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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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American Composers Forum (ACF) is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s ACF | create awa…
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Raquel Acevedo Klein Brings Immersive Surround-Sound Experimentation to the Sonic Sphere
Jul 25, 2023
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
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