1959 Rome

…in Italy. Since the Society was founded in 1922 by a few far-sighted composers and musicologists, … the question of its continuation has come up repeatedly. For it has been…

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2017 Vancouver

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysevtIn4e2s From contemporaneous reports “With up to five official concerts a day, plus secret showcases not entered in the program, there was precious little time for sit-down dining; even grabbing…

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Donaueschinger Musiktage 2016, 14.-16. Oktober

…sicher die Uraufführungen neuer Werke von Peter Ablinger, James Dillon, Georg Friedrich Haas, Bernhard Gander, Rebecca Saunders, Martin Smolka, Marco Stroppa und Michael Wertmüller sowie die deutsche Erstaufführung des Sirenen-Zyklus…

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KLANGSPUREN 2017

NOCH FRAGEN? ANY QUESTIONS? – that is the ambiguous, slightly mischievous motto of the 24th installment of KLANGSPUREN. On the one hand rather than getting too comfortable with the existing…

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1932 Vienna

…by which I mean that composers are growing to realise that more is expected of them (if they are to survive) than mere adherence, or even lip-worship, to a particular…

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2022 New Zealand

…the international membership of the ISCM and ACL, alongside a rich and varied array of recent music from Aotearoa. CONTACT For more information, please visit www.iscm2022nz.com or contact [email protected]. PROGRAM BOOK…

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1938 London

…listeners cannot always, at first hearing, tell a crackpot musician from a genius, the work of contemporary highbrow composers is unpopular. … To combat this deafness and muteness, societies of…

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1976 Boston

COMPOSERS THAN DEAD MUSIC BY LIVING COMPOSERS.’ The idea struck me halfway into the third concert of the 13 that constituted the International Society of [sic] Contemporary Music’s 1976 World…

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