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This holiday week, we are going to delve deep into 20th and 21st century opera, listening to some wonderful, large-scale works. Highlights include Rautavaara's The House of the Sun,...

The holidays provide a suitable excuse to do a lot of things you wouldn’t normally do, especially when the New Year is around the corner and atonement for overindulgence is no more difficult than a three-word resolution. Here on Hammered! – Q2’s hour-long contemporary piano showcase – the holidays mean heavy on the Olivier Messiaen, and heavy on the Messiaen means the gluttonous holiday classic (at least at Q2) Vingt regards sur l’enfant-Jesus. It goes without saying, however, that “play less Messiaen” is a resolution we will never keep.

Composer Nico Muhly hosts a witch's brew of selections from the New York Philharmonic CONTACT! New Music series, featuring seven world premieres commissioned by the orchestra.

Hear three exclusive Web casts of the New York Philharmonic, Music Director Alan Gilbert and Composer-in-Residence Magnus Lindberg's refreshing series, CONTACT!, devoted to New Music, world premiere performances, intimate venues and young, emerging composers. In two concerts held at the Metropolitan Museum and Symphony Space, respectively, Alan Gilbert lead a ...

The holidays provide a suitable excuse to do a lot of things you wouldn’t normally do, especially when the New Year is around the corner and atonement for overindulgence is no more difficult than a three-word resolution. Here on Hammered! – Q2’s hour-long contemporary piano showcase – the holidays mean heavy on the Olivier Messiaen, and heavy on the Messiaen means the gluttonous holiday classic (at least at Q2) Vingt regards sur l’enfant-Jesus. It goes without saying, however, that “play less Messiaen” is a resolution we will never keep.