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 Overture …
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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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.
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!
“Machover and BMOP have hit it out of the park with this one.” American Record Guide, a magazine of independent music criticism, has published this laudatory review in its March/April 2022 issue of the new Death and the Powers recording from the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. Here’s an image of the article for those of …
Tod Machover’s new composition for violin and electronics will receive its world premiere this Thursday at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Commissioned y the Royal Academy of Music as part of its 200th Anniversary celebrations, the piece will be performed by the wonderful young violinist Charlie Lovell-Jones. Information and free tickets here. (Sold out!)
In the February 2022 issue of Opera News, reviewer Joshua Rosenblum is full of praise for the Boston Modern Opera Project’s new recording of “Tod Machover’s innovative, grandly imagined science-fiction opera,” with its “literate, imaginative libretto by poet Robert Pinsky.” The recording is also a Critic’s Choice. He writes, “The score bursts with both acoustic …
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“…this CD provides an ideal opportunity to savor the richness, subtlety, variety and originality of Machover’s music…” The world premiere recording of Tod Machover’s large-scale and highly acclaimed “robotic” opera, Death and the Powers, set to a libretto by U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, is being released today by the Grammy Award-winning BMOP/sound, known as …
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