Press play on any gray audio player to hear samples of microtonal compositions. Imagine drawing a sweeping landscape — Chicago’s lovely skyline, say, or maybe a sunset — but you’re stuck using crayons ...
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Epiphanies come, as epiphanies do, in unexpected and often far-flung settings. For trumpeter Amir ElSaffar, three such ...
CUATRO PIEZAS PARA MICROTONAL GUITAR was composed 2014 for a world premiere solo performance at the XXXV Encontre de Compositors at Pilar i Joan Miro´, Palma de Mallorca Spain. 'Orb' was composed as a ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Amir ElSaffar - who leads five ensembles and has released seven albums over the ...
Every February, the avant-garde of then and now, of here and elsewhere, settle into Chicago for an ecstatic week of sound-making. That’s the closest thing to an elevator pitch as could be cooked up ...
New England Conservatory is mourning the death of Joseph Gabriel Esther Maneri, a longtime and much beloved faculty member and legendary jazz figure, who died August 24 at age 82. Maneri, who taught ...
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