Alicia Waller & Judith Sloan Double Bill: Migration, Refuge & Finding Home

Outdoor concert featuring music, songs and poetry by vocalist/soprano Alicia Waller, and writer/performer Judith Sloan with guest singers. Alicia Waller is recognized for her work as bandleader for the jazz fusion ensemble Alicia Waller & The Excursion and Judith Sloan is known for her veteran contributions to the New York City performance scene, most recently […]

sounding light chamber choir

sounding light is a professional chamber choir made up of talented, expressive singers gathered together from seven states. The ensemble will be in residence in Lincoln for a single week in intense preparation for this concert. The choir's program delivers a powerful message of hope and resilience in the face of struggle. The choir's program […]

The Trumpet Soars! Concert

Concert Program Gioachino Rossini: Overture to the Italian in Algiers Gao Hong (an ACF innova artist and board member) : Celebration Note: World Premier and Recipient of the Minnesota Sinfonia Call for Scores with Support from the McKnight Foundation Dmitry Shostakovich: The Little Ballerina Giacomo Puccini: Crisantemi Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 1 in c minor […]

LACO SUMMERFEST 2021: KIMANI BRIDGES + CLAUDE DEBUSSY

This program features The Flower by 2019/20 Luna Composition Lab Fellow, KiMani Bridges ( a NextNotes creator), and Claude Debussy‘s ethereal Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun from a performance at The Huntington on July 1, 2021. Date & time: Friday, October 8, 2021 at 4 PM CT | 6 PM PT Learn more here.

New Music for String Trio: Chartreuse

The path to the post-regime music may exhibit one or more of the following features: A balance of space and light. An imbalance of space and light in favor of space. An imbalance of space and light in favor of light. A quaternion utopia that transcends both space and light. A superposition of smooth waves. […]

Gulf Coast Chamber Orchestra Opening Night!

This year the Gulf Coast Chamber Orchestra opens its 2021-2022 season with the works of four award winning composers Joan Tower, Vivian Fung, Libby Larson and Florence Beatrice Price.  Joan Tower Sixth Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman Libby Larsen (ACF's co-founder and a BandQuest composer) Solo Symphony No. 5 Vivian Fung Dust Devils Florence Price Symphony No. 1 Date & Time: Saturday, […]

AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL

The Ottumwa Symphony Orchestra is hosting its fall concert and will also feature the Indian Hills Community College Chorus. The concert opens with “Fanfare for the Common Man” by Aaron Copland. Other selections include “American Salute” by Morton Gould, “West Side Story” by Leonard Bernstein, “Bugler’s Holiday” by Leroy Anderson, “El Salon Mexico” by Copland, […]

CHAMBER SOIRÉE: SHALL WE DANCE?

Members of Sarasota Orchestra present a chamber recital of dance-inspired works from ballet to the ballroom. This season, each program is inspired by a poem and will feature a recitation by a company member from the Florida Studio Theatre. The program opens with Quinn Mason's ( a NextNotes creator) 2013 String Quartet No. 2, a […]

Outpost: words & music

Outpost, Minnesota's 21st century variety-show featuring local musicians and spoken-word artists, is back at The Hook & Ladder with a blockbuster fall show featuring award-winning poet Michael Kleber-Diggs ("Worldly Things",) keyboardist/composer deVon R. Gray (dVRG), author Junauda Petrus-Nasah ("The Stars and the Blackness Between Them",) and a quartet of musicians from the Minnesota Orchestra. This […]

Kind of Bill, the Musical Life of Bill Evans

The Larry McDonough Quartet will be performing “Kind of Bill, the Musical Life of Bill Evans” and his associations with Tony Bennett, Scott LaFaro, Paul Motian, Miles Davis, Jim Hall, Eddie Gómez, Eliot Zigmund, Marc Johnson, and Joe LaBarbera. The Larry McDonough Quartet is Larry McDonough, piano, voice, and arrangements, Richard Terrill, saxes and poetry, […]

Trio Solace

The Raritan Valley Community College Arts and Design department will present a concert featuring Trio Solace. The trio includes Jacob Savransky on piano, Edward Li on violin and Mark Serkin on cello. The concert will feature the following program: Piano Trio Pale Yellow by Jennifer Higdon (a BandQuest and ChoralQuest composer) ; Gabriel Fauré’s Piano […]

Music Mondays presents The Westerlies and Conrad Tao, piano

Pianist Conrad Tao, a performer of “probing intellect and open-hearted vision” (New York Times), joins genre-defying brass ensemble, The Westerlies, “an arty quartet…mixing ideas from jazz, new classical, and Appalachian folk” (New York Times). Individually, they perform both classics (by J. S. Bach and Brahms) and contemporary work (by Caroline Shaw), and they improvise as […]