Week of Events
SEMMELWEIS Online Stream
Complete Stream Available May 2-31, 2020: www.Doctor-Semmelweis.com Watch Excerpts Now: www.Doctor-Semmelweis.com/video Co-Produced by Budapest Operetta Theatre & Bartók Plusz Opera Festival “the strength of Semmelweis as a written piece is its music…strong images and without pre-digested clichés turning the fable of handwashing into a contemporary message” – Élet és Irodalom (Life & Literature), Hungary New York, NY, April 27, […]
Doubt from the Minnesota Opera
Great Performances: Doubt from Minnesota Opera is a new opera composed by Douglas J. Cuomo, based on playwright John Patrick Shanley’s acclaimed 2005 Broadway play, which was later adapted into an Academy Award-nominated 2008 film. Doubt unfolds as suspicion ignites a battle of wills at a Bronx Catholic school in 1964. The charismatic and progressive Father Flynn is […]
ListN Up
ListN Up is a series of weekly artist-curated playlists. Born from a desire to keep artists sharing and connected during times of isolation, ListN Up offers an intimate sonic portrait of contemporary artists by showcasing the diverse and stylistically varied music that influences their creative practice. This series is sponsored by American Composers Forum/innova Recordings with new releases every Friday […]
[COLONY] AURA Contemporary Ensemble & PSOPHONIA Dance Company
COLONY An exploration of our symbiotic relationship with honeybees through music and dance CINCY FRINGE FESTIVAL May 29 – June 13, 2020 WATCH ONLINE ANYTIME: https://knowtheatre.vbotickets.com/event/COLONY/43269 AURA Contemporary Ensemble PSOPHONIA Dance Company Sophia Torres, choreography Rob Smith, music direction Keith Epperson, set design Edgar Guajardo, lighting design Afshin Farzadfar, videographer Humans and honeybees have an […]
FULL EPISODE Villa Diodati
Past and present collide in "Villa Diodati," the off-Broadway musical theater show that imagines the fateful vacation that Mary Shelley, Lord Byron and their friends enjoyed in the summer of 1816. The stormy weather kept the friends inside telling ghost stories, and it provided the inspiration for "Frankenstein." In the play, a modern couple finds […]
Living Music: Pirate Radio
Living Music: Pirate Radio is a quarantine variety show, hosted by Nadia Sirota, that brings performances, conversation and community directly from socially-distanced artists to viewers at home. Watch on Facebook Live Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9pm Eastern / 6pm Pacific and see more than a dozen archived episodes!
ACF Town Hall
We feel that the best way we make it through this challenge is as a community. Taking this into consideration, we are hosting a series of virtual town halls where you can just drop in and hang out. Register
Contract Negotiation in the Time of Covid-19
This one-hour, interactive session with legal experts will cover topics for musicians and performing artists including: Addressing current contracts tied to event dates in the next 6-12 months. Planning ahead: how to protect artists' health in a contract. What can you do differently with future contracts being negotiated now? Register Alex Mueller’s practice is concentrated […]
BIPOC Town Hall
With an understanding that Covid-19 has been disproportionately hard on members of BIPOC communities, ACF is offering an affinity space for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color open to people in the creative community who have experienced their lives being adversely affected by the pandemic. While we certainly appreciate White allies, we also recognize the […]
Living Music: Pirate Radio
Living Music: Pirate Radio is a quarantine variety show, hosted by Nadia Sirota, that brings performances, conversation and community directly from socially-distanced artists to viewers at home. Watch on Facebook Live Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9pm Eastern / 6pm Pacific and see more than a dozen archived episodes!
New Music Help Desk
The New Music Help Desk is a unique opportunity for composers and performers to get face time with Spektral Quartet – to ask pointed questions about notation, feasibility, tuning systems, harmonics, or simply how to stay motivated in the midst of a quarantine. "Our aim is to use our skills to both build community and […]
Tech Support Happy Hour
Slam Academy’s Free Tech Support Happy Hour! Are you an artist that has been forced into the world of working online? Are you a music or art educator that is struggling with your online teaching options? Or are you just curious how all of this stuff is supposed to work? Join us for a free […]
Music Creator Meet-Up
About: In keeping with our mission to nurture the creative spirit of music creators and communities, American Composers Forum and New Music Gathering are partnering to host a weekly Music Creator Meet-Up. In these sessions, we will check-in with each other to see how we are doing, review creation in progress by one of our peers, and stay […]
Lean On Me: Jazz/Cabaret/Musical Theater Concert
The OmniArts Foundation is proud to present: Lean On Me: A Virtual Concert Series for COVID-19 Relief. Join us on May 30, 2020 at 4pm EDT for the Jazz/Cabaret/Musical Theater Concert, the second of three virtual, request-driven concerts to benefit freelance artists and the families of essential workers affected by COVID-19, and the charitable organizations […]
Free Online Concerts: Culture in the Time of Corona
The Streetlight Guild, in partnership with the Johnstone Fund for New Music, presents Culture in the Time of Corona, a series of 6 free live-stream concerts taking place at The Streetlight Guild on Sunday afternoons at 3:00 p.m. in April, May and June. The purpose of these performances is to provide musicians with much-needed income, […]
Organ Colossal Listening Sessions
The Organ Colossal Listening Sessions is an online series that brings two artists together through individual performances and moderated conversation. The idea is to draw connections. Events are free with donations for the artists accepted. Donations are tax-deductible. Kyle Rapps is an American hip hop artist and slam poet, formerly based in Harlem and Mexico […]
Connecting ACO Community: Weekly Premieres
American Composers Orchestra Announces a new solo commissioning initiative in response to the COVID-19 crisis with online world premieres beginning Sunday, April 19, 2020 at 5pm on Zoom $5 tickets* available through Eventbrite If the $5 entrance fee poses a barrier to participation, interested listeners will be asked to fill out an anonymous form at https://bit.ly/ACOConnectComp or […]