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Towards a Framework for Responsible Trans Casting Part 2: The Performers
September 16 2019 / Articles
By Brin Solomon
The artists interviewed for this article have performed everywhere from Germany to San Francisco, in grand opera houses and black box theaters, in revivals of standard repertoire and world premieres;...
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April 12 2016 / Articles
By New Music USA
Commissions form an important financial pillar that supports many composers’ careers, but negotiating compensation is often an uncomfortable topic. "Commissioning Music: A Basic Guide" continues to provide a baseline at...

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Connecticut Summerfest 2019
Connecticut Summerfest is a contemporary music festival that brings together talented emerging composers and inventive chamber ensembles.
Organism
"Organism" is a chain reaction of improvisational gestures encompassing visual art, movement, and sound.
Árabe
Middle Eastern immigrants have substantially influenced Mexican food, language, and architecture – but what about the music?

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Building a Solidarity Economy through Revolutionary Music: the Making of Mirror Butterfly
How can art be a hammer, and not simply representational? One solution is to work in dialogue with actual social movements and create spaces where activists are at the center...
Towards a Framework for Responsible Trans Casting Part 2: The Performers
The artists interviewed for this article have performed everywhere from Germany to San Francisco, in grand opera houses and black box theaters, in revivals of standard repertoire and world premieres;...
Fierce and Tender Humanity—Remembering Mario Davidovsky (1934-2019)
Mario Davidovsky was a passionately involved member of society and the music world. A lot of people have noted his generosity nurturing other artists, his integrity, his vehemently stated opinions,...
Fighting for Our Senses: Ears, Bodies and Hearts in the struggle to redefine Reality
How we convert our environment, through the sensory mediums of our ears, tongues, fingers, eyes, and nostrils into reality is as political and contested as net neutrality versus corporate control...
The Musical is Political
Music has the ability to touch us deeply, and music used in the service of storytelling can transport us into different places and times, even allowing us to assume the...
Towards a Framework for Responsible Trans Casting, Part 1: Words, Words, Words
In all the stories I’ve experienced across all forms of media featuring trans characters written by cis creators, only a handful haven’t been deeply misguided at best, and that number...
Artivism and Decolonization: A brief Theory, History and Practice of Cultural Production as Political Activism
We do not claim that our definitions of artivism are monopolistic. There are probably as many ways to define artivism as there are to define music, performance art, jazz, or...
Lucy Dhegrae: The Art and Science Behind the Voice
Urgency is an important ingredient in everything Lucy Dhegrae does—whether singing music by Eve Beglarian, Joanna Newsom, Jason Eckardt, Gabrielle Herbst, and many others, or curating Resonant Bodies, a three-day...
“Shut up and play”—Musicians as Activists in the 21st century
Musicians are uniquely positioned to convey the following simple message that we should all, as artists, understand: no matter who you are, where you are from, how much money you...
Is Passion a Young Person’s Game?
Paul Elwood explores a fundamental question: If it’s not passion in the 50+ age category (and, in his mind, that’s debatable) what is it that keeps us going in our...
The Aftermath
When your life falls apart, you learn to build a new one. Likewise, when your vision collapses, you learn to see things through a different lens. Josh Armenta has used...
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