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		<title>HiTEC&#8217;s Final Performance! Saturday, March 13 at Kresge Concert Hall, CMU</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Saturday, March 13, marks the last occasion to see the very unique HiTEC, an ensemble of Pittsburgh musicians and performers utilizing instruction pieces, chance, improvisation, theatrics, and a giant spinning Wheel-of-Fortune. Intrigued? Well, you should be and you probably come to this event, because it is literally your last chance to see the act. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pittsburghnewmusicnet.com/2010/03/10/hitecs-final-performance-saturday-march-13-at-kresge-concert-hall-cmu/</link>
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		<title>Wind Ensemble presents contemporary, new works</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Carnegie Mellon&#8217;s Wind Ensemble presents a lively program featuring two world premieres: Professor Marilyn Taft Thomas&#8217; Snapshots of a Great City (transcription by director Denis Colwell), and Scatterbrain by composition student Alex Weston (BFA &#8216;11). Other contemporary works will include Ticheli&#8217;s Blue Shades, Stravinsky&#8217;s Symphonies of Wind Instruments, Whitacre&#8217;s October, and High Flight, a high [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pittsburghnewmusicnet.com/2010/03/02/wind-ensemble-presents-contemporary-new-works/</link>
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		<title>CMU Student Composers Concert</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hear world premieres by three acclaimed Carnegie Mellon student composers this Wednesday, February 24 at 8 p.m. in Oakland’s Carnegie Music Hall. Along with guest conductors Tobias Volkmann and Jan Pellant, music director Ronald Zollman will lead the Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic in this concert of original music that also will feature concertmaster Emma Steele on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pittsburghnewmusicnet.com/2010/02/22/cmu-student-composers-concert-2/</link>
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		<title>A Conversation with Lindsey J. Goodman</title>
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On the Saturday morning that Snowmageddon unleashed its fury on the region I had the pleasure of video chatting with flutist extraordinaire Lindsey J. Goodman about her upcoming Music on the Edge recital at the Warhol. Well known to local new music audiences for her exquisite performances with the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Lindsey will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pittsburghnewmusicnet.com/2010/02/21/a-conversation-with-lindsey-j-goodman/</link>
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		<title>Preview of Mason Bates with the PSO</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Andy Druckenbrod interviews Mason Bates in anticipation of this weekends PSO concerts.
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		<link>http://www.pittsburghnewmusicnet.com/2010/02/19/preview-of-mason-bates-with-the-pso/</link>
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		<title>Emily Pinkerton and Patrick Burke on &#8220;Red Rocking Chair&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently sat down with Pittsburgh music power couple Patrick Burke and Emily Pinkerton. Patrick teaches composition and theory at Duquesne and is a member of the New York-based NOW Ensemble and Emily is well known as a singer-songwriter for her unique blend of American and Chilean folk music (she also has great operatic chops, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pittsburghnewmusicnet.com/2010/02/16/emily-pinkerton-and-patrick-burke-on-red-rocking-chair/</link>
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		<title>CMU Student Composers Concert</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hear world premieres by four up-and-coming Carnegie Mellon student composers this Wednesday, February 17 at 8 p.m. in Oakland&#8217;s Carnegie Music Hall. Along with guest conductors Tobias Volkmann and Jan Pellant, music director Ronald Zollman will lead the Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic in this concert of original music that also will feature soprano Danielle Messina on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pittsburghnewmusicnet.com/2010/02/15/cmu-student-composers-concert/</link>
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		<title>Via David Sogg: The Concert is ON!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PSO bassonist David Sogg asked me to post the following announcement about the Music Narratives concert at the Warhol tonight, which I am more than happy to do.
The Concert is ON!
Tonight at 8:00 pm at The Andy Warhol Museum, members of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra WILL present…
Musical Narratives
The music—Stravinsky &#38; Kander—is hot.  Kurt Vonnegut’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pittsburghnewmusicnet.com/2010/02/15/via-david-sogg-the-concert-is-on/</link>
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		<title>Joan Tower is PSO&#8217;s 2010–11 Composer of the Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In case you haven&#8217;t heard, Joan Tower will be the PSO&#8217;s Composer of the Year for the 2010–11 season which will also include David Del Tredici&#8217;s Final Alice and a new bassoon concerto by Alan Fletcher. Here&#8217;s a an excerpt from the PSO&#8217;s season announcement.
Joan Tower, as the PSO’s 2010-2011 Composer of the Year, will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pittsburghnewmusicnet.com/2010/02/08/joan-tower-is-psos-2010%e2%80%9311-composer-of-the-year/</link>
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		<title>CMU Wind Ensemble Concert Postponed due to Snowmageddon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No surprise there as Pitt and CMU are both closed today. Stay tuned for information about when this concert will be rescheduled. With the premiere of a new work by Marilyn Taft Thomas, we&#8217;ll all be anxious to find out.
Assuming we thaw out eventually, there is a lot of new music on tap for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pittsburghnewmusicnet.com/2010/02/08/cmu-wind-ensemble-concert-postponed-due-to-snowmageddon/</link>
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