This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. Before she started composing, Chinese pipa virtuoso Gao Hong had been a..
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If opera can be the barometer of the present, Blue is the opera for our times. Complicated family dynamics, racial..
Although pandemic-related isolation is threatening to become a subgenre, clarinetist Alicia Lee’s new album Conversations With Myself succeeds in putting..
When Calpurnia asks Mother Albirtha, the village sage in the Central Florida backwoods where The Secret River is set, how..
Ensemble Dal Niente, a staunch Chicago-based purveyor of new music, is not like other groups. Since its inception in 2004,..
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There is no Scarcity: Afrodiasporic Artists are Always, Already There
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One World Symphony's "Defiant:" An Orchestra Resists
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5 Questions to Tonia Ko (composer)
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It’s Not Just an Access Problem – Orchestras Aren’t Creating Safe Environments for Black Musicians
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