
Lustre is the way light interacts with the surface of a jewel. It’s ambiguous and has a wealth of in...
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Lana Norris

PROTOTYPE Festival has become known for nurturing intense, anguished music-theater pieces that go on...
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Lana Norris

Mamie Till altered history by insisting that the world see her murdered child. We are accustomed, an...
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Lana Norris

Pianist and composer Kris Davis is the Associate Program Director of Creative Development for the In...
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Lana Norris

Central Park, New York City, 96th Street. Curling violins, Young People’s Chorus of New York City, s...
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Lana Norris

According to the Institute for Composer Diversity’s analysis of 120 American orchestras’ 2019-2020 p...
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Lana Norris

Overwhelmed by the wave of livestream? As amazing as all the archives are, I’m finding myself drawn...
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Lana Norris

Sweet Land was originally an immersive “historical pageant” opera presented in Los Angeles, March 20...
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Lana Norris

Olivia Shortt (she/her/hers: Anishinaabe from Nipissing First Nation) is a Tkarón:to-based multi-dis...
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Lana Norris

Violist Katie Brown and double bassist Dalanie Harris, co-hosts of Classically Black Podcast, discus...
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Lana Norris

Mary Magdalene is famous for her intimate position in Jesus’ inner circle at a time women were not c...
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Lana Norris

Sahba Aminikia is an Iranian-American composer, pianist, and educator born in post-revolutionary war...
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Lana Norris

Music happens in real time. On Friday, October 11th, 2019, the Sphinx Virtuosi string orchestra conc...
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Lana Norris

The Iranian Female Composers Association was founded in 2017 by Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Anahita Abbasi,...
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Lana Norris

Unsuk Chin is at a turning point, and the maverick composer is reinvigorated from her turn as Compos...
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Lana Norris

Bló∂hófnir (Bloodhoof) is an incredible tale that provokes burning ambivalence. Presented by MATA an...
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Lana Norris

The Composers Now 2019 Festival Opening Event showed off an organization on target. Few evenings wra...
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Lana Norris

“It’s absorbing, and even after two volumes I can’t figure out why.” The gentleman seated in front o...
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Lana Norris

Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer-prize winning oratorio Anthracite Fields returned to New York City and a full...
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Lana Norris

Eldbjørg Hemsing recently premiered Fire Ritual: A Musical Ritual in Memory for the Victims of War c...
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Lana Norris

Let’s sit Tan Dun on a couch between Beyoncé, Mozart, and Solange. Her Louvre takeover, his operas,...
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Lana Norris

Michigan did New York a solid. The U-M School of Music, Theatre, & Dance sent distinct compositi...
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Lana Norris