New Music Virtual Town Hall Meeting: State of the Field
The new music community has taken a huge financial and emotional hit due to COVID-19. As a performing arts non-profit organization that employs many freelance musicians and navigates relationships between individual and institutional funders, the International Contemporary Ensemble would like to take a moment to gather together with the community and discuss the state of the field. How can we build coalitions to advocate for the arts sector nationwide? How can we all be resources for each other? How do artists shift from a live stage to a virtual one?
Monday, March 30 at 5:00 PM Eastern Time
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Living Rooms Unite #2 | Transient Canvas
Transient Canvas continues its concert series, Living Rooms Unite. The series airs every Thursday at 6 pm on Facebook Live. This concert features music by Joseph Colombo, Osnat Netzer, Jon Yu, and Yiyang Wang.
Thursday, April 2 at 6:00 PM Eastern Time
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Pepito Pre-Release Online Watch Party
Join composer Nicolas Lell Benavides, librettist Marella Martin Koch, and the complete original cast for the online premiere of Pepito, a new comic opera.
Friday, April 3 at 6:00 PM Pacific Time
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Some Of These Days: Livestream concert for Feeding America | Lara Downes
Lara Downes–Photo by Max Barrett
A live stream album launch concert by pianist Lara Downes to raise funds for Feeding America in support of national relief efforts in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This concert is produced in partnership with CapRadio and a national coalition of public radio stations.
Friday, April 3 at 8:00 PM Eastern Time
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The World Wide Tuning Meditation
The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) and Music on the Rebound present The World Wide Tuning Meditation. Ione and Claire Chase lead a global performance of the late Pauline Oliveros’s The Tuning Meditation, a sonic gathering with a legacy of bringing communities together through meditative singing. Anyone from anywhere in the world is invited to join in via Zoom to sing together from their personal phone or computer. No music experience is necessary.
Saturday, April 4 at 5:00 PM Eastern Time
RSVP Required for Zoom link
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Bearthoven: TV Dinners
Matt Evans performs his New Topographics, streaming on the Bearthoven and Johnstone Fund Facebook Pages.
Saturday, April 4 at 8:00 PM Eastern Time
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Opera of the Week | Beth Morrison Projects
BMP is keeping the work of our artists out in the world as theaters are shuttered by offering an “Opera of the Week,” which will stream on their homepage.
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Sweet Land: a new opera by The Industry
Du Yun
The Industry is offering a stream of Sweet Land by Raven Chacon and Du Yun beginning March 29. With cameras as the only audience, the ensemble came together for one final performance to preserve a new work. A modest on-demand fee will help The Industry survive this emergency, by making up lost box office income and allowing us to fully pay the artists and crew.
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Watch Parties | On Site Opera
From mid-March to mid-April, On Site Opera will host live-streamed “watch parties” on their Facebook page. Each Monday at noon, they will show the video of one of their past site-specific opera productions, followed by a live Q&A with On Site Opera’s General & Artistic Director, Eric Einhorn. These archival videos will remain on their company’s YouTube page for public viewing through the end of April.
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Breaking the Waves | Opera Philadelphia
Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek
Opera Philadelphia provides an audio stream of Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s Breaking the Waves.
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Need help getting started with live streaming?
Read Adam Schumaker’s Let’s Get Digital: A Quick Start Guide to Live Streaming.