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A profile of a 2016 NextNotes finalist by Michael Cyrs A Google search of Ángel Jochi Hernandez-Came...
National Composer Contest Awardee Profile There’s a high degree of bias that comes to mind when peop...
written by Tim Hansen In the 19th century, the Age of Enlightenment, there was a great leap forward...
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 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...
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 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 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
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
