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Thursday, April 4th

sounds of all over

Hear in Now Expanded* + QWANQWA**, Weaving Strands of Sound from Addis Ababa to Chicago, live (music begins at 13:30), New York, 4/3/24

*Tomeka Reid (cello, compositions), Mazz Swift (violin, compositions), Silvia Bolognesi (bass, compositions), yuniya edi kwon (violin), Chad Taylor (drums)

**Misale Legesse Muleta (kebero), Anteneh “Bubu” Teklemariam Barago (bass krar), Selamnesh Zemene Taye (vocals), Kaethe Hostetter (violin), Endres “Endris” Hassen Ahmed (masinko)

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other day, Oak Park, Ill.

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Jürg Frey, “Architecture Circulaire” (2017), for 5 contrabass clarinets and 5 percussionists (clarinets: Armand Angster, Hans Koch, Theo Nabicht, Ernesto Molinari, Olivier Vivarès; percussion: Eklekto [Alexandre Babel, Sébastien Cordier, Louis Delignon, Florian Feyer, Dorian Fretto]), live, Geneva, 2017

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other day, Chicago

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Saturday, March 23rd

sounds of New York

Ches Smith & Laugh Ash (CS, electronics, drums, percussion; Shara Lunon, voice and vocal processing, lyrics; Anna Webber, flute; Oscar Noriega, clarinets; James Brandon Lewis, tenor saxophone; Nate Wooley, trumpet; Jennifer Choi, violin; Kyle Armbrust, viola; Michael Nicolas, cello; Shahzad Ismaily, bass, Moog), live, New York, 3/20/24

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art beat: other day, Des Moines, Iowa (Des Moines Art Center)

Agnes Martin (1912-2004), Untitled #3 (1974), detail

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Tuesday, March 19th

sounds of New York

Earle Brown (1926-2002), Times Five (1963), for chamber ensemble; Argento New Music Project (Michel Galante, conductor; Francesca Ferrera, flute; William Lang, trombone; Jacqueline Kerrod, harp; Conrad Harris, violin; Michael Katz, cello), live, New York, 2023

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this morning, Oak Park, Ill.

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Thursday, March 14th

sounds of Chicago

Macie Stewart (violin, voice), Ben LaMar Gay (cornet, electronics, voice), live, Chicago, 2/22/24

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art beat: other day, Smart Museum (University of Chicago)

Ruth Duckworth (1919-2009), Untitled (1970s), detail

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Tuesday, March 12th

timeless

Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931, piano, composition), “In a Mist,” rec. 1927 (New York)

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other day, Oak Park, Ill.

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Friday, March 1st

3ⁿ

Marta Warelis (piano), Wilbert de Joode (bass), Onno Govaert (drums), live, Amsterdam, 2021

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Monday, February 26th

What you didn’t know you needed right now.

Irreversible Entanglements (Camae Ayewa [Moor Mother], vocals; Aquiles Navarro, trumpet, synthesizer; Keir Neuringer, saxophone, synthesizer; Luke Stewart, bass; Tcheser Holmes, drums; Kyle Kidd, vocals), live (“Fireworks”, “Soundness,” “Free Love,” “Our Land Back,” “root ᐸ=ᐳ branch,” “Protect Your Light”), live, Washington, D.C., 2/19/24

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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.

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Saturday, February 17th

passings

Seiji Ozawa, conductor, September 1, 1935–February 6, 2024

Vienna Philharmonic (Seiji Ozawa, cond.) with Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), live, Tokyo, 2020; Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996), Nostalghia: In Memory of Andrei Tarkovsky (for violin and orchestra), 1987