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Spring 2025
Features | April 24, 2025
Early Music, Later On
In its fiftieth season, Music Before 1800 confronts existential questions.
Winter 2025
Features | April 1, 2025
Let Conscience Ring
An ambitious commissioning and presenting project generated not just music, but also empathy and searching questions.
Winter 2025
Features | February 4, 2025
Grandfathered In
David Harrington receives CMA’s Michael Jaffee Visionary Award.
Winter 2025
Features | February 4, 2025
Roscoe’s Big Picture
Roscoe Mitchell is the inaugural recipient of CMA’s Executive Award.
Winter 2025
Features | February 4, 2025
The Big (and Lasting) Bang
For nearly 40 years, Bang on a Can’s theory has been to alter what we listen to, where we hear it, and in what order.
Fall 2024
Features | November 7, 2024
Under Cecil’s Sun
Archie Rand writes about his mentor, Cecil Taylor.
Fall 2024
Features | November 7, 2024
All This Because I Talk So Well
Jason Moran writes about listening to Chuck D rap on an early hiphop hit in his family’s kitchen.
Fall 2024
“Ellen Reid Soundwalk”. Photographed Friday, October 23, 2019. NY Philharmonic.
Features | November 7, 2024
So Long Since I Felt This Way
Ellen Reid discusses crafting work and performing in an environment like no other.
Fall 2024
Features | November 7, 2024
What’s a Note?
In this article violinist David Harrington writes about the first time he heard Zabelle Panosian sing “Groung.”
Fall 2024
Features | November 7, 2024
Finding Julius
Cellist Seth Parker Woods writes about discovering the music of Julius Eastman. 
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