregory Spears’ Requiem was released in November and entranced listeners with a stunning album-length work. Period instruments, modern technique, and ancient storytelling co-mingle in Spears’ enthralling composition, leading, unsurprisingly, to an avid reception. In the Boston Globe, John Guilfoil declared Requiem “some of the most beautifully unsettling music to appear in recent memory”, describing it...
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Dec 12, 2011 • Composer Daniel Wohl is giving away the brand new single “323″ from his Corps Exquis project with the new music ensemble Transit right HERE. This single includes a special edit of the track from electronic composer Laurel Halo, “323 (A Laurel Halo Edit)”. (Check out this great New York Times article for more on Laurel Halo.) WNYC will be...
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Dec 3, 2011 • We couldn’t be prouder to announce that New Amsterdam has received it’s second GRAMMY nomination in as many years. Jefferson Friedman’s stunning “String Quartet No. 3″, released last May and performed with vicious precision and vivid emotion by the Chiara Quartet, was recently nominated for Best Contemporary Classical Composition. Congratulations to the whole Chiara/Friedman/Matmos team....
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Nov 29, 2011 • yMusic are celebrating the recent release of their debut album Beautiful Mechanical by giving away never-before-heard track “Skin & Bones” today, penned exclusively for the ensemble by Shara Worden of My Brightest Diamond. The ensemble, hailed as “six hip virtuosi” by Time Out New York, will then perform the new album in full at their...
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Nov 29, 2011 • The New York Times chose the Chiara String Quartet‘s critically-aclaimed album of Jefferson Friedman’s string quartets, with remixes by Matmos, as one of 25 CDs of classical music recommended in its Holiday Gift Guide. The NYT praised Friedman’s quartets as “compelling essays in high-energy eclecticism”. The Chiara Quartet, who commissioned the quartets from...
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Nov 28, 2011 • WATCH THE VIDEO TRAILER New Amsterdam is proud to announce a brand new project: composer Daniel Wohl’s Corps Exquis featuring Transit, a large-scale performance piece that exists at the intersection of video installation, rock concert, avant-garde cinema, and experimental classical and electronic music.. The project will see it’s NewAm Presents debut on December 13th at the Glasslands...
