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Don’t Wait Until You Hear Sirens
May 29 2019 / Articles
By Dale Trumbore
In a few weeks, Dale Trumbore is publishing a book about anxiety in the creative process—Staying Composed: Overcoming Anxiety and Self-Doubt Within a Creative Life. In advance, she shares her own journey toward listening to her mind and body and learning to ask for help when she needs it.
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A new opera by Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson
I’m Learning Middle Eastern Music the Wrong Way
June 17 2019 / Articles
By Nebal Maysaud
If it weren’t for colonization, I would be studying my own culture’s music. And would probably have more success as an artist. So I took my Bachelors of Music degree...

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A new opera by Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson
Each flows into the other
R. Andrew Lee premieres and records a new work by Bryan Christian at the intersection of spectralism and diatonic modality
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Drama and Communication in ASL & Music

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I’m Learning Middle Eastern Music the Wrong Way
If it weren’t for colonization, I would be studying my own culture’s music. And would probably have more success as an artist. So I took my Bachelors of Music degree...
Programming for Justice
The disparity in representation within new music is a longstanding and well-documented problem. We know this. What then holds us back? Why does disparity in representation remain such a problem?
Structure and Freedom in Collaboration (A.k.a. The Incomplete Non-Idiot’s Guide to Workshopping with Musicians)
A.k.a. the incomplete non-idiot’s guide to workshopping with musicians
Escaping the Mold of Oriental Fantasy
My experience as a queer Lebanese composer made me unique. I had the opportunity to authentically represent my culture through music. As I grew older, I realized that the spots...
Writing for Contemporary Harp (i.e. We Have Amps Now, Hear Us Roar)
While harp is what led me to new music, I grudgingly concede that harp is rarely described as the be-all-end-all bastion of new music.
Am I Not a Minority?
Contemporary classical music is a field overrun with socially conscious and politically liberal musicians. So why are there so few composers of color? While white minority composers see progress, people...
Melissa Dunphy: Composing Has To Be a Calling
Melissa Dunphy frequently creates music which is inspired by current events. What is striking about her music is how deeply it relates to her ideas about social justice and inclusivity.
A Week of New Music Celebrations: the BMI Student Composer Awards, the Ceremonial & the Underwood...
The close proximity of the BMI Student Composer Awards, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Ceremonial, and the American Composers Orchestra's Underwood New Music Readings, which have all taken...
Don’t Wait Until You Hear Sirens
In a few weeks, Dale Trumbore is publishing a book about anxiety in the creative process—Staying Composed: Overcoming Anxiety and Self-Doubt Within a Creative Life. In advance, she shares her...
Ethical Artistry: Does Any of This Really Matter? If So, What Practical Steps Can I Take?
The change we seek in our new music ecosystem isn’t going to occur by spouting off in anger on a Facebook thread. We have to take this passion and conviction...
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...
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