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BLUE

A new opera by Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson

Virtual Boston New Music Festival 2020

Boston's leading new music ensembles present the finest in new music with three weeks of coordinated concerts across the metro area

Hallelujah Anyhow: The Premiere Recording of Alvin Singleton’s String Quartets

Momenta Quartet is excited to record the complete string quartets of distinguished African American composer Alvin Singleton.

“THE RISE UP” FEATURING NEA JAZZ MASTER DAVE LIEBMAN

An extended intercultural composition by Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol for Jazz Orchestra featuring NEA Jazz Master/Saxophonist Dave Liebman

2020 Young Women Composers Camp

The Young Women Composers Camp aims to amplify the voices of young female-identifying and non-binary composers, to allow them access to a high level of musical training, and to work...

MEET US QUICKLY WITH YOUR MERCY: Part 2 of the Decarceration Trilogy

A large scale public art performance bringing together Black and Jewish voices to explore issues of race and capture.

The Lark Quartet: 30th Anniversary Album

An album to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of a groundbreaking quartet!

George Crumb: Metamorphoses, Book 2

Premiere recording of a new masterpiece by George Crumb

El Paso Jazz Girls Composers

50 girls meet on Monday, compose new music together Tuesday - Thursday, and perform their world premiere on Friday. Let’s do this!

“The River” with ETHEL & Robert Mirabal, a cross-cultural concert & educational outreach experience

An immersion in a flow of music, narrative and ritual that evokes timeless Native American traditions through contemporary musical artistry.

EPOCH

EPOCH is an extended-length performance with new music by Cheryl E. Leonard that challenges the glorification of acquisition and excess.

String Theory: Works for string orchestra/KINETIC + Pierre Jalbert

Recording the string orchestra works of Pierre Jalbert

The Grey Land

A music drama that explores themes of acceptance and identity through the intractable issues of race, class, and power in American society.

Organon Novus: Contemporary Organ Works by American Masters

25 Years, 25 American composers, 25 Compositions shattering conventions of organ music and paving the future for the "King of Instruments"

Emergence

Through an exploration of Alice Coltrane’s spiritual jazz, Emergence examines what it means to make American music right now.

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