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SoundLives December 2020

Julie Giroux: A Wind Band is a Box of 168 Crayons
December 16 2020 / NewMusicBox
By Frank J. Oteri
Julie Giroux, who creates music primarily for wind band, takes musicians and audiences on a journey that is a real sonic adventure and, at the same time, is always fun.

Pandemic Journal - How We Cope

Pandemic Journal – How We Cope
How We Cope is an exploration of the number of ways in which our community is coping with uncertainty during the COVID-19 pandemic.
New Music Ushers In The Inauguration of the Next President and Vice President of the USA
Lots of new music will usher in a new American administration on January 20, 2021. Newly commissioned works by Kimberly Archer and Peter Boyer, classics by Aaron Copland, Julie Giroux,...
Stand In The Gap
If we want the art we make to heal our community’s loneliness and pain and bring us back together again, then it has to be about more than creating a...

Going Digital in the Time of COVID-19

Going Digital – A Toolbox
We have created this collection of resources to help music creators and performers navigate the transition to digital and virtual performances. We've scoured our archive, curated links from trusted sources,...
Unprecedented Time
There is no doubt that we are in unprecedented times. Living through a global pandemic has tested and revealed so much about who we are as a people and what...
Online Score Sales for Self-Published Composer
How can you get your music in front of the right musicians in a format that makes it easy for them to purchase, download, and start practicing your pieces right...

Isolation Inspiration - from the NMBx Archives

Isolation Inspiration
We have been incredibly lucky to hear artists in their own words throughout NewMusicBox's 20 years of existence. Whether in interview or essay form, their words have motivated us, challenged...
Valerie Coleman: Writing Music for People
Valerie Coleman is committed to storytelling through her music, no matter the idiom. “I recognize that there are stories that are yet untold that if they were told, they would...
Black Mystery School Pianists
Mystery School posits an alternative touch—something that does not directly fall within the mainstream’s easily digestible paradigm of being able to play the instrument, even though the practitioners of the...
NewMusicBox LIVE: New Music Gathering
The concept for New Music Gathering was born in an online forum and now, in our time of physical distancing, it has been reimagined for virtual space.
Third Coast Percussion: The Collaborative Process
David Skidmore, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin, and Sean Connors of Third Coast Percussion explain how they introduce audiences to percussion instruments, how they each came to devote their lives to...
Nathalie Joachim: Stepping Into My Own Identity
Nathalie Joachim’s exuberant, forward-looking attitude about music-making and her inspiring comments about how she came to follow her creative path still represent our collective future once we are able to...

THE LATEST FROM NEWMUSICBOX AND AROUND THE WEB

Stand In The Gap
If we want the art we make to heal our community’s loneliness and pain and bring us back together again, then it has to be about more than creating a...
New Music Ushers In The Inauguration of the Next President and Vice President of the USA
Lots of new music will usher in a new American administration on January 20, 2021. Newly commissioned works by Kimberly Archer and Peter Boyer, classics by Aaron Copland, Julie Giroux,...
Confronting Our Complicity: Music Theory and White Supremacy
Despite the fact that the majority of our students do not listen to Western art music regularly, nearly all of the core curriculum is based on it. Let’s open their...
Black Mystery School Pianists
Mystery School posits an alternative touch—something that does not directly fall within the mainstream’s easily digestible paradigm of being able to play the instrument, even though the practitioners of the...
Unprecedented Time
There is no doubt that we are in unprecedented times. Living through a global pandemic has tested and revealed so much about who we are as a people and what...
Multiple Voices: Mutual Mentorship for Musicians (M³)
M³ (Mutual Mentorship for Musicians) is a revolutionary new program which its founders Jen Shyu and Sara Serpa describe as “a think tank for new ways to connect, collaborate, support,...
Announcing New Music USA’s New Music Creator Development Fund
The New Music Creator Development Fund offers grants to individual music creators who need support to get to the next stage of their creative practice in the context of the...
November 24 2020 / Headlines
Valerie Coleman: Writing Music for People
Valerie Coleman is committed to storytelling through her music, no matter the idiom. “I recognize that there are stories that are yet untold that if they were told, they would...
Remember the Uncomplicated Joy
Our record announcement fell on the same day the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. Two months later, the record was released just days before George Floyd’s murder....
I Can’t Breathe:  A Virtual Dialogue
George Friedrich Haas’s composition I Can't Breathe, written just after the birth of the Black Lives Matter organization and well before the concept came to international prominence, raises a number...
Announcing Reel Change Film Fund
New Music USA announces the launch of Reel Change: The Fund for Diversity in Film Scoring, powered by SESAC and composer and film scorer Christophe Beck, and administered by New...
October 29 2020 / Headlines
We Can Change the Country, Essay (2020)
This is not a composition; it’s a protest. This is not a performance; it’s a demonstration. This is a political work of art. I wrote it to express the hypocrisy...
TODAY'S COMPOSER BIRTHDAY
Randall Svane

Born: Thursday, January 20, 1955

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