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 …
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 …
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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Based on the novel by Philip K. Dick September 8-10, 2023MIT Theater Arts Performance Space345 Vassar Street, Cambridge MAFREE Tickets on Eventbrite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEPwH27a5fM Tod Machover’s first opera, VALIS, broke new ground and garnered rave reviews when it premiered in 1987. The CD of VALIS – still available on Bridge Records – was named “Best of the Year” by The …
Produced in cooperation with the Opera of the Future group Press release from June 29, 2023. The Dallas Symphony Orchestra today announced plans for the Jeanne R. Johnson Education Center located in the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center. The Johnson Education Center is scheduled to open in Fall 2024 and will serve students from first …
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The March 7 world premiere of Tod Machover's Overstory Overture at Alice Tully Hall drew extraordinary performances
The world premiere of Tod Machover’s Overstory Overture, featuring Joyce DiDonato, takes place on March 7, 2023, at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall in New York.
TICKETS just went on sale for the world premiere of Tod Machover's Overstory Overture, a new work inspired by Richard Powers’ Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
The Royal Academy of Music in London has just launched their massive project of new commissions to celebrate the Academy's 200th anniversary. Tod Machover's recent piece for violin and electronics - RESOLVE REMOTE - is included in this collection. You can listen to the fabulous recording of the piece by Charlie Lovell-Jones (for free) at …
Here's the program for this concert of new music from Tod Machover, October 14 and 15, at the new MIT Museum! Tickets are on sale now. Space is limited!
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