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With Fortissima, Young Women of Color Are Reminded They Are Not Alone in Classical Music
Jul 16, 2024
Ask a few industry veterans about why diversity in classical music has been largely stagnant for dec…
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Dalanie Harris

Composer Evan Williams often juxtaposes multiple themes and emotions in his works, seamlessly thread…
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Ciyadh Wells

ListN Up playlists are commissioned by American Composers Forum. Artists are selected by ACF staff (…
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Sound within Sound Festival at London’s Southbank Centre Features Immersive Works by Living Composers
Jul 10, 2024
The Southbank Centre has been a major performing arts venue in London since it opened in 1951, but i…
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Caroline Potter

The music world is changing. AI is here, and it’s powerful. With the rapid evolution of AI mus…
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Christopher Wieduwilt

Adolescence and middle age are infamously seen as periods of upheaval – emotional, physical, and oth…
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Lauren Ishida

An angelic hum pierced through the din of a crowd huddled on the third floor of the Whitney Museum o…
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Vanessa Ague

Percussionist Dániel Matei is sitting at a table, looking like a spelunker traversing a cave. His he…
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Many musicians have a recording that changed their fervor — an album that they studied, trapped in i…
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Donna Lee Davidson

I didn’t notice that my hands were shaking. Other people, mainly my fellow graduate students studyin…
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Brianna Matzke

Having masterfully weaved himself into the Black classical music scene, the Chicago-based innovator…
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Katie Brown

In the thick of the early Covid era (mid-2020), Matthew Sage had an idea for a record. Taking advant…
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Yaz Lancaster

ListN Up playlists are commissioned by American Composers Forum. Artists are selected by ACF staff (…
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“Would you like a kiss?” Hershey’s, that is. A bowl of candy and cheerful decorations at check in we…
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Lana Norris

Kwamé Ryan is an internationally awarded conductor and the recently named Music Director Designate o…
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Sofía Rocha

When conductor and composer Peter Askim talks about the importance of aligning your values with your…
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Stephanie Boyd

I missed the “Yeehaw Agenda” era that dominated the socials a few years ago, so when the OLEA chambe…
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A. Kori Hill

Earned, Not Learned: How Classical Music Notation is Not Built For Neurodivergent Students
Jun 11, 2024
At the drama school in London where I was a student from ages 11 to 15, there was an abundance of un…
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Jessica Bailey

Whether highlighting his love of contrapuntal textures, his use of melodies and chords that magnify…
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ListN Up is a series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of contempora…
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New York’s Talea Ensemble held its 15th anniversary concert – a set of four solo pieces – on May 30…
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Gemma Peacocke

At the conceptual core of a distance, intertwined is the notion of storytelling, with traditional fo…
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Christian Kriegeskotte

Scott McLaughlin’s “we are environments for each other” Centers the Beauty of Group Creativity
May 30, 2024
we are environments for each other is a breathtaking new release nearly 10 years in the making that…
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Michelle Hromin