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Wednesday, May 19, 2021
The following Professional Development Webinar is co-presented by the American Composers Orchestra (ACO) and the American Composers Forum (ACF). How does traditional programming change when it’s focused online? Where is classical music headed in the digital age? American Composers Orchestra Artistic Director Derek Bermel moderates a panel of experts, followed by a Q&A with…
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Tuesday, May 18, 2021
Join this event for an uplifting and joyful virtual concert featuring our three Twin Cities based choruses. Take “your special place” for this second virtual concert performance by Giving Voice Chorus! The St. Paul, Minneapolis AM, and Minneapolis PM choruses are each featured singing a favorite song. And all three…
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Tuesday, May 18, 2021
This Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at 6:30 PM CT | 7:30 PM ET, Theatre Communications Group (TCG) will be honoring the Performing Arts Alliance at their 60th Anniversary Gala: Our Stories.  Celebrate the theatre field’s…
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Sunday, May 16, 2021
The Boston-based Neave Trio returns – virtually – to the Ridgecrest Chamber Music Society for an online concert, marking the trio’s seventh appearance on the series. The performance was recorded in Pickman Hall at the Longy School of Music of Bard College, where the trio is on faculty. Date &…
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Sunday, May 16, 2021
On Sunday, May 16, 2021 at 3pm CT | 1:00pm PT, the Jupiter Quartet will perform a virtual concert presented by Chamber Music at the Clark at UCLA. The program features Felix Mendelssohn’s String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80; Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s…
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Saturday, May 15, 2021

NEW VOICES II

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Each work in the second New Voices program takes a text from the past and gives it a new perspective, including words by Anna Akhmatova, George Eliot, Christina Rossetti, Walt Whitman, and more.  Featuring four world premiere works as well as classic Russian poetry newly translated by Jody McAuliffe (3…
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Saturday, May 15, 2021
BROOKLYN ART SONG SOCIETY’S inaugural New Voices Festival brings the start of an essential event for modern song. This first festival takes the tradition that created countless masterpieces and re-imagines it for the 21st century. 15 works by living composers, half of them world-premieres, reflect on the past and look…
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Saturday, May 15, 2021
This program will be livestreamed on YouTube and Facebook. Minju Kim, violin; Keith Robinson, cello; Daniel Gilbert, clarinet; Donna Lee, piano Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano, Op. 11, Ludwig van Beethoven Andante un poco mosso from Trio, Op. 99, Franz Schubert Lucas’s Garden, Amanda Harberg  Song Without…
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Saturday, May 15, 2021
Lull, a sleep temple is an overnight musical work. In this project Mendi + Keith Obadike create a sonic environment for rest. The 8 hour livestream uses field recordings, analog synths, and slow-moving harmonies from pianos, guitars, banjos, bell plates, and elongated melodies to create a field of sound for dreaming. At the…
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Saturday, May 15, 2021
Composers Concordance presents Tin Pan Allegiances on Saturday, May 15, 2021 at 5 PM CT | 6 PM ET at Michiko Studios in New York City. The concert commemorates and pays tribute to NYC’s Tin Pan Alley, where publishers of zillions of popular songs had their offices. Songwriters…
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Friday, May 14, 2021

After Hours: Latina Composers

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The second edition of the much-beloved After Hours program is back, and this time, it is celebrating 11 astounding Latina composers. Russell Thomas, Artist in Residence-turned-host, curated this spectacular special to transport you right to Mexico, Venezuela, Argentina, Cuba and Peru (without ever leaving your home). Presented in collaboration with…
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Friday, May 14, 2021
Great Falls Symphony announces their 100% FREE concert season this year until May 2021. “All of us at the Great Falls Symphony are fully committed to fulfilling our mission to infuse cultural vibrancy into the Great Falls community through transformative music events and education programs.” All live performances will…
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Friday, May 14, 2021

Craig Carnahan: Ghost Camp

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The Singers – MCA, Matthew Culloton, conductor, perform the World Premier of Craig Carnahan’s “Ghost Camp” Text by Walt Whitman (1819-1892). The text for this piece dates to Walt Whitman’s experiences during the Civil War as a nurse and is taken from his journals and…
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Thursday, May 13, 2021

Rimon Artist Salon

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The Rimon Artist Salon Series presents the debut performance of “Anna,” newly commissioned songs by acclaimed composer/performer Anat Spiegel (a 2020 McKnight Composer Fellowship recipient) inspired by the extraordinary poems of the late Yiddish writer Anna Margolin. Participation is free, but registration is required. Date &…
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Thursday, May 13, 2021
Bang on a Can, BOMB Magazine, and the Jewish Museum present a live conversation featuring composer Steve Reich and painter Amy Sillman, plus performances of two Reich classics: Piano/Video Phase and Electric Counterpoint by the Bang on a Can All-Stars’ David Cossin (percussion) and Mark Stewart (electric guitar). Among the…
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Thursday, May 13, 2021
A Choreographic Work for Viol Quartet and Baroque Harp by Eleonor Sandresky Parthenia Viol Consort and guests discuss the conception, composition and performance of Sandresky’s 2014 work, John Donne Songs Without Words, commissioned by Parthenia with a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts. Explore Donne’s poetry,…
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Thursday, May 13, 2021
ACF Invites you to engage in a discussion of Code-Switching. Quite often used as a survival tactic for BIPOC navigating white spaces, code-switching can be adjusting the way we talk or how we do our hair, or how we dress to fit into the dominant culture. What does it mean…
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Wednesday, May 12, 2021
On Wednesday, May 12, 2021 at 11:30am CT, the Jupiter Quartet will perform a virtual concert presented by Chicago Chamber Music Society. Jupiter will perform George Walker’s “Lyric” for String Quartet; excerpts from Michi Wiancko’s To Unpathed Waters, Undreamed Shores; and Schubert’s String Quartet No.
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Sunday, May 9, 2021

Pale Yellow

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Date & Time: Sunday, May 9, 2021 at 3 PM CT Location: St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 201 North State Street, New Ulm, MN, 56073, United States (map) ProMusica Minnesota will present the last New Ulm-based concert of…
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Saturday, May 8, 2021
This outdoor, self-guided event is free and family-friendly, but requires reservations as capacity is limited. Further details such as exact location and directions are provided upon registration. Wavelets Creative presents composer JG Everest’s entire four-part Water Suite: Four Seasonal Sound Gardens in a series of free outdoor, self-guided “pop-up” events…
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Friday, May 7, 2021
The creative and collaborative interweaving of classical music with elements of social justice, language, and improvisation has made Jessie Montgomery one of America’s most relevant…
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Thursday, May 6, 2021

To the Fore

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In this finale of the North State Symphony’s 20th season, they bring to the spotlight composers and works that have everything from exotic combinations of instruments and orchestral color to unique storylines.  The sampling begins with Ellen Taaffe Zwilich and her Chamber Symphony, a work whose elaborate melodic writing and…
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Thursday, May 6, 2021

Engender Roundtable

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Join Nicky Manlove and Bradford Dumont as they facilitate a roundtable with all of the guests from the Engender series: Abdullah Hall, Bex Bagnato, Erik Peregrine, Jace Kaholokula Saplan, Lindsey Deaton, Logan Bradford, Mari Esabel Valverde, and Michael Bussewitz-Quarm. Date & Time: Thursday, May 6, 2021 at 7…
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Thursday, May 6, 2021
Walden Chamber Music Society’s May concert presents Walden’s Artistic Director and Concert Pianist Jo Boatright who will be joined by Mark Rush, violin, Matt Diekman, viola and Camilla Bonzo on cello. The program will include Intermezzo for violin, viola and ‘cello by Zoltàn Kodàly, Aubade for violin, viola and ‘cello…
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