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American Composers Forum (ACF) is thrilled to announce its next BandQuest commission and residency p…
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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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ListN Up is a weekly series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait&n…
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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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“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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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
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