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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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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
Until very recently, the long-established tradition of classical music organizations has been to bas…
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Jennifer Grim
On her second album, Perspective — released October 28 on New Amsterdam Records — Molly Joyce takes…
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Forrest Howell
Before and during the American Civil War, anti-literacy laws suppressed many of the individual stori…
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Dalanie Harris
On “Nemāno Gaona,” Kimia Hesabi Synthesizes Iranian Folk and Contemporary Classical Music
Nov 11, 2022
In the ancient Iranian language Avestan, “Nemāno Gaona” translates to “colors of home.” On her debut…
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Clover Nahabedian
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