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February 1, 2011January 26, 2011

Q&A with Tod Machover – “How have your collaborations influenced you?”

Here is question 4 from New Vilna Review Editor Daniel Levenson’s recent interview with composer Tod Machover: NVR: Throughout your career you have had the opportunity to collaborate with an incredibly diverse range of artists, thinkers, writers and entrepreneurs – can you tell us a little about how these collaborative efforts have influenced the ways …

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January 30, 2011January 26, 2011

Q&A with Tod Machover – “What inspires you to make music accessible and interactive?”

Here is question 3 from New Vilna Review Editor Daniel Levenson’s recent interview with composer Tod Machover: NVR: It seems as though a large part of the work you do involves an educational element – what is it that inspires you to not only want to create this music, theater and art, but to put …

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January 28, 2011

MIT 150th Anniversary Festival of Art, Science and Technology

Tod Machover emailed us this morning to announce that M.I.T.’s Festival of Art, Science and Technology (FAST) is kicking off next week. The three-month festival s part of the Institute’s 150th anniversary celebration and “will highlight MIT’s legacy of creative experimentation in fields such as music technology, interactive media and architectural installation, and will …

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January 28, 2011January 26, 2011

Q&A with Tod Machover – “What role does Jewish identity play in your work?”

Here is question 2 from New Vilna Review Editor Daniel Levenson’s recent interview with composer Tod Machover: NVR: During the event at the NCAC, the moderator, Professor Lloyd Schwartz, asked a question about the role that Jewish identity plays in the work you do, and specifically whether it figured into the creation of this new opera.

January 26, 2011January 26, 2011

Q & A with Tod Machover – “Do you feel a personal connection to the character of Simon Powers?”

New Vilna Review Editor Daniel Levenson’s recent interview with composer Tod Machover asked wonderfully probing questions that elicited thoughtful, revealing replies. It’s a long interview, and we thought readers would enjoy seeing them in a “Q&A of the day” format. Here is question 1: NVR: You recently participated in an event sponsored by the New …

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January 20, 2011January 20, 2011

Opera Conference 2011

Death and the Powers will be prominently featured at Opera America’s 2011 Opera Conference. Scheduled for May 7-11 in Boston and hosted by the Boston Lyric Opera and Opera Boston, the conference sessions include talks by Death and the Powers composer Tod Machover and director Diane Paulus. The opening keynote will be delivered by Nicholas …

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January 12, 2011March 16, 2011

New Vilna Review Q&A with Tod Machover

Message from Tod: “I thought you might enjoy this new interview that just got posted. The editor of the New Vilna Review was at the event I participated in last month with Robert Pinsky and followed up with these questions. I enjoyed this opportunity to talk about my Jewish roots, something that I haven’t really …

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January 7, 2011January 5, 2011

Performing Arts Technologies in Death and the Powers

David Staples’ article in the German periodical Bühnentechnische Rundschau has now appeared in an English translation. Staples is Managing Director of Theatre Projects, Ltd. the world’s most prominent firm for designing performing arts centers. Staples writes: “Machover has created a number of operas incorporating new technologies, Valis premiered at the Pompidou Centre in Paris in …

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January 5, 2011March 16, 2011

Andrew Porter reviews Death and the Powers

The distinguished music critic Andrew Porter has published his review in Opera Magazine of Death and the Powers, which he saw at its Monaco premiere last September. Porter has followed composer Tod Machover’s work for decades and brings a wealth of knowledge about Tod’s work and the history of opera generally to this review. In …

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December 27, 2010December 25, 2010

Press Quotes – Death and the Powers

“Machover is a remarkable composer. [His] technological inventions in giving to sounds, through electronics, new sonorities, new eloquence, have been widely and amply acclaimed. But I’d like to stress what a good opera composer he is, bringing the ‘traditional’, necessary skills to a far from traditional work. Machover has a command of expressive vocal gesture. …

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