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The music of Pulitzer Prize winner Tania León is intimately connected to memories of her formative y…
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Esteban Meneses
Today’s video premiere comes to us from Clocks in Motion, a percussion ensemble comprised of J…
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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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What if the creative relationship between composers and performers was more reciprocal? For her late…
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There has been quite a buzz following Raven Chacon since he was awarded the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in M…
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Tristan McKay
Nine composers have been selected for Composing Inclusion, a new partnership between The Juilliard S…
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For composer Carlos Simon, music is a place where communities can come together. “I want people to b…
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Vanessa Ague
American Composers Forum (ACF) is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s ACF | create and…
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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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Out August 5, 2022 on BIS Records, The Strange Highway is an album of works whose haunting, ethereal…
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Stephanie Boyd
This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. The Tape Machine came to her in a dream:…
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Esteban Meneses
Award-winning composer Wang Jie grew up in Shanghai in the wake of the Cultural Revolution. A gifted…
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Gemma Peacocke
Today American Composers Forum (ACF) announces the second collection of recording projects selected…
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What does it mean to experience history as something that isn’t in the past? In Castor and Patience,…
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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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As the world eases back into participating in live music, we regain the chance to discover hidden mu…
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Tracy Monaghan
Welcome to “Asking for a Friend,” a new music advice column where arts administrators Rachel Sokolow…
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American Composers Forum (ACF) is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s McKnight Compose…
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Content warning: sexual assault How should opera deal with sensitive subject matter? Recently, the R…
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Caroline Potter
Black music is the art of storytelling. It encompasses the pain, the grief, the joy, and the triumph…
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Jasmine IVANNA Espy
There’s a common lament amongst animation heads: animation is a medium, not a genre. In some ways, o…
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A. Kori Hill
Guitarist, composer, and arranger JIJI is most known for her striking performances on both the class…
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Ciyadh Wells
In our field of Western classical music, we often set the expectation with young musicians that if t…
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Juhi Bansal