The TIME: SPANS festival of 21st-century music, produced by the Earle Brown Music Foundation, runs August 10 to 24 at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music in New York and features the Wet Ink Ensemble, which includes faculty artist Sam Pluta, performing the world premieres of Kate Soper’s Epithets and Alex Mincek’s Nomadic Science August 15.

Conductor Gemma New (MM ’11, Conducting) returns to the BBC Proms August 16 at the Royal Albert Hall, leading the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra through Mel Bonis’ Salomé, Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in A minor featuring soloist Anthony McGill, and Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer’s Night Dream featuring the National Youth Choir of Scotland; tickets available online and […]

Sarah Kirkland Snider: Forward Into Light Christopher Theofanidis: The Universe in Ecstatic Motion Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, op. 55, “Eroica”