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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
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
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
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
