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Posted on November 10, 2013November 10, 2013

Press from Perth

Catch up on what Tod Machover has been doing in Perth in this article from  The Western Australian. He describes some of the unique nature sounds he has been hearing and talks about an ongoing workshop with school children who are using Hyperscore software to transcribe the sounds of their city into music. Although his …

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Posted on March 22, 2012March 22, 2012

A Toronto Symphony – The Journey Begins

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 …

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Posted on March 1, 2012March 2, 2012

Inspiration from…Star Wars Global Mash-Up

As Tod and the Opera of the Future team mull how to pull off the ambitious Symphony for the City of Toronto, someone sent us this insanely entertaining crowd-sourced remake of Star Wars. Fans around the world were asked to recreate scenes in 15-second increments, and the results were spliced together with the original soundtrack. …

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Friday, May 8, 7:00 PM EDT. Chomsky Suite , with the Kronos Quartet and Noam Chomsky, streamed.

Saturday, May 9, 7:00 PM EDT. A Toronto Symphony, MIT Symphony Orchestra, streamed.

Saturday, May 16, 8:00 PM EDT. Philadelphia Voices, Philadelphia Orchestra with Yannick Nézet-Séguin, streamed.

Rescheduled to 2021/2022 season. Schoenberg in Hollywood, Volksoper Wien, Vienna, Austria

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“…manages to be at once technically rigorous, hard-charging, and hugely visceral.”
– The Boston Globe

 

 

“Mr. Machover’s new quartet, “… but not simpler …,” is a vigorous, exciting study in speediness, full of tremolando figures, racing lines and iridescent passages..”
– The New York Times

 

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