Tod Machover's new composition for violin and electronics will receive its world premiere this Thursday at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Commissioned y the Royal Academy of Music as part of its 200th Anniversary celebrations, the piece will be performed by the wonderful young violinist Charlie Lovell-Jones. Information and free tickets here. (Sold out!)
Opera News lauds “Death and the Powers” recording
In the February 2022 issue of Opera News, reviewer Joshua Rosenblum is full of praise for the Boston Modern Opera Project's new recording of "Tod Machover’s innovative, grandly imagined science-fiction opera," with its "literate, imaginative libretto by poet Robert Pinsky." The recording is also a Critic's Choice. He writes, "The score bursts with both acoustic …
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Praise for the new Death and the Powers recording
Music journalist Laurence Vittes reviews the CD recording of Death and the Powers in Gramophone, writing that "Now what had been an electrifying theatrical experience has been released as an electrifying surround-sound thriller." "As striking as the visuals must be, Machover’s arsenal of music stands triumphantly on its own, fusing and defusing technoflash from the …
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Hyperscore for the Web
Two years ago, Tod Machover and June Kinoshita founded a nonprofit, New Harmony Line, to resurrect Hyperscore, the software which hundreds of school children have used to compose original music that has been woven into Tod’s Toy Symphony and City Symphony pieces and performed around the world. Hyperscore enables anyone to express themselves through original compositions …
World premiere recording of Death & the Powers is out today
"...this CD provides an ideal opportunity to savor the richness, subtlety, variety and originality of Machover’s music..." The world premiere recording of Tod Machover’s large-scale and highly acclaimed “robotic” opera, Death and the Powers, set to a libretto by U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, is being released today by the Grammy Award-winning BMOP/sound, known as …
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“Schoenberg in Hollywood” in Vienna in 2022.
The Volksoper Wien has confirmed that its production of Tod Machover's Schoenberg in Hollywood, originally scheduled for April 2020 but postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, is on the calendar for its 2022 season. This will be the European premier of Machover's 2018 work, in a new production in the heart of Vienna, the city …
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Cellist Matt Haimovitz releases new CD with Machover’s Sorta Voce on Pentatone in June
Sorta Voce was commissioned by cellist Matt Haimovitz as part of his new “Primavera Project,” and will appear on the first CD release of the project on the PENTATONE label in June 2021. Haimovitz’s project is a collaboration of music and art inspired by one of the most widely admired and enigmatic paintings of the Renaissance, Botticelli’s Primavera (ca 1480), …
World premiere of Machover’s VocaGammified
We are pleased to announce that the legendary soprano, Renée Fleming, will be premiering Tod Machover's new work, VocaGammified, at a Cal Performances recital on April 29th. The piece - written especially for Renée - is for voice, string quartet and electronics, and is based on Gamma research from MIT showing that certain forms of …
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Kronos Quartet features “Gammified”
https://youtu.be/koBcB9mhon0 The Kronos Quartet has posted a special website featuring Tod Machover's composition "Gammified," which they commissioned in 2019 as part of their "Fifty for the Future" series. The composition is based on Media Lab research into the reparative effects of 40 Hz. audio signals on the brain. The site includes a new Kronos recording for string quartet and electronics; the …
Unscripted interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDGHHqnFNq0 Check out this new interview with Tod Machover from Musical America's "unscripted series. It's a light-hearted, informal chat about musical influences, unusual projects, and behind-the-scenes stories.
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