The Atlantic's CityLab blog reports on Tod Machover's two new city symphony projects, in Miami and Philadelphia. You can read it here: Turning Street Noise Into a City Symphony. “Like so many things in our culture, there's a growing gap between experts and ordinary people, and I thought music is such a great laboratory to show …
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In this interview, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, discusses Tod Machover's "Philadelphia Voices," a work commissioned for 2018. The orchestra is featuring American composers during its 2017-2018 season. Other works included the Bernstein Centenary featuring "West Side Story," "Chichester Psalms," and Symphony No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra (“The Age of Anxiety”); Wynton …
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Stravinsky: A Life in Progress Tuesday, February 7 | 6pm Part of the Opera Night at the Boston Public Library series Boston Public Library Central Branch | Rabb Hall Free and open to the public Igor Stravinsky’s epic life and innovative works took him from Russia to France, Hollywood, and even Boston as he helped …
The Boston Lyric Opera just announced the commission for Tod Machover's next opera, called "Schoenberg in Hollywood". The premiere will be in November 2018. Machover is taking a sabbatical from the MIT Media Lab to work on the opera. Read about the basics at tinyurl.com/TodBLOrelease. More to come!!!
Composer Tod Machover's ground-breaking "city symphony" projects, which involve entire urban communities in collaborating to create sonic portraits of their cities, is making its next stop in Miami. Machover has created city symphonies in Toronto, Edinburgh, Perth, Lucerne, and Detroit, but he encourages other artists to take hold of the idea and spread it to more communities. …
Interesting "debate" at the MIT Media Lab on Dec.9 that Tod Machover be moderating and speaking at - "The Artist: Means, Meaning and Impact in the 21st Century". Final event of the DeVos Institute series on "Generation Elsewhere: Art in the Age of Distraction". Full info and registration at http://www.devosinstitute.net/GenerationElsewhere. Press release at http://web.media.mit.edu/~tod/media/pdfs/The-Artist_Means-Meaning-Impact_PressRelease.pdf.
If you're in Colorado or Vermont this fall, mark your calendars for these upcoming Tod Machover concerts! Thursday, September 29, 7:30-9:00 PM. Packard Performance Hall, 5 W. Cache La Poudre Street, in Colorado Springs. Machover, performs with Susan Grace and guests. More info here. Friday, October 14, University of Vermont, Burlington. 2:30 PM, talk on “Robotic Operas, …
From Tod Machover's Facebook page: "Speaking tomorrow at Lincoln Center's fascinating Global Exchange event that explores the potential for the arts to raise awareness of - and change behavior towards - some of the world's most intractable problems. Will be presenting information about our City Symphonies past, present and future, as well as giving some …
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Composer Tod Machover addressed the class of 2016 at the Bienen School of Music convocation June 18. Recently named 2016 Composer of the Year by Musical America, Machover has been called “America’s most wired composer” by The Los Angeles Times and a “musical visionary” by The New York Times. He is widely recognized as one …
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The music world has been abuzz with news about Yannick Nézet-Séguin's appointment as music director of the Metropolitan Opera. He will succeed James Levine, who has served in that role for four decades. Simultaneously, the 41-year-old Québécois conductor has also renewed his contract as music director for the Philadelphia Orchestra. In its press release, the Philadelphia Orchestra …
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