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“Casting Light” is a 10-part series that explores the often invisible inequities in contemporary art…
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Hugh Morris
Across Conservatories and Orchestras, Percussion Sections Look the Same: How Can We Diversify?
Nov 30, 2021
When it comes to addressing inequities in orchestra auditions, the conversation tends to take place…
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Donna Lee Davidson
Ensemble Dal Niente, a staunch Chicago-based purveyor of new music, is not like other groups. Since…
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Esteban Meneses
The sweeping, cinematic quality of The Drowning Valley by Phonodelica (Donia Jarrar) evokes the vast…
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In Buddhism and Hinduism, the deity Indra holds a large net of rope and multifaceted jewels, which r…
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Tracy Monaghan
TakTakShoo, by composer Rene Orth and librettist Kanika Ambrose, challenges the conventions of tradi…
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Lauren Ishida
Even for fans of contemporary classical, microtonal music can sometimes be a tough sell. Not because…
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Clover Nahabedian
ListN Up is a weekly series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of con…
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For anyone old enough to remember the birth of the internet, the room in the house where that endear…
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Editor’s note: As of February 15, 2022, applications are now open for Composing Inclusion. Com…
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In the arts, as in other fields, data can be a powerful tool for accountability, but it has also bec…
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Mansi Shah
The sounds of deteriorating and malfunctioning technology frequently permeate the works of composer…
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It’s no secret that opera as both an artform and an industry has suffered from some serious ga…
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Elena Stabile
ListN Up is a weekly series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of con…
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Shawn Okpebholo is a widely sought after award-winning composer who has been described by composer A…
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Bill Doggett
For artist, writer and composer JJJJJerome Ellis, his name poses a challenge; not a challenge of ide…
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Christian Kriegeskotte
There’s a weirdly reflexive magnetism between New Zealanders who live overseas. I think we find comf…
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Gemma Peacocke
New Arts Collaboration (NAC), founded by pianist Ting Luo, is dedicated to bringing artists together…
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Tristan McKay
ListN Up is a weekly series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of con…
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Speaking Together: Rufus Isabel Elliot on the Trans, Non-Binary, and Gender-Diverse World of OVER / AT
Oct 28, 2021
Rufus uses it/its pronouns. Rufus Isabel Elliot is a composer, musician, and the creative force behi…
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Chrysanthe Tan
“Casting Light” is a 10-part series that explores the often invisible inequities in contemporary art…
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Jasmin Kent Rodgman, Vilma Jackson
The provocative title of the latest album from Artifacts Trio, …and then there’s this, suggest…
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Dalanie Harris
Tina Tallon began her career as a researcher at MIT, where she developed computational tools to mode…
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Gemma Peacocke