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Carnegie Hall’s Opening Night Gala Berliner Philharmoniker

Carnegie Hall’s Opening Night Gala Berliner Philharmoniker

La forza del destino opens the doors of Carnegie Hall once again. Love is lost in despair, then confessed again. And the clown begins to speak: “You are about to witness not a play, but the story of real human blood and tears.” In the end, the road leads to

Between the Sounds — Feldman, Nørgård, Crumb, Kurtág

Between the Sounds — Feldman, Nørgård, Crumb, Kurtág

by BlackBox Ensemble This is the third concert in the centennial celebration of Morton Feldman’s birth. Friday, September 18 Music at 6 PM Free and Open to the Public BlackBox Ensemble & confluss perform works by Feldman and Kurtág Roerich Museum, New York, NY Feldman: E. E. Cummings Songs

Daniel Shakes Time in Harlem

Daniel Shakes Time in Harlem

“I feel that I am losing my sense of time,” pianist Daniel Schreiner told me. Daniel does not transcend time. He manipulates the piano's vibration, resonance, body, and space, revealing the present state of a work. As works from different eras pass through Daniel’s body and mind,

Listen Longer — Feldman’s Hidden Drama

Listen Longer — Feldman’s Hidden Drama

9.11.2026 It was my 25th September 11 in New York. On Friday, September 11, at St. Michael’s Church in New York, the doors opened at 7 PM, and the music began at 7:30. I listened to an 80-minute work for piano and string quartet: Morton

The Met’s New Macbeth — Power and Price

The Met’s New Macbeth — Power and Price

What is the Metropolitan Opera willing to lose in order to preserve the power and traditions of a great opera house? Power and desire destroy both the individual and the society around them. Giuseppe Verdi — Macbeth Production: Louisa Proske Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin Lady Macbeth: Lise Davidsen Macbeth: Quinn Kelsey

Mäkelä × Chicago: The Beginning — Shostakovich 4

Mäkelä × Chicago: The Beginning — Shostakovich 4

Why is Mäkelä playing Shostakovich 4 in Chicago now? Sep 24–26, 2026 Chicago Symphony Center, 220 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60604, USA Klaus Mäkelä, conductor PROGRAM: Jean Sibelius (1865–1957) — Symphony No. 7 (1924) Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975) — Symphony No. 4 (1935–36) In September, the Chicago Symphony

Changing Listening — Feldman & Brown at 100

Changing Listening — Feldman & Brown at 100

What do we listen to, and how? Time stopped, and I could no longer move, caught by the sound of the viola. And then, the sound of that small bell pierced my chest. The third sound stopped closer than I had expected. And I could not believe that time. That

Second Modern / Rebecca Saunders

Second Modern / Rebecca Saunders

Modernism was an approach that sought new forms of expression through sound, developed by composers such as Schoenberg, Webern, Stravinsky, Varèse, Boulez, Stockhausen, and Ligeti. Schoenberg dismantled tonality and moved toward twelve-tone technique; Webern treated pitch, timbre, intensity, duration, and even the silence between sounds as compositional elements; Varèse

The Eco Sound System — Katherine Young’s BIOMES

The Eco Sound System — Katherine Young’s BIOMES

The BIOMES Release at Roulette On September 17, at Roulette in Brooklyn, the album release performance will feature Yarn/Wire performing BIOMES 6.0, a world premiere by Young and Olivia Block using tape machines, and an improvisation by Young, Brian Chase, and Ben LaMar Gay. What is worth hearing

Beyond the 88 Keys — Daniel Schreiner Expands Our Listening

Beyond the 88 Keys — Daniel Schreiner Expands Our Listening

The release party for Unmoored, the debut album by New York–based pianist and composer Daniel Schreiner, will take place on September 12 at the New York gallery MISE-EN_PLACE. 'Unmoored' Recital + Release Party! September 12 | 7 PM – 9 PM Daniel Schreiner — Piano MISE-EN_PLACE 45

Talea SYNCHRONISM

Talea SYNCHRONISM

When Live Sound Meets Electronic Sound — Davidovsky × Talea Ensemble Talea Ensemble’s “SYNCHRONISMS” series begins in September. Centered on the works of Davidovsky, the series brings together music from different periods and composers, extending this idea into the contemporary performance space. The first program features works by Gubaidulina and Beethoven

In Sound

In Sound

Saunders by Talea Ensemble TIME:SPANS 2026 #12 — Talea Ensemble and conductor James Baker in the U.S. premieres of Rebecca Saunders’s Scar (Triptych II) and Skull (Triptych III). These two works are the second and third parts of Saunders’s Triptych. The first work, Skin, was performed by

Deep Listening to the Abyss

Deep Listening to the Abyss

8.28.2026 Deep listening does not take us beyond sound. It takes us deeper into sound—until we reach the edge of the abyss. Sofia Gubaidulina — Sound, Spirit, and Transformation Sofia Gubaidulina (1931–2025), together with Alfred Schnittke and Edison Denisov, was one of the leading composers of contemporary