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By Tim Hansen On a bare hill overlooking the village of Burnley in Lancashire, England, stands the S…
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improvisation, Isao Tomita, john cage, moog, Singing Ringing Tree, synthesizer
Written by Tim Hansen “A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing l…
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banff, improvisation, mahler, maximalism, negative space, stravinsky, the delegation
Written by Tim Hansen The Alaskan town of Homer is, in a word, remote. Although it’s only about 120…
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alaska, brooklyn, homer, new york, perfect nothing, wild shore new music
How did Spektral¹s involvement in Behind the Wallpaper come about, and is there anything to keep in…
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Behind the Wallpaper, doyle armburst, Julia Holter, Spektral Quartet
By Tim Hansen Composers are generally a diversely intellectual bunch. In addition to their music tra…
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installation, sound art, Zeitgeist
Written by Tim Hansen Until a few years ago, composer, saxophonist and JFund awardee Erin Rogers did…
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Isaac Asimov, sci fi, science fiction, thingNY
Written by Tim Hansen Galway Kinnell’s 1973 epic poem The Book of Nightmares is, to put it mildly, b…
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book of nightmares, Galway Kinnell, The Call Across the Valley of Not-Knowing
Written by Tim Hansen When Christopher Cresswell was in the third grade, his teacher asked his class…
by Jocelyn Hagen Growing up as an only child in the country, outside a small town in North Dakota, a…
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choreography, composition, live music for dance, music for dance
By Will Wlizlo Nona Marie Invie getting some good vibes from members of Anonymous Choir. Some music…
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Anonymous Choir, dark dark dark, meditation, roniia, yoga
Written by Tim Hansen Fresh-faced young wannabe composers arriving at college are told in Composing…
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broadway shows, concert music, Danielle Schwob, David Botrill, electronica, film score, pop/rock, The Pogues
By Tim Hansen 2013 JFund awardee David Hertzberg is writing a work for saxophones. Four of them. The…
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PRISM, saxophone
By Tim Hansen One afternoon in the summer of 2012, JFund awardee Eric Nathan arrived in Aldeburgh in…
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Aldeburgh, Momenta String Quartet, Multitude, Solitude
ACF is pleased to co-present the premiere of Krai by Olga Bell as part of the SPCO Liquid Music seri…
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folk, Kamchatka, Krai, Krais of Russia, russian, throat singing
Written by Tim Hansen Rejection is the pits. All artists experience it at some point, and there’s no…
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Das Racist, Dawn Upshaw, Diamonite, Krai, New England Conservatory, Olga Bell, Philip Glass, The Dirty Projectors
Written by Tim Hansen Composer Christopher Trapani had a typically active upbringing for an aspiring…
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Al-Kindi, Christopher Trapani, Daisy Press, Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts, Talea Ensemble, Waterlines
Written by Tim Hansen American Composers Forum held a friendly soiree in New York this November for…
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Alex Freeman, Asako Hirabayashi, Chris Cresswell, Christopher Danforth, Danielle Schwob, David Hertzberg, Eric Nathan, Heath Matthews, Jeremy Beck, Masatora Goya
Written by Tim Hansen It’s a warm September night and I’m in seated in the pews of Our Lady of Leban…
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Alex Mincek, Andy Akiho, Daniel Wohl, innova, Manhattan School of Music, Mariel Roberts, nonextraneous sounds, Sean Friar, Tristan Perich, Van Lier Fellowship
Written by Tim Hansen Composer and JFund awardee Mary Kouyoumdjian is drawn to colliding worlds. As…
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Armenia, Armenian Genocide, Dzov Yerku Kooynov, Hotel Elefant, Komitas Vardapet, Leaha Maria Villareal, Lebanon, Mary Kouyoumdjian, Ottoman Empire, The Place Beyond the Pines, World War I
Stephen Schwartz (SS): The American Composers Forum is quite lucky to have you as part of the board…
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A Copland Portrait, Aaron Copland, ACF board of directors, Atlantic Classical Orchestra, Chanticleer, Cornell University, David Conte, Dayton Philharmonic, Elegy for Matthew, John Stirling Walker, Jr., La Trinité, Libby Larsen, Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Matthew Shepard, Nadia Boulanger, New York City Gay Men’s Chorus, Pergolesi, Robert Kyr, Rudolf Steiner, September Sun, St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church, Stephen Paulus, Steven Sametz, Stonewall, stravinsky, The Choral Journal, The Homecoming, University of Northern Colorado
Written by Tim Hansen The Jerome Foundation’s Jerome Fund for New Music – the JFund – has been instr…
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Bash, Bill Solomon, Cadillac Moon Ensemble, Headspring, Kell Kathman, NYU Contemporary Music Ensemble, Ruben Naeff, Vigil, Wander & Wonder
