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The year was 2014 and Southern University’s Human Jukebox marching band had just gone viral for thei…
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Katie Brown

Rick Burkhardt and thingNY Exchange Multi-Dimensional Stories of Departure with “Passover”
Nov 7, 2022
For the first time in a decade, Obie Award-winning composer and playwright Rick Burkhardt has releas…
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Tristan McKay

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

Composer, singer and cellist Ayanna Witter-Johnson is one of the most multitalented musicians on the…
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Caroline Potter

Pianist Chelsea Randall is known for her eclectic programming in which she explores the tensions and…
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Tristan McKay

This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. This year marks the 40th anniversary for…
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Yaz Lancaster

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

Over the past 20 years, Brian Harnetty has worked extensively with sound archives to produce a wide…
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Jacob Kopcienski

Music and art have long been vehicles for resistance that are capable of evoking emotional and polit…
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Jasmine IVANNA Espy

When John Schaefer started broadcasting his WNYC show New Sounds in 1981, he was just playing music…
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Vanessa Ague

ACF and East Side Freedom Library Launch “Immigration, Identity, and the Arts” with NEA Big Read
Oct 19, 2022
Two organizations centered on achieving equity and justice are joining together to lift up the stori…
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN

In Our Softening, the sophomore piano album by Sophia Subbayya Vastek, is a journey that moves beyon…
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Anne Goldberg-Baldwin

5 Questions to Garrett McQueen (Director of Artist Equity, American Composers Orchestra)
Oct 17, 2022
Garrett McQueen stays busy. A performer; radio producer and host; lecturer on race, administration,…
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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

Crafting an album that is juxtaposed with whimsey and contemplation while considering the moon is no…
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Ciyadh Wells

Shelley Washington is a self-described composer, performer, collaborator, and educator from Kansas C…
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Jennifer Jolley

The history of rope and string is one of composer Liza Lim’s obsessions. It’s a ubiquitous technolog…
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Lana Norris

Listening to the swirling, terraced vocals of Odeya Nini is like having raw human emotion hurled at…
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Esteban Meneses

Tús, the debut album by Irish composer Finola Merivale, engages listeners with an experimental langu…
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Julia Kuhlman

This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. This fall has seen the yearslong struggle…
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Yaz Lancaster

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

Most times, concerts are presented as something to be observed. Rarely are they as immersive as JOJO…
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Donna Lee Davidson

Sound artist and composer Fay Victor’s powerful voice cut through the din of chatter at Joe’s Pub, m…
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Vanessa Ague