Sonic Grace
Our Sonic Grace audio blog is a place where musicians and composers tell us about a piece of music that changed everything.
Dive in to listen and learn about the music that moves our incredible community of artists.
Sandeep Bhagwati - Killmayer's Quiet Beauty
First sponsored a hundred years ago by a local prince, the Donaueschingen Festival in the Germany’s Black Forest was the first official festival of “New…
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Anthony R. Green - Sketches Set 7 by Ed Bland
In my teens, I often listened to CDs from my local library. One such CD, Black Diamonds from pianist Althea Waites, concluded with this incredible piece from…
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Lina Cao - "Water Concerto for Water Percussion and Orchestra" by Tan Dun (譚盾)
When I was a student in high school, I visited a small town called Zhujiajiao located near Shanghai. There was a place there called "Shui…
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Andrew Staniland - Eight Songs for a Mad King by Peter Maxwell Davies
Of all the contemporary repertoire that I encountered as a student in my early education, Eight Songs really stood out. It was just SO weird,…
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Lasso Sanou - "État d'esprit" by Dramane Dembélé
The composition "État d'esprit" by Dramane Dembélé, also known as Popimane, my cousin and a master of the Peul flute, was a musical revelation for…
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Juro Kim Feliz - Pagsamba for 241 performers: ritual music for a circular auditorium by José Maceda
Going to university twenty years ago was a rite of passage. Armed with classical piano training, what else would I need to face the musical…
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Lukas Ligeti - Lonely Child (1980) for soprano and orchestra by Claude Vivier
Given that my father was György Ligeti, it wouldn't come as a surprise that I was exposed to the sounds of unconventional musics from a…
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Mandhira de Saram - Black Angels (1970) for electric string quartet by George Crumb
Growing up in a family of classical musicians, the music of Ligeti was nearly as familiar as Beethoven, certainly as challenging. However, the experience of…
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