American Composers Forum

Music Monday LIVE!
2021-11-01 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Chicago)
The Lewis Prize for Music has teamed up with Save The Music Foundation to host youth-led weekly conversations with today’s music leaders starting on Mondays, October 18, 2021 through December 20, 2021 at 5 PM CT | 3 PM PT
Music Monday LIVE is an exciting opportunity for youth across the United States to connect with music industry professionals, ask questions, and share ideas. This event is open to the public and hosted on INSTAGRAM LIVE.
This 10-week series kicks off with Songwriter and Photographer Teron Beal (@teronbeal) and Xavier Washington (@zaytheartist), youth leader and Development Coordinator at Save The Music Foundation.
If you want to join the conversation, don’t be shy! You’re welcome you to hop on the Live during the Q&A. Next week’s Instagram Live will be hosted on the Save The Music Instagram (@savethemusic).

Music Mondays presents ECCO and Shai Wosner, piano
2021-11-01 18:30 - 19:00
The exuberant string orchestra, ECCO (East Coast Chamber Orchestra), teams up with pianist Shai Wosner for “Bach Plus,” an innovative program that interweaves music by J. S. Bach with contemporary composers Andrew Norman, Brett Dean, and Michi Wiancko. Wosner’s “keen musical mind and deep musical soul” (NPR’s All Things Considered) are sure to complement ECCO’s “incisive, vibrant” playing (New York Times). Guests with proof of vaccination welcome. Face masks required. FREE CONCERT.
Date & Time: Monday, November 1, 2021 at 6:30 PM CT | 7:30 PM ET

Luisi & Fleming
2021-11-05 19:30 - 20:30, 2021-11-07 15:00 - 16:00
Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen (Metamorphoses) is a memorial to all those that perished in World War II.
Kevin Puts’s (a BandQuest composer) tone poem The Brightness of Light is inspired by the tender words and images revealed in the letters of the iconic American writer Georgia O’Keeffe to her husband and accomplished photographer Alfred Stieglitz. The impassioned multi-media journey paints a magnificent musical portrait of life in the American Southwest and features star soprano Renée Fleming.
Date & Time:

Friday, November 5, 2021 at 7:30 PM CT
Sunday, November 7, 2021 at 3 PM CT

Learn more and get tickets here.

BLACK PANTHER WITH THE MINNESOTA ORCHESTRA
2021-11-05 20:00 - 22:30, 2021-11-06 20:00 - 22:30
In 2018, Marvel Studios’ Black Panther quickly became a global sensation and cultural phenomenon, showing a new dimension of what Super Hero films could be. Rolling Stone raved, “The film lights up the screen with a full-throttle blast of action and fun. That’s to be expected. But what sneaks up and floors you is the film’s racial conscience and profound, astonishing beauty.” Now you can relive the excitement of T’Challa becoming king and battling Killmonger all while the Minnesota Orchestra performs Ludwig Göransson’s Oscar®-winning score live to picture.
Date & Time: Friday & Saturday, November 5 & 6, 2021 at 8 PM CT
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Homegrown: American Stories in Music and Film
2021-11-06 17:00 - 18:00, 2021-11-06 18:00 - 19:00
In partnership with the Alexandria Film Festival, the ASO presents Homegrown: American Stories in Music and Film. The concert incorporates music from the Americana tradition with original film shorts, including Copland’s Our Town and John Henry, Griffes’ Clouds and William Grant Still’s Manhattan Skyline. The program culminates with Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. Immediately following Saturday’s performance, stay for an interactive talkback with the filmmakers on the stage. Note: due to COVID-related issues, the films will not be screened for Sunday’s performance at the George Washington Masonic Memorial.
Jennifer Higdon (a BandQuest and ChoralQuest composer) : Blue Cathedral
Charles Tomlinson Griffes: Clouds
Aaron Copland: John Henry and Our Town
William Grant Still: Manhattan Skyline (from American Sketches)
Charles Ives: Housatonic at Stockbridge (from Three Places in New England)
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
Date & Time: Saturday & Sunday, November 6 & 7, 2021 at 5 PM & 6 PM CT | 6 PM & 7 PM ET
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Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony
2021-11-07 14:00 - 15:00
The Fifth makes you feel, vividly – drama, despair, hope, joy – contained in melodies that’ll sweep you off your feet, and that has made this work a favorite of audiences around the world. Plus – enjoy the immense talents of superstar pianist Hélène Grimaud and a program of Schumann, Tchaikovsky, and Valerie Coleman (a BandQuest composer) premiering Umoja, a piece the Philadelphia Inquirer called “a powerhouse of emotional directness and bold orchestration” – and our first by a living African American woman.

Date & Time: Sunday, November 7, 2021 at 2 PM CT | 3 PM ET
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