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Music of the Unsung America Selects Michael R. Dudley Jr.’s “Elegy” From Call for Scores
Oct 7, 2021
ACF | connect partner Music of the Unsung America has announced the selection of Michael R. Dudley J…
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There’s a certain magic to a Four/Ten Media music video — intimate, provocative shots ca…
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Creatives all over the Arab world are using their talents to define themselves as a people and raise…
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Nebal Maysaud
ListN Up is a weekly series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of con…
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Earlier this month, ACF hosted our annual Artist Equity Summit online and in downtown St. Paul in pa…
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Vanessa Rose
“Casting Light” is a 10-part series that explores the often invisible inequities in contemporary art…
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Joanna Ward
Musical styles collide in a fairytale for the modern age in Cellista’s Pariah — an immersive a…
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Nebal Maysaud
“… a radiant world of imagination and curiosity, where beauty comes disguised.” Th…
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Kevin Baldwin
ListN Up is a weekly series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of con…
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The so-called “black-body” was one of the first experiments that could not be reconciled with classi…
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Lana Norris
Bizet’s Carmen has captivated audiences for nearly 150 years. The thrill of a love triangle paired w…
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Jillian DeGroot
25 Commissions, No Rehearsal: Notes Inégales Embraces the Unknown on “Expect the Unexpected”
Sep 21, 2021
If you happened upon the law firm Hodge Jones & Allen in London, you wouldn’t guess that one of…
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Esteban Meneses
Culture can breed freedom, but it can also be the catalyst for shame and isolation, especially when…
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Jasmine IVANNA Espy
As a musician, it’s often easy to pinpoint the overall themes of an album through instrumentat…
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Donna Lee Davidson
Live music is now returning to London, and Jenny Moore and Rattle’s gig at Café Oto on 9 September w…
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Caroline Potter
This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. For music creators in the North Star stat…
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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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Nina Dante + Bethany Younge find themselves in conversation with stones, shells, wind, sand, and liz…
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Anne Goldberg-Baldwin
Of all the things one might expect to find at a post apocalyptic dance club, a lonely snare drum pro…
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Canadian composer Zosha di Castri is a prolific and wonderfully inventive creator who is currently t…
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Lauren Ishida
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