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Posted on August 1, 2010September 17, 2010

Sunday Rehearsal at Cutler Majestic

I'm currently sitting in the audience at Cutler Majestic Theater in Boston watching Jim  and Joelle rehearse one of the pivotal scenes in the opera. "We evolved as meat to want sugar and fat/once that was good, but now that is fatal," croons Jim, writhing in anguish on a blanket on stage. I watch mesmerized …

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Posted on July 30, 2010September 17, 2010

Royal Society for the Arts -The Future of Music

RSA series - Tod Machover in conversation with John Kennedy. In the future will everyone be an artist distributing their work over the Web? The tendency is for the quality to settle in the middle. If artists can engage fully with their audience to critique and guide work, the quality should get better. Is there …

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Posted on July 30, 2010September 17, 2010

Big Thinkers: Tod Machover

Death and the Powers composer Tod Machover talks about his musical vision in the Big Thinkers series on TechTV. Lots of fascinating footage... Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

Posted on July 25, 2010September 17, 2010

First Rehearsals – Slide Show!

Posted by June We thought you'd enjoy these photographs taken during the first set of rehearsals in June 2010. Can't wait to find out how these look on stage with lighting and imagery!!

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 8, 2010September 17, 2010

Lunch at the Consulate General of Monaco in New York

Yesterday, Tod was invited to lunch at the Consulate General of Monaco in New York as the guest of honor to speak to top members of the U.S. press about Death and the Powers. The event aimed to introduce the press to the Monaco premiere of the opera, as well as interest them in covering Powers …

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Posted on July 3, 2010September 17, 2010

Memory Download Sequence Shoot

Last weekend the cast and crew ventured out to Tod's farm in Waltham, MA to film scenes from the memory download sequence. Directed by Matt Checkowski of The Department of The 4th Dimension, the shoot began in the early morning at the Media Lab and ended up out in Waltham at around 7 PM, at …

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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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Friday, May 8, 7:00 PM EDT. Chomsky Suite , with the Kronos Quartet and Noam Chomsky, streamed.

Saturday, May 9, 7:00 PM EDT. A Toronto Symphony, MIT Symphony Orchestra, streamed.

Saturday, May 16, 8:00 PM EDT. Philadelphia Voices, Philadelphia Orchestra with Yannick Nézet-Séguin, streamed.

Rescheduled to 2021/2022 season. Schoenberg in Hollywood, Volksoper Wien, Vienna, Austria

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“…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

 

 

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