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Widely known as a guitarist with The National, composer Bryce Dessner brings a newly created instrument to the stage, the chord stick, in his hypnotically energizing “Music For Wood And Strings” with So Percussion. It’s pure Music For Writers.

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In this #MusicForWriters column, the “frenetico” tension and muscularity of the late Swedish composer Allan Pettersson’s powers a new recording of his Symphonies Nos. 4 and 16.

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The Finnish composers, artists of orchestral color, have an icon in the Paris-based Kaija Saariaho. Her new album from Ondine is our #MusicForWriters entry this week, with Q2 Music.

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This week’s Q2 Music Album of the Week, Martin Bresnick’s new “Prayer Remains Forever” is a brave exploration of life, death, and our search for something to confirm the unknowable. #MusicForWriters that “tells us how to remember.”