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Jeff Counts interviews composer Joan Tower for The NOVA Podcast. Listen on our website or your favorite podcast app. Tower’s “Wings” is on the first concert of NOVA’s Spring ’21 Series. You can watch this concert on your favorite device starting Friday! novaslc.org/podcast

Nearly crashed my car coming home from the grocery store because the KBYU announcer casually said that although Vincent D'Indy was a virulent anti-semite, we shouldn't hold it against him, because he had some Jewish coworkers.

I’m so proud to have been a part of this ongoing project. It’s not only a beautiful example of how to adapt a live concert experience to a virtual format. It’s also an emotionally moving, thought-provoking work that explores the single most important issue facing humanity today.

Rising Tide premieres this Sunday at 7pm! Stream it for free at novaslc.org/crossroads

Join us at novaslc.org/crossroads at 7PM MST on Oct 25 for the world premiere of a new feature-length cinematic performance! instagram.com/p/CGYtT-ZgL55/…

Orgs will not benefit in any way from any of this—@AudienceView expects struggling non-profits nationwide to invest cumulative millions of dollars in labor hours solely for @AudienceView's profits.

@AudienceView gave struggling non-profits a choice: waste dozens of staff hours in pitches about a product they can't yet use (how many ticketed performances are there now?), lose all ticketing and patron data, or commit blindly to a 3-year contract for software no one's used.

I know it's an inside-baseball mess, but the @Vendini acquisition by @AudienceView could not POSSIBLY be handled in a more tone-deaf and insensitive way. This has been going on for a few weeks, and it's only getting worse.

@NewMusicUSA @billyocracy This is good news! New Music USA is a vital part of the classical music scene, and it’s so reassuring to see you take such quick action on this issue. There are so many voices out there with something important to say, and many of them would not likely be heard without your help!

@billyocracy @argylearts We’ll also be making changes to our application materials, criteria, communications, and how we build greater transparency, to ensure that marganilized communities are the ones who tell their own stories in projects that we fund.

Serious questions about the judgment and qualifications of whoever made this decision. There’s no excuse in 2020 for selecting a white heterosexual male for a piece commemorating the massacre of 49 LGBTQ+ (mostly POC) people. And @NewMusicUSA is funding it?

@NewMusicUSA This is good to hear. And it would be nice if @OrlandoPhilOrch had any kind of response, now that they’ve slapped the face of every POC and LGBTQ+ composer in the nation.

@argylearts We realize that we’ve caused loss of faith in our program work for this shortsightedness but we appreciate that our friends and colleagues are helping us address it swiftly.

@NewMusicUSA We were surprised, because you normally do incredible work. You know better than anyone that there’s no shortage of LGBT POC composers who’d be ideal for this work. @OrlandoPhilOrch was offensively insensitive here. It’d be good to hear what’s being done to resolve this.

@argylearts Hello Argyle friends, We understand your concern. The funding for this project was for the performers and not the commissioning of the work. We’re recognizing the need for finding out during the grant application process whether the creators involved are centering OwnVoices.

@ClassicFM At a time when classical music’s under scrutiny for systemic racism, you’ve proven yourself part of the problem. A mere glance at the comment thread shows the xenophobic hatred you’re fueling. This is reprehensible hate-baiting, and @classicfm is fully culpable. Shame on you!

Music theory is grammar. That’s all. Imagine if English grammarians declared their language’s grammar rules to be universal. Now imagine if they treated Russian authors with condescension because their writing doesn’t conform to those standards. That’s the Schenkerian problem.

“Opening hearts and minds is, and has always been, the work of artists.” Rebecca McFaul, one of NOVA’s music directors, has shared her thoughts on the role artists have to play right now with @sltrib. sltrib.com/opinion/commen…

Augusta Savage's #sculpture "Gamin" won her the Julius Rosenwald Fellowship, which led to her first exhibition in Paris. Years later, William Grant Still would be inspired by the work to compose the second movement of his Suite for #Violin and #Piano. instagram.com/p/CBn98EGg73G/