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In an opera world flailing for mass appeal, there are worse things than an enthusiastic if underqualified crooner
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At the Berlin Philharmonic
In Row Five
A conductor describes her first two days as an assistant under Claudio Abbado at the Berlin Philharmonic in the late 1990s
Iranian musics
The Responsibility of Connection
An interview with five members of the Iranian Female Composers Association
Music From the Inside of the Sun
Georg Friedrich Haas and Arash Yazdani on the power of “plasmatic music”
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Filling the Map
How revival directors keep operas interesting long after their original directors have moved on
What Remains Behind
After hearing loss, facing a changed relationship with the music that felt like everything
A Matter of Perspective
The manuscripts of recently rediscovered works by Bach and Mozart have been around for decades. What changed?
Welcome 2 Shorworld
With the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Philharmonia and Max Richter all playing CMDI events, Shorworld is back—and even more ambitious
From five years ago…
A Demonstration of a Physical Fact
Listening to Alvin Lucier’s “I Am Sitting in a Room” from a vaccination recovery room.
I Know, But: “The Four Seasons”
Revisiting the atmospheric pressure in Vivaldi’s visceral chart-topper
Having a Miserable Time
An interview with “Composers Doing Normal Shit” curator John Nolan
From ten years ago…
Last But Not Least
