Avant-garde

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.

The Elements, a new work by five composers for violin and orchestra, commissioned by Joshua Bell, succeeded on all levels at David Geffen Hall.

Parlando's creative, themed concert programming includes audience engagement and even "chili pepper" ratings for listening difficulty.

A web of biographical and stylistic interconnections linked music by contemporary composers Jessie Montgomery and Avner Dorman with works by Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms.

This collection of music by six contemporary female composers from Iran is an eloquent document of the driving creative spirit these composers in a time of reckoning and exile.

The GRAMMY®-nominated percussion quartet focuses on education, with residencies at two academies, seminars, and a Creator Mentorship Program.

The oratorio's 12 movements trace American slavery from early colonial times through the modern Church's recognition of its part in the institution.