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This Year’s Festival
Initial announcement, 2/12/24 — Download the press release
Interviews & Profiles
The Sonic Revolutions of George Lewis; Alex Ross’ New Yorker profile on the artistic director for the International Contemporary Ensemble, and our collaborator for HEAR NOW 2024
Celebrating L.A. Composers: A Conversation with Hugh Levick; Allan Graubard interviews Hugh Levick for the Los Angeles Review of Books
Hear Now Festival Wants to Wake People Up; Tom Jacobs interview Hugh Levick for San Francisco Classical Voice
Critic’s Notebook: L.A. music takes its vitality from the young and old alike at the Hear Now festival
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-hear-now-la-notebook-20190507-story.html
Jessica Gelt’s article from the LA Times:
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-hear-now-festival-20180425-story.html
Variety Is the Spice of Hear Now’s Musical Life; Jim Farber profiles the 2018 festival for SFCV
Hear Now Festival is all about L.A. composers; Profile for Jewish Journal by Rick Schultz
Sequenza21‘s review of HEAR NOW 2014’s electroacoustic concert, co-produced with People Inside Electronics: http://www.sequenza21.com/2014/05/electroacoustic-concert-in-santa-monica/
Mark Swed’s review of HEAR NOW 2013 in the LA Times, combined with the LA Philharmonic’s Brooklyn Festival: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-0418-la-brooklyn-notebook-20130418,0,2959110.story
Nick Norton’s interview with our founder Hugh Levick on his blog, New Classic LA:
http://newclassicla.wordpress.com/2012/08/19/interview-hugh-levick-on-hear-now/
Reviews
What Does California Sound Like?; The New Yorker‘s report on the 2023 California Festival, by Alex Ross
L.A.’s New-Music Scene, in Abundance; SFCV offers a joint report of HEAR NOW and Jacaranda in April 2018
Want to hear the real La La Land? Lend an ear to the L.A. composers of the Hear Now festival; Mark Swed reviews the 2017 festival for the Los Angeles Times
Rodney Punt’s review from LA Opus blog (Reporting on Music and the Lively Arts):
http://www.laopus.com/2012/09/hear-now-music-festival-in-venice.html
Richard S. Ginell’s review on his “From Out of the West” blog:
http://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2012/09/04/hear_now_festival/
Russell Steinberg’s review from his own website’s blog:
http://www.russellsteinberg.com/blog/second_annual_hear_now_festival_of_contemporary_los_angeles_composers/
