https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uKqjEFyZmc Check out this splendid recording of the world premiere of Tod Machover's FLOW Symphony. The piece was performed by the Sejong Soloists on August 24, 2024, at the Seoul Arts Center. Here are Machover's program notes about FLOW Symphony: FLOW Symphony is the second work that I have composed for Sejong Soloists, after Overstory …
We're sharing a pair for great recent interviews about Tod Machover's "Schoenberg in Hollywood" in the lead-up to the opera's upcoming premiere in Los Angeles – an artistic homecoming for the revolutionary Viennese composer who found refuge there from World War II Europe. The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music has posted Walking that Line …
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If you're in the Boston area on March 13, come check out Moving Music, a presentation of two unusual premieres created at – and performed in – the MIT Media Lab. Here...NOW by Ana Schon invites audiences to voyage through the Media Lab building, exploring the relationship between space-and-sound. MAICE by Tod Machover is an exploration of the power and limits …
Professor Tod Machover Honored by the French Culture Ministry as Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters (from MIT Media Lab). Professor Tod Machover, head of the Opera of the Future group, has been awarded the rank of Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by the Cultural Ministry of France. In the …
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The Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience and the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music will present the West Coast premiere of composer Tod Machover’s chamber opera, Schoenberg in Hollywood, May 18, 20 and 22, 2025 at the newly-renovated UCLA Nimoy Theater. These performances are part of Schoenberg 150, the worldwide celebration of the sesquicentennial of composer …
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Commissioned and Performed by Sejong Soloists Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea August 24, 2024Information about the performance HERE.
Follow the creation of "Every Thing Has Its Limits for/with Glass Cymbals." on CONFLUENCE, premiering this month on PBS. Watch the CONFLUENCE trailer. Tod Machover's process of experimentation with "glass cymbals" was designed especially for the new three-part series CONFLUENCE, which explores the enduring and surprising connections between the arts and the fields of science, …
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Tod Machover’s latest musical composition/installation, Sailing Through Fire (2024), opened at the 60th Venice Biennale on April 20, 2024. The work is a collaboration with celebrated Korean visual artist, Lee Bae, and is an integral part of a full-building installation at Venice’s Wilmotte Foundation. Read more here. The installation runs through November at the beautiful Wilmotte Foundation …
On Friday, March 8 at 7:30 pm, Tod Machover will be presenting a concert/lecture at Concord (MA) Conservatory of Music on Music & Invention. Curated to explore diverse aspects of invention in music - technological, compositional and conceptual - the program will demonstrate how different composers have changed the way we listen as well as reconsidered who creates music and how. The concert features works …
The Asian premiere of Tod Machover’s chamber opera Schoenberg in Hollywood is presented on 4 November by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, as part of a celebratory series of events for Schoenberg’s 150th anniversary. From Boosey & Hawkes. Tod Machover’s opera Schoenberg in Hollywood, completed in 2018 after a 20-year gestation period, is performed for the first …
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