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This week: live streamed concerts (June 15, 2020 – June 21, 2020)

ChamberQUEERantine: A Digital Pride Month Festival!

Every night at 7:00 PM Eastern Time from June 8-23, 2020, ChamberQUEER will be live on their Facebook page with a new half-hour program of queer artists, presenting a wide variety of musical offerings.
Monday, June 15 to Sunday, June 21 at 7:00 PM Eastern Time
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Opening Concert | CCI//Sessions, vol. 2

Unheard-of//Ensemble

Unheard-of//Ensemble–Photo by Michael Yu

Unheard-of//Ensemble’s //Sessions Online opens with a concert of solos from the ensemble.
Monday, June 15 at 7:00 PM Eastern Time
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Virtual Commissions: Larry Keigwin and Nicole Wolcott | Works & Process

Created at home by artists familiar to Works & Process audiences, these virtual commissions financially support artists and champion their creative process during these challenging times.
Monday, June 15 at 7:30 PM Eastern Time
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House Music | Metropolis Ensemble

Metropolis Ensemble’s series, House Music, reflects its values of putting community at the heart of its practice, and allows it to continue to create opportunities for artists to do what they do best: make and share new music. All artists are being paid for their work. Metropolis Ensemble is commissioning performers to present bite-sized works from contemporary composers, as well as composers to create new works specifically for this series, which are then recorded from wherever the artists are sheltering. “House Music” launched in late March and streams live every Tuesday and Thursday.
Tuesday, June 16 at 10:00 AM Eastern Time
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Performer/Composer Collaboration with Ashley Bathgate | Next Festival 2020

Ashley Bathgate

Ashley discusses her experience as a dedicated commissioner and performer of contemporary music with a focus on what has become a lifeblood to her creative process: the composer/performer collaboration.
Tuesday, June 16 at 1:30 PM Eastern Time
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Tuning Talks-Practical Knowledge to Improve Intonation | Next Festival 2020

Why does a note sound in tune or not? How can we play more in tune with our colleagues? How do we know what’s the correct intonation for a given note? JACK Quartet addresses the fundamental problems of intonation with clear, practical knowledge, empowering us to make harmonious choices and speak clearly about what we want from the intonation of any given passage in music. Developing a deeper understanding of intonation is a powerful tool in a balanced set of musical skills, one of the keys to a clear-headed artistry. JACK will be taking questions throughout the presentation via chat and in Q&A sessions.
Tuesday, June 16 at 4:00 PM Eastern Time
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Extended Techniques for String Players | Next Festival 2020

Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti--Photo by Blaise Hayward Studio

Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti–Photo by Blaise Hayward Studio

The workshop focuses on techniques used by composer Andrew Norman. Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti has worked closely with Norman over the past five years, both in developing the educational resource Shaken Not Stuttered, and through interviews and scholarship for publications such as Music & Literature and Neue Zeitschrift für Musik.
Tuesday, June 16 at 7:00 PM Eastern Time
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Rachelle Rahmé | Isolated Field Recording Series

In response to COVID-19’s impact, ISSUE is commissioning artists to produce field recordings to be streamed over the course of this challenging and isolated time. This series will support artists directly in an unprecedented moment of uncertainty, struggle, and financial risk and emphasize the solidarity of artists working in a situation where everyday life is confined and separated. Focusing on recordings from artists’ current conditions, the series will broadly approach the field recording as an expanded form and open invitation to experiment with home audio recording during this period of social distancing.
Wednesday, June 17 at 8:00 PM Eastern Time
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House Music | Metropolis Ensemble

Metropolis Ensemble’s series, House Music, reflects its values of putting community at the heart of its practice, and allows it to continue to create opportunities for artists to do what they do best: make and share new music. All artists are being paid for their work. Metropolis Ensemble is commissioning performers to present bite-sized works from contemporary composers, as well as composers to create new works specifically for this series, which are then recorded from wherever the artists are sheltering. “House Music” launched in late March and streams live every Tuesday and Thursday.
Thursday, June 18 at 10:00 AM Eastern Time
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Peter Zummo | Isolated Field Recording Series

In response to COVID-19’s impact, ISSUE is commissioning artists to produce field recordings to be streamed over the course of this challenging and isolated time. This series will support artists directly in an unprecedented moment of uncertainty, struggle, and financial risk and emphasize the solidarity of artists working in a situation where everyday life is confined and separated. Focusing on recordings from artists’ current conditions, the series will broadly approach the field recording as an expanded form and open invitation to experiment with home audio recording during this period of social distancing.
Thursday, June 18 at 8:00 PM Eastern Time
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Closing Concert | CCI//Sessions, vol. 2

Unheard-of//Ensemble’s //Sessions Online closes the workshop with new solo minis written during the CCI.
Friday, June 19 at 7:00 PM Eastern Time
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Alone Together | Jennifer Koh

Violinist Jennifer Koh’s Alone Together is an online commissioning project that brings composers together in support of the many freelancers among them. Twenty-one composers have each agreed to donate a new, 30-second micro-work for solo violin while also recommending a fellow composer to write their own 30-second solo violin work on paid commission from the artist-driven nonprofit ARCO Collaborative. Koh will premiere a selection of these donated and commissioned works each Saturday at 7:00 p.m Eastern Time.
Saturday, June 20 at 7:00 PM Eastern Time
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Akhnaten | Metropolitan Opera

Philip Glass

Philip Glass

The Metropolitan Opera streams Philis Glass’s opera Akhnaten.
Saturday, June 20 at 7:30 PM Eastern Time
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Anthony Roth Costanzo, Dick Hyman, Adam Charlap Hyman, and Zack Winokur | Works & Process

Created at home by artists familiar to Works & Process audiences, these virtual commissions financially support artists and champion their creative process during these challenging times.
Saturday, June 20 at 7:30 PM Eastern Time
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Shara Nova & Ahya Simone | Connecting ACO Community

Shara Nova

Shara Nova

In response to the impacts of COVID-19 on composers and performers, American Composers Orchestra announces Connecting ACO Community, a new initiative to commission short works for solo instrument or voice. Each composer will receive $500 to write the work, and each performer will receive $500 to perform the work, with the rights to stream for six months. With this project, ACO aims to support artists who need financial assistance; to create new work that will live beyond this crisis; and provide virtual, interactive performances to ACO’s supporters and the general public. This event will include Shara Nova’s new work for harpist and vocalist Ahya Simone, and an exclusive Q&A with the composer and performer, hosted by Ed Yim and Derek Bermel.
Sunday, June 21 at 5:00 PM Eastern Time
Tickets $5
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Pontus Lidberg | Works & Process

Created at home by artists familiar to Works & Process audiences, these virtual commissions financially support artists and champion their creative process during these challenging times.
Sunday, June 21 at 7:30 PM Eastern Time
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Satyagraha | Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera streams Philis Glass’s opera Satyagraha.
Sunday, June 21 at 7:30 PM Eastern Time
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golden sun

Saxophonist Bryan McNamara broadcasts a live performance of Eva-Maria Houben’s golden sun every day from Sunday through Friday during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Live@NationalSawdust

Live@NationalSawdust is a digital home for the voices and work of the artists they have hosted over the past 5 seasons in their Brooklyn venue. Live@NationalSawdust will feature weekly releases from their archive of live performances and is free for audiences across the globe.
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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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