“A commission that addresses the injustices on Black people, as a way for the institution to admit or confront their own compliance in the atrocities against Black people, doesn’t allow that composer to express total joy, for example." - Jessie Montgomery nyti.ms/3jMPlc7

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Calling all New York new music lovers—ACF create recipient and innova Recordings artist @aliciaenvivo performs at Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning this Sunday, October 3!

Dance/USA & New Music USA present Music and Dance-How to Find Your Creative Partner and Make New Collaborations Happen, a FREE webinar on Oct. 28th @ 4pm ET. Speakers: Alicia Graf Mack, Jeremy McQueen, #ChariGlogovacSmith, MORGXN 🦋🐛, @amina_michele Register: bit.ly/DanceUSA-NMU-w…

Who's coming to The Midwest Clinic ? Come to our session on Dec. 16! midwestclinic.org/2021_clinician… @jennjolley Weston Sprott Jasmine Britt Christopher Yee Composers Forum

So excited for this new commissioning partnership! Thank you to Sphinx Organization and our partners Weston Sprott and The Juilliard School and Gary Padmore and New York Philharmonic. Let's make some music.

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ACF's in-house recording label innova Recordings announces its first National Call! Innova’s new model fosters collaboration with artists throughout the entire process of recording projects, from conception, to release, to promotion. Learn more and to apply: buff.ly/3EkAdKK.

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Black and Latina/e/x composers! Next week is the deadline for this intergenerational commission program with The Juilliard School pre-college and New York Philharmonic

Congratulations to the 8 artists selected in innova Recordings's first national call!: @alexa_dexa, Anıl Çamcı, Ayanna, J.E. Hernández, Melanie Dyer/Todd Capp/Anna Gruman/Kurt Ralske, MusicResearchStrategies, Shara Lunon, and thingNY! buff.ly/3IS1O7y

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Congratulations to the Composing Inclusion awardees! This has been an amazing experience, and it's just the beginning. Thanks to Weston Sprott for his vision!