This is a big anniversary year for me. In addition to this being my 30 th season working as an artist in Iowa, it is my 25 th season as conductor of the Iowa City Community String Orchestra.

This was to be the weekend of Thomas Adès for the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra — and it still is, just without Adès in the flesh. The 39-year-old English composer, conductor and pianist has bowed out of ...

Organic Modernism (Clean Feed 212). I think I get it. It's a modernism that flows naturally out of the non-pretentious music-making of this chamber quartet, namely Daniel Levin, leader and cello, Nate ...

Having weathered the ubiquitous pandemic hiatus, local improvised music advocates Epistrophy Arts came back strong with two presentations this year: jazz legends Andrew Cyrille and Billy Harper at the ...

This Sunday, Nov. 20 at 8 p.m., MOCAD is putting on a wonderful program with New Music Detroit and special guest YAK. This is not the kind of music that gets enough attention in Detroit, or almost ...

With thousands of visitors poised to attend the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival presented by Shell, local clubs and alternative spaces are programming lots of adventurous fare, hoping to catch ...