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Composer Pauline Oliveros. Photo credit: Vinciane Verguethen

This week: live streamed concerts (April 13, 2020 – April 19, 2020)

Tommy in America | Less Than <10 Less Than <10 continues into its fourth week of live-streamed…
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Sam Reising
Alicia Waller--Photo by Shay Paresh

ListN Up: Alicia Waller (April 10, 2020)

ListN Up is a series of weekly artist-curated playlists. Born from a desire to keep artists sharing…
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Meredith Monk Memory Game

Arranging the Pieces: Meredith Monk’s Memory Game

Meredith Monk is a composer, musician, and interdisciplinary artist who has been experimenting with…
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Kathleen McGowan
Molly Joyce Form and Flee

Video Premiere: Molly Joyce Performs Form and Flee

Today’s Four/Ten Media video premiere features composer-performer Molly Joyce performing Form…
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Lara Downes practices at home in California--Photo courtesy of the artist

The Day the Music Stopped: Standing Still Together

It was a Thursday, the day the music stopped. For us musicians, the emails and phone calls started a…
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Lara Downes
Gyan Riley--Photo by Travis Emmett

This week: live streamed concerts (April 6, 2020 – April 12, 2020)

Terry Riley and Gyan Riley Composer/performer Terry Riley joins Music on Main with his son, guitaris…
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Sam Reising
Afro Yaqui Music Collective--Photo by Renee Rosensteel, provided courtesy of the New Hazlett Theater

ListN Up: Afro Yaqui Music Collective (April 3, 2020)

ListN Up is a series of weekly artist-curated playlists. Born from a desire to keep artists sharing…
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Third Sound Heard in Havana

Third Sound’s Heard in Havana Celebrates a Diversity of Sound

Albums resulting from calls-for-scores tend to be a mixed bag, both thematically and stylistically.
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Adam O’Dell
Andrew Janss performs Vivian Fung's Humanoid

Video Premiere: Andrew Janss Performs Vivian Fung’s Humanoid

Today’s premiere features Andrew Janss performing Vivian Fung’s Humanoid for cello and e…
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Invisible Ritual

“Unseen Acts of Magic:” Jennifer Curtis and Tyshawn Sorey’s Invisible Ritual

Here’s a one-word review of Jennifer Curtis and Tyshawn Sorey’s collaborative album Invisible Ritual…
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Nick Stevens
Transient Canvas--Photo by Robert Torres

This week: live streamed concerts (March 30, 2020 – April 5, 2020)

New Music Virtual Town Hall Meeting: State of the Field The new music community has taken a huge fin…
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Sam Reising
Olivia Shortt--Photo by Alejandro Santiago

5 Questions to Olivia Shortt (multi-disciplinary artist)

Olivia Shortt (she/her/hers: Anishinaabe from Nipissing First Nation) is a Tkarón:to-based multi-dis…
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Lana Norris
Photo by Maxim Abramov on Unsplash

Excluding Beethoven: Western Art Music’s Identity Crisis

Imagine a Western art music canon that doesn’t include Beethoven simply because he is a white man. T…
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Dave Molk
Photo by Adrian Dascal on Unsplash

Out of Context #3: Finding Tradition in New Music

“Out of Context” is a 10-part series that addresses the topic of cultural appropriation…
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inti figgis-vizueta
Mother Sparrow film

Video Premiere: Mother Sparrow by Sonya Belaya and Eryka Dellenbach

Today’s video premiere is a film by composer-performer Sonya Belaya and choreographer/director…
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Sandbox Percussion--Photo by Kjell van Sice

This week: live streamed concerts (March 23, 2020 – March 29, 2020)

Less Than 10 Through a combination of streaming and recording, Less Than 10 provides the performing…
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Sam Reising
Photo by Obed Hernández on Unsplash

Let’s Get Digital: A Quick Start Guide to Live Streaming

We are about a week into the COVID-19 shut downs that have affected almost every arts organization,…
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Adam Schumaker
Photo by Changbok Ko on Unsplash

“Pivot to Video:” Shifting Your Classroom to Online Instruction

Half a decade ago, “pivot to video” first became a buzzphrase and then, among those in media, a bitt…
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Nick Stevens
Katie Brown and Dalanie Harris--Photo by Richard Desinord

5 Questions to Katie Brown & Dalanie Harris (Classically Black Podcast)

Violist Katie Brown and double bassist Dalanie Harris, co-hosts of Classically Black Podcast, discus…
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Lana Norris
Sandbox Percussion And That One Too

And That One Too: Sandbox Percussion Showcases Close Collaborators

One of the best parts of my grad school experience was performing with and composing for my friends.
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James May
Photo by AbsolutVision on Unsplash

COVID-19 Emergency Funding and Artist Resources

Updated August 21, 2020 With the increased spread of COVID-19 in the United States, it has been an e…
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Kamraton--Photo courtesy Beyond 2020 Microtonal Music Festival

University of Pittsburgh Hosts Beyond 2020 Microtonal Music Festival

From Friday, February 28 through Sunday, March 1, 2020, Pittsburgh played host to an unprecedented a…
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Christian Kriegeskotte
Arturo O'Farrill--Photo by Laura Diliberto

5 Questions to Arturo O’Farrill (composer) about Mending Wall

Composer and pianist Arturo O’Farrill has contributed a new piece entitled SOMETHING TO DECLAR…
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Colin Holter
Julian Otis and Margaret Morris at Frequency Festival 2020--Photo by Ricardo Adame

Katinka Kleijn and Julian Otis Conclude Chicago’s Frequency Festival 2020

On Sunday, March 1, 2020, the Frequency Festival, in its fifth year programming contemporary and exp…
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Meg Huskin
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