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Quick Cuts for Big Ears

With only a week to go until the kickoff of the 2019 edition of the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN (March 21-24), we’ve been digging through the NewMusicBox archives and revisiting the amazing conversations we’ve had with some of this year’s featured artists to get ready for what’s ahead.

Q&A: Autistic Accessibility in Music

This week, Chrysanthe Tan opens up her "Autistic Accessibility in Music" series of columns to address reader-submitted questions, covering topics like sensory-friendly rooms, classroom techniques, wheelchair accessibility, stimming, and more!

Bright Sheng: My Father’s Letter and Bernstein’s Question

Bright Sheng is concerned about directly moving audiences in whatever format or style he is working in and is passionate about sharing what led him to his aesthetic positions.

THE LATEST FROM NEWMUSICBOX AND AROUND THE WEB

“This event is probably not unique”: On communication and metaphor in Robert Ashley’s Improvement

Rebecca Lentjes explores communication and metaphor in Robert Ashley’s opera "Improvement (Don Leaves Linda)” and how the work arrives at big ideas through a focus on particular microcosms of American...

18 Composers Receive 2019 ASCAP Foundation Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Awards

The ASCAP Foundation has announced the 18 recipients and 4 honorable mentions of the 2019 Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Awards. The recipients, who receive cash awards, range in age...

Master Guide to Improving Autistic Accessibility in Music

An organized, actionable reference guide to help you enact a permanent framework for autistic accessibility in your musical efforts.

Artist Financial Profile: Tony Manfredonia, Game Music and Orchestral Composer

There is no one way to make a living in music. But knowledge is power, so Adam Schumaker has recruited some amazing musicians who have generously agreed to openly discuss...

At the Intersection of Digital Audible Histories and Experimental Music Practice

Seth Cluett takes NewMusicBox readers on a tour of his fascinating “Sounding Circuits: Audible Histories” exhibition now on display at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. It...

An Open Letter From Your Autistic Colleague

Musicians, arts administrators, colleagues: It’s time we talk about autism.

The Voice in the Machine

Our inclination to hear the human in the machine is far from new. Technology is as old as humanity. Perhaps we have always seen—and heard—ourselves in our tools.

‘Singers and Musicians’ Part 2: On Conductors, Identity, and Musical Segregation

Every identity comes with inherent biases, assumptions, and privileges to varying degrees. A helpful exercise is to take an identity and think of the immediate mental image that comes to...

“Hearing” the Hammond Organ

The Hammond Organ became an immediate success when it hit the market in April 1935 and had a major impact on the soundscape of both popular and religious musical life...

Plus Ça Change: Florence B. Price in the #BlackLivesMatter Era

Is the sudden widespread interest in Florence B.Price’s music a convenient fad or does it signal the potential for deeper structural changes over the long term?

On Networking: A National Conference Preview

For five days, choral leaders will meet in one place and be inspired by performances, attend interest sessions presented by teachers they admire, and forge new connections that—for the composers...

TODAY'S COMPOSER BIRTHDAY

Joel Gressel

Born: Tuesday, March 23, 1943 Cleveland, Ohio

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