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Posted on July 15, 2010September 17, 2010

Nature interview with Tod

The current issue of Nature features an interview with Tod about Death and the Powers. Because the venerable science journal lacks a music or opera review section (what an oversight!), the interview ended up under Book reviews. In the interview, Tod explains why he has been drawn time and again to creating operas: "With the …

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Posted on July 14, 2010September 17, 2010

Death and the Powers Ticket Site Now Open

Buy tickets for the Monaco premiere of Death and the Powers. Shows run on September 24th (invitation only), September 25th (8pm), and September 26th (3pm and 8pm). Ticket prices begin at 80 euros. About Death and the Powers "When the eccentric patriarch Simon Powers departs his physical being and downloads himself into The System, his …

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Posted on July 3, 2010September 17, 2010

Boston Magazine feature on Machover

Tod is on a media roll this week... here's a terrific article in Boston Magazine - Genius Composition: How professor Tod Machover and a group of MIT scientists are creating the future of music. Here's a quote: "Machover believes the music - not the technology - is the message. And if this means alienating the …

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Posted on July 2, 2010September 17, 2010

Smithsonian Magazine interview: Tod Machover

The just-released 40th Anniversary issue of Smithsonian magazine features a terrific interview with our very own Tod Machover, composer of Death and the Powers. Check it out! Tod Machover on Composing Music by Computer "The inventor and MIT professor talks about where music and technology will intersect over the course of the next 40 years." …

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Posted on June 26, 2010September 17, 2010

Karole Armitage at work with Miseries

by June Kinoshita I dropped by the Media Lab this week to sit in on Death and the Powers rehearsals and had the privilege of catching choreographer Karole Armitage at work. It was fascinating and exhilarating to see her creative process unfurl. She explained to me that when she choreographs for operas she often turns …

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Posted on June 11, 2010September 17, 2010

Machover and Minsky at World Science Festival

Last week, a crowd gathered under the dome of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City to hear Tod Machover and artificial intelligence visionary Marvin Minsky converse about music and the mind. Tom Ashbrook, host of NPR's On Point, moderated. One take-away that I thought was particularly pertinent to opera was Marvin's opening remark: He …

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Posted on May 9, 2010September 17, 2010

Death and the Powers – Welcome to the blog

Behind every opera is...another opera. This summer, Tod Machover's new work, Death and the Powers, will enter the home stretch as the crew works to complete one of the most technically ambitious and visionary opera sets ever built, and the cast arrives in Boston to rehearse for the world premiere in Monte Carlo on September …

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March 7, 7:30 p.m. ET. World premiere of Tod Machover's Overstory Overture, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center. Joyce DiDonato and the Sejong Soloists, Conducted by Earl Lee

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Death and the Powers (DVD blu-ray)

Superb blu-ray of the Dallas Opera's 2014 production. “Death and the Powers doesn’t point the way to a new era of opera. It’s there. Now.” - Philadelphia Inquirer

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Tod Machover Recordings (click image to order)

 

In SACD, this CD provides an ideal opportunity to savor the richness, subtlety, variety and originality of Machover’s music.

 

 

“…manages to be at once technically rigorous, hard-charging, and hugely visceral.”
– The Boston Globe

 

 

“Mr. Machover’s new quartet, “… but not simpler …,” is a vigorous, exciting study in speediness, full of tremolando figures, racing lines and iridescent passages..”
– The New York Times

 

”A milestone and a noble achievement”
– Lloyd Schwartz, National Public Radio

 

 

 

”…one of the brightest and most intelligent of new American operas”
– Andrew Porter, The New Yorker

 

 

 

“…the music leaves an indelible aural effect upon the ear in its colorful writing, swirling figurations, and immediacy.”
– David DeBoor Canfield, Fanfare

 

 

”…Best of the Year”
– The Boston Globe

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