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ACF’s 2016 summer development intern, Henry Dykstal, conducted a series of interviews with our incom...
written by Tim Hansen Sean Harold In the email ping-pong prefacing this article, JFund awardee Sean...
written by Tim Hansen The Vietnam War. An international clash of ideologies fought in the theatre of...
written by Tim Hansen Saad Haddad A couple of years ago Californian-based composer Saad Haddad was a...
written by Tim Hansen When JFund awardee James Everest was three years old, he composed a thundersto...
written by Tim Hansen Tiffany Skidmore “My music is almost always several times removed from its ins...
The invitation to showcase American composers at the Havana Contemporary Music Festival was, quite f...
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Cuba, Havana, I Care if You Listen, New Music Box, NPR
by Tim Hansen Composer Alex Temple is fascinated by cheese. Not the dairy kind. The musical kind. Fa...
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Alex Temple, Frank Zappa, National Composition Contest, wild Up
by Tim Hansen Contemporary art photographer artist Bill Henson is a wizard with a camera. Internatio...
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National Composition Contest, REDCAT, wild Up, William Gardiner
by Tim Hansen In 1942 Aaron Copland was commissioned to write a new ballet for Martha Graham with br...
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Appalachia, Jerome Fund, Shawn Jaeger
by Tim Hansen Kids who grew up in the ’80s came of age when, for the first time since the indu...
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Jerome Fund, Pig Iron Theatre, Troy Herion
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 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
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
