Avant-garde

The new music sextet unleashes microtones and nontraditional tunings among other boundary-pushing elements of music by six contemporary composers.

Eight pianists, eight composers: A concert tribute honored pianist and contemporary music champion Ursula Oppens as she turned 80.

The Cathedral of St. John the Divine hosted the Experiential Orchestra and Artefact Ensemble in Orthodox chants and a passion setting by Arvo Pärt.

The Curtis on Tour chamber music project brought some of the Curtis Institute's best young musicians to 92Y.

Reviews of an expanded edition of Frank Zappa's Over-nite Sensation, the Feelies' 'Some Kinda Love,' and more.

The Cassatt Quartet played Beethoven, Victoria Bond, and works by Joan Tower and Adolphus Hailstork for the unconventional pairing of trombone and string quartet.

The Orchestra Now presented music from the 1940s by four composers who had fled their European homelands to escape the Nazis.

The composer set out to "advance a scientific, atheistic vision of the world" using the musical structure of a Christian Mass and modern choral idioms.

Julia Werntz's microtonal music throws open a door to new possibilities; baritone Tyler Duncan and pianist Erika Switzer hail Canadian composers.

The Parlando chamber orchestra opened its season with Tchaikovsky and challenging, rewarding new music by Joey Roukens and Jimmy Lopez.