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The American Composers Forum (ACF) is thrilled to announce the winners of the fourth annual NextNote...
Jelloslave (aka Purple Orange), hailed by Rebecca Lang of the Star Tribune as “…an infectious, myste...
This winter, BandQuest series editor and composer Thomas C. Duffy met with the 7-8th grade band and...
Written by Michael J. Cyrs. “America is a great place. But it’s also not so great. You can have thos...
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Changing Same, Jerome Foundation, Joseph C. Phillips, Numinous, The Grey Land
ACF is thrilled to announce that composer Tawnie Olson has been selected as the 2018 BandQuest® comp...
written by Michael J. Cyrs In 1845, when expressionism was decades away from being an identifiable m...
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24 Hours, Brian Petuch, Herman Melville, JMW Turner, Moby Dick, The Pequod
written by Michael J. Cyrs At many classical music performances, concertgoers place themselves at th...
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JP Merz, Liquid Music, SEAMUS
BandQuest composer Jodie Blackshaw recently wrote about composing with music concepts during rehears...
Last month, Laura Krider, Director of Education, and Patrick Marschke, Memberships Manager, attended...
NextNotes High School Composition Awards is partnering with Noteflight to provide Noteflight Premium...
by Michael Cyrs “I love the art of film music, but I’m not at all into defining labels when it comes...
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Alice Vogt, beautiful, Breathe, Brian Mark, Dark Elegy, film music, Invocation, Lucid Dreaming, Mourning, multimedia, towers, Tuesday, We Interrupt This Broadcast
ACF is thrilled to announce that composer Judd Greenstein has been selected as the 2017-2018 ChoralQ...
We are thrilled to announce our newest addition to BandQuest®, our music series for middle-level ban...
When I Sing by Rosephanye Powell for 3-part treble and piano with optional hand percussion We are th...
JFund Profile by Michael Cyrs “Genre-defying” and “experimental” are words that critics enjoy tossin...
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Funeral Doom Spiritual, Hunter Hunt Hendrix, M. Lamar, The Lynching Suite
by Michael Cyrs Reality is rarely compartmentalized into the rigid structure of a three-minute pop s...
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Asuka Kakitani, JFund
by Michael Cyrs In May of 1995, Taiwan lost a cultural trailblazer. Teresa Teng, then 42 and already...
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Asymptote, C for G, China, Prime Knot, Steph Chou, Susan Jaffe, Taiwan, Teresa Teng
Submitted by Louisa Castner and Victor Zupanc The Healing and Hope through Song community residency...
Written by Michael Cyrs Even if it’s with someone unquestionably genuine, verbal communicatio...
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Aleksandr Brusentsev, Jerome Foundation, Jerome Fund
The American Composers Forum (ACF) today announced the recipients of this year’s McKnight Fellowship...
