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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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The Voices and Bridges: Ehsan Matoori’s Distinctive Voice Shines Through a Multicultural Effort
Aug 5, 2021
“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” Builds Democratic Spaces with Chacon, Dieterich, and Trammell
Aug 2, 2021
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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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
Contemporaneous returned to live performance on Wednesday, July 21, 2021 with spectacular ease. R…
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Lana Norris
ListN Up is a weekly series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of con…
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If you cope with anxiety, you may be familiar with the 3-3-3 rule: name three things you see, identi…
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Tristan McKay
Pamela Z is as wise, cultured, and artistic as she looks — and at the same time, is more than…
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Jasmine IVANNA Espy
ListN Up is a weekly series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of con…
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American Composers Forum (ACF) is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s McKnight Fellows…
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“Grief is despair in proportion to circumstance. Depression is grief out of proportion to circ…
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Aaron Helgeson
This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. M. Lamar embodies a gorgeous Afro Gothic…
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Dameun Strange
ListN Up is a weekly series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of con…
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If you have ever been the victim of credit card fraud or been lured into a dating app subscription,…
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Esteban Meneses
Sonic Liberation Front: Palestine’s Underground Music Experimentalists are Resisting Erasure
Jul 7, 2021
The sound of liberation is a battle with silence. It is a mad mashup of noise, nostalgic ballads, an…
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Shirine Saad
London concert life is slowly reopening to limited audiences, and it was a particular pleasure to le…
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Caroline Potter
In the aftermath of George Floyd’s death, nearly 200 confederate monuments have been removed i…
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Yaz Lancaster
“Casting Light” is a 10-part series that explores the often invisible inequities in contemporary art…
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Kymani Queen, Aaron Gabriel
Since its founding in 1969, the Newport Music Festival has presented over 2,000 concerts at Rhode Is…
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Amanda Cook