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What the Optics of New Music Say to Black Composers

The absence of music by black composers in concert programming and academic institutions tells them that they are not wanted, no matter how much success they gain. The new music community has not only the responsibility, but also the incentive, to change this.

Bun-Ching Lam: Home is Where You Park Your Suitcase

Born in Macau, educated in Hong Kong and California, and now dividing her time between Paris and Upstate New York, Bun-Ching Lam creates music that is shaped by her multicultural...

Help Me Help You: What Orchestra Managements Need from the New Music Community

There are a great number of interlocking gears in motion behind every orchestral programming decision. Understanding this can help all of us in the new music community be constructive, rather...

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Music and a Sense of Place

A sense of place can be the impetus for a piece, motion can be the catalyst. Sometimes a place can affect the music more indirectly.

Saving The Earth–Artist/Activists for the Environment

It’s obvious that our physical world is in deep trouble. Old and new technologies are out of control—polluting our air, water and soil, poisoning our health, heating up the climate...

Taking a Cue: Accompanying Early Film

Many cue sheets for silent film show notations where the performer swapped out a suggested piece with one they already knew or owned. Claire Hamack, an accompanist whose scores, photoplay...

Always In The Moment—Remembering Roy Hargrove (1969-2018)

Roy Hargrove (1969-2018) was always only in the moment, hard and sincerely. In that moment, he meant everything he did; he meant every word he said; he felt everything he...

Toward a Music of the Spheres

It’s August and I can finally turn my head to a collaboration with Polish violinist Kinga Augustyn for a concert in mid November—a piece for solo violin influenced by Bach’s...

New Music for a New Art Form: Photoplay Music

The advent of the moving picture brought about the development of an enormous amount of new music composed specifically to accompany film. There are hundreds of pieces in the Silent...

Musical Experiences in Daily Life

Looking at life through a musical lens, I see many correspondences that are perhaps easier to see in a city like New York, where the counterpoint of life is omnipresent.

A New Music Halloween Playlist Curated By Vanessa Ague

Our friend and colleague Vanessa Ague agreed to curate a Halloween-themed playlist with works that she sourced from across the New Music USA platform. She found some great tracks!

The Irresistible Soundtrack to Terror

Originally recorded for Counterstream Radio in 2008, Diamanda Galás presents selections from "The Exorcist" (1973), "Squirm" (1976), "The Alligator People" (1959), "The Mechanic" (1972), "Blood of Dracula" (1957), "Sisters" (1973),...

Six Great Film Composers Tell Their Own Stories in Music for Solo Piano

Montage: Great Film Composers and the Piano was a collaboration that was bound to happen one day given my years of living in Los Angeles and working with composers.

Determining a Different Outcome

Paul Elwood confesses that he used to become jealous, mildly enraged, or depressed by the accomplishments of others until he realized how pointless it was to hold his own creative...

TODAY'S COMPOSER BIRTHDAY

Nancy Plummer Faxon

Born: Thursday, November 19, 1914 Jackson, Mississippi

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