As an artist, your digital presence is both a practical marketing tool and an opportunity for storyt...
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Amanda Cook
This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. In one of my favorite photos of composer...
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Amanda Cook
This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. “I don’t know if you know, but I...
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Amanda Cook
This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. Leilehua Lanzilotti often references visu...
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Amanda Cook
This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. For Oswald Huỳnh, composing for orchestra...
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Amanda Cook
This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. “Anything you do is art,” my colleague Xa...
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Amanda Cook
This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. José Halac is seemingly full of contradic...
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Amanda Cook
This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. “Nobody needs me,” composer Alex Shapiro...
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Amanda Cook
This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. “I like to joke that some people grew up...
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Amanda Cook
This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. Since childhood, composer Masatora Goya h...
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Amanda Cook
For me, 2022 was a paradoxical year filled with confusing contradictions. I attended significantly m...
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Amanda Cook
It’s hard to believe that I CARE IF YOU LISTEN (ICIYL) recently marked the two-year anniversary of o...
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Amanda Cook
What does it mean to experience history as something that isn’t in the past? In Castor and Patience,...
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Amanda Cook
Originally commissioned for Cincinnati Opera’s centennial season in 2020, the much anticipated...
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Amanda Cook
Our concept of time over the past couple of years has become a bit amorphous – moments expanding and...
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Amanda Cook
I think this is finally the year where I knowingly sacrifice I CARE IF YOU LISTEN’s SEO, becau...
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Amanda Cook
Since its founding in 1969, the Newport Music Festival has presented over 2,000 concerts at Rhode Is...
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Amanda Cook
Seven years ago, violist Jessica Meyer heard someone else perform her music for the first time. In n...
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Amanda Cook
Each March, nestled among the fjords on the western coast of Norway, the picturesque city of Bergen...
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Amanda Cook
As the Editor-in-chief of I CARE IF YOU LISTEN, I wish I heard from more independent artists directl...
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Amanda Cook
If this year has delivered any sort of message about our field, it’s that artists will inevita...
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Amanda Cook
Just over one year ago, I travelled to Tallinn, Estonia for the joint presentation of Estonian Music...
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Amanda Cook
Quanice Floyd is a music educator and arts administrator based in the D.C. metro area. With a decade...
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Amanda Cook
