New Music USA Announces 2024 Organization Fund Awardees

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New Music USA has named 85 awardees for the New Music Organization Fund’s 2024 grant cycle. This year, 702 applications were submitted. Grant seekers included music organizations, performance groups, dance organizations, festivals, presenters, and venues spanning 17 states. Applicants chose their preferred funding strand from one of the following categories: General Operating Support, Creation of New Work, or Live Music {…}

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Dame Sarah Connolly, Miah Persson, & Claire Booth Headline Boston Philharmonic’s 2024-25 Season

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(Photo credit: Pledger, Arnstein,& Choy) Boston Philharmonic has released the details of its 46th season. This article only features vocal performances. Performances are led by Boston Philharmonic’s Founder and Conductor Benjamin Zander. The Radcliffe Choral Society will be featured in a performance of Holst’s “The Planets.” Performance Date: November 17, 2024 Soprano Claire Booth performs Strauss’ “Four Last Songs” and {…}

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Reilly Nelson Stars in The Happenstancers’ ‘BABES IN TOYLAND’

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The Happenstancers announces its program “BABES IN TOYLAND.” The concert features works by Unsuk Chin, W.A. Mozart, the world premiere of new music for voice and ensemble by Matthew Ricketts, as well as the Canadian premiere of works by Anna Clyne, and Ryan Chase. Performers include soprano Reilly Nelson and a roster of Canadian instrumentalists, led by conductor Simon Rivard. “‘BABES {…}

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Aspen Music Festival Partners with Apple Music Classical, Carnegie Hall+ & medici.tv

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The Aspen Music Festival is teaming up with medici.tv, Apple Music Classical, and Carnegie Hall+ for its 75th anniversary season this summer. As part of the partnership, medici.tv will webcast five events between July 10 through 14, including a concert featuring mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor as she takes on “Neruda Songs” by Peter Liebersen. Meanwhile, Apple Music Classical will curate playlists {…}

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Les Arts Florissants to Tour North America

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(Photo credit: ©Julien Gazeau) This summer, Les Arts Florissants tours its semi-stage production of Purcell’s “The Fairy Queen” throughout North America. William Christie leads Les Arts Florissants and Le Jardin des Voix on the tour. Soloists include soprano Paulina Francisco, mezzo-sopranos Georgia Burashko, Rebecca Leggett, and Juliette Mey, tenor Ilja Aksionov and Rodrigo Carreto, baritone Hugo Herman-Wilson, and bass-baritone Benjamin {…}

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Metropolis Ensemble to Perform ‘Canto Ostinato’ at Brooklyn Botanic Garden

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Metropolis Ensemble, Sandbox Percussion, and musician/composer Erik Hall team up this summer to create a large-scale arrangement of Simeon ten Holt’s minimalism work “Canto Ostinato,” at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The event entitled “Biophony: Solstice” takes place on the summer solstice, with over 30 percussionists, 4 keyboards, and 16 strings and saxophones. The dual sunrise and sunset performances will culminate {…}

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Renée Fleming, Isabel Leonard & Miah Persson Lead New York Philharmonic’s 2024-25 Season

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The New York Philharmonic has announced its 2024-25 season. Here are the vocal performances. Santtu-Matias Rouvali and Miah Persson lead a performance of music by Sibelius, Julia Wolfe, and R. Strauss. Performance Dates: Nov. 7-12, 2024 Ton Koopman conducts Händel’s “Messiah” with soloists Maya Kherani, Maarten Engeltjes, and Klaus Mertens. Performance Dates: Dec. 11-14, 2024 Kevin John Edusei and Isabel {…}

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Renée Fleming Hosts the LA County’s Annual Arts and Health Week Summit With LA Opera

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(Photo credit: Andrew Eccles) LA Opera holds the LA County Annual Arts and Health Week Summit with soprano Renée Fleming as advisor, advocate, and host. LA Opera’ is collaborating with Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda L. Solis, First District; the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture; and Healing Arts, an initiative of the Jameel Arts & Health Lab {…}

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Judith Lynn Stillman’s ‘Remembrance, Resilience and Renewal: Genocide Awareness through the Art’ Takes Stage This April

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Rhode Island College’s Artist-in-Residence, Artistic Director, pianist, and curator Judith Lynn Stillman presents “Remembrance, Resilience and Renewal: Genocide Awareness through the Arts” on April 28. In commemoration of Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month Stillman and 15 diverse multinational artists team together in hopes to “raise awareness about, and in condemnation of, the atrocity of genocide; to remember and honor those {…}

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New Music USA Announces 2024 Organization Fund Awardees

Dame Sarah Connolly, Miah Persson, & Claire Booth Headline Boston Philharmonic’s 2024-25 Season

Reilly Nelson Stars in The Happenstancers’ ‘BABES IN TOYLAND’

Aspen Music Festival Partners with Apple Music Classical, Carnegie Hall+ & medici.tv

Les Arts Florissants to Tour North America

Metropolis Ensemble to Perform ‘Canto Ostinato’ at Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Renée Fleming, Isabel Leonard & Miah Persson Lead New York Philharmonic’s 2024-25 Season

Renée Fleming Hosts the LA County’s Annual Arts and Health Week Summit With LA Opera

Judith Lynn Stillman’s ‘Remembrance, Resilience and Renewal: Genocide Awareness through the Art’ Takes Stage This April