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When I was a kid, I thought my sister and I were the only Black people playing violin in Cincinnati,…
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A. Kori Hill
When I say “composer,” who do you think of? Are they alive? Are they male, white, of European descen…
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Vanessa Rose
Sitting at the crossroads of the industrial and the natural, Norman W. Long’s BLACK BROWN GRAY…
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Yaz Lancaster
The African Diaspora Music Project (ADMP) was established by Dr. Louise Toppin in conjunction with V…
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A. Kori Hill
ListN Up is a weekly series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of con…
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
American Composers Forum (ACF) is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s ACF | create and…
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
“Casting Light” is a 10-part series that explores the often invisible inequities in contemporary art…
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Olivia Giovetti
Composer Molly Herron explores a vast landscape of musical and temporal intersections in Through Lin…
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Tracy Monaghan
ListN Up is a weekly series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of con…
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
American Composers Forum (ACF) is thrilled to announce its next BandQuest commission and residency p…
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdóttir is known for creating soundscapes that unfold at a glacial…
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Esteban Meneses
In his August 2019 essay for I CARE IF YOU LISTEN, Alexander Lloyd Blake observed, “An altruis…
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
ListN Up is a weekly series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of con…
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
Eddie Barbash plays a wide repertoire that is not often heard on the alto saxophone. His latest self…
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Donna Lee Davidson
Understory is the new monthly series of virtual improvisatory collaborations curated by trumpet play…
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Padideh Aghanoury
Academia is being held to account. Institutionally, tenure battles are being fought, with high-profi…
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Donna Lee Davidson
ListN Up is a weekly series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of con…
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
“World Music” as a genre label is, despite the grandiose name, usually diminutive. Its u…
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Sofía Rocha
This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. Since 2015, New Music Gathering has taken…
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Jennifer Jolley
White People Killed Them, out now on the indie label SIGE Records, is an invigorating new recording…
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Christian Kriegeskotte
ListN Up is a weekly series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of con…
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
American Composers Orchestra (ACO) is about to emerge from the pandemic with verve and vision. Not o…
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Stephanie Boyd
“Casting Light” is a 10-part series that explores the often invisible inequities in contemporary art…
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Michele Cheng
