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The modern chamber music band Alarm Will Sound is dedicated to exploring new and experimental music…
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Tristan McKay
The Harlem Renaissance was a time of artistic and intellectual revival for Black Americans in early-…
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Katie Brown
Ryan Suleiman is a Boston-based composer whose music interacts with the simultaneous awe of engaging…
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Clover Nahabedian
Double bassist Xavier Foley is a decorated performer and composer working at the intersection of cla…
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Forrest Howell
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
Summer study for young classical musicians has historically come with many barriers: application fee…
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Christine S. Escobar
The directness of expression in the music of Vivian Fung makes it immediately engaging, and her two…
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Released July 28 on Deutsche Grammophon, the Sphinx Virtuosi’s Songs for Our Times is sprawling, con…
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Sofía Rocha
Designed for both music creators and their collaborators, “Anatomy of a Commission” is a digital res…
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Yaz Lancaster
This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. For Oswald Huỳnh, composing for orchestra…
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Amanda Cook
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
American Composers Forum (ACF) is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s ACF | create awa…
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I’m in the center of a dome. Fragmented vocalizations pop from somewhere in the space — it’s hard to…
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Lana Norris
In 1945, a letter from Zora Neale Hurston to W.E.B. DuBois called for a new cemetery for notable Bla…
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Dalanie Harris
It wasn’t until I’d taken the gondola down from Eagle’s Nest, perched 10,350 feet up on Vail Mountai…
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Esteban Meneses
Classical music has given me a lot: I’ve found an important and sacred part of my identity in being…
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Katie Brown
The strumming acoustic guitar and swelling strings that open “Shiny Objects” establish a…
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
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
American Composers Forum (ACF) is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s ACF McKnight Com…
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
This sponsored article is part of a paid partnership with the Curtis Institute of Music. Composer Ni…
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Anne Goldberg-Baldwin
When news of the untimely death of Kaija Saariaho broke on June 2, a family statement revealed that…
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Esteban Meneses
Designed for both music creators and their collaborators, “Anatomy of a Commission” is a digital res…
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Gemma Peacocke
This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. “Anything you do is art,” my colleague Xa…
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Amanda Cook
