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Meredith Monk

Meredith Monk is a composer, singer, director/choreographer and creator of new opera, music theater works, films and installations. A pioneer in what is now called "extended vocal technique" and ...
Los Angeles Times

Meredith Monk’s ‘80s post-nuclear space opera is startlingly prescient

In 1983, as an Orwellian 1984 loomed, the American composer, choreographer and dancer Meredith Monk found herself in Berlin. Nowhere was the Cold War more proximate than in this walled city, as Soviet ...
Miami New Times

On Monk’s Experiment

More than 40 years into her career, composer and performance artist Meredith Monk describes her intricate vocal arrangements and particular style of dance as primordial, raw, visceral, and tribal.
Jazz

Jazz Articles about Meredith Monk

Meredith Monk Brooklyn Academy Of Music March 18, 2018 The multivalent Meredith Monk gave the world premiere of her Cellular Songs work at BAM over five days. Your scribe, burdened by a heavy rotation ...
IndieWire

‘Monk in Pieces’ Review: Billy Shebar’s Vital Documentary Makes Sense of an Artist Who’s Always Defied Basic Understanding

This straightforward biodoc provides a strangely perfect window into the singular genius of Meredith Monk. Except here, in a biodoc that manages to trace the ancient magic of Monk’s creativity without ...
Hyperallergic

At 82, Meredith Monk May Finally Get Her Due

Meredith Monk talks about how her music is inspired by nature, “the cosmic orchestra” in Monk in Pieces (all images courtesy 110th Street Films) “She, among all of us, was the uniquely gifted one — is ...
BroadwayWorld

Meredith Monk Will Celebrate New Album With A Listening Party At National Sawdust

National Sawdust will host an album listening party for Meredith Monk’s Cellular Songs on Thursday, December 4, 2025 at 7:30 p.m. at 80 North 6th Street in Brooklyn. Attendees will experience the full ...
The New Yorker

Meredith Monk Finds the Joy and the Necessity of the Collective

You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. The ever-astonishing eighty-one-year-old vocalist, ...
Bay Area Reporter

Meredith Monk's 'The Recordings'- 13-CD set documents four decades

One of the quiet revelations of "Meredith Monk: The Recordings" (ECM New Series) is that Monk herself confides that it was Janis Joplin who set her –and her voice– free. The 13-CD set chronicles the ...
The New York Times

Meredith Monk

Listen to recordings by Maria Dueñas and Daniil Trifonov, works by Thomas Adès and Tania León, and more. Meredith Monk’s “Cellular Songs,” a Kurt Weill rarity and a new take on Bach’s “Well-Tempered ...
The New York Times

Meredith Monk

Over the past century, the state has provided refuge for renegades like Agnes Martin and Judy Chicago. It still does, even with a new wave of arrivals closing in. By Zoë Lescaze and Tony Floyd ...