Category Archives: The Listening Room

The Listening Room: Structure and Substance

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Jan 24 2012
 by Sam Bergman

This is the second post in this month’s edition of The Listening Room, our discussion of music that composer Judd Greenstein finds meaningful, inspiring, or just plain good. For earlier Listening Room posts, click here, and add your own insights … Continue reading →

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The Listening Room: The Embraceable Modernist

Posted on
Jan 23 2012
 by Sam Bergman

It’s time for this month’s edition of The Listening Room, in which our MicroCommission composer Judd Greenstein selects a recording he loves and invites you to have a conversation about it. We’re going to change things up a little this … Continue reading →

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The Listening Room: A Lot of Lutoslawski

Posted on
Jan 9 2012
 by Sam Bergman

Later this month, (specifically, the week of January 23,) we’ll be kicking off another installment of The Listening Room, a project we launched with Judd here on the blog in November. Basically, TLR is like a book club, only with … Continue reading →

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The Listening Room: Reich’s The Desert Music

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Nov 29 2011
 by Sam Bergman

This is the second of two posts kicking off the musical conversation we’re calling The Listening Room. If this is the first you’ve heard of it, click here to get caught up. Yesterday, Judd and I discussed the first work … Continue reading →

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The Listening Room: Reich’s Tehillim

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Nov 28 2011
 by Sam Bergman

As previously announced, today marks the kickoff of a blog-based project we’re calling The Listening Room. It’s sort of a like a musical book club, and here’s how it works: over the next few months, we’ll announce specific recordings that … Continue reading →

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Judd, More Judd, & Introducing The Listening Room

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Nov 10 2011
 by Sam Bergman

It’s that time of the fall again – our first Inside the Classics concert of the season goes up this Friday and Saturday night (which you could probably have predicted by the fact that this blog went utterly silent more … Continue reading →

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