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Amber N. Ford in conversation at concertnova's

concertnova’s “Meet in the Middle” is a Beautiful Snapshot of the Black Midwest’s Aural and Visual Diversity

There is little stopping classical music programmers from making innovative choices, except maybe co...
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A. Kori Hill
Samantha Ege -- Photo by Jason Dodd

5 Questions to Samantha Ege (pianist, scholar)

Very few musicians find equal footing in the worlds of music and words. Some might think of Sir Step...
Author
Forrest Howell
I CARE IF YOU LISTEN'S Favorite Albums of 2024

I CARE IF YOU LISTEN’s Favorite Albums of 2024

In a time where the arts and creativity is systemically and politically undermined and unappreciated...
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
Peter Oundjian leads the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra -- Photo by Geremy Kornreich

Gabriela Lena Frank Draws on Peruvian Ancestry in World Premiere at Colorado Music Festival

On July 21, in the foothills of the Boulder Flatirons, excited concertgoers socialized outside Chaut...
Author
Forrest Howell
OLEA -- Photos by John Neack

OLEA Centers Women and Black Composers in a Concert of American Folk-Inspired Music

I missed the “Yeehaw Agenda” era that dominated the socials a few years ago, so when the OLEA chambe...
Author
A. Kori Hill
Chi-chi Nwanoku -- Photo by Eric Richmond

5 Questions to Chi-chi Nwanoku CBE (bassist and founder, Chineke! Orchestra)

In the eight years since its founding, the Chineke! Orchestra has performed at the BBC Proms, helped...
Author
Dalanie Harris
The Sphinx Virtuosi -- Photo by Scott Jackson

Sphinx Virtuosi Release Powerful, Celebratory Debut with ‘Songs of Our Times’

Released July 28 on Deutsche Grammophon, the Sphinx Virtuosi’s Songs for Our Times is sprawling, con...
Author
Sofía Rocha
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Bravo! Vail Festival Blends New Music with the Classics at its Lavish Colorado Rockies Home

It wasn’t until I’d taken the gondola down from Eagle’s Nest, perched 10,350 feet up on Vail Mountai...
Author
Esteban Meneses
Jennifer Grim--Photo by Tracey Hagen Photography

Classical Music’s Racial Awakening – Was It All a Mirage?

Until very recently, the long-established tradition of classical music organizations has been to bas...
Author
Jennifer Grim
Photo by David Smooke on Unsplash

Dismantling Arts Journalism — and Why We’d All Benefit (Casting Light #4)

“Casting Light” is a 10-part series that explores the often invisible inequities in contemporary art...
Author
Olivia Giovetti
Donna Weng Friedman--Photo by Michael Ian

5 Questions to Donna Weng Friedman (pianist)

Award-winning pianist and music producer Donna Weng Friedman enjoys a varied career as a soloist, ch...
Author
Jennifer Jolley
Lara Downes Some of These Days

On Lara Downes’ Some of These Days, Truth Prevails

Released in April 2020 during a global pandemic, Some of These Days (Flipside Music) brings a unique...
Author
Natalie Calma
Elizabeth de Brito © all rights reserved 2020

5 Questions to Elizabeth de Brito (Host, The Daffodil Perspective)

Elizabeth de Brito is the host of The Daffodil Perspective, an online classical radio show with a fo...
Author
Gemma Peacocke
Photo by Maxim Abramov on Unsplash

Excluding Beethoven: Western Art Music’s Identity Crisis

Imagine a Western art music canon that doesn’t include Beethoven simply because he is a white man. T...
Author
Dave Molk
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Resonance Works Pittsburgh Works to Diversify the Canon

On Sunday, November 3, 2019, Pittsburgh’s resident multimodal performing arts company, Resonance Wor...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
Chicago Sinfonietta Project W

Chicago Sinfonietta’s Project W Highlights Women Composers

Project W is an initiative by the Chicago Sinfonietta to help highlight and promote “contempor...
Author
Jarrett Goodchild
Photo by Dayne Topkin on Unsplash

The Myth of the Composer-Genius

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

This week: concerts in New York (March 4, 2019 – March 10, 2019)

Contemporaneous IMAGINATION Presents In a snapshot of the endlessly varied forms of musical expressi...
Author
Sam Reising
Melanie Zeck

5 Questions to Melanie Zeck (Research Fellow, Center for Black Music Research)

Melanie Zeck is an ethnomusicologist, editor, and research librarian who has served a fundamental ro...
Author
Rebecca Lentjes
Alex Weiser

This week: concerts in New York (November 21 – November 27, 2016)

MATA Jr. Festival MATA presents its third annual MATA Jr. Festival in conjunction with the Kaufman M...
Author
Sam Reising

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