Programs
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 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
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
