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Essay
One of the worst break-ups I ever endured came from a four-year relationship that I invested all of...
Author
Mariah Goulet
Arts institutions are under pressure to get with the times. The political and social movements of th...
Author
Allison Loggins-Hull
There are certain experiences we all go through that, in the moment, feel novel or trivial; those ti...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
Designed for both music creators and their collaborators, “Anatomy of a Commission” is a digital res...
Author
Yaz Lancaster
Classical music has given me a lot: I’ve found an important and sacred part of my identity in being...
Author
Katie Brown
Designed for both music creators and their collaborators, “Anatomy of a Commission” is a digital res...
Author
Gemma Peacocke
ANXIETY It’s a Sunday in June. After a record-breaking amount of snow this winter (which melted only...
Author
Ann DuHamel
In their Feb. 16 advice column on I CARE IF YOU LISTEN, Asking for a Friend responded to a message f...
Author
Jessica Rudman
Designed for both music creators and their collaborators, “Anatomy of a Commission” is a digital res...
Author
Stephanie Boyd
This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. Image caption: Artists featured in “...
Author
Carolina Heredia
This article is derived from Chapter 2 of Reza Vali’s Return to the Origins, published in Nov.
Author
Reza Vali
The lives of contemporary composers can take many forms, but few people enjoy a lifestyle like Bach,...
Author
Megumi Saruhashi
I can count on one hand how many times I missed church during the first 18 years of my life, excludi...
Author
Katie Brown
One year ago, the remaining star in the 20th century’s firmament of indisputably sui generis compose...
Author
Margaret Leng Tan
I don’t think anyone has ever assumed that pursuing a degree in classical music would be easy. Despi...
Author
Michelle Hromin
This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. People often view fundraising as a “neces...
Author
Elise Peterson
It’s hard to believe that I CARE IF YOU LISTEN (ICIYL) recently marked the two-year anniversary of o...
Author
Amanda Cook
Until very recently, the long-established tradition of classical music organizations has been to bas...
Author
Jennifer Grim
The year was 2014 and Southern University’s Human Jukebox marching band had just gone viral for thei...
Author
Katie Brown
In our field of Western classical music, we often set the expectation with young musicians that if t...
Author
Juhi Bansal
In classical music’s recent efforts to become a more equitable space, I’ve often seen the words “div...
Author
Aiden K. Feltkamp
As artists who are also listeners, we tend to have a complex relationship with recorded music. When...
Co-Author
Christian Kriegeskotte, Ciyadh Wells
“Casting Light” is a 10-part series that explores the often invisible inequities in contemporary art...
Author
Socks Whitmore
