Transformative, Unifying Omar
Music speaks for itself – except when it can’t, in the face of prevailing cultural attitudes and power structures (consider Florence...
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JOHN KENNEDY
CONDUCTOR AND COMPOSER
Recent Posts
Hearing the Ecotone
Perhaps you have heard of the biological concept of the “Ecotone,” which describes physical and social spaces that we are all living and...
The Breath of Music
[A version of this essay first appeared in NewMusicBox.com when Kennedy served as President of the American Music Center.] In my...
Revisiting One Body for Today
“And I speak of the goddess I speak of the goddess I speak of the beautiful goddess O tell them what I would say…” The One Body of Gaia...
The Sonic Shadows of Lachenmann
[Originally appeared as a program note for Spoleto Festival USA's 2016 U.S. Premiere production of Helmut Lachenmann's opera "Das Mädchen...
Beethoven Transformed
Originally appeared as program notes for a program at Spoleto Festival USA, June 3, 2014, featuring: Louis Andriessen - The Nine...
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