https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uKqjEFyZmc 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 …
The Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience and the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music will present the West Coast premiere of composer Tod Machover’s chamber opera, Schoenberg in Hollywood, May 18, 20 and 22, 2025 at the newly-renovated UCLA Nimoy Theater. These performances are part of Schoenberg 150, the worldwide celebration of the sesquicentennial of composer …
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How does one go about composing a symphony with the citizenry of an entire city? Composer Tod Machover and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra are venturing into uncharted territory! To get going, they have conceived of the process as a Journey, with weekly activities to inspire participants to contribute raw material - stories, memories, ideas and …
Critic Andrew Violette reviews Tod Machover's latest CD "...but not simpler..." in the current (Fall/Winter 2011) issue of New Music Connoisseur. The full review is available here. We especially appreciate that Mr. Violette sees past the technology to the essence of the music. For Tod, technology is part Muse, part means, but never the end …
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by Phil Muse for Atlanta Audio Video Club, reproduced here with permission “…but not simpler,” music of Tod Machover The iO String quartet; Michael Chertock, hyperpiano Paul Mann, Odense Symphony Orchestra Bridge Records I know I’m getting along in years when I start encountering composers that I’m old enough to beat up. In the case …
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Opera of the Future 