• Festivus and Other Twisted Holidays!

    Question: What do Seinfeld, Christmas, The Tin Woodman, Queen, Sting, Charlie Brown, Bill Evans, Dave Brubeck, and award-winning American poetry, have in common? Answer: Streaming Festivus and Other Twisted Holidays! Wednesday, December 23, 2020 at 7pm. On Facebook Live and YouTube Live Sponsored by Larry McDonough Jazz and Black Dog Café Larry McDonough Quartet Larry […]

  • How Can We Not Sing II

    How Can We Not Sing is part of Artists Respond: Combating Social Isolation, a project of Springboard for the Arts. The Artist Respond commissions empowers artists to find ways to address the isolation and sense of disconnection that has come with the pandemic. For this event, three experienced artists on two continents will take the […]

  • Field to Media

    Field to Media is about amplifying musical communities’ responses to environmental challenges. Field researchers worked with communities in Canada, Bangladesh, China, Haiti, India, Tanzania, and the United States to create musical videos and cinematic messaging about climate change, water pollution, deforestation, and the impact of motor noise on marine life. You will find a full […]

  • Publishing, Self-Publishing, and Management for Composers by ACO & ACF

    The following Professional Development Webinar are co-presented by the American Composers Orchestra (ACO) and the American Composers Forum (ACF), and feature panel discussions by esteemed professionals in the industry about topics including Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Entrepreneurship and Creating an Ensemble; Film Composition; Fundraising via Supportive Individuals; Programming and Digital Curation; Publishing, Self-Publishing, and Management; Recording Law and Practice; Project Production and Recording; and […]

  • Composer Awards: Demystifying the Process

    Helpful hints on choosing and presenting your best work. Hosted by composer Jeremy Gill. Composer and BMI Student Composer Awards preliminary judge Jeremy Gill offers an insiderʼs view on how judges assess your work, and what you can do to make your best work stand out. This workshop is aimed at student composers applying to early […]

  • MODULATION

    Composed by Jojo Abot, Sahba Aminikia, Juhi Bansal, Raven Chacon, Carmina Escobar, Yvette Jackson, Molly Joyce, Jimmy López, Angelica Negrón, Paul Pinto, Daniel Bernard, Joel Thompson, and Bora Yoon. As our society continues in a form of suspended animation, we look to art to open new avenues of thought, imagination, wonder, and reckoning. MODULATION is a digital, self-guided […]

  • TIMES3 (Times x Times x Times)

    Created by Geoff Sobelle & Pamela Z Such strange times call for a new time signature. Is there still time to sit in the center of a city and hear the tide of traffic? To listen for a heartbeat? Composer Pamela Z and theatre artist Geoff Sobelle collaborate on a site specific-sonic journey through Times Square – […]

  • OCEAN BODY

    Composed and performed by Helga Davis & Shara Nova Directed and filmed by Mark DeChiazza Ocean Body immerses its audience in a landscape of sculpture, multiple video diptychs, and sound utilizing parallel imagery and music to examine the efficacy of interracial coalitions and the sometimes tenuous connection of friendship. A layered invitation to commune even as we […]

  • ACF & ACO co-presents professional development workshops: Composer to Composer Talk with William Bolcom, Gabriela Lena Frank, John Corigliano & Mason Bates

    The following Professional Development Webinars are co-presented by the American Composers Orchestra (ACO) and the American Composers Forum (ACF), and feature panel discussions by esteemed professionals in the industry about topics including Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Entrepreneurship and Creating an Ensemble; Film Composition; Fundraising via Supportive Individuals; Programming and Digital Curation; Publishing, Self-Publishing, and Management; […]

  • THE GHOSTLIGHT SERIES

    THE GHOSTLIGHT SERIES Stories and songs in the meantime Join Theater Latté Da for THE GHOSTLIGHT SERIES, five virtual cabarets launching January 2021. The cabaret series will feature more than 40 Minnesota artists showcasing stories and songs in a virtual series delivered monthly beginning January and running through July 2021. THE GHOSTLIGHT SERIES features performances […]

  • ACF’s January Study Group: Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates

    ACF's Study Group opens our staff and board conversations and anti-racism training to our colleagues and friends. For our January study group, we will be discussing Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me. Praised by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” the book is a personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the most important essayist in a […]