Featured Composer: R. Nathaniel Dett
Robert Nathaniel Dett (1882–1943) is perhaps best remembered today for his stylistic approach, blending African American spirituals...
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- May 12
The Concerto (Part 2)
The 20thC was a time of experimentation, where composers pushed the traditional boundaries of the concerto, exploring new forms,...
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- Feb 27
Featured Composer: Ethel Smyth
Throughout her professional career, the English composer Dame Ethel Smyth (1858-1944) faced a critical dilemma that many women composers...
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- Jan 4
The Concerto (Part 1)
There are few genres of music more exciting than the concerto. A soloist, pitted against the strength of an orchestra, performing a...
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- Oct 13, 2022
Featured Composer: Silvestre Revueltas
Perhaps best known for his string and orchestral compositions, Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas (1899–1940) was a violinist,...
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- Sep 8, 2022
Featured Composer: Ann Southam
Born in Winnipeg, MB, the Canadian composer Ann Southam (1937-2010) is known for both her early tape music and her large-scale cycles for...
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- Aug 12, 2022
Sitting At The Piano
When I was selected as ASAP’s 2022 summer intern, I thought that maybe the directors had emailed the wrong person. Sure, the interview...
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- Jun 2, 2022
Featured Composer: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875–1912) was an English composer and conductor, best known today for his cantata Hiawatha's Wedding Feast,...
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- May 6, 2022
Creating Accessible Scores with Universal Design
I am so excited to be launching a project to create universally designed scores. I will be focusing my initial efforts on piano and vocal...
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- Jan 29, 2022
Featured Composer: Marianne von Martinez
Marianne von Martinez (1744-1812) was a vocalist, keyboardist, and composer, once known across Europe both as a performer and for her...
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- Dec 17, 2021
The Unrecognized Sounds of Asia
Growing up in Indonesia, I was exposed to various kinds of people, music, food, cultures, religions, and traditions. There are over 300...
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- Nov 24, 2021
Featured Composer: George Walker
George Walker (1922-2018) was an American composer and pianist, who first came to national fame upon winning the Pulitzer Prize for his...
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- Nov 19, 2021
Where Are All the Great Women?
For a piano teacher, there is nothing more exciting than a young student possessing that magical mixture of natural ability, work ethic,...
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- Sep 18, 2021
Featured Composer: Mary Lou Williams
Mary Lou Williams (1910-1981) was an American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer. She was a prolific composer, with hundreds of both...
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- Jun 20, 2021
The Piano Sonatas of Galina Ustvolskaya
How does one understand a composer whose music is often described as enigmatic, who considered her music to be beyond analytical approach...
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- May 4, 2021
Featured Composer: Halim El-Dabh
Halim El-Dabh (1921-2017) was a composer, musician, ethnomusicologist, and educator. Born in Egypt, El-Dabh originally studied...
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- Mar 21, 2021
Featured Composer: Lili Boulanger
Lili Boulanger (1893-1918) was a French composer whose career was tragically cut short by a lifetime of dealing with illness. Yet,...
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- Feb 7, 2021
Featured Composer: Cécile Chaminade
Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944) was a French pianist and a prolific composer. She began her musical studies with her mother, but quickily...
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- Jan 24, 2021
Feeling Seen in the Classical World
Every year, my mother would take me and my siblings to a concert at Orchestra Hall in Chicago. I would gasp in awe at the size of the...
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- Jan 24, 2021
Thoughts & Conversations
Thoughts & Conversations offers a space for composers, performers, musicians, and educators to explore topics of their choice, from...
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