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Playlist

ListN Up Playlist: Jessie Cox (June 5, 2025)

Arthur Kampela, Charles Uzor, Dreamtime Ensemble, Ensemble Contemporary Insights, Ensemble Mothertongue, Isabel Pfefferkorn, Jessie Cox, Marshall Allen, Matük, Peyton Pleninger, Rupert Huber, Susie Ibarra, Viola Yip

Jessie Cox is Assistant Professor of Music at Harvard University and a scholar of experimental music as well as a composer and drummer who reimagines the world through music. His first monograph Sound…

I CARE IF YOU LISTEN

Jun 4, 2025

Nadia Sirota -- Photo by Zoe Prinds-Flash

Concert

Risk & Access: Nadia Sirota Curates “Living Music Underground” Summer Series

American Modern Opera Company, CARM, CJ Camerieri, Clarice Jensen, Jeremiah Chiu, Julius Eastman, Keir GoGwilt, Kelly Moran, Lincoln Center, Marta Sofia Honer, Miranda Cuckson, Nadia Sirota, Nathalie Joachim, PUBLIQuartet, Riley Mulherkar, Ruckus, The Underground at Jaffe Drive, yMusic

For the second consecutive summer, Living Music Underground returns to Lincoln Center’s Summer for the City programming. Experimental and post-genre music has always thrived in New York – but recently…

Yaz Lancaster

Jun 3, 2025

Interview

5 Questions to Theresa May (trumpeter, composer, educator)

Chromatic Brass Collective, Di·zy·got·ic Energy, Mourning [A] BLKstar, Shanyse Strickland, Theresa May

Theresa May’s multifaceted work as an artist, performer, educator, and advocate illustrates the abundant possibility of a career centered on fully embracing your interests. A classically-trained trump…

Katie Brown

Jun 2, 2025

Jasmine Arielle Barnes and Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton,

Interview

In “She Who Dared,” Jasmine Barnes and Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton Center the Overlooked Women of the Montgomery Bus Boycott

American Lyric Theater, Aurelia Browder, Chicago Opera Theater, Claudette Colvin, Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton, Jasmine Arielle Barnes, Jeanetta Reese, Mary Louise Smith, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Rosa Parks, Susie McDonald

The story of Rosa Parks – tired after a long day at work, refusing to move to the back of the bus to make room for a white passenger – is a foundational act of defiance in the history of the Civil Rig…

Dalanie Harris

May 28, 2025

Essay

The Myth of Making It

Alarm Will Sound, Eighth Blackbird, International Contemporary Ensemble, Kronos Quartet, Money Matters

Money Matters is a NewMusicBox x I CARE IF YOU LISTEN collaboration, supported by New Music USA. By 2012, Eighth Blackbird had been together for 16 years. We had two Grammys, ongoing residencies…

Nick Photinos

May 27, 2025

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Innova® Recordings

As the label of American Composers Forum, innova Recordings serves the needs of visionary, creative musicians by redefining the typical relationship between artist and label.

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