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“Trauma Porn” and the Capitalization of Mental Health (Casting Light #9)

“Casting Light” is a 10-part series that explores the often invisible inequities in contemporary art…
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Nina Shekhar
Alicia Lee Conversations With Myself

Alicia Lee’s Conversations With Myself Resonates from the Depths of Isolation

Although pandemic-related isolation is threatening to become a subgenre, clarinetist Alicia Lee’s ne…
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Esteban Meneses
Brian Raphael Nabors--Photo courtesy of the artist

5 Questions to Brian Raphael Nabors (composer)

Brian Raphael Nabors is a composer of enormous gifts and accomplishment. A 2020 Fulbright Scholarshi…
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Bill Doggett
Jonathan Hulting-Cohen

ListN Up: Jonathan Hulting-Cohen (January 21, 2022)

ListN Up is a weekly series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of con…
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Shruti Kumar-- Photo by Anna Azarov Photography

5 Questions to Shruti Kumar (composer, producer)

Shruti Kumar is a genre- and scene-crossing composer and producer based out of Los Angeles. Beginnin…
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Sofía Rocha
Daniel Schlosberg and Toyin Spellman-Diaz perform Jeff Scott's Of Good and Evil

Video Premiere: Toyin Spellman-Diaz performs Jeff Scott’s “Of Good and Evil”

The opulent Upper East Side townhouse of the Frederick R. Koch Foundation acts as the backdrop for t…
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Percussion duo NOMON (Nava and Shayna Dunkelman)--Photo courtesy of the artists

ListN Up: NOMON (January 14, 2022)

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Ted Babcock Trilogies

The Dimensions of Time in Ted Babcock’s Debut Album “Trilogies”

Percussionist Ted Babcock is making his album debut as a composer with Trilogies, self-released on N…
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Donna Lee Davidson
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Applications Now Open for American Composers Forum Programs

American Composers Forum (ACF) is pleased to announce the opening of applications for the 2022 McKni…
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American Wild Ensemble Performs

Video Premiere: American Wild Ensemble Performs “Where the Sun of Freedom Shines” by Ingrid Stölzel

Led by co-directors Emlyn Johnson and Daniel Ketter, American Wild Ensemble is on a mission to bring…
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Jose Solís--Photo by Joseph Hernandez

5 Questions to Jose Solís (culture critic)

Jose Solís is a Honduran-born culture critic, writer, podcast creator, and mentor who has been satur…
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Yaz Lancaster
Cassie Wieland--Photo by Anna Longworth

ListN Up: Cassie Wieland (January 7, 2022)

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Harpist Ashley Jackson performs Danielle Eva Schwob's Shiver

Video Premiere: Shiver by Danielle Eva Schwob

The dark, icy, and metallic timbres of flute, harp, and vibraphone are at the heart of Danielle Eva…
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Opera Orlando presents The Secret River--Photo by Bearded Lens

The Secret River: Opera Orlando Writes a Love Letter to Central Florida

When Calpurnia asks Mother Albirtha, the village sage in the Central Florida backwoods where The Sec…
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Esteban Meneses
Norman W. Long--Photo courtesy of the artist

ListN Up: Norman W. Long (December 17, 2021)

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Photo by Luís Eusébio on Unsplash

The Autistic Experience and Navigating the Contemporary Music Industry (Casting Light #8)

“Casting Light” is a 10-part series that explores the often invisible inequities in contemporary art…
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Zygmund de Somogyi
Editor's Picks: 2021 New Music Albums

Editor’s Picks: 2021 New Music Albums

I think this is finally the year where I knowingly sacrifice I CARE IF YOU LISTEN’s SEO, becau…
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Amanda Cook
Lucero Sarambi in Jeporeká--Photo by Jeisson Rodríguez

Jeporeká Brings Young Voices of Paraguay to an International Audience

Latin America boasts a stunning musical history that is rich and varied. Yet this music is sometimes…
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Lauren Ishida
Diego Espinosa Cruz González--Photo by Thor Brødreskift for Borealis

ListN Up: Diego Espinosa Cruz González (December 10, 2021)

ListN Up is a weekly series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of con…
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Elly Kace Nothing I see means anything

Elly Kace Pleasantly Disorients Listeners on “Nothing I see means anything”

The first ten seconds of Elly Kace’s new album provokes a question that listeners will find themselv…
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Julia Kuhlman
BUTI Director Hilary Respass--Photo by Stratton McCrady

5 Questions to Hilary Respass (Director, Boston University Tanglewood Institute)

The pandemic has forced many organizations into discovering innovative and entirely new ways to reac…
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Stephanie Boyd
innova artists Bora Yoon, Cornelius Duffalo, Gerald Busby, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Val Jeanty, Paula Matthusen, Tonia Ko, and David T. Little

Reimagining the “Record Label” with innova’s National Call for Artists

This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. Over the past few years, many of us have…
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Chris Campbell
Vahram Sarkissian--Photo by H. Manoyan

ListN Up: Vahram Sarkissian (December 3, 2021)

ListN Up is a weekly series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of con…
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Sara Serpa and Emmanuel Iduma Intimate Strangers

Sara Serpa and Emmanuel Iduma Share Stories of “Intimate Strangers”

In the pursuit to connect with the humanity of a stranger, fewer acts are as powerful as hearing the…
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Padideh Aghanoury
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