New Music USA: #WeAreNewMusic
Video Credits:
Video post-production by Evan Chapman at Four/Ten Media.
Content coordinated by Alanna Maharajh Stone at New Music USA.
Music:
“La Isla Mágica” written by Angélica Négron
Performed by Angélica Négron and Eleonore Oppenheim
From Eleonore Oppenheim’s album “Home” (Innova Recordings)
Featured Artists in Alphabetical Order:
Alonzo King LINES Ballet
Alonzo King LINES Ballet and Lisa Fischer – video excerpt from The Propelled Heart.
Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Dancer Ashley Mayeux, Photographer: RJ Muna.
Organizational Development Fund & Project Grant recipients.
Béla Fleck
NewMusicBox “Things That Sound Right” feature by Frank J. Oteri and filmed by Molly Sheridan. Article / Video.
Bryce Dessner
NewMusicBox “I’m The Same Musician Wherever I Go” feature by Frank J. Oteri, video by Alexandra Gardner. Article / Video
Caroline Shaw, Sō Percussion, Dawn Upshaw, Gilbert Kalish: Narrow Sea
Caroline Shaw, composer; Sō Percussion, percussion; Dawn Upshaw, soprano; Gilbert Kalish, piano. Sō Percussion: Eric Cha-Beach, Josh Quillen, Adam Sliwinski, and Jason Treuting.
Video / by Four/Ten Media
Community MusicWorks
Community MusicWorks – Four Contemplations by composer Ken Ueno.
Community MusicWorks – Traces, a sonic collaboration between
Community MusicWorks, composer Shaw Pong Liu, The Rhode Island Historical Society, and numerous individuals from their community and neighborhood with the aim of tracing, acknowledging, and celebrating the history of what is now called 1326 Westminster Street, Providence. (Footage from older funded projects used as the Music for Refugees in Providence, RI project is delayed due to COVID.)
Die Jim Crow Records
Featured: Lifers Groove featuring Naomi Blount Wilson & Carl Dukes.
New Music Capacity Building Program for Die Jim Crow Records;
Creator Development Fund for Naomi Blount Wilson.
Derrick Skye
LACO Reception footage for Prisms, Cycles, Leaps.
Music Alive: New Partnerships
Ear Taxi Festival feat. Doyle Armbrust
Doyle Armbrust performing a piece by Shumalit Ran at Ear Taxi 2016.
Project Grant.
Emer Kinsella
Erin Collins, Nico Muhly, Tamar-Kali, Vanessa Reed: Composing for Film Panel
From New Music USA presents: Composing for Film as part of New York Music Month Extended Play. March 30, 2021. Video.
Hannibal Lokumbe
NewMusicBox feature “Always Go With the Feeling” by Frank J. Oteri with video by Molly Sheridan. Article / Video
JACK Quartet, Tyshawn Sorey and Sabrina Schroeder: Everything Changes, Nothing Changes
Photo of JACK Quartet: Beowulf Sheehan.
Photo of Tyshawn Sorey: John Rogers.
Project Grant.
Molly Joyce and Jerron Herman
Can You from Breaking and Entering
Video: Four/Ten Media
Project Grant.
Morton Subotnick
NewMusicBox feature “The Mad Scientist in the Laboratory of the Ecstatic Moment” by Frank J. Oteri with video by Molly Sheridan. Video
New Music Detroit
Rehearsal footage for composer Angélica Negrón’s Say Something In Spanish
Organizational Development Fund & Project Grant.
The Native American Composer Apprentice Project (NACAP) by
Grand Canyon Music Festival
Thylia Yazzie speaking about her piece Farewell, dedicated to her uncle Stanley Brown, and performed by the Catalyst Quartet.
Xavier Ben speaking about his piece Nuclear Crystal, performed by the Catalyst Quartet.
Samora Pinderhughes
Grief by Samora Pinderhughes, piano and lead vocals; Brad Allen Williams, guitar;
Boom Bishop, electric bass; Clovis Nicolas, double bass; Marcus Gilmore, drums; Elena Pinderhughes, flute; Immanuel Wilkins, alto saxophone;
Lucas Pino, tenor saxophone; Jehbreal Jackson, vocals; Niya Norwood, vocals; Argus Quartet / Metropolis Ensemble. Commissioned by Chamber Music America and New Music USA, Grief was filmed for Carnegie Hall’s Voices of Hope festival, conceived by Pinderhughes and directed by filmmaker Christian Padron with engineering by Jack DeBoe, inspired by the black-and-white photography of the legendary Roy DeCarava.
Project Grant.
Susan Alcorn
NewMusicBox feature “Fearless Slides” by Molly Sheridan. Video/ Article.
Theatre of Movement
The Resistance Project & the Juneteenth Awareness and Arts Program. Featured: Duane Cyrus, Founder & Director.
Photo of Duane Cyrus: Joseph Headen.
Wayne Shorter & Esperanza Spalding: Iphigenia
Footage: REAL Magic
Project Grant.
yMusic
Performing Maré by composer Gabriella Smith
yMusic: Alex Sopp, flutes and vocals; Hideaki Aomori, clarinets;
CJ Camerieri, trumpet and horn; Rob Moose, violin and guitar;
Nadia Sirota, viola; Gabriel Cabezas, cello.
Impact Fund.