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Thursday, May 6, 2021
With the continued rise and popularity of crypto-currency, artists are beginning to see the benefits of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for their artwork. On Episode 22 of “DISCOVERY,” we’ll discuss the financial viability of NFTs for artists, and how they’re adding to the value of artists’ work. Guest: Amy Whitaker, writer,…
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Wednesday, May 5, 2021
The following Professional Development Webinar is co-presented by the American Composers Orchestra (ACO) and the American Composers Forum (ACF). Orchestral conductors Marin Alsop & George Manahan provide insight into the conductor-composer relationship, programming new works, and other topics relevant to composers, followed by a Q&A with the audience. Moderated by Derek Bermel The panelists…
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Tuesday, May 4, 2021

TUES@7: Creating New Work

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Join the International Contemporary Ensemble for an evening focused on creation, collaboration, and process with Jennifer Curtis, Pauchi Sasaki, Rebekah Heller, and Clifton Joey Guidry III. Including the world premiere of Guidry’s “How hot is the sand at 6pm?” performed by Rebekah Heller. Date & Time: Tuesday, May…
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Monday, May 3, 2021

Symphonic Wind Ensemble

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The UW-Whitewater Symphonic Wind Ensemble (SWE) is the premiere wind and percussion ensemble on campus. It is open by audition to all qualified students, regardless of major. SWE has distinguished itself internationally, nationally and regionally. Honors include being the first university band from Wisconsin to perform at Carnegie Hall. The…
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Sunday, May 2, 2021
Due to high demand, Tulsa Opera has announced a second performance of Greenwood Overcomes featuring a program of works by 23 living Black composers performed by eight Black artists to commemorate the centennial of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. The performances will be Saturday, May 1, 2021 at 7:30 p.m. CT and …
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Saturday, May 1, 2021

Greenwood Overcomes

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In a special concert this spring titled Greenwood Overcomes featuring a program comprised of works by living Black composers, Tulsa Opera will honor the resilience of Black Tulsans and Black America one hundred years after the Tulsa Race Massacre. During the two-day massacre May 31–June 1, 1921 the city’s Greenwood neighborhood (known…
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Saturday, May 1, 2021
Due to high demand, Tulsa Opera has announced a second performance of Greenwood Overcomes featuring a program of works by 23 living Black composers performed by eight Black artists to commemorate the centennial of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. The performances will be Saturday, May 1, 2021 at 7:30 p.m. CT and …
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Saturday, May 1, 2021
On Saturday, May 1, 2021 at 7pm CT | 8pm ET, the Jupiter Quartet joins forces with the Jasper String Quartet to perform Mendelssohn’s Octet in E-flat, Op. 20 for Ringwood Friends of Chamber Music. Their recording of the work was released in February 2021 on Marquis Classics…
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Saturday, May 1, 2021
Leon Botstein conducts the first of two concerts dedicated to one of the greatest composers of all time, Ludwig van Beethoven, after the pandemic shut down many of the celebrations planned for the 250th anniversary of his birth. The program features his beloved 5th and 7th symphonies, as well as…
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Saturday, May 1, 2021
Information session regarding 2021 ACF | create Application Process with Billy Lackey, ACF VP of Artist Services. Are you a music creator living in Minnesota of five boroughs ofNew York City seeking funding for a commission? Or are you an ensemble seeking funding to commission a composer who lives in…
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Saturday, May 1, 2021
“I dream a world where man no other man will scorn, where love will bless the earth and peace its paths adorn.” ​Centered around the beautiful words of Langston Hughes’ poem imagining a world of justice and equality, VOX presents its second digital concert of the season, I Dream A World.
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Friday, April 30, 2021

AMERICA AWAKENS

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Spring is in the air, the light of awareness is dawning, change is within reach, growth is on the horizon, and pride lends a bounce to one’s step.  Please join Maestro Wes Kenney and the Fort Collins Symphony for an evening of American composers and themes. This streamed virtual concert…
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Friday, April 30, 2021
The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Department of Music Whitewater Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra will release their final concert virtually and for viewing through May 13. The Whitewater Symphony Orchestra is the flagship orchestra at UW-Whitewater. WSO is a full orchestra and includes woodwinds, brass, percussion, and strings. In addition to…
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Friday, April 30, 2021
Information session regarding 2021 ACF | create Application Process with Billy Lackey, ACF VP of Artist Services. Are you a music creator living in Minnesota of five boroughs ofNew York City seeking funding for a commission? Or are you an ensemble seeking funding to commission a composer who lives in…
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Friday, April 30, 2021

Hot & Cool Jazz: Taylor Eigsti

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On International Jazz Day 2021, please Wilton Libary’s first Hot & Cool jazz concert since their 2019-2020 season was interrupted after the smashing two-set concert of Brubecks Play Brubeck in January 2020! They will broadcast a spectacular concert performed by pianist Taylor Eigsti and recorded in front of a live…
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Friday, April 30, 2021
The arrival of COVID-19 in 2020 was devastating to the performing arts. An urgent call rang loud and clear to artists from all walks of life: adapt and create new models or risk losing livelihoods that took years to build. Gabriela Lena Frank, a composer born with high-moderate/near-profound hearing loss,…
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Friday, April 30, 2021

The Power of Band Music Panel

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We already know how influential the experience of playing in a band can be for a kid, college student, or adult. The opportunities to be part of a community, to make music together, and to perform for others have a tremendous impact on each individual. But what about the composer/music…
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Thursday, April 29, 2021
Violinist Kristin Lee and pianist Jeremy Jordan join forces for a virtual recital presented by Adelphi University. The program, entitled Americana, showcases a broad spectrum of illustrious composers and the American musical styles which influenced them, as well as their own musical styles which influenced generations of composers to come.
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Thursday, April 29, 2021
A series of eight FREE monthly digital Performance As Process events on Thursday evenings from September through April will invite audiences to Conrad Tao’s, 2020-21 Kaufman Music Center Artist-in-Residence, creative practice as he develops programming for his May 6 Ecstatic Music concert in Merkin Hall. Streamed from his home in Manhattan,…
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Thursday, April 29, 2021
Date & Time: Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 6pm CT | 7pm ET Virtual performance filmed in Merkin Hall Young musicians from Kaufman Music Center’s Special Music School and Lucy Moses School perform music by Florence Price, Margaret Bonds, Samuel Coleridge Taylor and Joseph Bolougne, Chevalier de Saint-George.
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Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Free event, registration highly encouraged. Registrants will receive links to listen to the featured works in advance of the event. Join on Wednesday, April 28, 2021 at 4pm CT | 5pm ET for a new Composer to Composer Talk with Tania León (a…
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Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Date & Time: Wednesday, April 28, 2021 at 9:06am | 10:06 am ET Performance as Process events are streamed on Kaufman Music Center’s Facebook page. 2020-21 Kaufman Music Center Artist-in-Residence Conrad Tao is a pianist, composer, Avery Fisher Career Grant winner and alumnus of Special Music School.
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Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Wind Symphony Concert

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On Tuesday, April 27 at 8:30pm CT | 7:30pm MT, the CMU Wind Symphony will present its final concert of the season in the Moss Performing Arts Center Robinson Theatre. It will also be the last time director Calvin Hofer will lead the ensemble. He is retiring from…
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Tuesday, April 27, 2021
Date & Time: Tuesday, April 27, 2021 at 6pm CT | 7pm ET FREE concert streamed on Facebook & YouTube Young musicians from Kaufman Music Center premiere works by the 2020-21 Luna Composition Lab Fellows: Vera Gjaja, Alisha Heng, Jordan Millar, Zola Saadi-Klein, Azalea…
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