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Karen Slack, Julia Bullock, Caroline Shaw, Ian Bostridge Headline 92NY’s 2024-25 Tisch Music Season

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(Kia Caldwell Photography) The 92nd Street Y in New York City has announced its 2024-25 Tisch Music Season. Here is a rundown of the classical vocal performances. Vocalist and composer Caroline Shaw headlines “Rectangles and Circumstance” alongside Alica Olatuka and So Percussion. Performance Date: Oct. 23, 2024 Soprano Julia Bullock and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment present “The Golden {…}

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The Crossing @ Christmas to Feature World Premiere of Caroline Shaw’s ‘Ochre’

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Grammy Award-winning ensemble The Crossing Choir will make the world premiere of  Caroline Shaw’s “Ochre” at its annual Crossing @ Christmas concert. Donald Nally will conduct Shaw’s new work and Mason Bates’s “Mass Transmission” for organ and electronics. Scott Dettra joins on the organ. In The Crossing tradition, these holiday concerts explore relationships, humanity, sorrow, treatment of the earth, and {…}

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Renée Fleming, Caroline Shaw, Aundi Marie Moore Headline Fortas Chamber Music Concerts’ 2022-23 Season

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The Kenned Center’s Fortas Chamber Music Concerts has announced its 2022-23 season. For the purposes of this article, our focus will be solely on vocal performances. Vocalist Caroline Shaw will join So Percussion for music by Angélica Negrón, Julia Wolfe, and Caroline Shaw. Performance Date: Jan. 30, 2023 The Sphinx Symphony Orchestra, under Tito Muñoz, will perform alongside the EXIGENCE {…}

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John Holiday to Headline Tyshawn Sorey’s ‘Save the Boys’ on Opera Philadelphia Channel

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Opera Philadelphia is set to present Tyshawn Sorey’s “Save the Boys” on Feb. 12, 2021. The showcase will feature countertenor John Holiday, who in addition to a heralded operatic career, has recently made major headlines by his star turn on NBC’s “The Voice.” “Save the Boys” was inspired by an 1887 poem of the same name by Frances Ellen Watkins {…}

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Allan Clayton, Benjamin Appl, Sophie Bevan, Claire Booth, Lotte Betts-Dean Headline Aldeburgh Festival 2025

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Aldeburgh Festival has announced its 2025 edition. Here is a rundown of the vocal performances on offer. First up is “A Visit to Friends,” a new opera by Collin Matthews and William Boyd. It stars Lotte Betts-Dean, Susanna Hurrell, Marcus Farnsworth, Edward Hawkins, and Gary Mattewman. Jessica Cottis conducts and Rachael Hewer directs. Performance Date: June 13 & 14, 2025 James {…}

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Sydney Baedke, Marcel d’Entremont, Reilly Nelson, & Danika Lorèn Solo in Toronto’s West End Micro Music Festival

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The West End Micro Music Festival announces its fourth season titled “REVELATIONS.” Music Director of the Edmonton Opera, Simon Rivard leads both programs. The West End Micro Music Festival takes place at the Redeemer Lutheran Church in Toronto. “Programme I — Ecstatic Voices” features works by Cassandra Miller, Caroline Shaw, Luciano Berio,  Thomas Tallis, and Claude Vivier. Singers include Sydney {…}

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Death of Classical Announces New Concert Series

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Death of Classical has announced its new concert series, “The Light After.” The new collaboration between Death of Classical, St. John the Divine, and Trinity Church features three evenings of music in the Crypt under the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine. Chamber groups from Trinity’s acclaimed new music ensemble NOVUS perform. The first concert includes selection of music {…}

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Konstantin Krimmel & Nicolai Ghiaurov Lead New CD/DVD Releases

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Welcome back for this week’s look at the latest CD and DVD releases in the opera world. This week audiences will get a chance to listen to world premiere recordings, a rarely performed work and a legendary recording of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni.” Ochre  Multiple-GRAMMY-winning ensemble The Crossing offers a new album born of cultural resonance, with new works by three {…}

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Brooklyn Art Song Society to Present Departures III

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The Brooklyn Art Song Society is set to present “Departures III.” The concert will conclude the New Voices Festival and showcase a meditation on loss and longing. The program will feature Lembit Beecher’s “Looking at Spring,” which reflects on the passage of time and aging, alongside two BASS-Commissioned World Premieres by Daniel Felsenfeld (Visiting San Francisco) and Jessica Meyer (with {…}