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If you’ve heard music by composer Gity Razaz, you know its power. Gity’s wide, sweeping sonorities a…
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Stephanie Boyd
ListN Up is a series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of contempora…
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
Launched in 2019, JACK Studio provides up to 15 composers each year with the opportunity to partake…
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Donna Lee Davidson
This sponsored article is part of a paid partnership with the Curtis Institute of Music. Tania León’…
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Yaz Lancaster
Artists often comment on the pressure they feel from fans to produce new music and bring freshness a…
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Katie Brown
Seattle-based artist Naeim Rahmani is known for his striking and highly engaging performances of the…
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Ciyadh Wells
I’ve never found myself at a concert wondering where the other patrons were coming from or what they…
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Dalanie Harris
“Opening (like you’re high on opium)” begins with washes of gently pulsating chord…
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In the oeuvre of composer and violist Nokuthula Ngwenyama (No-goo-TOO-lah En-gwen-YAH-ma), music ope…
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A. Kori Hill
ListN Up is a series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of contempora…
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (hcmf//) is a significant part of the contemporary and new…
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Michelle Hromin
Designed for both music creators and their collaborators, “Anatomy of a Commission” is a digital res…
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Austin Wulliman
This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. “I don’t know if you know, but I…
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Amanda Cook
In the eight years since its founding, the Chineke! Orchestra has performed at the BBC Proms, helped…
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Dalanie Harris
“When I played in orchestras as a shy violinist, I saw this person on the podium helping to make the…
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Christine S. Escobar
This sponsored article is part of a paid partnership with the Curtis Institute of Music. Alistair Co…
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Tristan McKay
In their debut opera, El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego, Grammy Award-winning composer Gabriela Lena…
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Dalanie Harris
On Nov. 15 I went to a nightclub in east London — OK, it was 7 p.m. and the Colour Factory in Hackne…
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Caroline Potter
“I don’t think that music is what I’m supposed to do on Earth,” multi-discip…
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Jasmine IVANNA Espy
ListN Up is a series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of contempora…
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
Classical musicians in the 21st century are expected to continually adapt to the latest cultural and…
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Katie Brown, Dalanie Harris
New Oratorio by Tracy K. Smith and Aaron Siegel Gives Voice to Civil War-Era African American Troops
Merkin Hall is a beautiful venue, warm in both temperature and acoustics. On Nov. 2, Tracy K. Smith,…
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Donna Lee Davidson
In the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X, there are plenty o…
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Stephanie Boyd
Linda Catlin Smith Revels in Introverted Confidence with Sensuous, Idiosyncratic Album ‘Dark Flower’
One of my favorite aspects of autumn is the sensation of being wrapped in a warm jacket or bundled u…
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Sofía Rocha