American Composers Forum

EnsembleNEWSRQ announces a “newStart” to its 2020-21 season
2021-03-15 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago)
EnsembleNEWSRQ announces a “newStart” to its 2020-21 season, in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. The chamber music group, now in its fifth season, will take a cautious approach to reintroducing live musical performance, with its five upcoming programs gradually increasing in size as pandemic and vaccine news is monitored.
Concerts will be offered in a digital streaming format, and, if the situation allows, to a small in-person audience in 2021. Tickets to the streamed concerts will be “pay what you can.”
The ensemble also aims to increase the diversity of the composers represented during the season, with a concentrated focus on female, LGBTQ+ and BIPOC composers.
Schedule:
It’s About Time – October 19, 2020 at 7pm CDT / 8pm EDT
Features MN Orch Composer Institute, Katie Balch; and BandQuest composer, Tania Leon
Solitude and Suffrage – January 18, 2021 at 7pm CDT / 8pm EDT
Features NextNotes composer, Quinn Mason
Enter the Vortex – February 15, 2021 at 7pm CDT / 8pm EDT
Digital – March 15, 2021 at 8pm
Body Vessel – April 12, 2021 at 2pm CDT / 3pm EDT
Some works and final programs are still TBD and dependent on COVID situation. Find out more information here.

Music in Action: International Voices
2021-03-15 10:30 - 15:00 (America/Chicago)
Following COVID-19 protocols for testing, masking ,and social distancing, Taconic Music has partnered with local schools to bring live music safely to students and teachers through “Music in Action!,” which will take place from Monday, March 15 through Friday, March 19.
Taconic Chamber Players:Joana Genova and Heather Braun, violins; Ariel Rudiakov, viola; Tom Landschoot, cello
String quartets by Jessie Montgomery (African-American), Sato Matsui (Japanese-American), Anjna Swaminathan (Indian-American), Gabriela Lena Frank (Peruvian-American) and Chen Yi (Chinese American, a BQ and CQ composer).

Monday, March 15, 2021 at 11am – 3pm CT | 12–4pm ET: Long Trail School- workshop and rehearsal with student composers
Tuesday, March 16, 2021 at

9:30am – 12:15am CT | 10:30–11:15am ET: Red Fox Community School
11am – 12:15pm CT | 12–1:15pm ET: Burr and Burton Academy band and ACCESS program

Wednesday, March 17 at10am – 12pm CT | 11am–1pm ET: Long Trail School
Thursday, March 18, 2021 at

9:50am – 10:45am CT | 10:50–11:45am ET: Burr and Burton Academy chorus
12pm – 1pm CT | 1-2pm ET: Performance at SVMC’s Vaccine Clinic in Bennington

Friday, March 19, 2021 at8:30am – 9:15am CT | 9:30–10:15am ET: The Mountain School at Winhall

Saturday, March 20, 2021 at 1pm – 2:30pm CT | 2–3:30pm ET: Livestream from Southern Vermont Arts Center, Yester House
PROGRAM:
Gabriela Lena Frank
Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout
VI. Coqueteos
Sato Matsui
Free and So Thankful
Chen Yi
At the Kansas City Chinese New Year Concert
II. Making the Hand-Pulled Noodles
Anjna Swaminathan
Duplicity
Jessie Montgomery
Strum
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Composers Concordance Presents Low-Key Chamber Concert Series
2021-03-14 16:00 - 17:00, 2021-03-07 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago)
Low-Key Chamber Concert Series
An eclectic concert series, ensemble, record label, and presenting organization for music with a 34-year history of premiering good music that is pushing the boundaries of sound and composition.

Saturdays, February 6 through March 14, 2021 at 4pm CST | 5pm EST
Live-streamed on the Composers Concordance Facebook page.

Event listing:
Saturday, February 13, 2021 at 4pm CST | 5pm EST
TAP: Milica Paranosic and Brian DuFord, music, voice, guitar
FACEBOOK EVENT

Saturday, February 20, 2021 at 4pm CST | 5pm EST
Max Pollak, dancer
Gene Pritsker, electric guitar
FACEBOOK EVENT

Saturday, February 27, 2021 at 4pm CST | 5pm EST
Sean Satin, classical guitar
Gene Pritsker, electric guitar
FACEBOOK EVENT

Sunday, March 7, 2021 at 4pm CST | 5pm EST
Jay Rodriguez, saxophone, flute, and clarinet
Gene Pritsker, electric guitar
FACEBOOK EVENT

Sunday, March 14, 2021 at 4pm CST | 5pm EST
Charles Coleman, voice
Gene Pritsker, electric guitar
FACEBOOK EVENT

Breathe in Hope
2021-03-13 21:30 - 22:30 (America/Chicago)
The Cal Poly Choirs will present “Breathe in Hope,” a virtual winter concert that will feature a variety of selections on the theme of perseverance and hope
Date & Time: Saturday, March 13, 2021 at 9:30pm CST | 7:30pm PST
PolyPhonics will perform music by Camille Saint-Saëns and influential African American composer Adolphus Hailstork (a BandQuest composer).
The University Singers will present music by André Thomas, plus Ernst Toch’s celebrated “Geographical Fugue.”
Dale Trumbore’s “Breathe in Hope” will be performed by the Cal Poly Women’s Chorus. The piece is based on a Facebook post in response to the killing of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling.
The Cal Poly Chamber Choir will present a special mass with movements from a variety of Renaissance composers that showcase the development of the genres in that period.
Scott Glysson conducts the Cal Poly Choirs, which are accompanied by Paul Woodring.
Tickets to the concert are $10 and can be purchased online from the Performing Arts Center.

Fresno Philharmonic presents their Digital Masterworks Series.
2021-03-13 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago)
For 2021, the Fresno Philharmonic is presenting a series of online performances in their Digital Masterworks Series. Each concert will premier on YouTube, and will later be broadcast on Valley Public Radio on the 2nd Tuesday following each YouTube premier. Join host David Aus and conductor Rei Hotoda for this series of special broadcasts.
Intersections of Past and Present: Hailstork and Haydn
On Valley Public Radio, KVPR FM89: Tuesday January 26th at 10PM CST | 8PM PST
American composer William Bolcom‘s Commedia is a witty commentary on the classical symphonic style of Haydn. The music of Adolphus Hailstork (a BQ composer), hailed as the dean of African-American composers, is also steeped in the classical tradition.
American Visions: Copland Appalachian Spring
Saturday, February 20, 2021 at 7:30pm CST | 5:30pm PST
The varieties of American music are on display in this program combining new voices with Aaron Copland‘s popular ballet score Appalachian Spring. Joan Tower‘s Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman sets the stage for our musical exploration of American identity featuring recent works by Jessie Montgomery and Chickasaw Nation composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate (a ChoralQuest composer).
Vive la France: Ibert Divertissement
Saturday, March 13, 2021 at 7:30pm CST | 5:30pm PST
Alons-y! This program is a Francophile’s delight culminating in the charming insouciance of Jacques Ibert‘s Divertissement. Our season-long exploration of contemporary African-American composers continues with Jasmine Barnes‘ timely Resistance Brass Quintet.
Bach to the Future: Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
Saturday, April 17, 2021 at 7:30pm CST | 5:30pm PST
The Masterworks Series concludes with a celebration of the influence of Baroque music across five centuries. Gabrieli’s music written for St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice was an important for the turn from the Renaissance to the Baroque musical style. Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 exemplifies the high Baroque style, while works by Beethoven, Villa-Lobos and Kevin Day testify to the Baroque’s lingering inspiration down to the present.
Check out their YouTube page on these dates and times to listen to each program.

The Albany Symphony 2020/2021 SEASON RE-IMAGINED!
2021-03-13 19:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
The Albany Symphony unveiled its reimagined 2020-2021 season, which will include world premieres and concertos with brilliant soloists, as well as iconic masterworks. Curated by conductor David Alan Miller, the season brings to life an array of new and recent works by a panoply of living composers forging new ways to create art reflecting our time and place, with major masterpieces by Beethoven, Debussy, Rachmaninoff, and others, and dazzling solo performances by artists including Inon Barnatan, Melissa White, Karen Hosmer and Grace Shryock.
The newly reimagined season will be presented virtually. As restrictions are lifted, live audiences will be invited back into the concert hall. All concerts will be performed live, in real time, on Capital Region stages, by Albany Symphony musicians conducted by Music Director, David Alan Miller.
The season kicks off on Oct. 24 at 7:30pm EDT, with a program featuring Michael Daugherty’s This Land Sings: Inspired by the Life and Times of Woody Guthrie. Michael Daugherty is a BandQuest composer.
Performances run through June 2021. Find the schedule here and below.
ROMANTIC BRAHMS – Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021 at 6:30pm CST | 7:30pm EST
A socially distanced performance for digital stream with Lucy Fitz Gibbon, Narrator; SIR WILLIAM WALTON: Facade; TYSON DAVIS (a NextNotes creator): (new work) JOHANNES BRAHMS: Serenade No. 1
RACHMANINOFF’S THIRD – Saturday, March 13, 2021 at 6:30pm CST | 7:30pm EST
A socially distanced performance for digital stream with Inon Barnatan, Piano; OTTORINO RESPIGHI: Trittico Botticelliano; CARLOS BANDERA: (new work); SERGEI RACHMANINOFF: Piano Concerto No. 3 (chamber orchestra version)
HAYDN & SCHUBERT – Saturday, April 24, 2021 at 6:30pm CST | 7:30pm EST
A socially distanced performance for digital stream with Melissa White, Violin; FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN: Symphony No. 46; GEORGE TSONTAKIS: Violin Concerto No. 2; TANNER PORTER: (new work) FRANZ SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 5
AMERICAN MUSIC FESTIVAL–TRAILBLAZE! – Saturday, June 12, 2021 at 6:30pm CST | 7:30pm EST
A socially distanced performance for digital stream with Brasil Guitar Duo; NINA SHEKHAR: (new work); CLARICE ASSAD: Folk Tales, Double Guitar Concerto; MOLLY JOYCE/CHRISTOPHER THEOFANIDIS: Songs; ALEXIS LAMB: (new work)
For more information, and to watch the concerts, subscribe and get tickets on their website: www.albanysymphony.com.

RENASCENT - A concert to bring us together from darkness to light.
2021-03-12 20:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago)
The Grand Forks Master Chorale is presenting a concert, “Renascent,” to bring us together from darkness to light on Friday, March 12, 2021 at 8pm CST at St. Michael’s Church (504 5th Ave N.)
The program also includes “Drei Geistliche Gesange (Three Sacred Hymns),” by Alfred Schnittke; “Elijah Rock,” arranged by Moses Hogan; “O Lux Beatissima (Light Most Blessed),” by Howard Helvey; “Hold On!,” arranged by Jester Hairston, featuring soloist Michael Thompson; and “The Road Home,” by Stephen Paulus (a BQ and CQ composer and ACF’s co-founder), with soloist Lacey Schuler.
Tickets are $20
Get tickets and learn more here.

MERGE: Penelope Freeh & Alanna Morris-Van Tassel - Livestream
2021-03-12 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago)
On Friday, March 12, 2021 at 7:30pm CST, Penelope Freeh, alongside collaborator Alanna Morris-Van Tassel, will perform LIVE for an audience of cameras. Their concert can then be accessed on demand through Sunday, March 14.
Please note: Ticket purchasing for Opening Night closes at 5:30pm CST!
This performance was originally slated to happen one year ago. We, in parallel with our venue, the Cowles Center for Dance and Performing Arts in Minneapolis, decided to postpone one week prior to our premiere due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We are overjoyed to navigate this moment through continuing to create and perform, doing so safely, with no folks in seats, but with cameras rolling. Carrying many weights of responsibility at this time, we understand our privilege in being able to share this work now.
Get tickets here.
The Program:
Opening: Film by Alanna leading into her work Black Light re-Search
Black Light re: Search is a collaborative solo work-in-progress that ventures into the nobility of black-ness; the divinity of the feminine expression/creative energy; and the harnessing of the sensual expression. Alanna has undertaken this journey to unmask herself, influenced by masquerade traditions of the Nagot-Yoruba people (Orisha of Nigeria) and its archive in the Caribbean nations of Trinidad, Tobago, and Grenada. Audiences are invited to engage in a work that exalts mythographies of life and death, birth and creation, and venerates ancestors who have cleared the path. We honor these guiding forces throughout the presentation. She is joined by a cast of 10 collaborators: dancers, musicians, poets, healers, and designers who are prominent practitioners in their respective avenues of contemporary and traditional performance, healing arts, and design. Black Light premieres at The Great Northern Festival as a full-evening, kaleidoscopic, multidisciplinary work in January 2022.
Our duet: Bring it down under your feet
“We’ve connected through the poetry of Rumi, valuing process and output equally, sharing hearts and time in the studio and on Zoom. Researching our lived experiences through the lens of shared and respective grief, we aspire to empower radical transformation from the inside out.” – PF and AMVT
My solo: Penelope – a cabaret
By way of excavating personal mythologies, this work wryly reimagines Penelope of Ancient Greece as a German Weimar-era cabaret performer. Aiming to reclaim hyper-feminine physicalities of a bygone era, the work curates the gaze, controlling what is and isn’t seen. Inspired by the subversive content of cabaret and pre-code film, the objectification yet erasure of women in chorus lines and corps de ballet, and the tensions between onstage and off, it stakes a claim by unraveling deeply personal material through fierce embodiment.
“Mythic material was originally oral, and also local – a myth would be told one way in one place and quite differently in another.” – Margaret Atwood: Introduction to The Penelopiad
Penelope – A Cabaret features live piano accompaniment by Marya Hart, original lighting design by Valerie Oliveiro, and project mentorship by Randy Reyes. Sound design includes the work of composer Jocelyn Hagen (a past McKnight winner).
*This work contains adult content.
Portions of this content were developed upon land originally belonging to the following peoples: Sioux and Wahpekute (Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN); Adena, Hopewell, Miami, and Shawandasse Tula (Springfield, OH); Tutelo (Roanoke, VA). Through my dancing and embodiment, I work to honor them.

Great Falls Symphony's 62nd Live Concert Series - 2020-2021 Season
2021-03-12 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Denver)
Great Falls Symphony announces their 100% FREE concert season this year until May 2021. “All of us at the Great Falls Symphony are fully committed to fulfilling our mission to infuse cultural vibrancy into the Great Falls community through transformative music events and education programs.”
All live performances will be FREE of charge, but need to be picked up in advance at the Mansfield Center for the Performing Arts box office. Two performances are offered during each GFSA concert in order to accommodate two smaller, socially distanced live audience. Venue location will vary – detailed information can be found at gfsymphony.org.
All performances will be recorded and broadcast later on the KRTV app so patrons can enjoy a virtual concert experience.
Virtual concerts will be broadcast to the general public one week after each live performance date. See schedule here.
See the upcoming schedule:
Fri OCT 9, 7:00pm “Native Views” Cascade Quartet
Sat NOV 7, 3:00pm “Vistas” *PREVIEW Thu NOV 5
Sat NOV 7, 7:30pm EVOCATIVE MUSIC OF OPEN SPACES
Fri NOV13, 7:00pm “Innovators” Chinook Winds
Sun NOV 22, 3:00pm FallConcert Youth Orchestra AND Sinfonia
Sun DEC 6, 3:00pm “Christmas” *PREVIEW Thu DEC 3
Sun DEC 6, 7:30pm HOLIDAY MUSIC FAVORITES
Sat JAN16, 3:00pm “Virtuoso” *PREVIEW Thu JAN 14
Sat JAN16, 7:30pm FEATURING Dorian Antipa, BASSOON
Fri JAN 29, 7:00pm “ViolaPower” Cascade Quartet
Sat FEB 13, 3:00pm “Heart Strings” *PREVIEW Thu FEB 11
Sat FEB 13, 7:30pm FEATURING Luis Angel Salazar, VIOLIN & Alyssa Roggow, VIOLA
Fri FEB 19, 7:00pm “Greatest Hits” Chinook Winds
Fri MAR 12, 7:00pm “Voices” Cascade Quartet
Sun MAR 28, 3:00pm SpringConcert Youth Orchestra AND Sinfonia
Sat APR 24, 3:00pm “Testament” *PREVIEW Thu, APR 22
Sat APR 24, 7:30pm FEATURING Supaman
Fri MAY14, 7:00pm “Together Again”

ACF Roundtable: The Artists of Swell
2021-03-12 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Chicago)
Twenty-six artists collaborate to bring you a live, online song cycle called Swell, weaving together ten original, new music compositions by ten composers drawing from their personal histories as immigrants and children of immigrants. Hailing from Mexico, India, Israel, Japan, Trinidad, the Philippines, Russia, and Taiwan, the composers’ unique, surprising, and deeply human stories are expressed through voice, piano, cello, and violin.
On Friday, March 12th at noon Central, ACF invites Melisa Tien, the creator of the Swell project, and composers Justine F. Chen, Or Matias, and Izzi Ramkissoon for a conversation about the project, the stories, and the music, and what it is like creating a collaborative virtual event like this in the time of Covid, moderated by ACF Director of Community and Belonging, Dameun Strange.
Register here.

Dreamerfly, and other stories
2021-03-11 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago)
An immersive 45-minute work combining multi-screen animation, live camera and contemporary jazz music. It will be developed and presented by visual artist Shiyi Li, British jazz musicians James Owston and Daniel Kemshell and American percussionists Lindsey Eastham and Gloria Yehilevsky.

Date & Time: Thursday, March 11, 2021 at 1pm CST | 8pm MGT (London)
Learn more, register, and get tickets here.

Gao Hong, pipa & Issam Rafea, oud – Virtual Courtroom Concert
2021-03-11 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago)
The Issam Rafea and Gao Hong (ACF Board Member) duo performs live improvisations blending Chinese and Arabic techniques. Songlines Magazine in the U.K. called their collaboration “…engaging, deeply contemplative, and culturally resonant.” Each performance is a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and audiences have the opportunity to witness singular creations that come to life before their eyes and ears, but are never to be repeated.
This concert will be available to stream on Thursday, March 11, 12:00 pm CT, Schubert Club‘s Youtube page, and on their Facebook page. Please call 651-292-3268 or email ticketing@schubert.org if you have any questions about their virtual concerts.
Additional information on other concerts are available on their website.

Professional Development Panel: Entrepreneurship & Ensembles for Composers
2021-03-10 14:00 - 15:15 (America/Chicago)
The following Professional Development Webinar is co-presented by the American Composers Orchestra (ACO) and the American Composers Forum (ACF).
How can composers help guide their own careers? What part does creating an ensemble play in that? Frank J. Oteri moderates a panel of innovative ensemble creators to explore topics of entrepreneurship and career advancement as a composer. Q&A with audience will follow. Panelists: Afa Dworkin, Sphinx Organization, Nadia Sirota, yMusic, and Sugar Vendil, The Nouveau Classical Project.
Date & Time: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 @ 2pm CST | 3pm EST
Learn more and get tickets here.
If you require an interpreter, closed-captioning, or any other accommodations to fully engage, please contact ACF’s Laura Krider within 48 hours of the webinar (lkrider@composersforum.org or 612.314.9228).

Shawnee, Ohio
2021-03-09 16:00 - 17:30 (America/Chicago)
“Shawnee, Ohio” will have its premiere screening at the Wexner Center for the Arts on Tuesday, March 9, 2021 at 4pm CST | 5pm EST. It is free, and will run through March 16.
Learn more and get tickets here.
Harnetty‘s “Shawnee, Ohio” — presented here in a newly edited film version — weaves together field and archival recordings, video, images, and newly composed music to critically examine and explore issues of extraction, economy, and ecology in Appalachian Ohio. As with many of his other projects, Harnetty drew from extensive archival recordings as well as regional music and personal testimony to create a transporting portrait that places history in dialogue with our lived experience today.
“Shawnee, Ohio” ​features performances from Harnetty, Paul de Jong (The Books), Anna Roberts-Gevalt (Anna and Elizabeth), and Katie Porter (Red Desert), among other distinguished musicians.
Brian Harnetty is an Ohio-based interdisciplinary artist using sound and listening to foster social change. “Shawnee, Ohio” was given 5/5 stars from MOJO magazine and named their 2019 Underground Album of the Year. It was co-commissioned by the Wexner Center for the Arts, Duke Performances, and Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati, and has received support from Creative Capital, A Blade of Grass, and the Ohio Arts Council.

Sergio Barer Performance of McKnight Visiting Composer Work
2021-03-08 21:00 - 22:00 (America/Chicago)
Valley Beth Shalom Member and composer Sergio Barer received a McKnight Visiting Composer Residency in 2019 from the American Composers Forum to conduct interviews with members of the Mexican immigrant community in Minneapolis.
The Immigrants is a moving four-part choral composition based on the experiences of those immigrants as depicted through their powerful interviews.
Valley Beth Shalom, HIAS, and EVERY. LAST. ONE.
https://www.vbs.org/
https://www.hias.org/
https://everylastone.org/
Date & Time: Monday, March 8, 2021 at 9pm CST | 7pm PST
Watch the musical and learn more on their website.

FIFTH HOUSE ENSEMBLE IN RESIDENCE
2021-03-08 16:30 - 18:00 (America/Chicago)
AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY MUSIC in collaboration with MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC invites you to share virtually with the FIFTH HOUSE ENSEMBLE IN RESIDENCE

Deep Listening: 5 consecutive 15-minute sessions; guided meditations, daily rituals, improvised text scores, and movement exercises; Deep Listening provides multiple tools for mindfulness, creativity, and communal music making.
Friday, January 29, 2021 at 10:40AM CST
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021 at 11:30AM CST
Thursday, February 4th, 2021 at 11:30AM CST
Friday, February 5th, 2021 at 10:40AM CST
NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED. Join on Zoom.

WE ARE GOOD: 5 consecutive 90-minute sessions; Deep Listening and story gathering rooted in collective decision making through creative acts. Fosters authentic inquiry among participants of varied social and political back-
grounds, uses Deep Listening to bring strangers together through communal music-making. Each session culminates in a creative act, including the development of new text scores, graphic scores, or other work products.
Mondays, February 8, 22, March 8, 22, April 5, 2021 all sessions 4:30—6:00 p.m. CST
REGISTER AT THIS LINK by February 3rd, 2021.

DEEP LISTENING JAM SESSION: The residency culminates in a Deep Listening Jam, which includes the creative work and dialogue captured throughout the 5 WE ARE GOOD sessions.
Monday, April 12, 2021 at 4:30—6:00 p.m. CST
REGISTER AT THIS LINK by April 7th, 2021.
ADDITIONAL ONE-TIME WORKSHOPS will be offered in chamber music, entrepreneurship, and music composition between February 15 and May 5. If you are interested in these workshops, please email musicdept@augsburg.edu to be added to the reservation list. You will receive advance information with dates, times, and the Zoom link. Additional information about the Deep Listening and We Are Good experiences is available on the Fifth House

Watch Party for the Video Premiere of Michael Gordon’s Sonatra Performed by Vicky Chow
2021-03-07 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago)
On Sunday, March 7, 2021 at 2pm CST | 3pm EST, Bang on a Can presents the video premiere of Bang on a Can All-Star Vicky Chow’s performance of Michael Gordon’s Sonatra as a Watch Party. The program will include a Q & A about the work with Chow and Gordon, moderated by Ethan Iverson, also a pianist, composer, and critic best known for his work with the Bad Plus. Aside from Chow’s album release of the work (released February 23, 2018 on Cantaloupe Music), this new video made by Denver-based director, writer, and cinematographer Souki Mehdaoui, is the only other recording of the piece.
“It’s by far the most challenging piece of music I’ve worked on,” says Chow. “When I first looked at the score, I knew immediately that I’ll live with it for the rest of my life. Every few months, I slowly worked up each section, like chipping away at a slab of marble. I had to pace myself, push myself, and be sharp at every twist and turn, or else I’d trip and fall flat on my face.”
The Watch Party will include demonstrations of the work’s difficulty by way of brief excerpts performed by Chow in her home, alongside a display of the score.
In his original program notes for Sonatra, composer Michael Gordon writes that he conceived of the piece for solo piano as a sideways tribute to Frank Sinatra, but with the sonata form as an equal and opposite force that tugs at the music from within.
Learn more and get tickets here.

Sasha Waltz & Guests presents Terry Riley's In C (recorded by Bang on a Can)
2021-03-06 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago)
In 1964, Terry Riley kicked off a revolution with his landmark piece, In C. In 2001, Bang on a Can released a recording of their interpretation of the minimalist classic with a singular combination of amplified instruments from around the globe, propelling Riley’s transcendental masterpiece into the future. This recording on Cantaloupe Music was on The New York Times’ Top 10 Classical CDs of 2001 and Top 10 Pop CDs of 2001, as well as the No. 1 Ambient/Instrumental Record in Pulse!
On Saturday, March 6, 2021 at 1pm CST | 2pm EST, the Berlin-based dance company Sasha Waltz & Guests offers a live viewing of a brand new and innovative artistic process incorporating both digitally recorded and live formats, based on the musical foundation of In C. Waltz and her dancers have developed choreographic material that follows a similarly variable structure and is deliberately designed not to be a finished stage piece. This performance will be set to Bang on a Can’s 2001 recording.
Sasha Waltz explains her vision for the project: “The score of In C consists of fifty-three musical phrases and reads like stage directions for musicians. The thought of translating these detailed instructions into dance through a choreographic exploration of the music appealed to me. The result is an experimental system of fifty-three movement phrases for a structured improvisation with clear rules and laws. The length of the piece remains variable, as does the number of musicians and dancers.”
Learn more and get tickets here.

Sister Cities Girlchoir Lunchtime Recital
2021-03-06 11:30 - 12:30 (America/Chicago)
Join us for the world premiere of NEW MUSIC written by our elementary singers of Sister Cities Girlchoir and The Music & Motion Choir. The compositions were created during a short-term residency with composer, Erin Busch (in ACF’s Philly chapter) sponsored by the American Composers Forum. Alysia Lee (a ChoralQuest collaborator) of SCGC will also be present. This project aligns with the Sister Cities Girlchoir artistic strategy goal: By 2024, 50% of all repertoire prepared annually will be original works from the Sister Cities Girlchoir community (youth, staff, and families).
BYOL: Bring Your Own Lunch!
Date & Time: Saturday, March 6, 2021 at 11:30am CST
RSVP here to receive a link to join us.

ISU Choirs Mid-Winter Concert
2021-03-05 20:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago)
The Choirs of Idaho State University will present the ISU Choirs Mid-Winter Concert. Scott Anderson, ISU director of choral activities, will conduct the Chamber Choir and Concert Choir, and pianist Natalia Lauk will play for both groups in the presentation of a wide variety of choral styles and genres.
Anderson will lead the 43 voice ISU Concert Choir in a presentation of “All that Hath Life & Breath” by Rene Clausen (a ChoralQuest composer), featuring soprano Miren Gabiola. Natalia Lauk, piano, and Hyeri Choi, violin, will join the singers in performing Eric Whitacre‘s “Five Hebrew Love Songs”; soprano Crystal Lovato will be featured in the fourth Love Song. The Concert Choir will end the concert by singing the classic Hall Johnson spiritual, “Ain’t Got Time to Die” with soloists.
Date & Time: Friday, March 5, 2021 at 8pm CST

The performance will be livestreamed and can be viewed on YouTube.

First Fridays with Robert Black
2021-03-05 11:30 (America/Chicago)
First Fridays with Robert Black is a monthly series of virtual mini-concerts featuring new music for solo double bass, streaming from his home studio in Hartford, Connecticut, at 12pm ET. The performance is designed to fit any time and place – whether it’s with morning coffee in Los Angeles, lunch in New York, happy hour in Paris, or a late supper in Tashkent.
On Friday, March 5, 2021 at 11am CST | 12pm EST, Black will perform highly unusual music from an already unusual repertoire. Hear what happens at the intersection of science and art in James Tenney’s Beast, witness the dazzling wordplay theatrics of Stuart Saunders Smith’s Tunnels, and marvel at the bizarre bowing techniques of Rifat Komachkov’s Sonata. Music that will fascinate, electrify, and amaze.
Learn more and get tickets here.

Lara Downes' new digital recording: Rising Sun Music
2021-03-05
Inspired by her own mixed-race heritage and career-long engagement with diverse musical traditions, pianist Lara Downes creates and curates a new digital recording venture, Rising Sun Music, that sheds a bright light on the music and stories of Black composers over the past 200 years. Featuring a wide range of leading instrumentalists and vocalists (including Ms. Downes) whose work defines the creative energy of this generation and the next, the series presents a new EP of music-each exploring a different theme -to be released the first Friday of every month starting February 5.
Rising Sun Music is distributed digitally worldwide by [PIAS] and available on all major streaming and download platforms including Apple, Spotify, Amazon, Primephonic, and Idagio.
Friday, February 5, 2021: Remember Me to Harlem
BENNY GOLSON: Classical Dreams – Lara Downes, piano
Eubie Blake: Love Will Find A Way – Lara Downes, piano
William Grant STILL: Song for the Lonely – Lara Downes, piano & Titus Underwood, oboe
Margaret Bonds/Langston Hughes: When the Dove Enters In – Lara Downes, piano & Davóne Tines, bass-baritone
Friday, March 5, 2021: Phenomenal Women
Hazel Scott: Peace of Mind – Lara Downes, piano
Margaret Bonds: What Lips My Lips Have Kissed – Lara Downes, piano & Nicole Cabell, soprano
NORA HOLT: Negro Dance – Lara Downes, piano
Florence Price: Andante con Espressione – Lara Downes, piano & Rachel Barton Pine, violin
Friday, April 2, 2021: Spring Fever
BETTY JACKSON KING: Spring Intermezzo – Lara Downes, piano
NKEIRU OKOYE: When Young Spring Comes – Lara Downes, piano
H. Leslie Adams: L’extase d’amour – Lara Downes, piano & Jordan Bak, viola
ALVIN SINGLETON (a BandQuest composer): Changing Faces – Lara Downes, piano

2021-03-04 21:00 - 22:00 (America/Chicago)
Morten Lauridsen’s “O magnum mysterium” has become one of the world’s most performed and recorded compositions since its 1994 premiere. Experience the composer’s own brass arrangement of this “quiet song of profound inner joy.” Michael Daugherty’s (a BandQuest composer) “Asclepius” refers to the Greek God of medicine. This majestic fanfare for brass and percussion celebrates those who devote their lives to medical research and healing.
This performance will be available for FREE streaming on our YouTube and Facebook channels from Thursday, March 4, 2021 at 9pm CST through April 2.
A presentation of the Hal & Jeanette Segerstrom Family Foundation Virtual Classical Series.
Artists
Carl St.Clair, conductor
Pacific Symphony
Program
LAURIDSEN: “O magnum mysterium”
(arranged by the composer for brass ensemble)
DAUGHERTY: “Asclepius”
Fanfare for Brass and Percussion
Learn more and get tickets on their website.

Chamber Music Concert with Artist Director Finalist, Robert Franz
2021-03-04 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago)
Artist Director Finalist, Robert Franz will curate this concert of Signature Symphony musicians featured in a more intimate and personal setting, allowing them to perform safely with physical distancing guidelines in place. The streaming nature of these concerts will give you (our patrons) an up-close vantage point not possible in a full orchestra concert in a large hall; everyone will have a front row seat.
Date & Time: Thursday, March 4, 2021 at 7pm CST
With Artistic Director Finalist, Robert Franz
Jennifer Higdon (a BandQuest and ChoralQuest composer)
Southern Harmony – string quartet
Debussy
unaccompanied solo flute
Poulenc
Trio for Oboe, Bassoon, and Piano
Tickets for the concert are $10; once purchased, the ticket holder may access the concert for the next seven days.
Purchase tickets here.

Fast Forward: Performers from Special Music School’s 7th & 8th Grade
2021-03-04 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago)
Date & Time: March 4, 2021 at 6pm CST | 7pm EST
Virtual performance filmed in Merkin Hall Featuring 7th and 8th grade performers from Kaufman Music Center’s Special Music School, the country’s only K-12 public school that teaches music as a core subject during the school day.
Learn more and get tickets here.
About Fast Forward:
Get to know a whole new generation of performers at this new series of four concerts streamed from Merkin Hall. Young musicians from Kaufman Music Center’s Special Music School, a NYC public school that teaches music as a core subject and Lucy Moses School, Manhattan’s largest community arts school, explore a broad range of repertoire, including a program of works by composers of color including Florence Price, Margaret Bonds and Samuel Coleridge Taylor, and chamber music performed together with 2020-21 KMC Artists-in-Residence Conrad Tao and Seth Parker Woods.

Symphony Thursdays @7pm - Lauridsen & Daugherty
2021-03-04 17:00 - 2021-04-02 23:59 (America/Chicago)
PacificSymphony+ is a new way to experience your Symphony online and on-demand. Enjoy the magic of music whenever and wherever you can.

Symphony Thursdays continues on March 4, 2021 at 5pm CST | 7pm PST with music for brass ensemble:

Morten Lauridsen’s “O Magnum Mysterium” has become one of the world’s most performed and recorded compositions since its 1994 premiere. Experience the composer’s own brass arrangement of this “quiet song of profound inner joy.”
Michael Daugherty’s (a BandQuest composer) “Asclepius” refers to the Greek God of medicine. This majestic fanfare for brass and percussion celebrates those who devote their lives to medical research and healing.

This performance is available for FREE streaming from March 4 through April 2.

This series is made possible by the Hal and Jeanette Segerstrom Family Foundation. We thank them for their generous and ongoing support. Pacific Symphony’s on-line programs are being produced with new state-of-the-art audio, video and lighting equipment purchased through a generous grant from the Janet Curci Family Foundation.
HOW TO WATCH
Symphony Thursdays @7pm will be streamed on Pacific Symphony’s YouTube channel, Facebook page and on our website. Individual events will remain available for online viewing for 30 days.
Livestream FAQs to enhance your virtual concert experience.

SFCMP MASTERCLASS series
2021-03-04 - 2021-04-04
In San Francisco Contemporary Music Players’ (SFCMP) ongoing Masterclass series, they interact with some of the most talented Bay Area pre-professional musicians in a live performance and feedback session with one of their renowned ensemble members. Students bring selected works to the stage while being mentored in the techniques, skills, and myriad styles of contemporary music performance. This season’s masterclass focuses on contemporary repertoire for stringed instruments, coached by SFCMP violinist Hrabba Atladottir.
Watch the recorded livestream event here; it is available on Thursday, March 4, 2021 for 30 days on demand.
Program
Bright Sheng, The Stream Flows
Adrian Wu, violin

Philip Glass, Partita for Solo Violin
Solanch Sosa, violin
Béla Bartók, Violin Concerto No. 2, Mvt I
Ryan Cheng, violin
Giacinto Scelsi, Manto
Natalia Badziak, viola

San Francisco Ballet's DIGITAL PROGRAM 03
2021-03-04 - 2021-03-24
Created for 21 dancers, Symphony #9 highlights two lead couples and a solo male set against designer George Tsypin’s backdrop of grays and splashes of red recalling works of Socialist realism. Wooden Dimes – Danielle Rowe’s first mainstage production for SF Ballet – follows her Gala successes and is sure to delight fans of dramatic, contemporary choreography. Closing the program, Yuri Possokhov’s fan-favorite Swimmer brings audiences on a psychedelic multimedia journey through loneliness, love, and 1960s pop culture.
The ballet’s elaborate rehearsal process entailed director of photography Heath Orchard working in person and over Zoom, along with remote collaboration with costume designer Emma Kingsbury, lighting designers Jim French and Matthew Stouppe, and composer James M. Stephenson, who created an original score for the piece.
Stream this show from Thursday, March 4 through Wednesday, March 24.
You can purchase a single stream access ticket for $29 or purchase their digital package to access their whole season.
Learn more and get tickets here.

An Evening with Joy Harjo: "Feeding the Spirit of a Nation"
2021-03-03 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago)
Join us for an evening “Feeding the Spirit of A Nation” with US Poet Laureate and Tulsa native Joy Harjo (a past board member) to discuss her new album “I Pray For My Enemies” with an exclusive sneak peek. Joy, a third-year Tulsa Artist Fellow, is distinguished as the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States along with being the author of several books of poetry, plays and children’s books.
“The concept for ‘I Pray for My Enemies’ began” says Harjo, “with an urgent need to deal with discord, opposition. It could have been on a tribal, national or a personal level. I no longer remember. The urgency had a heartbeat and in any gathering of two or more, perhaps the whole planet, our hearts lean to entrainment – that is, to beat together.”
Date & Time: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 at 7pm CST on Facebook LIVE
We welcome people with disabilities. For questions about accessibility or to request an accommodation, please email caroline@tulsaartistfellowship.org or call 918.591.2461. Requests should be made at least one week prior to the event.
