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Essay
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
Until very recently, the long-established tradition of classical music organizations has been to bas...
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Jennifer Grim
The year was 2014 and Southern University’s Human Jukebox marching band had just gone viral for thei...
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Katie Brown
In our field of Western classical music, we often set the expectation with young musicians that if t...
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Juhi Bansal
In classical music’s recent efforts to become a more equitable space, I’ve often seen the words “div...
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Aiden K. Feltkamp
As artists who are also listeners, we tend to have a complex relationship with recorded music. When...
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Christian Kriegeskotte, Ciyadh Wells
“Casting Light” is a 10-part series that explores the often invisible inequities in contemporary art...
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Socks Whitmore
This is the question I asked myself in January 2022 after I decided to quit social media. The social...
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Sugar Vendil
“Casting Light” is a 10-part series that explores the often invisible inequities in contemporary art...
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Nina Shekhar
“Casting Light” is a 10-part series that explores the often invisible inequities in contemporary art...
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Zygmund de Somogyi
“Casting Light” is a 10-part series that explores the often invisible inequities in contemporary art...
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Hugh Morris
When it comes to addressing inequities in orchestra auditions, the conversation tends to take place...
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Donna Lee Davidson
In the arts, as in other fields, data can be a powerful tool for accountability, but it has also bec...
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Mansi Shah
It’s no secret that opera as both an artform and an industry has suffered from some serious ga...
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Elena Stabile
“Casting Light” is a 10-part series that explores the often invisible inequities in contemporary art...
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Jasmin Kent Rodgman, Vilma Jackson
“Casting Light” is a 10-part series that explores the often invisible inequities in contemporary art...
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Joanna Ward
When I was a kid, I thought my sister and I were the only Black people playing violin in Cincinnati,...
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A. Kori Hill
“Casting Light” is a 10-part series that explores the often invisible inequities in contemporary art...
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Olivia Giovetti
“Casting Light” is a 10-part series that explores the often invisible inequities in contemporary art...
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Michele Cheng
“Grief is despair in proportion to circumstance. Depression is grief out of proportion to circ...
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Aaron Helgeson
The sound of liberation is a battle with silence. It is a mad mashup of noise, nostalgic ballads, an...
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Shirine Saad
“Casting Light” is a 10-part series that explores the often invisible inequities in contemporary art...
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Kymani Queen, Aaron Gabriel
“Casting Light” is a 10-part series that explores the often invisible inequities in cont...
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April Yee