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Bravo! Vail Festival Blends New Music with the Classics at its Lavish Colorado Rockies Home
Jul 20, 2023
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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ListN Up is a series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of contempora…
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American Composers Forum (ACF) is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s ACF McKnight Com…
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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
Anxiety, Courage, Imagination, and Joy at the Crossroads: Music as a Response to the Climate Crisis
Jun 29, 2023
ANXIETY It’s a Sunday in June. After a record-breaking amount of snow this winter (which melted only…
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Ann DuHamel
Today innova Recordings, the in-house recordings label of American Composers Forum, announced the se…
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London’s Explore Ensemble Plugs in at Wigmore Hall for Heady Interplay of Live Instruments and Electronics
Jun 27, 2023
No contemporary music ensemble can ignore the impact of electronics and sound diffusion on new music…
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Caroline Potter
Founded by a group of student composers at Northwestern University, Ensemble Dal Niente is now in it…
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Christine S. Escobar
In their Feb. 16 advice column on I CARE IF YOU LISTEN, Asking for a Friend responded to a message f…
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Jessica Rudman
Annika Socolofsky’s new album Don’t Say A Word (out June 23 via New Amsterdam) represents a journey…
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Clover Nahabedian
“Experience the music on your own terms: stand, stretch, laugh, sing, cry — clap whenever you want t…
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Donna Lee Davidson
ListN Up is a series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of contempora…
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Today, we’re happy to bring you the exclusive premiere of a new video by New Morse Code (Hanna…
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Through the late 90s and early aughts, composer Sokio wrote several operas in quick succession. But…
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Julia Kuhlman
In a concert featuring music by five composers, one would normally expect to hear contrasting styles…
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Chrysanthe Tan
Found Sound Nation Presents Socially-Minded Music from Appalachia to Ramallah at MATA 2023
Jun 8, 2023
A gently glowing fabric cube radiated a campfire-like comfort from the center of Roulette. People ci…
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Lana Norris
Designed for both music creators and their collaborators, “Anatomy of a Commission” is a digital res…
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Stephanie Boyd
Today, American Composers Forum (ACF) announces the launch of a new digital resource titled “Anatomy…
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