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Posted on July 2, 2010September 17, 2010

Smithsonian Magazine interview: Tod Machover

The just-released 40th Anniversary issue of Smithsonian magazine features a terrific interview with our very own Tod Machover, composer of Death and the Powers. Check it out! Tod Machover on Composing Music by Computer "The inventor and MIT professor talks about where music and technology will intersect over the course of the next 40 years." …

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Death and the Powers (DVD blu-ray)

Superb blu-ray of the Dallas Opera's 2014 production. “Death and the Powers doesn’t point the way to a new era of opera. It’s there. Now.” - Philadelphia Inquirer

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Tod Machover Recordings (click image to order)

 

In SACD, this CD provides an ideal opportunity to savor the richness, subtlety, variety and originality of Machover’s music.

 

 

“…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

 

”A milestone and a noble achievement”
– Lloyd Schwartz, National Public Radio

 

 

 

”…one of the brightest and most intelligent of new American operas”
– Andrew Porter, The New Yorker

 

 

 

“…the music leaves an indelible aural effect upon the ear in its colorful writing, swirling figurations, and immediacy.”
– David DeBoor Canfield, Fanfare

 

 

”…Best of the Year”
– The Boston Globe

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