HOPE LIVES HERE
2021-10-16 16:00 - 17:15 (America/Chicago)
Join the VocalEssence Chorus, Ensemble Singers, and Singers Of This Age, Minnesota Dance Theatre, and a chamber instrumental ensemble in an exuberant return to Orchestra Hall. Reflect on our journey through the pandemic and be reassured in the promise of hope for the future as we experience a fresh interpretation of Leonard Bernstein’s “Chichester Psalms,” juxtaposed with Astor Piazzolla’s tango-infused tribute to Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, “Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas” (Four Seasons of Buenos Aires). Traverse a range of emotions as you witness movement including original choreography featuring the Company of Minnesota Dance Theatre and VocalEssence Singers Of This Age. VocalEssence will also present the world premieres of Gabriel Kahane’s “We are the Saints,” a meditation on the natural world and our relationship to it commissioned by VocalEssence and Kyle Pederson’s “The Other Side.” Kahane and Pederson are exciting voices in classical composition.
Date & Time: Saturday, October 16, 2021 at 4 PM CT
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OTHER MINDS FESTIVAL 25: Moment’s Notice October 14-17, 2021 @ Dianne and Tad Taube Atrium Theater, SF CA
2021-10-15 22:00 - 23:00, 2021-10-14 22:00 - 23:00
Heralded by NPR as a “Who’s Who of the avant-garde” and The Wire as “a forum for forward-thinking composers and an opportunity to hear performances of a uniformly challenging and rigorous nature,” San Francisco’s only international festival of avant-garde music returns to celebrate its milestone 25th anniversary!
Other Minds Festival 25: “Moment’s Notice” will bring to the stage twenty-six of the greatest living artists working in the field of improvised music. Across four nights, OM 25 features a rare convergence of pioneering icons of free improvised music side-by-side with the emerging artists whose work is at once a continuance and an expansion of the jazz avant-garde.
Date & Time:

Thursday – Saturday, October 14-16, 2021 at 10 PM CT | 8 PM PT
Sunday, October 17, 2021 at 6 PM CT | 4 PM PT

Festival artists include MacArthur Genius Award winners Mary Halvorson and Tyshawn Sorey; Guggenheim Fellows Jen Shyu (a ChoralQuest composer), Wadada Leo Smith, and Zeena Parkins; Doris Duke Performing Artist Award winners William Parker and Myra Melford; NEA Jazz Masters Anthony Braxton and Roscoe Mitchell; Berlin Prize Awardee Elliott Sharp; and several additional performers whose music is a vital expression of the traditions of improvisation.
Performances will cross disciplines to include dance, theater, and video including pianist/composer Myra Melford who will partner with Butoh dancer Oguri; William Parker’s dance/theater work, The Sky is Trembling featuring dancer Patricia Nicholson; Wadada Leo Smith’s Reflections and Meditations on Monk in collaboration with live video artist Jesse Gilbert; and Jen Shyu’s luminous Nine Doors, a theatrical work heralded by the New York Times as a “dizzying,” “imaginative ritual” sung in multiple languages and performed by Shyu on a variety of instruments.
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VÄNSKÄ AND BATIASHVILI
2021-10-15 20:00 - 22:30, 2021-10-14 11:00 - 14:00
What happens when the roles are swapped, and wild animals attend their hunter’s funeral? Find out in the first-ever Minnesota Orchestra performance of music by composer Donghoon Shin. Georgian-born German violinist Lisa Batiashvili brings Karol Szymanowki’s brilliant Violin Concerto to life and the Minnesota Orchestra revisits the Fourth Symphony by Carl Nielsen, a work that captures the essence of the human spirit.
Date & Time:

Thursday, October 14 at 11 AM CT
Friday, October 14, 2021 at 8 PM CT

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MN Sinfonia’s Thirty-Third Winter Concert Series
2021-10-15 19:00 - 20:00
Concert Program

Gioachino Rossini: Overture to the Italian in Algiers
Gao Hong (an ACF 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

Date & Time: Friday, October 15, 2021 at 7 PM CT
Location: First Covenant Church,1280 Arcade Street, St. Paul, 55106
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Sphinx Virtuosi at Carnegie Hall
2021-10-15 17:00 - 18:00
Sphinx Organization invites you to attend the Sphinx Virtuosi at Carnegie Hall Concert and Gala. This unique event combines a world-class performance with an exclusive Gala benefiting the Sphinx Organization’s transformative programs at the intersection of the arts and social justice. Consider making a gift today.
Sphinx Organization is working alongside Carnegie Hall to examine all aspects of the event experience. The health and safety of our audiences, artists, and staff remain our top priorities. To support this goal, and per Carnegie Hall’s rules: everyone coming to Carnegie Hall will be required to show proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 with a vaccine approved by the World Health Organization in order to enter the building.
Date & Time: Friday, October 15, 2021 at 5 PM CT | 6 PM ET
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ACF Equity Study Group on Ohiyesa: The Soul of an Indian
2021-10-14 16:00 - 17:00
For this month’s Equity Study Group, we will review Syd Beane‘s documentary film Ohiyesa: The Soul of an Indian. This documentary follows Kate Beane, a young Dakota woman, as she examines the extraordinary life of her celebrated relative, Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa). Biography and journey come together as Kate traces Eastman’s path-from traditional Dakota boyhood, through education at Dartmouth College, and in later roles as physician, author, lecturer and Native American advocate. We will be discussing the film with Dr. Kate Beane about the film and the parallels she discovered between her life and that of Eastman.
Watch the TPT Preview here.
Date & Time: Thursday, October 14, 2021 at 4 PM CT
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund and by the City of Saint Paul Cultural Star grant.
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.

LECTURE I: A PROMISSARY NOTE IN URBANISM: HEJDUK’S DRAWN AND BUILT WORK
2021-10-14 11:00 - 13:00
Aida Miron & Sven Eggers
First one of the two talks about entering the continuous foyer of architecture cosmos connecting urban fabric and landscapes, highwalks and underground, east and west, megastructures, cafes, socialist housing complexes and public thresholds.
Date & Time: Thursday, October 14, 2021 at 11 AM CT | 12 PM ET
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Music Mondays presents The Westerlies and Conrad Tao, piano
2021-10-11 18:30 - 19:30
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 part of their first-ever New York performance together.
Date & Time: Monday, October 11, 2021 at 6:30 PM CT | 7:30 PM ET
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Trio Solace
2021-10-11 13:00 - 15:00
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 Trio in D minor, Op. 120; and Piano Trio No. 1 op. 3 in C minor by Ludwig van Beethoven.
Date & Time: Sunday, October 17, 2021 at 1 PM CT
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Kind of Bill, the Musical Life of Bill Evans
2021-10-10 20:00 - 22:00
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, Greg Stinson, bass, and Dean White, drums. Families and students are welcome. $10. Call 612-379-3138 to save your spot!
The Larry McDonough Quartet will perform its new CD, Kind of Bill on the Palace Grounds, Marking 40 Years since the Death of Bill Evans, and more! Minneapolis artist Eric Hanson drew the CD cover.
Date & Time: Sunday, October 10, 2021 at 8 PM CT
Location: Aster Cafe, 125 SE Main Street, Minneapolis, MN 55414
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Outpost: words & music
2021-10-10 19:00 - 20:00
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 show will feature new music by composers Carlos Simon, Gabriella Smith, and Alice H. Jones, and a newly created theatrical work, ‘The Box,’ by Katherine Bergman and Katherine Glover, produced by Nautilus Music Theater.
Outpost is curated and produced by Minnesota musicians Sam Bergman and Carrie Henneman Shaw.

Performers:
Michael Kleber-Diggs, poet
Junauda Petrus-Nasah, author
Sarah Grimes & Ben Odhner, violins
Sam Bergman, viola
Erik Wheeler, cello
deVon R. Gray, (a McKnight fellow) musical adventurer
Andrea Leap, soprano
Joel Liestman, baritone
Jill Dawe, keyboard

Date & Time: Sunday, October 10, 2021 at 7:00 PM CDT
Tickets are $15-$20
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CHAMBER SOIRÉE: SHALL WE DANCE?
2021-10-10 15:00 - 16:00
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 rhythmically complex work that bursts with joyous energy. The Danza de Mediodía for winds by Mexico’s Arturo Márquez and Astor Piazzolla‘s L’Histoire du Tango for violin and marimba add Latin flair to the program. “Slow Dancing on the Highway: The Trip North” by Elizabeth Hobbs provides the inspiration for a concert that invites listeners to channel their inner Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
Date & Time: Sunday, October 10, 2021 at 3 PM CT | 4 PM ET
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AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
2021-10-09 19:30 - 20:30
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, and “Sate Street Strut” by James “Red” McLeod.
The chorus will then join the symphony for “America the Beautiful” by Samuel Ward. After that, the chorus will perform “Shenandoah” by James Erb and “Goin’ to Boston” arranged by Alice Parker (a ChoralQuest composer). The finale, which brings both groups back together, is “Battle Hymn of the Republic.”
Date & Time: Saturday, October 9, 2021 at 7:30 PM CT
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Gulf Coast Chamber Orchestra Opening Night!
2021-10-09 18:30 - 19:30
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, October 9, 2021 at 6:30 PM CT | 7:30 PM ET
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New Music for String Trio: Chartreuse
2021-10-09 08:00 - 17:00
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Date & Time:

Saturday, October 9, 2021 at 7 PM CT
Sunday, October 10, 20201 at 2 PM CT

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Chartreuse string trio is violinist Myra Hinrichs, violist Carrie Frey, and cellist Helen Newby. Uniquely committed to repeat performances and developing the string trio repertoire through adventurous commissions, Chartreuse has premiered works by dozens of composers and toured extensively in the U.S. Northeast, Midwest, and California, as well as in Norway. Cleveland Classical described the trio in concert as a maelstrom almost tactile in its grittiness and as much fun to watch as to listen to.

LACO SUMMERFEST 2021: KIMANI BRIDGES + CLAUDE DEBUSSY
2021-10-08 16:00 - 17:00
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
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The Trumpet Soars! Concert
2021-10-07 08:00 - 17:00
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

Date & Time:

Friday, October 15, 2021 at 7 PM CT
Sunday, October 17, 2021 at 1:45 PM CT

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sounding light chamber choir
2021-10-03 15:00 - 16:00
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 delivers a powerful message of hope and resilience in the face of struggle. Eclectic, colorful music by composers Felix Mendelssohn, Rosephanye Powell (a ChoralQuest composer), Jake Runestad, Joel Thompson, William Byrd and Charles Stanford provides counterpoint to a collection of spiritual and Gospel songs arranged by Josephine Poelinitz, Donald Lawrence, Alexander Lloyd Blake, and Lincoln’s own Marques Garrett.
Date & Time: Sunday, October 3, 2021, at 3 PM CT
SNEAK PREVIEW: https://youtu.be/HvvXpB6aBvQ
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Alicia Waller & Judith Sloan Double Bill: Migration, Refuge & Finding Home
2021-10-03 14:00 - 16:00
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 presenting a play-in-progress, It Can Happen Here.
They will bring a music and poetry performance focusing on migration, refuge and finding home, to Jamaica, New York in the Borough of Queens on Sunday, October 3, 2021 at 2 PM CT | 3 PM ET.
The performance will take place outdoors at the Jamaica Performing Arts Center, at 3 PM ET. JPAC is located at 153 Jamaica Avenue, Queens New York. It is free and open to the public.
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Beethoven’s Fifth & Rhapsody
2021-10-03 14:00 - 15:00, 2021-10-02 18:30 - 19:30
The season launches with two giants from the symphonic repertoire: Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Described as a “compelling, sparkling virtuoso,” Michelle Cann will grace the ASO stage with Gershwin’s Rhapsody. The concert also features Copland’s inspired Fanfare for the Common Man and Umoja by Valerie Coleman (a BandQuest composer), recently commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Dates & Times:

Saturday, October 2, 2021 at 6:30 PM CT | 7:30 PM ET
Sunday, October 3, 2021 at 2 PM CT | 3 PM ET

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World Doctors Orchestra with Evelyn Glennie
2021-10-03 12:00 - 13:00
The World Doctors Orchestra, formed in 2008, is an ensemble of physicians from all over the world who meet three to four times a year to perform concerts raising money for medical charities.
They are delighted to be making their first appearance on a UK stage with Dame Evelyn Glennie, raising money for Pathway UK who support healthcare for the homeless.
The orchestra will be performing a concoction of British and American music with optimistic and often humorous aspects to the works.
Date & Time: Sunday, October 3, 2021 at 12 PM CT | 6 PM British Summer Time
Programme:
Malcom Arnold – A Grand, Grand Festival Overture 08:08
Michael Daugherty (a BandQuest composer) – Dreamachine, for solo percussion and orchestra 34:26
Arnold Bax – Tintagel 14:40
Edward Elgar – Enigma Variations 35:00
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SLO Symphony: Classics Reimagined – String Glory
2021-10-02 21:30 - 22:30
The Symphony’s return to the stage, in celebration of their 60th anniversary, will take place on Saturday, October 2, 2021 at 9:30 PM CT | 7:30 PM PT at the Performing Arts Center San Luis Obispo.
In light of new guidelines from San Luis Obispo County Health Officials, the previously planned program has been modified. The new program, Maestro Andrew Sewell’s Classics Reimagined – String Glory, includes Michael Daugherty’s (a BandQuest composer) Strut, Claude Debussy’s Danses, Marcel Grandjany’s Aria in Classical Style, Gustav Mahler’s sublime Adagietto from Symphony No. 5 for strings and harp with soloist and principal harpist Marcia Dickstein (Los Angeles), and Edvard Grieg’s Holberg Suite (suite in olden style).
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Signature Concert #1 - Fury, Contemplation & Hope
2021-10-02 20:30 - 21:30
Your Fort Collins Symphony returns to the Lincoln Center’s Main Stage after a year of virtual performances. The opening night of our 2021-2022 Season will guide you through a range of emotions that include passion, contemplation, and hope. We present Rodion Shchedrin’s fiery Carmen Suite, Leonard Bernstein’s thoughtful Serenade after Plato’s Symposium, and Jessie Montgomery’s expectant Banner, a re-imagining of the Star-Spangled Banner for the 21st
Banner – Jessie Montgomery
Serenade after Plato’s Symposium – Leonard Bernstein,
Featuring Guest Violinist Linda Wang
Carmen Suite – Rodion Shchedrin
Date & Time: Saturday, October 2, 2021 at 8:30 PM CT | 7:30 PM MDT
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Experiential Orchestra presents Renewal: An Evening with Louise Toppin
2021-10-02 19:00 - 20:30
Fresh from winning its first Grammy Award, Experiential Orchestra (EXO), led by Music Director James Blachly, opens its 2021-22 season with a concert highlighting its partnership with the African Diaspora Music Project (ADMP). Featuring ADMP Founder and Editor, celebrated soprano Dr. Louise Toppin, the program includes two New York premieres by 20th century African-American composer Julia Perry – her Prelude for Strings from 1946, revised 1962 and newly orchestrated by Roger Zahab, and Symphony for Violas and Basses from 1961, a substantial one-movement work.
The concert also includes Quinn Mason’s (a NextNotes creator) Reflections on a Memorial (2020), Jessica Meyer’s Through Which We Flow (2017), and three works for voice – “Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel” by David Baker from his cycle Wisdom (1990), recorded by Toppin; “Golden Days” by William Grant Still from his opera Costaso (1950); and Jessie Montgomery’s I Want to Go Home (2015), premiered with the composer, Julia Bullock, and Blachly in 2015.
A conversation with Toppin will follow the concert, focusing on her remarkable career as a world-renowned soprano and scholar with more than 30 works written for her by composers including Adolphus Hailstork (a BandQuest composer), Julius Williams, and many others.
Date & Time: Saturday, October 2, 2021 at 7 PM CT | 8 PM ET
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CLASSICS: A CONCERT FOR UNITY
2021-10-02 19:00 - 20:00
Louisville native Valerie Coleman (a BandQuest composer) wrote her piece and titled it “UMOJA” as a gesture of love between good friends. As we strive to create unity within our families, our city, our nation, and our world, we present this concert as an embrace and lifting up of the joys and sorrows of our community. We search for healing connections and offer welcome to all. Local musicians join the orchestra to reflect on the last year through song before Teddy leads Tchaikovsky’s searing Sixth Symphony.
Date & Time: Saturday, October 2, 2021 at 7 PM CT | 8 PM ET
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Returning Color to Our World, Flute and Piano Recital
2021-10-01 19:30 - 20:30
The Gustavus Department of Music presents Returning Color to Our World with the Chatterton-McCright Duo. Longtime musical partners Linda Chatterton, flute, and Matthew McCright, piano, present a colorful and joyous program to help us emerge from the gloom of pandemic life. The concert will be presented on Friday, October 1st, 2021 at 7:30 PM CT. in Jussi Björling Concert Hal and is free to all attending.
Hear the sweeping landscape of Kentucky, Jewish Klezmer, the wooden bamboo flute, and popular music filtered through the international duo’s style and flair. The repertoire presented includes music works by Gaubert, Chen Yi (a BandQuest and ChoralQuest composer) , Dan Welcher, and Paul Schoenfield.
The concert will also be live streamed here on the Fine Arts YouTube page.
A digital program can be viewed here: https://bit.ly/39KUyeC

Family Plan CD Release Show
2021-09-30 17:30 - 20:00
Collective Chilean-Canadian piano trio “Family Plan” (featuring Andrew Boudreau on piano, Simón Willson on bass, and Vicente Hansen on drums) releases their debut CD at Green Oasis garden in New York City. Official release is September 24th, via Endectomorph Music

Date & Time: Thursday, September 30, 2021 at 5:30 PM CT | 6:30 PM ET
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