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Sierra Wojtczack

New Voices Essay Contest Second Place Winner: Sierra Wojtczack

Last year, I CARE IF YOU LISTEN partnered with 21CM to hold the second annual “New Voices” essay con...
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John Carroll

New Voices Essay Contest First Place Winner: John Carroll

Last year, CARE IF YOU LISTEN partnered with 21CM to hold the second annual “New Voices” essay conte...
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New Voices Essay Contest 2019

Announcing the Winners of the 2019 “New Voices” Essay Contest

This year, I CARE IF YOU LISTEN again collaborated with 21CM to launch the second iteration of the “...
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Humanity is Not an Algorithm: What We Lose with WNYC’s Cancellation of New Sounds

Late last week, the news broke that WNYC, New York City’s flagship NPR station, was cancelling all o...
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Katy Henriksen
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Where Are the Operas About People Like Me? Imagining a Trans-Inclusive New Music World

Last June, I participated in a panel called “New Voices: Composers of Today” at the Leag...
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Alex Temple
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What Classical Music Can Learn From “Old Town Road:” Cultural Appropriation vs Memefication

Coming from the classical music and opera world, I can’t say very often that a popular hit has smash...
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Meg Huskin
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Art for Art’s Sake: Steps to Prevent Tone Deaf Social Justice Concerts

A child dies locked in a detention center. Another black man is killed by police. A family mourns th...
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Alexander Lloyd Blake
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Transphobia Takes Center Stage in New York City Opera’s Stonewall

The original version of this article was published on June 25, 2019 on Brin Solomon’s blog wit...
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brin solomon
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Whose Pulitzer Prize? Reception History Behind the Brand-Name Prestige

There is nothing quite like the annual announcement of the Pulitzer Prize for Music to inspire skept...
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Julia Kuhlman
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The Myth of the Composer-Genius

The following is an abridged version of a lecture given at the Overnight Composers Series at SUNY Fr...
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Evan Williams
Hillary LaBonte

New Voices Essay Contest First Place Winner: Hillary LaBonte

Last year, I CARE IF YOU LISTEN partnered with 21CM to create the “New Voices” essay contest, inviti...
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Anjali Misra

New Voices Essay Contest Second Place Winner: Anjali Misra

Last year, I CARE IF YOU LISTEN partnered with 21CM to create the “New Voices” essay contest, inviti...
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Leah Dunbar

New Voices Essay Contest Third Place Winner: Leah Dunbar

Last year, I CARE IF YOU LISTEN partnered with 21CM to create the “New Voices” essay contest, inviti...
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Bring in the Minorities: Why Representation Matters in Classical Music

When I moved to Arkansas from Las Vegas, Nevada, I underwent a culture shock of sorts. Living in a p...
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Samson Baughman
Dianne Berkun Menaker and Brooklyn Youth Chorus present Silent Voices

Silent Voices, Sounding Alarms: On Gendered Spaces in the New Music World

Well, here I am, once again tasked with writing about the underrepresentation and tokenism of women...
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Rebecca Lentjes
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Systemic Discrimination: the Burden of Sameness in American Orchestras

Classical music lovers feel a rush of excitement each year when orchestras release their plans for a...
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Douglas Shadle
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60th Annual GRAMMY Awards (New Music) Winners

Let’s take a look at the classical music winners from the 60th Annual GRAMMY Awards, and specificall...
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Amanda Cook
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Steuart and Michelle Pincombe Create Music in Familiar Spaces

Steuart and Michelle Pincombe have created an orchestra of sorts. But they won’t ever convene these...
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Aarik Danielsen
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New Music Gathering 2016: Massive Meetup in Baltimore

The venerable Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University on stately Mt. Vernon Square in Balt...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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20-teens New Music Love-In in San Francisco

So, what do we call the work that we’re making? What do we call our roles in it and what do we call...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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F*ck you. Pay me: Some Thoughts on Musicians and Money.

Yesterday morning, Ellen McSweeney wrote an excellent piece detailing payment trouble she and others...
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Andrew Lee
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Who Feeds the Artist? [From our Magazine]

This opinion post by Xenia Pestova was originally published in Issue 2 of our magazine and is offere...
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Xenia Pestova
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Beethoven Could Have Used More Dinosaurs

Kids, Graphic Scores, & How Music Education is a Two-Way StreetI suppose I should open with a di...
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Danny Clay
Cathy Berberian

Waiting for the Berberians

Here's a story I hope is true. Years ago, Laurie Anderson contacted Thomas Pynchon via snail mail to...
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Sam Zelitch
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