American Composers Forum

JOY OF CHRISTMAS
2021-12-01 - 2021-12-31
Cathedral Choral Society’s esteemed Music Director Steven Fox has renewed his contract with the Cathedral Choral Society through June of 2025. He has served as our Music Director since 2018, and we’re excited about his continued leadership in our upcoming performances and collaborations.
As the pandemic continues to shift, Steven looks forward to honoring the remarkable history of this chorus, while also ushering in innovations that keep CCS at the forefront of choral music. He’ll bring the chorus back to Washington National Cathedral this fall with a season that will feature the annual Joy of Christmas concerts, a concert celebrating the Centenary of Women’s Suffrage with new works by Augusta Read Thomas, Jessie Montgomery and Lisa Bielawa (an innova artist), and a special performance of Verdi’s Requiem honoring the chorus’s 80th anniversary.
Date & Time: December 2021 (More details to be announced)
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Music Monday LIVE!
2021-12-13 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).

Innova Recordings National Call Info Session
2021-12-14 14:00 - 15:00
This info session for Innova Recordings National Call program is for anyone who may be curious about this program and its mission, applying to the program, Innova’s curatorial process, and even the process of recording and releasing music in general. Click the link to register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEpdeqopz8sE9dT9xSimqnTje5AMW8tgTFZ
The Innova’s National Call program seeks to foster an artist centric cooperative model where both label and artist work closely to achieve the artist’s goals.
Applications will be accepted December 2nd 2021 -January 7th 2022. There is no cost to apply.
You can find more information about the pilot program and apply here: https://www.innova.mu/apply-0

Kaufman Music Center – Piano Dialogues: Timo Andres
2021-12-16 18:30 - 19:30
R. SCHUMANN – Waldszenen (9 short solo piano pieces)
SARAH GOLDFEATHER – World Premiere of a new work
ERIC SHANFIELD – Timo Variations
Post-concert conversation with Andres, Goldfeather and Shanfield moderated by Adam Tendler
Date & Time: Thursday, December 16, 2021 at 6:30 PM CT | 7:30 PM ET
The program explores the musical friendships, influences, and borrowings between three contemporaries — Eric Shanfield, Sarah Goldfeather and Timo Andres — as well as the overarching influence of Robert Schumann’s piano music (represented here by Waldszenen). Besides Sarah’s new work for Timo, the centerpiece of the program is Eric’s new work, appropriately titled Timo Variations, a grand set in the tradition of Beethoven and Rzewski based on a theme which Timo composed for Eric in 2019.
Timo Andres is a composer and pianist who grew up in rural Connecticut and lives in Brooklyn, NY. A Nonesuch Records artist, his album of orchestral works, Home Stretch, has been hailed for its “playful intelligence and individuality,” (The Guardian) and of his 2010 debut album for two pianos Shy and Mighty (performed by himself and duo partner David Kaplan), Alex Ross wrote in The New Yorker that “it achieves an unhurried grandeur that has rarely been felt in American music since John Adams came on the scene… more mighty than shy, [Andres] sounds like himself.
$10 students tickets are available. Call the box office at 212 501 3330.
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Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal
2021-12-17 22:00 - 23:00
The first live concert in over two years, the Peninsula Women’s Chorus (PWC) celebrates being together with classic choral works interwoven with the ethereal sounds of the harp.
Opening with Alice Parker’s (a ChoralQuest composer) rousing setting of “Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal” followed by Brahms’s first choral work, the lilting “Ave Maria,” PWC presents Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols as a journey, choreographed and staged by local director and choreographer MaryStarr Hope.
Date & Time:

Saturday, December 11, 2021 at 4:30 PM CT | 2:30 PM PT
Friday, December 17, 2021 at 10 PM CT | 8 PM PT

Learn more and get tickets here.
