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SoundLives March 2021

Judith Lang Zaimont: The Music She Has to Write
March 3 2021 / Conversations
By Frank J. Oteri
Judith Lang Zaimont is defiantly unwilling to be typecast for creating music in a particular style, which makes her music always a welcome surprise.

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.
Creating Safe Spaces and Asking for Help
Julia Adolphe shares why she started this project, and how her composition professor, Steven Stucky, created a safe space for her to talk during lessons.
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,...
Livestream Community Survey: What We Learned from the Field
[Switch~ Ensemble] led a Community Survey about the habits, preferences, and interests of concert-goers for livestreams. We are pleased to provide a summary of the responses, as well as recommendations...
Composer Commission Pay in the United States
How much should composers get paid for commissions? As composers ourselves, we recently set out to find the answer. We were motivated not only by our curiosity, but also by...

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...
Julie Giroux: A Wind Band is a Box of 168 Crayons
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.
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.
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...
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...

THE LATEST FROM NEWMUSICBOX AND AROUND THE WEB

Creating Safe Spaces and Asking for Help
Julia Adolphe shares why she started this project, and how her composition professor, Steven Stucky, created a safe space for her to talk during lessons.
New Music USA Launches Two-Year Capacity-Building Program
Thanks to support from New York Community Trust, New Music USA is leading a two-year capacity building program for a diverse cohort of small to medium sized music groups and...
February 17 2021 / Headlines
Livestream Community Survey: What We Learned from the Field
[Switch~ Ensemble] led a Community Survey about the habits, preferences, and interests of concert-goers for livestreams. We are pleased to provide a summary of the responses, as well as recommendations...
Additional Funds for the New Music Creator Development Fund
New Music Creator Development Fund raises $50,000 in first weeks of campaign, bringing fund total to $150K. Seeking additional $50K in match funding by Feb 28.
February 10 2021 / NewMusicBox
Introducing LooseLeaf NoteBook – A Podcast on Creativity and Mental Health
In the midst of the pandemic, national protests against systemic racism, increasing threats of domestic terrorism, and going stir crazy in my living room, I started the podcast at first...
Composer Commission Pay in the United States
How much should composers get paid for commissions? As composers ourselves, we recently set out to find the answer. We were motivated not only by our curiosity, but also by...
Kris Bowers: In Love With Accompaniment
Kris Bowers creates music that is attuned to whatever project he is working on--whether it’s the score for the 2018 motion picture Green Book, the 2019 EA Sports videogame Madden...
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...
Julie Giroux: A Wind Band is a Box of 168 Crayons
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.
TODAY'S COMPOSER BIRTHDAY
Doug Opel

Born: Sunday, March 5, 1967

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