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Color Theory 2.0
New Music for Saxophones and Percussion by Susie Ibarra and Tyshawn Sorey
How to Exist: 20 Years of NewMusicBox
May 1 2019 / Articles
By Tim Rutherford-Johnson
We can’t quite believe it, but NewMusicBox turns 20 years old today! Tim Rutherford-Johnson is helping us kick-off our celebrations with a special feature looking at how things have changed—and...
Ethical Artistry: Changing our Approach & Evaluating our Efforts
May 20 2019 / Articles
By Daniel Temkin
Many of us care about ethical artistry, but how do we measure our efforts? And how do we balance competing demands? This week, Dan Temkin digs into some general tenets...

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Featured projects
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Witness
A contemporary ballet at the intersection of art, activism and education that gives historical context to America's current racial quagmire.
Color Theory 2.0
New Music for Saxophones and Percussion by Susie Ibarra and Tyshawn Sorey
Breath Beneath
Hybridizing interactive technologies with new works by composers Dan Trueman and Julia Wolfe + filmmakers Mark DeChiazza and Bill Morrison

The Latest from NewMusicBox
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Music Unbound
When Aaron Irwin began studying music, a clear line was drawn between jazz and classical. Yet today, they are meeting on an ever-widening aesthetic middle ground. Irwin explores the work...
Ethical Artistry: Changing our Approach & Evaluating our Efforts
Many of us care about ethical artistry, but how do we measure our efforts? And how do we balance competing demands? This week, Dan Temkin digs into some general tenets...
Jack of All Trades or Master of Them All? Cross-Genre Creative Gambling
In the earliest days of her career, Danielle Eva Schwob was told to specialize. She never did.
Artist Financial Profile: Dr. Lisa Neher, Composer & Performer
Adam Schumaker is back with another case study of a musician’s income—the next small chapter in an evolving theoretical Guide to Musician Finances. This time he speaks with Lisa Neher,...
Ethical Artistry: Falling Short—Logistics, Programming, and the Moral Complexity of Well-Intentioned Decisions
As a musical community, we strive to promote positive virtues in our work, yet clearly problems persist. So why do we fall short? Dan Temkin is back this week to...
Do it right or do it right now?
In a creative project, the quest for quality development and preparation eventually meets the question of when exactly to pull the trigger. Danielle Schwob shares her experiences navigating that challenging...
Teaching the Music of Now: A Mission, a Project, and a Conference
A survey course can easily convey the impression that “great” music is a finite resource generated by a handful of genius composers. When students become researchers, however, the picture changes.
Ethical Artistry: Are we really asking ourselves these tough questions?
Why are we doing this? This is one of the toughest and most deceptively simple artistic questions we face, and one easy to run from when planning a new project....
How to Exist: 20 Years of NewMusicBox
We can’t quite believe it, but NewMusicBox turns 20 years old today! Tim Rutherford-Johnson is helping us kick-off our celebrations with a special feature looking at how things have changed—and...
New Music USA appoints Vanessa Reed as President and CEO
An experienced, passionate, and transformational music professional, Ms. Reed comes to New Music USA after serving the United Kingdom’s PRS Foundation as chief executive for the past 11 years.
April 29 2019 / Headlines
Listening to and Learning From Each Other
It appears from where I’m sitting (which is often in airplanes) that the world bubbles and froths with swirling, ever-shifting configurations of populations, each grappling with short and long-term political,...
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