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- Arts & Culture, Art Review Feb 22, 2017
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The MCA’s Merce Cunningham retrospective spotlights the art of collaboration
“Merce Cunninghman: Common Time” considers one of the 20th century’s most significant choreographers.
- Music, Music Feature Mar 31, 2014
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David Grubbs on the meaning of records
In a new book the former Gastr del Sol front man discusses why the experimental music of the 1960s was so rarely recorded at the time—and what changes when we listen to it today.
- Music, Music Feature Mar 17, 2014
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Alvin Lucier is sitting in a room (at the MCA)
The composer whose curiosity about acoustic phenomena transformed contemporary classical music comes to Chicago for a historic three-day career retrospective.
- Music, Music Feature Jun 13, 2013
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A new box set gives experimental composer David Tudor his due
Despite his pioneering work with electronics and indeterminacy, he’s far more obscure than his friend John Cage—in part because he considered his music a living practice rather than something to be documented.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 17, 2011
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The Merce Cunningham Dance Company's final shows in Chicago
The Merce Cunningham Dance Company gives its final Chicago performances this weekend, but its music lives on an fantastic box set.
- Best of Chicago, Music & Nightlife Jun 23, 2011
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Best place to hear work by Wandelweiser Group composers
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