American Composers Forum

Kaufman Music Center – Fast Forward: ComposerFest
2021-04-29 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago)
Date & Time: Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 6pm CT | 7pm ET
Virtual performance filmed in Merkin Hall Young musicians from Kaufman Music Center’s Special Music School and Lucy Moses School perform music by Florence Price, Margaret Bonds, Samuel Coleridge Taylor and Joseph Bolougne, Chevalier de Saint-George.
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Violinist Kristin Lee and Pianist Jeremy Jordan Perform Americana - Live Online - Presented by Adelphi University
2021-04-29 18:30 - 19:30
Violinist Kristin Lee and pianist Jeremy Jordan join forces for a virtual recital presented by Adelphi University. The program, entitled Americana, showcases a broad spectrum of illustrious composers and the American musical styles which influenced them, as well as their own musical styles which influenced generations of composers to come. This concert will be streamed LIVE from the Adelphi University Performing Arts Center, and tickets are available for $10. A link with a special access code to watch the livestream will be delivered in the order confirmation email. The performance will not remain online for later viewing.
Date & Time: Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 6:30pm CT | 7:30pm ET
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A native of Seoul, Korea, Kristin Lee emigrated to the U.S. at the age of seven. During her childhood, playing the violin was a refuge for Kristin from bullying and racism – she moved to the U.S. not speaking any English, and feels the violin became her voice. As a foreign-born citizen of America, Lee was compelled to select this repertoire to express her pride of the country she now calls her own, and offers this program that has a distinct and recognizable sound of American music and its rich history.
The repertoire for this performance includes Jeremy Jordan’s Fish Me a Dream; Jonathan Ragonese’s Non-Poem No. 4; Harry Burleigh’s Four Southland Sketches; Patrick Castillo’s Cirque for solo violin; Amy Beach’s Romance; George Gershwin’s But Not for Me (arr. Jeremy Jordan); James Louis “JJ” Johnson’s Lament (arr. Jeremy Jordan); Scott Joplin’s The Entertainer (arr. Jeremy Jordan); Florence Price’s Adoration; and John Novacek’s Four Rags.
Lee and Jordan have recorded a corresponding album featuring several of these works that will be released in the future.

The Power of Band Music Panel
2021-04-30 15:00 - 16:00
We already know how influential the experience of playing in a band can be for a kid, college student, or adult. The opportunities to be part of a community, to make music together, and to perform for others have a tremendous impact on each individual. But what about the composer/music creator?
What if the piece you were playing was written by someone in your community? What if it was written by someone who looks like the people playing the music (i.e. the same race)? What if your band members were invited to share their own stories as part of creating a new work? Imagine what that impact could be.
Join panelists Jasmine Britt, Music Faculty, Grand Street Campus High Schools and Associate Director, NYC Dept. of Ed. “All City” Concert Band, Jennifer Jolley, composer, blogger, professor, Weston Sprott, Dean, Preparatory Division, The Juilliard School and Trombonist, The Metropolitan Opera, and Jonathan Villela, Graduate Teaching Assistant, UT-Austin Bands, who lead the field in programming and commissioning band music in a variety of education and community settings. The panel, moderated by ACF’s CEO Vanessa Rose, will discuss different ways to approach music by diverse living artists and build context for why it matters.
Date & Time: Friday, April 30, 2021 at 3pm CT
Register in advance for this meeting here.
If you require an interpreter, closed-captioning, or any other accommodations to fully engage, please contact Laura Krider (lkrider@composersforum, 612.314.9228) at least 48 hours before the event.
This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov.

Gabriela Lena Frank Lecture: Forging a Composer’s Path in 2021 and Beyond
2021-04-30 16:00 - 17:00
The arrival of COVID-19 in 2020 was devastating to the performing arts. An urgent call rang loud and clear to artists from all walks of life: adapt and create new models or risk losing livelihoods that took years to build.
Gabriela Lena Frank, a composer born with high-moderate/near-profound hearing loss, describes her creative experience and process. Her music often reflects not only her own personal experience as a multi-racial Latina, but also refract her studies of Latin American cultures, incorporating poetry, mythology, and native musical styles into a western classical framework that is uniquely her own.
Lecture followed by Q&A moderated by Professor Mark Russell Smith, Director of Orchestral Studies, University of Minnesota.
Date & Time: Friday, April 30, 2021 at 4pm CT
Sponsored by the School of Music at the University of Minnesota.
Photo Credit: Mariah Tauger Register for free here.

Hot & Cool Jazz: Taylor Eigsti
2021-04-30 18:00 - 19:00
On International Jazz Day 2021, please Wilton Libary’s first Hot & Cool jazz concert since their 2019-2020 season was interrupted after the smashing two-set concert of Brubecks Play Brubeck in January 2020!
They will broadcast a spectacular concert performed by pianist Taylor Eigsti and recorded in front of a live [socially distanced!] audience last winter at Millstone – then the long-time home of jazz legend Dave Brubeck (a BQ composer). Indeed, Taylor works his magic on Dave’s grand piano in the dramatic two-story music room where Dave composed so much of his famous music. As a bonus, Wilton resident Chris Brubeck, an award-winning composer and superlative trombonist and bassist, will also sit in and jam with Taylor on a few tunes. This will be a very special one-time concert broadcast that you won’t want to miss since the recording will not be accessible after this special evening.
Date & Time: Friday, April 30, 2021 at 6pm CT | 7pm ET
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ACF | create Application Information Session
2021-04-30 18:30 - 19:30
Information session regarding 2021 ACF | create Application Process with Billy Lackey, ACF VP of Artist Services.
Are you a music creator living in Minnesota of five boroughs ofNew York City seeking funding for a commission? Or are you an ensemble seeking funding to commission a composer who lives in Minnesota of five boroughs of NewYork City? Five music creators will be awarded up to $8,000 for the composer or primary artist’s time to create the work, and up to $3,000 to help with production and promotion support.
Date & Time: Friday, April 30, 2021 at 6:30pm CT
Register here.
Application deadline is 11:59PM Central on Monday, May 10, 2021.
For complete information and the application, click here.

Whitewater Symphony Orchestra & Chamber Orchestra
2021-04-30 19:30 - 20:30
The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Department of Music Whitewater Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra will release their final concert virtually and for viewing through May 13.
The Whitewater Symphony Orchestra is the flagship orchestra at UW-Whitewater. WSO is a full orchestra and includes woodwinds, brass, percussion, and strings. In addition to performing 2-3 concerts each semester, the Symphony Orchestra tours semi-annually. Repertoire selections focus on standard symphonic masterworks, but include a variety of works from the classical period to modern day. Each year student concerto soloists are selected to perform with the orchestras through the annual concerto competition and members of the music faculty at UW-Whitewater make guest solo appearances with the orchestras.
Date & Time: Friday, April 30, 2021 at 7:30pm CT
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AMERICA AWAKENS
2021-04-30 20:00 - 2021-05-02 23:00
Spring is in the air, the light of awareness is dawning, change is within reach, growth is on the horizon, and pride lends a bounce to one’s step. Please join Maestro Wes Kenney and the Fort Collins Symphony for an evening of American composers and themes. This streamed virtual concert features two of Aaron Copland’s compositions–the enduring American anthem, Appalachian Spring, and a coming-of-age story, The Tender Land Suite– and the gospel/jazz/blues-inspired Church Street Serenade by composer Adolphus Hailstork (a BandQuest composer). Pre-recorded at the Fort Collins Lincoln Center, this concert is available to stream at your leisure over the weekend of Friday, April 30, 2021 at 8pm CT | 7pm MT – Sunday, May 2, 2021 at 11pm CT | 10pm MT.
Tickets are available for $25 per device (Smart TV, computers, iPads, etc.). View this concert at your convenience. Sales for the webcast will end at 2:00 p.m. MT on Sunday, May 2nd.
The America Awakens concert is dedicated to the memory of Leabelle R. Schwartz
This concert is made possible thanks to: Roberta Mielke . Dr. Peter Springberg
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VOX Femina Los Angeles presents I Dream A World
2021-05-01 12:00 - 13:00
“I dream a world where man no other man will scorn, where love will bless the earth and peace its paths adorn.”
​Centered around the beautiful words of Langston Hughes’ poem imagining a world of justice and equality, VOX presents its second digital concert of the season, I Dream A World. Travel with us through newly created pieces and past performance videos; alongside refugees on their journey to find home with the Farsi-language piece From Behind the Caravan: Songs of Hâfez by Abbie Betinis (a ChoralQuest composer and McKnight fellow); and to distant shores in our collaboration with the Nā Wai Chamber Choir of Hawaii. Until it’s safe to actually visit these places, join us and enjoy this concert from the comfort of your own home.
Date & Time: Saturday, May 1, 2021 at 12pm CT | 10am PT
Culver City residents receive 25% off general admission tickets with the coupon code “Culver City”.
Tickets available here.

ACF | create Application Information Session
2021-05-01 13:00 - 14:00
Information session regarding 2021 ACF | create Application Process with Billy Lackey, ACF VP of Artist Services.
Are you a music creator living in Minnesota of five boroughs ofNew York City seeking funding for a commission? Or are you an ensemble seeking funding to commission a composer who lives in Minnesota of five boroughs of NewYork City? Five music creators will be awarded up to $8,000 for the composer or primary artist’s time to create the work, and up to $3,000 to help with production and promotion support.
Date & Time: Saturday, May 1, 2021 at 1pm CT
Register here.
Application deadline is 11:59PM Central on Monday, May 10, 2021.
For complete information and the application, click here.

Belated Beethoven Birthday Celebration
2021-05-01 19:00 - 20:00
Leon Botstein conducts the first of two concerts dedicated to one of the greatest composers of all time, Ludwig van Beethoven, after the pandemic shut down many of the celebrations planned for the 250th anniversary of his birth. The program features his beloved 5th and 7th symphonies, as well as his Triple Concerto for violin, cello, and piano. The Bard Conservatory Orchestra will continue the festivities with more Beethoven symphonies in a concert streaming on May 8.
This concert is free, but if you’d like to purchase a ticket to support The Orchestra Now, please select one of the additional ticket options below.
Date & Time: Saturday, May 1, 2021 at 7pm CT | 8pm ET
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Jupiter String Quartet Gives Virtual Concert with the Jasper String Quartet presented by Ringwood Friends of Music
2021-05-01 19:00 - 21:00
On Saturday, May 1, 2021 at 7pm CT | 8pm ET, the Jupiter Quartet joins forces with the Jasper String Quartet to perform Mendelssohn’s Octet in E-flat, Op. 20 for Ringwood Friends of Chamber Music. Their recording of the work was released in February 2021 on Marquis Classics and praised by All Music as, “one of the best versions [of Mendelssohn’s Octet] available, with a crackling finale and plenty of energy throughout.” The concert also includes Florence Price’s String Quartet in G Major performed by the Jasper and George Walker’s moving “Lyric” for String Quartet performed by the Jupiter.
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Greenwood Overcomes
2021-05-01 19:30 - 20:30
In a special concert this spring titled Greenwood Overcomes featuring a program comprised of works by living Black composers, Tulsa Opera will honor the resilience of Black Tulsans and Black America one hundred years after the Tulsa Race Massacre. During the two-day massacre May 31–June 1, 1921 the city’s Greenwood neighborhood (known as Black Wall Street) was razed by mobs of white residents in one of the worst incidents of racial violence in American history. The massacre resulted in the murder of hundreds, the destruction of six thousand Black-owned businesses, and the rendering of thousands homeless.
The Greenwood Overcomes concert, which takes place on Saturday, May 1, 2021 at 7:30 p.m. CT at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center, features works for voice and piano by living Black composers—including four new Tulsa Opera commissions—sung by leading Black artists. It is part of a citywide commemoration effort spearheaded by the concert’s co-producer, the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission (Tulsa2021.org), which is dedicated to producing and promoting projects that further the remembrance, and honor the legacy of, Black Wall Street. The concert has been curated by Tulsa Opera Artistic Director Tobias Picker and Metropolitan Opera Pianist and Assistant Conductor Howard Watkins, who will also perform as the piano accompanist.
The concert will feature four Tulsa Opera-commissioned world premieres by such composers as David Bontemps, Anthony Davis, Stewart Goodyear, Nkeiru Okoye, and Daniel Bernard Roumain. Among the pieces to be premiered are “Fire across the tracks” from Davis’ opera “Tulsa 21.”
There will also be much by such composers as H. Leslie Adams, Eleanor Alberga, Peter Ashbourne, Terence Blanchard, Kathryn Bostic, B.E. Boykin, Valerie Capers, Marques L. A. Garrett, Adolphus Hailstork (a BandQuest composer), Tania León (a BandQuest composer), Quinn Mason (a NextNotes creator), Dorothy Rudd Moore, Andre Myers, Carlos Simon, Evelyn Simpson-Curenton, and Damien Sneed, among others.
Tickets are $35 for orchestra seating, $25 for mezzanine seating, and $10 for balcony seating.
Learn more and get tickets here.

Tulsa Opera Announces Additional Performance & Live-Stream of Greenwood Overcomes
2021-05-01 19:30 - 20:30, 2021-05-02 14:30 - 15:30
Due to high demand, Tulsa Opera has announced a second performance of Greenwood Overcomes featuring a program of works by 23 living Black composers performed by eight Black artists to commemorate the centennial of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. The performances will be Saturday, May 1, 2021 at 7:30 p.m. CT and Sunday, May 2, 2021 at 2:30 p.m. CT at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center. Additionally, the Saturday performance will be live-streamed free on Tulsa Opera’s website, TulsaOpera.com, enabling a worldwide audience to experience the event. The live-stream will be available to watch through May 31. Tickets for the live performances have been priced for accessibility to all at $35, $25, and $10. Tulsa Opera is also partnering with community organizations and churches to provide free tickets to underserved communities for the performances. The audience size for the live concerts is socially-distanced owing to COVID-19 safety protocols.
Greenwood Overcomes is part of a citywide commemoration effort spearheaded by the concert’s co-producer, the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission (Tulsa2021.org), which is dedicated to producing and promoting projects that further the remembrance and honor the legacy of Black Wall Street, the Greenwood neighborhood that was razed by mobs of white residents on May 31–June 1, 1921. The massacre is recognized as one of the worst incidents of racial violence in American history and resulted in the murder of hundreds, the destruction of six thousand Black-owned businesses, and the rendering of thousands homeless.
The concert will also feature works by H. Leslie Adams, Peter Ashbourne, Jasmine Barnes, Kathryn Bostic, B.E. Boykin, Valerie Capers, Roland Carter, Melanie DeMore, Marques L. A. Garrett, Adolphus Hailstork(a BQ composer), Tania León(BQ composer), Quinn Mason (a NextNotes creator), Andre Myers, Rosephanye Powell, Carlos Simon, Damien Sneed, Tyshawn Sorey, and Nolan Williams, Jr with the composers ranging in age from 24 to 88.
Tickets are $35 for orchestra seating, $25 for mezzanine seating, and $10 for balcony seating.
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Symphonic Wind Ensemble
2021-05-03 19:30 - 20:30
The UW-Whitewater Symphonic Wind Ensemble (SWE) is the premiere wind and percussion ensemble on campus. It is open by audition to all qualified students, regardless of major. SWE has distinguished itself internationally, nationally and regionally. Honors include being the first university band from Wisconsin to perform at Carnegie Hall. The Symphonic Wind Ensemble has performed by invitation at conventions of the British Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, College Band Directors National Conference and the National Association of Music Educators.
SWE will be performing a wide array of compositions including: “Four Scottish Dances,” composed by Malcolm Arnold and arranged by John P. Paynter; “La Procession du Rocio,” composed by Joaquin Turina, arranged by Alfred Reed; “Suite Francaise,” composed by Darius Milhaud; “Speak to Me,” composed by Dana Wilson (a BandQuest composer); and “Cathedrals,” composed by Kathryn Salfelder.
Date & Time: Monday, May 3, 2021 at 7:30pm CT
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TUES@7: Creating New Work
2021-05-04 18:00 - 19:00
Join the International Contemporary Ensemble for an evening focused on creation, collaboration, and process with Jennifer Curtis, Pauchi Sasaki, Rebekah Heller, and Clifton Joey Guidry III.
Including the world premiere of Guidry’s “How hot is the sand at 6pm?” performed by Rebekah Heller.
Date & Time: Tuesday, May 4, 2021 at 6pm CT | 7pm ET
Free RSVP here.

Professional Development Panel: Conductor’s Roundtable – Marin Alsop & George Manahan
2021-05-05 16:00 - 17:15
The following Professional Development Webinar is co-presented by the American Composers Orchestra (ACO) and the American Composers Forum (ACF).
Orchestral conductors Marin Alsop & George Manahan provide insight into the conductor-composer relationship, programming new works, and other topics relevant to composers, followed by a Q&A with the audience.
Moderated by Derek Bermel
The panelists are: Marin Alsop and George Manahan
Date & Time: Wednesday, May 5, 2021 at 4pm CT | 5pm ET
Register 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).

How NFTs are creating more equity for artists
2021-05-06 12:00 - 13:00
With the continued rise and popularity of crypto-currency, artists are beginning to see the benefits of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for their artwork. On Episode 22 of “DISCOVERY,” we’ll discuss the financial viability of NFTs for artists, and how they’re adding to the value of artists’ work.
Guest: Amy Whitaker, writer, artist, researcher and assistant professor, New York University
Host: Koven Smith, Senior Director/Arts, Knight Foundation
Date & Time: Thursday, May 6, 2021 at 12 PM CT | 1 PM ET
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Walden Chamber Music Society May Concert
2021-05-06 13:00 - 2021-05-09 01:00
Walden Chamber Music Society’s May concert presents Walden’s Artistic Director and Concert Pianist Jo Boatright who will be joined by Mark Rush, violin, Matt Diekman, viola and Camilla Bonzo on cello. The program will include Intermezzo for violin, viola and ‘cello by Zoltàn Kodàly, Aubade for violin, viola and ‘cello by Georges Enescu, Viva by Michael Daugherty (a BandQuest composer), Filter by Daniel Bernard Roumain, Amazing Grace and Cricket Dance by Mark O’Connor, and Piano Quartet in D Major, Op. 23 Anton Dvoràk for piano, violin, viola and ‘cello. Insights from the performers will add to your enjoyment.
Date & Time: Thursday, May 6, 2021 at 1pm CT | 12pm MT to Sunday, May 9, 2021 at 1am CT | 12am
Tickets will be available on Walden’s website and cost $15. Ticket purchases and viewing will be on the honor system. If these COVID times find you unable to pay for a ticket, we invite you to view the concert at no charge. And as always, student tickets are free thanks to the generosity of Collegiate Peaks Bank.
This performance is generously underwritten by Our Town Medical – Dr. Eric Gibb.
Learn more by visiting their website here.

Engender Roundtable
2021-05-06 19:00 - 20:30
Join Nicky Manlove and Bradford Dumont as they facilitate a roundtable with all of the guests from the Engender series: Abdullah Hall, Bex Bagnato, Erik Peregrine, Jace Kaholokula Saplan, Lindsey Deaton, Logan Bradford, Mari Esabel Valverde, and Michael Bussewitz-Quarm.
Date & Time: Thursday, May 6, 2021 at 7 PM CDT
Watch on Facebook Live here.

To the Fore
2021-05-06 21:00 - 22:00
In this finale of the North State Symphony’s 20th season, they bring to the spotlight composers and works that have everything from exotic combinations of instruments and orchestral color to unique storylines. The sampling begins with Ellen Taaffe Zwilich and her Chamber Symphony, a work whose elaborate melodic writing and rich and varied sonorities explore a profound world of “grief, outrage, and bewilderment” (New York Times). Jennifer Higdon then takes the programmatic reins with her Dark Wood, a work that features principal bassoonist Jarratt Rossini and a dizzy whirlwind of fast-paced chromatic lines competing against an array of rhythmic and percussive elements from the whole ensemble. Higdon encourages the listener to form their own impressions while being shown the bassoon’s extraordinary sonic versatility that stems from the beauty of its “dark wood”. The program and our season conclude with the light-hearted suite from the ballet La Revue de Cuisine by Bohuslav Martinu, a witty jazz-inspired toe-tapping comedy with a bizarre story where kitchen utensils come to life in a romantic culinary soap opera.
Date & Time: Thursday, May 6, 2021 at 9 PM CT | 7 PM PT

CLICK HERE to watch the Pre-Concert Talk on Tuesday, May 4th.
CLICK HERE to watch the Concert on Thursday, May 6th.

Program:
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s Chamber Symphony, for Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Cello & Piano
Jennifer Higdon’s (a BandQuest and ChoralQuest composer) Dark Wood, showcasing NSS Principal Bassoon Jarratt Rossini and a string trio
Bohuslav Martinu’s jazzy La Revue de Cuisine suite from his ballet of the same name, featuring Clarinet, Bassoon, Trumpet, Violin, Cello & Piano

CLOSE QUARTERS: EPISODE 12 BEYOND THE HORIZON
2021-05-07 20:30 - 21:30
The creative and collaborative interweaving of classical music with elements of social justice, language, and improvisation has made Jessie Montgomery one of America’s most relevant and sought-after composers. For the second episode of her Close Quarters musical curation, Montgomery is working directly with episode director Isabel Leonard to craft an original work of video art incorporating the composer’s brilliant and eclectic program with cinematic footage of the orchestra. Isabel Leonard, internationally known as a Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano, makes her directorial debut with this episode of Close Quarters.
Date & Time: Friday, May 7, 2021 at 8:30pm CT | 6:30pm PT

Learn more here.
One of her works include Alvin Singleton‘s (a BQ composer) Be Natural, Mazz Swift‘s The End of All That Is Holy, The Beginning of All That is Good, and Montgomery’s own Break Away, encompassing a wide range of the American concert music tradition from the lens of Black composers, including influences of jazz harmonies and rhythm, extensions of European modernism with graphic notation and the idea that the interplay between the player and the listener is dynamic and reflects agency and purpose.

Pop-up Spring Sound Garden on West River Parkway
2021-05-08 12:00 - 16:00
This outdoor, self-guided event is free and family-friendly, but requires reservations as capacity is limited. Further details such as exact location and directions are provided upon registration.
Wavelets Creative presents composer JG Everest’s entire four-part Water Suite: Four Seasonal Sound Gardens in a series of free outdoor, self-guided “pop-up” events along West River Parkway in Minneapolis beginning with the “SPRING Sound Garden”. Each Sound Garden event features a temporary sound installation of 40 small, battery-powered remote speakers distributed throughout the park, each playing a different part of the larger piece of music, creating a multi-layered, immersive experience. The sound installation is then accompanied by live roving musicians and dancers, with site-specific poetry and visual art elements embedded throughout the installation.
These seasonal Sound Garden events are designed as durational, self-guided experiences intended for audience to connect more meaningfully to a particular place and the natural world. The spatial sound score and live dance and musical elements are meant to accompany the sounds and physical elements that are already there – the birds, the trees, the wind, the leaves. Audiences are encouraged to both circulate and linger, at their own pace, following their own impulses for what to pay attention to. The immersive, multi-layered experience is intentionally designed without any fixed focal points, instead inviting participants and audience alike to allow moments to unfold in their own personal way – noticing a particular bird call or a branch, a perspective or a memory – things that may have been previously overlooked or hidden, covered up or forgotten.
Date & Time: Saturday, May 8, 2021 at 12pm CT
For more information and to register, click here.
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

Pale Yellow
2021-05-09 15:00 - 16:00
Date & Time: Sunday, May 9, 2021 at 3 PM CT
Location: St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 201 North State Street, New Ulm, MN, 56073, United States (map)

ProMusica Minnesota will present the last New Ulm-based concert of the season. The performance begins with the Piano Trio Hob XV:21, in C Major by Classical composer Joseph Haydn. Next, the trio will perform the soulful and moving Pale Yellow by contemporary American composer Jennifer Higdon (a BandQuest and ChoralQuest composer). The performance will conclude with the passionate and emotional Piano Trio No 2, in C Major, Op. 87 of Johannes Brahms.
Visit website here.

Jupiter String Quartet Gives Virtual Concert presented by Chicago Chamber Music Society
2021-05-12 11:30 - 13:30
On Wednesday, May 12, 2021 at 11:30am CT, the Jupiter Quartet will perform a virtual concert presented by Chicago Chamber Music Society. Jupiter will perform George Walker’s “Lyric” for String Quartet; excerpts from Michi Wiancko’s To Unpathed Waters, Undreamed Shores; and Schubert’s String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, “Death and the Maiden.” Michi Wiancko’s To Unpathed Waters, Undreamed Shores was written for the Jupiter in 2020, commissioned and premiered virtually by Bay Chamber Concerts in Maine and Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. Wiancko writes that the piece, “celebrates the beauty and vitality of the natural world, suggesting hope and inspiration as humanity addresses fears and worries for our planet. The central themes of regeneration and resilience highlight the need to help protect each other and our most vulnerable populations.”
Learn more and get tickets here.

ACF Study Group on Code Switching
2021-05-13 16:00 - 17:00
ACF Invites you to engage in a discussion of Code-Switching. Quite often used as a survival tactic for BIPOC navigating white spaces, code-switching can be adjusting the way we talk or how we do our hair, or how we dress to fit into the dominant culture. What does it mean and what is its impact?
Date & Time: Thursday, May 13, 2021 at 4pm CT
Register in advance here.
We’re sharing some resources below for you to learn more about code switching:
What Is Code-Switching? | Psychology Today
The Cost of Code Switching | Chandra Arthur

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).

The Making of Donne Songs Without Words
2021-05-13 18:30 - 19:30
A Choreographic Work for Viol Quartet and Baroque Harp by Eleonor Sandresky
Parthenia Viol Consort and guests discuss the conception, composition and performance of Sandresky’s 2014 work, John Donne Songs Without Words, commissioned by Parthenia with a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts. Explore Donne’s poetry, the guiding aesthetic for this work, and talk about learning to use body movements while playing our instruments, and show videos of the 2015 premier.
Parthenia actively commissions and premieres works by today’s composers including Eleonor Sandresky, Richard Einhorn, Phil Kline, Frances White, Max Lifchitz, Will Ayton, Nicholas Patterson and Kristin Norderval. Parthenia’s latest CD Nothing Proved, on the MSR Classics label, features music by Hildegard von Bingen, Frances White, Kristin Norderval, and Tawnie Olson (a BandQuest composer).
Date & Time: Thursday, May 13, 2021 at 6:30 PM CT | 7:30 PM ET
Learn more and get tickets here.

Steve Reich and Amy Sillman – a live conversation with performances by Bang on a Can All-Stars
2021-05-13 18:30 - 19:30
Bang on a Can, BOMB Magazine, and the Jewish Museum present a live conversation featuring composer Steve Reich and painter Amy Sillman, plus performances of two Reich classics: Piano/Video Phase and Electric Counterpoint by the Bang on a Can All-Stars’ David Cossin (percussion) and Mark Stewart (electric guitar).
Among the most iconic and well-known composers of his generation, Steve Reich’s music has had a broad influence that continues to inspire music makers across genres, from techno and electronica to rock and roll. In the words of The Guardian, “There’s just a handful of living composers who can legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history and Steve Reich is one of them.”
Reich will be joined in conversation with Brooklyn-based painter Amy Sillman, who had two triumphal exhibitions in New York last year – a show of her own work at Barbara Gladstone Gallery and one she curated for the reopening of The Museum of Modern Art. Coincidentally, she is also Steve Reich’s cousin.
The program will be fully live and streamed on Bang on a Can’s new online venue-website, live.bangonacan.org. These events will be free to stream and the featured artists are being compensated by Bang on a Can, but please consider purchasing a ticket. Doing so will help Bang on a Can to do more performances, pay more players, commission more composers, and share more music worldwide.
Date & Time: Thursday, May 13, 2021 at 6:30 PM CT | 7:30 PM ET

Rimon Artist Salon
2021-05-13 19:00 - 20:00
The Rimon Artist Salon Series presents the debut performance of “Anna,” newly commissioned songs by acclaimed composer/performer Anat Spiegel (a 2020 McKnight Composer Fellowship recipient) inspired by the extraordinary poems of the late Yiddish writer Anna Margolin. Participation is free, but registration is required.

Date & Time: Thursday, May 13, 2021 at 7 PM CT
Register here.
