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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
Ben LaMar Gay, a composer and cornetist from Chicago’s South Side, sculpts electro-acoustic co…
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Jillian DeGroot
Improviser-composer, scholar, bassoonist, and Karnāṭak musician Varun Rangaswamy believes that chang…
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Padideh Aghanoury
The Brooklyn institution Roulette is known as one of New York City’s stalwart experimental music ven…
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Lana Norris
Released October 28, 2022 on innova Recordings, Lakota Music Project works to bridge cultural and ra…
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Sofía Rocha
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
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
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
