DIGITAL U.S. PREMIERE OF THE MURDER OF HALIT YOZGAT
2021-01-10 11:00 - 2021-01-16 23:30 (America/Chicago) | MN
Composed by Ben Frost & Petter Ekmann
Direction by Ben Frost
Libretto by Daniela Danz
Musical Direction by Florian Groß
The digital U.S. premiere of the film THE MURDER OF HALIT YOZGAT launches Sunday, January 10 at 11am CT / 12pm ET and is available to stream January 10-16.
21-year-old Halit Yozgat was assassinated in broad daylight, in his immigrant parents’ internet cafe on April 6, 2006 in Kassel, Germany. Five witnesses were present in the 77 square metre space when Halit was shot twice in the head. With his unconventional combination of sound art, electronics, and dark metal, Frost brilliantly and sensitively musicalizes the structural racism and institutional blindness that affects the country’s immigrant communities.
Find more information here.

The Albany Symphony 2020/2021 SEASON RE-IMAGINED!
2021-01-09 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.

OCEAN BODY
2021-01-09 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Chicago)
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 crave autonomy, even as we are stuck in fear.
There will be an artist conversation on January 14 at 5pm.
This event launches on Saturday, January 9 at 11am CT / 12pm ET.
Find out more information here.

TIMES3 (Times x Times x Times)
2021-01-09 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Chicago)
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 – past, present and imagined… In this work of sound and space, the listener is brought into a realm where the city and score come together and fall apart and come together again.
TIMES3 (Times x Times x Times) is PROTOTYPE‘s fourth iteration of Out of Bounds, a platform for new vocal performance pieces taking place in unlikely locations throughout New York. Through the works, public sites will become temporary spaces of contact, exchange, and refreshed social dynamics.
This FREE event launches January 9, 2021 at 9am CT / 10am ET in Times Square.
Learn more here.

MODULATION
2021-01-08 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago)
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 exploration of the times created by thirteen of the most provocative and diverse voices in the contemporary music idiom. Traveling through themes of ISOLATION, IDENTITY, and FEAR, with the connection of BREATH, an electrifying auditory and visual journey of new creations awaits.
MODULATION launches on Friday, January 8, 2021 at 7pm CT / 8pm ET.
Learn more here.
Tickets are $25.

Composer Awards: Demystifying the Process
2021-01-07 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago)
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 career competitions (ASCAP, BMI, etc.).

What The Workshop Will Include

Overview of the judging process .
Tips on choosing and presenting your best work.
Q+A session.

Key Questions/Topics Addressed During Workshop:

How does the judging process unfold?
What are judges looking for in scores?
What are some common errors in score presentation?
What kinds of works stand out?

Date & Time: Thursday, January 7, 2021 at 3 pm CST
Register Here.

Publishing, Self-Publishing, and Management for Composers by ACO & ACF
2021-01-06 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago)
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 more.

Publishing, Self-Publishing, and Management for Composers
How can a composer navigate publishing? What are their options? Self-published composer Jonathan Bailey Holland leads a panel of experienced professionals to discuss avenues of publishing and management for orchestral composers. Q&A with audience will follow.
Panelists:
Carol Ann Cheung, Director of Publicity and Marketing at Boosey & Hawkes
Melissa Dunphy, composer & owner of Mormolyke Press
Elizabeth Dworkin, Founder & Chief Executive of Dworkin & Company
Join on Wednesday, January 6, 2021 at 2pm CST | 3pm EST
Get tickets here.

Field to Media
2021-01-01 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Chicago)
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 length film about the project, followed by all of the musical videos, documentary shorts, and publications generated by the project. Field to Media was funded by the Humanities Without Walls’ “Humanities in a Changing Climate” based at the University of Illinois, which is, in turn, funded by the Mellon Foundation.
Friday, January 1, 2021 at 7pm CST
Learn more here.

How Can We Not Sing II
2020-12-26 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Chicago)
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 audiences remotely through the creation process of an excerpt from a larger recent work, How Can We Not Sing, which will debut in 2021.
How Can We Not Sing is a chamber opera that will be developed by composer Yan Pang in response to the current issue of solidarity between Asian and Black people all over the world, drawing on her own experiences growing up in China, and her family’s multigenerational history there. We believe this type of anti-racist collaborative project centers the vital role of art to bring us together. Audience members will engage with music and dance creators and each other in a more intimate virtual setting to reflect on the social justice themes raised by the work, and how they can be empowered to ask questions and take action in their communities.
We will begin with the performance of the music and dance piece and then take participants through three collaborative components: lyrical content, music composition, choreography, and end with a discussion and Q&A session. This project is designed for music creators, artists from other disciplines who want to work with music creators, and people interested in understanding this type of process. This experience will bring these groups together to have a conversation about social justice through art creation.
Join on Saturday, December 26, 2020 at 10am CST.
Learn more here.
Production Team
Songwriter: Yan Pang is a composer, performer, and scholar. She is currently an adjunct instructor of music at the University of Minnesota, where she received her Ph.D. in Music with a minor in Theater Arts & Dance. Her work focuses on inter-cultural music composition and performance. As part of this interest, she has been commissioned to compose and invited to perform in music festivals throughout the world. Her upcoming performance, “MIXTAPE IV: Now Streaming,” will be performed at the Cowles Center for Dance and Performing Arts in February 2021. To learn more, please visit www.yanpangcreate.com.
Producer: AK is a composer/musician now living in Warsaw, Poland. After finishing a Master’s degree study about the theory of harmony in the Sichuan Conservatory of Music, she moved to Poland. She tended to create music pieces to combine electronic sounds, visual material, and contemporary methods. She works as a freelance musician and has her own band Pomponika. AK composes, produces, sings, and performs different instruments. In her works, the text is as important as the music itself. Topics involve reflections about domestic violence, modern industry, nationalism, homophobia, also some inner thoughts about life, emotion, or death. More of her music can be found on Spotify, YouTube, and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pomponika/.
Choreographer: J-Sun is a long-term practitioner of several street dance forms, which he teaches, choreographs, theorizes, and performs. He believes in being accountable to the community, challenging tradition, and artistic collaboration as a crucial element of social change. He is the Artistic Director for the MIXTAPE series at the Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts. J-Sun is pursuing a Ph.D. in Theater Historiography at the University of Minnesota and is the disciplinary head of the Hip Hop Dance track. His current choreographic and academic work focuses on using break(danc)ing to investigate agency, mobility, and power.

Festivus and Other Twisted Holidays!
2020-12-23 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago)
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 McDonough (an ACF Showcase winner), piano and vocals
Richard Terrill, saxes and poetry
Greg Stinson, bass
Dean White, drums
No cover but $10 donation suggested.
Order takeout from Black Dog Café: Consider Festivus fare such as meatloaf on a bed of lettuce or a reasonable facsimile.
https://www.blackdogstpaul.com/
https://www.Facebook.com/blackdogcafe
Facebook Live
Facebook Event
YouTube Live from the Larry McDonough Jazz YouTube Channel
Sample: We Are the Champions
Festivus and Other Twisted Holidays in the Media

Cleveland Ovations features Cleveland Chamber Choir
2020-12-23 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago)
This event is a combination of two holiday programs from 2018 and 2019. Music for Advent, Hanukkah, and Christmas are all represented including a few world premieres.
Tune in on Wednesday, December 23 at 7pm CST | 8pm EST
How to Listen
Program:
Cleveland Chamber Choir
Scott MacPherson, conductor
Part 1
Stephen Paulus (ACF co-founder, and a BQ and CQ composer): Three Nativity Carols (The Holly and the Ivy; This Endris Night; Wonder Tidings)
Johannes Ockeghem: Alma redemptoris mater
Cecilia McDowall: Alma Redemptoris mater
John McIntyre: Two Advent Motets (Rorate coeli desuper; Vigilate)
Baruch J Cohon: Hanerot Halalu
Samuel Adler: A Song of Hanukkah
Andrew Rindfleisch: Menorah Blessings
Corey Rubin: Mi Yimalel
Corey Rubin: Ma’oz Tzur
Scott Little: Banu Choshech
Charles Baker: Three Hanukkah Songs (S’vivon; Nerli; Chanukah, oi, Chanukah)
Part 2
William Billings: Shiloh
Plainsong: Resonet in laudibus
Michael Praetorius: Joseph Lieber, Joseph mein
CL Alwes: Resonet in laudibus
Elizabeth Poston: Jesus Christ the Apple Tree
Steve Heitzeg: little tree
Abbie Betinis (a ChoralQuest composer and McKnight fellow): In the Bleak Midwinter
J David Moore: Jingle Bells
Joan Szymcko: Stille Nacht
Arthur Warrell: A Merry Christmas
Trad.: We Wish You a Merry Christmas

Rethinking Music Theory Pedagogy II [Composers Coffee Break]
2020-12-22 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago)
Join Elliott McKinley and their two colleagues, Dr. Peter Smucker (Assistant Professor of Music Theory at Stetson University) and Dr. Erich Stem (Associate Professor of Music Composition at Indiana University Southeast) for a second panel discussion envisioning new and different ways of teaching music theory. They invite discussion and questions from the audience, especially those who are also students and teachers of music.
This event goes live on Tuesday, December 22, 2020 at 2pm CST | 3pm EST
Attend the event here.

Make Music Winter
2020-12-21
ACF has previously partnered with MakeMusic!
After years of spontaneous musical merriment on June 21, the spirit of Make Music Day has come to visit on Monday, December 21, 2020 the winter solstice.
For Make Music Winter, music can pop up anywhere. Rounding the corner, you may see a herd of electric guitarists, a choir of medieval singers, or a percussive Puerto Rican parranda coming down the street. Ingenious musical parades for iPhones, hand bells, bicycles, trombones, and boomboxes have delighted audiences since New York City began celebrating Make Music Winter in 2011.
Whatever your wintertime musical dreams, anything is possible. And all of it is free, joyful, and profoundly participatory. Please complete this short form to register an event for Make Music Winter 2020.
Make Music Winter is presented by The NAMM Foundation.
Check out if this will be in or near your city:
Boston, MA

Chequamegon Bay, WI
Columbia, SC
Columbus, OH
Crystal Lake, IL
El Paso, TX
Federal Way, WA
Hartford, CT
Hawai’i (here and here)
Ilkley, England
Islamorada, FL
Land O’ Lakes, WI
London, England
Long Beach, CA
Milwaukee, WI
Montclair, NJ (here and here)
New Haven, CT
New York, NY
Ossining, NY
Portland, ME
Santa Fe, NM
Sewanee, TN
St. Louis, MO
Ventura County, CA

Learn more here.

“Lessons and Carols for Our Time” by Cantus
2020-12-20 19:30 - 2020-12-22 20:30, 2020-12-19 19:30 - 2020-12-21 20:30, 2020-12-18 19:30 - 2020-12-20 20:30 (America/Chicago)
This eight-man vocal group puts its own spin on the King’s College “Nine Lessons and Carols” tradition, with a different 50-minute concert streamed each weekend (taped at Ordway Concert Hall).
Part one, streaming next weekend, features Cantus’ arrangements of traditional carols, while the following weekend includes works from such local composers as Jocelyn Hagen, a McKnight composer, and Abbie Betinis, a ChoralQuest composer and McKnight composer, and the group’s signature song, Franz Biebl’s “Ave Maria.”
December 11-13, 2020 (Part I) at 7:30pm CST
December 18-20, 2020 (Part II) at 7:30pm CST
Learn more and get tickets here.

St. Paul Chamber Orchestra’s “Messiah”
2020-12-19 20:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago)
For generations, Handel’s Messiah has been one of classical music’s greatest holiday traditions. Now, you can enjoy free HD streaming video of this performance featuring conductor Jeannette Sorrell, an all-star roster of vocal soloists, and renowned vocal ensemble The Singers.
This live stream will start Saturday, December 19, at 8:00 pm CST.
George Frideric Handel, Jeannette Sorrell (conductor), Carine Tinney (soprano), Reginald Mobley (countertenor), Rufus Müller (tenor), Jesse Blumberg (baritone), The Singers — Minnesota Choral Artists (chorus), Matthew Culloton (artistic director).
Learn more here.

Music on the Strait: Alone Together at the Holidays
2020-12-19 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago)
Conversation and live music from their living room to yours, featuring Richard O’Neill, a classical music rock star, and Christopher Theofanidis, a BQ composer.
Date: Saturday, December 19, 2020 at 7pm CST | 5pm PST
Get the streaming link here.

Mary Prescott: Tida
2020-12-19 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago)
Mary Prescott presents Tida—an interdisciplinary performance examining intergenerational cultural identity through the artist’s maternal lineage. Integrating music, dance, and word, Prescott investigates her mother’s undocumented Thai ancestry, her experience as a Southeast Asian immigrant raising biracial children in Midwest America, and the resulting impact of these histories on her, her daughters, and granddaughters.
Tida will be presented virtually and available for free on a variety of streaming platforms. Roulette’s theater is currently closed for public performances as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and the safety measures that Roulette has put in place to keep staff, artists, and the public safe.
This event is scheduled for Saturday, December 19, 2020 at 7 pm CST
Watch the event on their website.

Club Closed - Featuring Eki Shola (Birthday Bash!)
2020-12-18 21:00 - 22:00 (America/Chicago)
Hey! What are you doing Friday Night on December 18th? If you miss nightlife as much as us, you’ll be happy to know San Francisco has its own late show now, with famous djs, bands and local performers of all varieties!
Tonight “Club Closed,” (filmed at The Great Northern), presents EKI SHOLA, DJ VIN SOL, Edna Mira Raia & Tales Of Mere EXISTENCE by Lev Yilmaz, and Hosted by DJ M3 aka Makes Me Move and Cole Odin as your Chat Room Dungeon Master. It’s a blend of Monty Python-ish,120 Minutes MTV and Public Access Television SF style, in the comfort of your home.
Turn on your rave lights and tune in to the party at 9PM 11PM CST | 7PM or 10PM PST for two streams of stellar talent! Pandemic pricing available.
Get tickets and learn more here.

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra's Front Row: The PSO Virtual Experience.
2020-12-18 18:30 - 19:30 (America/Chicago)
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s free event: Front Row: The PSO Virtual Experience.
Episode 2: Originators and Disrupters (Part 2) Friday, November 27, 2020 at 6:30pm CST / 7:30pm ET
Part 2 brings together the musicians with modern American composers (Libby Larsen, Gary Schocker and Charles Rochester Young) and a Beethoven orchestration by Music Director Manfred Honeck in a salute to a bouquet of Pittsburgh path breakers who defied their times and boundaries: Rachel Carson (environmentalist and writer), Martha Graham (choreographer), Thaddeus Mosley (sculptor), Fred Rogers (television creator) and Andy Warhol (multi-media artist).
Episode 3: Finding Your Song Friday, December 4, 2020 at 6:30pm CST / 7:30pm ET
With the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s new Principal Pops Conductor Byron Stripling as a featured artist and conductor, Finding Your Song explores the journeys of artists and how they come to find their voice, song, inspiration and connection to the world. Finding Your Song travels from Heinz Hall to Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild to The Andy Warhol Museum, and includes the Pittsburgh Symphony debuts of composer Gabriela Lena Frank and composer Hannah Ishizaki.
Episode 4: Tapestry of Light: A Holiday Celebration. Friday, December 18, 2020 at 6:30pm CST / 7:30pm ET
Enjoy the magic and excitement of the holiday season with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra AND Principal Pops Conductor/Soloist Byron Stripling! Perfect for all ages
Episode 5: For the People (Part 1). Friday, January 22, 2021 at 6:30pm CST / 7:30pm ET. (Part 2). Friday, January 29, 2021 at 6:30pm CST / 7:30pm ET
A constellation of five female composers (Jennifer Higdon, a BandQuest and ChoralQuest composer, Libby Larsen, ACF’s co-found and BandQuest composer, Jessie Montgomery, Florence Price and Joan Tower).
More information can be found on their website.

Americas Society presents...counter)induction: nueva música
2020-12-17 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago)
counter)induction returns to Music of the Americas with music by Latin American female composers.
Celebrating its 21st season, the adventurous composer-performer collective counter)induction returns to Music of the Americas after over a decade with a program highlighting the widely diverse world of contemporary music by Latin American female composers.
Thursday, December 17, 2020 at 6pm CST | 7pm EST
Less like a livestream and more like a concert film, “nueva música” will feature world premieres as well as new arrangements prepared expressly for counter)induction, interwoven with interviews with all of the composers.
DM R‘s “Studies for violin and cello” explores the extremes of timbre and texture on strings, while Villanueva’s “Plancto” uses contrasting, expressive gestures for a sparse and dramatic lament. Areal provides a hypnotic series of chords that players choose how to interact with in “Holsa”, while Arditto creates a fun atmosphere that focuses on the sounds and gestures we make beyond what the instruments themselves can do. After Villanueva and Solomonoff revisit inspirations found in childhood and in Debussy respectively, the program culminates with Lopez delving into her new-found love for Hip-hop.
Learn more here.

Performance as Process with Conrad Tao
2020-12-17 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago)
A series of eight FREE monthly digital Performance As Process events on Thursday evenings from September through April will invite audiences to Conrad Tao’s, 2020-21 Kaufman Music Center Artist-in-Residence, creative practice as he develops programming for his May 6 Ecstatic Music concert in Merkin Hall. Streamed from his home in Manhattan, these events will give the audience a deeper look into his work in piano, electronics, composition and improvisation as the program for his Merkin Hall debut comes into focus.
Performance as Process events will be streamed on Kaufman Music Center’s Facebook page at 6pm CDT / 7pm EST on September 24, October 29, November 19, December 17, January 28, February 25, March 25 and April 29.

Songs for the Season – Virtual Courtroom Concert
2020-12-17 12:00 - 2020-12-31 12:00 (America/Chicago)
“Songs for the Season” featuring carols by Minnesota composers is one of the most popular programs from the Courtroom Concert series. If sub-zero temperatures kept you from attending the program last time at TPT Street Space, now’s your chance to hear “Songs for the Season” from the comfort of your own home!
Carols by Linda Kachelmeier, Bradley Ellingboe, Abbie Burt Betinis (a ChoralQuest and McKnight composer), Timothy C. Takach, Joan Griffith, Stephen Paulus, Kenneth Jennings, Peter Mayer, Alfred Burt, Daniel Messe, Neal Hagberg, and Don Peterson.
Featuring:
Carrie Henneman Shaw, soprano
Laura Betinis Healy, alto
Nicholas Chalmers, tenor
Timothy C. Takach, bass
Zacc Harris, guitar
Audrey Slote, cello
Join on Thursday, December 17, 2020 at 12pm CST to Thursday December 31, 2020 at 12pm
Learn more here.

Kaufman Music Center – Piano Dialogues: Adam Tendler
2020-12-16 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago)
Wednesday, December 16, 2020 at 6pm CST | 7pm EST
ROBERT SCHUMANN – Carnaval Op. 9 (1834-1835)
CHRISTIAN WOLFF – FANTAIL (22 pieces for a pianist) (2020) World Premiere!
Pianist Adam Tendler premieres FANTAIL, a new major work by iconic American composer Christian Wolff. Commissioned by the pianist, FANTAIL is a 22 movement, unofficial response to Robert Schumann’s Carnaval, and like Schumann’s legendary set, a tour of Wolff’s musical laboratory and universe. Tendler will intersperse the world premiere of Wolff’s FANTAIL with Schumann’s Carnaval in a mash-up that puts both complete works, and their composers, in a fresh dialogue – reframing, blurring, even challenging our notions of what is classical and what is contemporary.
Learn more and get tickets here.

Rondo Community Music Series 2020
2020-12-15 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago)
“The Rondo Community Music Series wrapped up last winter with outstanding performances by Ashley DuBose, the Kevin Washington Quintet; Robert Robinson, Debbie Duncan and William Duncan, and DeSean Jones. Though we’re unable to hold in-person dates, this year we remain dedicated to bringing you hope, healing and joy through the power of music.
We have moved to virtual music performances so that we can continue social distancing protocols. We kicked off the series this September with a virtual concert from We Are King, which was viewed in 36 states, 13 countries, and has over over 6k views online.”
Join on Crowdcast for each date: crowdcast.io/walkerwest
Schedule:
DeSean Jones
Saturday, November 7th at 7pm CDT
Duncan, Duncan & Robinson
Saturday, November 14th at 7pm CDT
Ashley DuBose
Saturday, December 5th at 7pm CDT

Live from Columbia: Simone Dinnerstein, piano
2020-12-15 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago)
VIDEO PREMIERE Co-presented with Columbia University School of the Arts
Simone Dinnerstein’s “majestic originality of vision” (The Independent) has made her one of today’s most sought-after pianists. The frequent Miller collaborator performs a solo recital highlighting her thoughtful interpretation and signature expressive elegance.
The virtual concerts in the Live from Columbia series are filmed live and premiered throughout the 2020-21 season at millertheatre.com/live-from-columbia. On-demand streaming will be available immediately after.
Tuesday, December 15, 2020 at 6pm CST / 7pm EST.
Photo by Lisa Marie Mazzucco

Simone Dinnerstein: Pop-Ups in the Lantern
2020-12-15 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago)
Celebrated pianist Simone Dinnerstein returns to the Miller Theater at Columbia University for a solo recital as part of their Pop-Ups in the Lantern concert series. Dinnerstein will perform Phillip Glass‘s Etude No. 2 (1994) and Franz Schubert‘s molto moderato from Piano Sonata in B-flat, D. 960 (1828). The virtual concert is free and will be filmed live and premiered at millertheatre.com/live-from-columbia. On-demand streaming will be available immediately after.
Join on Tuesday, December 15, 2020 at 6pm CST | 7pm EST
Learn more here.

Minnesota Music Coalition's Web Workshop: How to Avoid Bad Band Breakups – Conflict Resolution
2020-12-15 16:00 - 17:30 (America/Chicago)
A one-hour interactive presentation on the underlying causes of conflict, simple skills you can use to help manage disputes when they arise, and how mediation can help when you just can’t talk to your bandmates (or others you’re having a dispute with).
Tuesday, December 15, 2020 at 4 pm
Get tickets to this free online Only via Zoom event.
Presented by Dawn Zugay, Mendoza Law
About the Presenter: Dawn is a Senior Counsel and Mediator at Mendoza Law, LLC. Dawn’s extensive background in conflict resolution provides clients valuable skills and perspectives that help resolve their problems. Dawn’s skills are available to assist a variety of clients and matters, including business disputes, employment conflicts, housing disputes, large and small scale community conflict, organizational conflict, litigation, and non-profit organizations.
As a mediator, Dawn has over ten years of experience, including mediation, conflict coaching, conducting conflict assessments, designing dispute resolution processes for multi-party disputes, and facilitating community comment processes. As an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota Law School, Dawn managed and taught the Community Mediation Clinic. She also taught the 30-Hour Civil Facilitative Hybrid Mediation Training Course for the Conflict Resolution Center, and she designs and teaches advanced mediation training classes for practitioners to enhance their mediation skills. She is a Rule 114 Qualified Civil and Family Mediator and holds a Certificate from the Harvard Program on Negotiation, Mediation and Conflict Management Executive Education Course. She also trained with the Minnesota Office of Collaboration and Dispute Resolution (OCDR) in Constructive Problem Solving.

All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 airs on PBS this holiday season
2020-12-15
Composer Timothy C. Takach (a past JFund winner and Healing & Hope Through Song composer), is delighted that PBS will air All is Calm across the country. The show has changed quite a bit since they first premiered it as a radio drama in Minneapolis with 3 actors speaking the lines and the 9 members of Cantus singing the songs, but it has received rave reviews both in it’s off-Broadway run last year and across the country in over 100 performances, and the creative team is excited to bring the show to a wider audience.
“A beautiful musical recounting of a World War I cease-fire
of gifts, poetry, and melody.”
– The New York Times
All is calm premieres November 27 and you can stream it on December 15.
So keep your eye out for All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 this season on PBS!
