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New York Philharmonic Retains “Contact!”
After a quiet decision to end it and "focus its new-music resources on larger-scale projects and symphonic commissions," an interesting group of …

Notes on Belief, Creation, and the Un-serious. Seriously.
An exploration of knowledge and belief in the search for meaning in art (and...
October 14 2016 / BlogsBlogs
by Christopher Rountree
October 11 2016 / BlogsBlogs
by Aakash Mittal
Corigliano, Who Set Dylan Text, Reflects on Songwriter’s Nobel Lit Win
A great deal of reporting and online chatter flooded in behind this morning's announcement of Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize win in literature …
My Oldest Friend and Best Collaborator: Remembering Richard Peaslee (1930-2016)
[Ed Note: Richard Peaslee was an extraordinarily prolific composer who worked in many different idioms including orchestral music, band music, soundtracks for …
Anohni on Corporations Driving the Music Industry
In an interview with The Creative Independent, Anohni discusses her relationship to visual art before diving into the current state of the music industry, as …
CMA Awards Eighth Blackbird Inaugural Visionary Award
Chamber Music America has announced that its inaugural Visionary Award recipient is Eighth Blackbird, "an ensemble that has expanded the very definition …

Great Moments (for me) in Chicago New Music History
Patricia Morehead arrived in Chicago in the fall of 1984 and went on to found and...








