Tod Machover just returned from a five-day visit to South Korea to meet with violinist Won Hyung-joon, director of the Lindenbaum Festival Orchestra. Won has been trying for two decades to bring together musicians from South and North Korea as a way to promote peaceful reunification between the two countries. After seeing a documentary about …
Opera of the Future is selected for Library of Congress archive
We're excited to announce that the United States Library of Congress has selected the Opera of the Future website for inclusion in the historic collection of Internet materials related to the LC Commissioned Composers Web Archive. "We consider your website to be an important part of this collection and the historical record," the Library stated. …
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Your “Schoenberg in Hollywood” toolkit
"...some of the most arresting music heard in a BLO premiere in recent seasons." - Boston Classical Review closemore Here are a few items to help you wrap your head around Tod Machover's newest opera, Schoenberg in Hollywood, which premiered this week with the Boston Lyric Opera at Boston's Paramount Theater. For the composer's account …
Tod Machover at the CityLab Detroit conference
Earlier this week, Tod spoke at the CityLab 2018 conference in Detroit about his City Symphonies, with a focus on the experience of creating "Symphony in D." At CityLab 2018, The Atlantic, The Aspen Institute and Bloomberg Philanthropies convened the world’s city and community leaders to consider a new narrative worthy of the many global cities …
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“Symphony for the Koreas” launch event
From Tod Machover's Facebook page: "I am excited to be going to Korea in a few weeks to participate in the Lindenbaum Music Festival. Invited by Festival director and violinist Hyung Joon Won, and collaborating with conductor Toshi Shimada of Yale and grad student Hane Lee from the MIT Media Lab, we will be presenting a glimpse of …
“Philadelphia Voices” Q&A
Tod Machover's newest symphonic work, "Philadelphia Voices", is both a sonic portrait of the city and a message from the city to the world, the composer explains in this Q&A interview with the MIT News Office. Machover discusses the germination of the piece, its evolution as he spoke to hundreds of Philadelphians, and how the …
Tod Machover Operas 1987-2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BllQ35nDqAY Check out this cool reel compiled by the MIT Media Lab! This will soon need to be updated with "Schoenberg in Hollywood"!
Check out the City Symphonies blog
Be sure to read--and subscribe to--the City Symphonies blog, which has been posting some captivating stories about the Philadelphia Voices project. Here's an excerpt from the most recent post, Jam Session with Sister Cities Girlchoir: I gave the girls a challenge of helping to create Philadelphia Voices by thinking of words and phrases that convey the …
Philadelphia Voices @ National Constitution Center
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSbJd982q-Q Composer Tod Machover visits the National Constitution Center on Constitution Day, September 17, 2017, for his newest city symphony project, "Philadelphia Voices." His objective: to collect sounds that capture the spirit of the place that gave birth to American democracy. Add your voice to the project by downloading the Philadelphia Voices app! Download in …
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Next Machover opera: “Schoenberg in Hollywood”
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!!!
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