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Saturday, May 14, 2022
Chen Yi’s intense, high-spirited, and hopeful composition, Ge Xu (Antiphony), is a tribute to Southern China’s Zhuang minority people and their celebratory song styles. Claude Debussy accesses playful emotions in Children’s Corner, dedicated to his young daughter and her favorite toys. He turns to an impressionistic sensuality in his tone poem Prelude to the Afternoon…
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Saturday, May 14, 2022

X, LIFE AND TIMES OF MALCOLM X

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The astonishing life of one of the most misunderstood men in history unfolds in X: The Life and Times of Malcom X. This distinctly American opera by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Anthony Davis (Central Park Five) and directed by Tony-nominee Robert O’Hara (Slave Play, a BandQuest composer) features a jazz ensemble incorporated into…
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Thursday, May 12, 2022
On Christmas Day 2019, composer/performer Gina Williams found herself on Ukrainian television performing in front of a national audience. This month for our Equity Study Group, the Jamaican Canadian-born, boundless musical creator shares the story of how she got there along with stories of her family and background growing up…
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Tuesday, May 10, 2022
This info session for Innova Recordings National Call program is for anyone who may be curious about this program and its mission, applying to the program, Innova’s curatorial process, and even the process of recording and releasing music in general. Click the link to register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvc-CqrD0uEtduq8GeuwIzuVt_QMXI1KeN The Innova’s…
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Thursday, April 14, 2022
ACF Board Member, poet, performer, and librettist; Douglas Kearney joins us for our April Equity Study Group to discuss his book, Sho, a National Book Award, Pen American, and Minnesota Book Award finalist. Join the conversation as we discuss his poetry and use of typography. “Eschewing performative typography, Douglas Kearney’s…
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Sunday, April 10, 2022
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra presents their Symphonic series with Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody: Jennifer Higdon (a BandQuest and ChoralQuest composer), Respighi, and Rachmaninoff. Date & Time: Friday – Sunday, April 8 – 10, 2022 at 7:30 PM &…
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Sunday, April 10, 2022

Bugs Bunny at the Symphony

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“What’s up, Doc?” An enormously fun blend of classical music and classic animation! Bugs Bunny and his Looney Tunes pals return to Heinz Hall for Bugs Bunny at the Symphony! The world’s most iconic Looney Tunes — from What’s Opera, Doc? to The Rabbit of Seville and a dozen others…
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Saturday, April 9, 2022
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra presents their Symphonic series with Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody: Jennifer Higdon (a BandQuest and ChoralQuest composer), Respighi, and Rachmaninoff. Date & Time: Friday – Sunday, April 8 – 10, 2022 at 7:30 PM &…
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Saturday, April 9, 2022

Bugs Bunny at the Symphony

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“What’s up, Doc?” An enormously fun blend of classical music and classic animation! Bugs Bunny and his Looney Tunes pals return to Heinz Hall for Bugs Bunny at the Symphony! The world’s most iconic Looney Tunes — from What’s Opera, Doc? to The Rabbit of Seville and a dozen others…
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Friday, April 8, 2022
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra presents their Symphonic series with Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody: Jennifer Higdon (a BandQuest and ChoralQuest composer), Respighi, and Rachmaninoff. Date & Time: Friday – Sunday, April 8 – 10, 2022 at 7:30 PM &…
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Friday, April 8, 2022

Bugs Bunny at the Symphony

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“What’s up, Doc?” An enormously fun blend of classical music and classic animation! Bugs Bunny and his Looney Tunes pals return to Heinz Hall for Bugs Bunny at the Symphony! The world’s most iconic Looney Tunes — from What’s Opera, Doc? to The Rabbit of Seville and a dozen others…
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Gao Hung at the Ordway
Sunday, April 3, 2022
This April 3, Gao Hong will be celebrating her 50th year of being a performer; her accomplishments as a composer, improviser, and educator; and the 100th anniversary of her late teacher, Lin Shicheng’s birth. The celebration will showcase her deep connections and collaborations with an array of diverse cultures and…
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Friday, March 25, 2022

Sanctuary

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ACO returns to Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall for Sanctuary, a concert that explores the places, company, and states of mind in which composers seek inviolable refuge, led by conductor Marin Alsop and featuring violin soloist Jennifer Koh. The program includes the New York premiere of Lisa Bielawa’s (a JFund and MN Orchestra Composer Institute…
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Monday, March 21, 2022
Join soprano vocalist and bandleader Alicia Waller for an adventurous performance that will celebrate some of the most iconic female voices of the African Diaspora: Cesária Évora (Cape Verde), Abbey Lincoln (USA), and Miriam Makeba (South Africa). This program is presented as opening night of the annual Women’s Jazz Festival…
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Sunday, March 20, 2022

HANDEL / PÄRT

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Two extraordinary settings of sacred texts demonstrate the range of spiritual expression made possible through music. Handel’s Dixit Dominus, one of the composer’s earliest works, is full of vocal fireworks and virtuosity reflecting the composer’s youthful passion. Arvo Pärt’s Te Deum is music of profound humility and faith, conveying inner peace through the…
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Saturday, March 19, 2022

MPLS – Time In Our Voices

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MPLS (imPulse) returns to live performances in 2022, partnering with the youth of ComMUSICation to present vocal works with texts by children. The ensemble will also perform Moira Smiley‘s Time in Our Voices for mixed chorus and mobile phone playback. On the score’s opening page, the composer notes that the…
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Monday, March 14, 2022
Join soprano vocalist and bandleader Alicia Waller for an adventurous performance that will celebrate some of the most iconic female voices of the African Diaspora: Cesária Évora (Cape Verde), Abbey Lincoln (USA), and Miriam Makeba (South Africa). This program is presented as opening night of the annual Women’s Jazz Festival…
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Sunday, March 13, 2022

I HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY

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In 1920, the right to vote was expanded under the Nineteenth Amendment to include women. One hundred and two years later, we explore what it means to have your voice heard. CCS has commissioned works from three of today’s leading women composers — Augusta Read Thomas, Lisa Bielawa, and Jessie…
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Saturday, March 12, 2022

Orchid Gallery Presents

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An evening of Chamber Music highlighting women and living composers. Date & Time: Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 6:30 PM CT | 7:30 PM ET Learn more and get tickets here.
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Thursday, March 10, 2022
2020 ACF | Create awardee Mary Prescott joins ACF Equity Study with a series about the progress of her project Tida. The discussions will be focused on themes of isolation, oral traditions, and food. Prescott writes: “Tida weaves music, storytelling, movement, and film into an hour-long…
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Tuesday, March 8, 2022
The Ladies Quintessential Quintet is a magnificent cohort of professional women musicians, banded together from the states of Arizona, Idaho, Utah, and Washington. These powerful artists unite across the limitations of distance and time to bend sound to their will in the service of ART and the lifting of historically…
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Tuesday, March 8, 2022
Join soprano vocalist and bandleader Alicia Waller for an adventurous performance that will celebrate some of the most iconic female voices of the African Diaspora: Cesária Évora (Cape Verde), Abbey Lincoln (USA), and Miriam Makeba (South Africa). This program is presented as opening night of the annual Women’s Jazz Festival…
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Monday, March 7, 2022
Join soprano vocalist and bandleader Alicia Waller for an adventurous performance that will celebrate some of the most iconic female voices of the African Diaspora: Cesária Évora (Cape Verde), Abbey Lincoln (USA), and Miriam Makeba (South Africa). This program is presented as opening night of the annual Women’s Jazz Festival…
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Sunday, March 6, 2022

WITNESS 2022: REJOICE!

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The Aeolians, a world-renowned choir from Oakwood University in Huntsville, Alabama, an Historically Black College and University, are giving us so many reasons to “Rejoice.” Named the “2017 Choir of the World” at the World Choir Games, The Aeolians inspire audiences…
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