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What Kind of Music Is This Anyway?

The wonderful guitarist, Mark Stewart, who is a member of the Bang on a Can All-Stars, but who also plays in Paul Simon’s band and on the film scores of Elliot Goldenthal, says “I play three kinds of...

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What If I Like Your Politics but Don’t Like Your Art?

Directly across the street from my studio, where for most of the day I sit writing music, there is a makeshift shrine put together by the residents on my block to commemorate Larry, the homeless man...

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Finding ‘Lost Objects’ in Germany

Performance of “Lost Objects” at Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival, 2004. (Photo: Stephanie Berger for The New York Times) In Europe, where they take their arts very seriously, nothing...

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Another Sort of Diplomacy

In Venezuela there is little money for education, and the trend has become to cut music in the schools.

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Orchestra Hero

On the orchestra and its possibilities in the age of interactivity.

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The Accidental Music Lesson

The composer travels full circle from Miami Beach to New York and back again, and gets a refresher course on how he learned to be a musician.

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