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Evan Williams, Jenn Jolley, Stephanie Ann Boyd, Yaz Lancaster

The End of Finale: Reflections and Advice for Composing in a New Era

Some words from Carolina Heredia, ACF Director of Programs: The abrupt announcement by MakeMusic to...
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Countertenor Luke Paulino and pianist Daniel Schreiner -- Photo by Matt Josephson

InfraSound and ChamberQUEER Offer Multidisciplinary Expressions of Queer Artistry

Upon taking my program and entering the large room at The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender C...
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Stephanie Boyd
Yaz Lancaster -- Photo by Felix Walworth

Yaz Lancaster’s Thoughtful Curation of “comp.01” Unifies Wide-Ranging Aesthetics for a Common Cause

comp.01 accomplishes a lot of things that compilation albums often struggle to do: it is unified by...
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Tristan McKay
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Announcing “Anatomy of a Commission”: a 360-view Digital Resource

Today, American Composers Forum (ACF) announces the launch of a new digital resource titled “Anatomy...
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Yaz Lancaster AmethYst

In Audiovisual Debut Album “AmethYst,” Yaz Lancaster Curates Internal Dialogues with Collaborators

Yaz Lancaster is a transdisciplinary artist, composer, and violinist whose work combines various tec...
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Clover Nahabedian
2022 Hildegard Commission Winners--Photo courtesy of National Sawdust

5 Questions to the 2022 Hildegard Commission Winners

As composition competitions have come under closer scrutiny for their age biases and even exploitati...
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Julia Kuhlman
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Editor’s Picks: 2022 New Music Albums

For me, 2022 was a paradoxical year filled with confusing contradictions. I attended significantly m...
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Amanda Cook
BAKUDI SCREAM FINAL SKIN

BAKUDI SCREAM’s FINAL SKIN is an Open World Meditation on Virtual/Actual Identities

If you enjoy contemporary classical music and artists like 100 gecs, Arca, and SOPHIE, I may have fo...
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Tristan McKay
Emma O'Halloran--Photo by Alex Dowling

ListN Up: Emma O’Halloran (May 27, 2022)

ListN Up is a weekly series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of con...
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“After the Storm,” Contemporaneous Reflects on Pandemic Lessons and Social Issues

Contemporaneous returned to live performance on Wednesday, July 21, 2021 with spectacular ease. R...
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Lana Norris
inti figgis-vizueta--Photo by ella joklik

ListN Up: inti figgis-vizueta (April 23, 2021)

ListN Up is a series of weekly artist-curated playlists. Born from a desire to keep artists sharing...
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The Blackbox Ensemble--Photo by Toby Winarto

BlackBox Ensemble Presents “Elegy,” Reflecting on Loss and Mourning

With over 300,000 deaths related to COVID-19 in the United States, this is more fitting a time than...
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Esteban Meneses
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Video Premiere: (no) i Don’t Want to Leave You Whole / ‘cause that may Leave Me Empty by Nyokabi Kariuki

Today’s video premiere features composer Nyokabi Kariuki performing her own work “(no),...
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Yaz Lancaster--Photo courtesy of the artist

5 Questions to Yaz Lancaster (interdisciplinary artist)

Yaz Lancaster is an interdisciplinary artist who combines violin performance, composition, poetry, a...
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Alyssa Kayser-Hirsh
UNEVEN MEASURES

Announcing UNEVEN MEASURES: Artists Reflect on the 19th Amendment

The centennial anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, giving white women the right t...
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Anthony Braxton

This week: concerts in New York (June 10, 2019 – June 16, 2019)

Face the Music: Critical Mass with Claire Chase & Tri-Centric Foundation Face the Music joins fo...
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Sam Reising
Tyshawn Sorey (photo: John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation)

This week: concerts in New York (March 25, 2019 – March 31, 2019)

CompCord Big Band CompCord Big Band runs amok on a program featuring premieres by Aaron Alter, John...
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Sam Reising

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