Week of Events
[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 […]
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 […]
Will you Stay On It?
Will you Stay On It?
Presented by Lincoln Center, The Dream Unfinished will premiere a video performance of Stay On It by Julius Eastman (1940-1990), a composer whose music explored his identities as a gay man and as a Black-American. Stay On Itis dedicated to blue-collar essential workers such as grocery employees, public transit operators, custodians, and other professions overwhelmingly occupied by people of […]
NEWMUSICBOX LIVE: NEW MUSIC GATHERING
NEWMUSICBOX LIVE: NEW MUSIC GATHERING
a conversation on Livestream with New Music Gathering’s Lainie Fefferman, Daniel Felsenfeld, Mary Kouyoumdjian, Jascha Narveson, and Angélica Negrón with Frank J. Oteri followed by an audience Q&A The concept for New Music Gathering was born in an online forum. Perhaps it is appropriate that in our time of physical distancing, the in-person extravaganza has […]
Living Music: Pirate Radio
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!
Living Music: Pirate Radio
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!
The Future is Female
The Future is Female
Sarah Cahill, described as “a sterling pianist and an intrepid illuminator of the classical avant-garde” by The New York Times, will perform The Future is Female as a livestream performance presented by Old First Concerts. This concert will be available to watch with a suggested donation. All donations received before and during this concert go to […]
Music Creator Meet-Up
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 […]
Response To Violence Hosted by Mixtape
Response To Violence Hosted by Mixtape
Stefon "Bionik" Taylor and Jason "J-Sun" Noer of MIXTAPE put out a call to white artists practicing Black art forms. This call to action is a virtual performance that takes part in a fundraising effort to support organizations working towards defunding police on a local level. They also asked: How can we make a difference […]
Free Online Concerts: Culture in the Time of Corona
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, […]
Connecting ACO Community: Weekly Premieres
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 […]