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Monthly Archives: October 2010

New memoriam

The International Contemporary Concert gave a memorial concert last week, a rare occurrence and one that doesn’t often happen with contemporary classical music. The occasion was the murder of violist Omar Hernández-Hidalgo in June. He had been kidnapped four days earlier, and was found in the trunk of a car. Hernández-Hidalgo was 39, and an [...]

CHICAGO: YOU CAN’T SEE RUSSIA FROM HERE – UPDATED

This year, Chicago cements its growing reputation as the place to go to hear John Luther Adams’s music. You won’t find it in any tourism guidebooks, and his oeuvre is not going to inspire tours such as the Gangland Chicago tours, but it’s true. Take a look at his calendar: 14 shows going back to [...]