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Explore the work of New Music USA supported artists nominated for the 62nd Grammy Awards |
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Nominations for the 2020 GRAMMY Awards Released |
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New Music USA is proud to be an advocate of a broad, inclusive understanding of the term “new music.” In our work, we make a point of not defining too precisely what we mean by new music because we believe in supporting artists' originality and diverse forms of expression.
Therefore, it is a true pleasure to see artists we have supported also being nominated for Best American Roots Performance, Best World Music Album, and Best Latin Jazz Album in addition to those nominated in Best Contemporary Classical Composition and Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance.
Continue scrolling down through this special edition of our newsletter to see some of the projects, articles, and interviews New Music USA has supported featuring artists nominated for the 62nd Grammy Awards. |
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Fanm d’Ayiti (Women of Haiti) Nominated for Best World Music Album |
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Nathalie Joachim’s Fanm d’Ayiti (Women of Haiti) was initially supported by a 2017 New Music USA Project Grant. Commissioned by St. Paul Chamber Orchestra’s Liquid Music Series, the evening-length work for voice, flute, string quartet and electronics, premiered on March 14, 2018. The album features Joachim with Spektral Quartet. |
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Lucy Negro Redux |
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Rhiannon Giddens was nominated with Francesco Turrisi for their recording I'm On My Way in the Best American Roots Performance category.
Giddens composed the original score for Lucy Negro Redux—a 2019 New Music USA Project Grant recipient.
"This project provide[d] Giddens an opportunity to explore history and race in Renaissance England through literature, music and minstrelsy. In consulting resources such as Black Tudors by Miranda Kaufmann, Giddens explore[d] African people living in England during this time—where these individuals came from, what their lives were like, how music informs this moment in history and how this moment in history is informed by music." |
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El País Invisible (The Invisible Nation): Inspired by Political Invisibility, Sovereignty, and the Desire for Belonging |
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Miguel Zenón was nominated in the Best Latin Jazz Album category for Sonero: The Music of Ismael Rivera.
El País Invisible (The Invisible Nation): Inspired by Political Invisibility, Sovereignty, and the Desire for Belonging is supported by a 2019 New Music USA Project Grant. The project focuses on the subject of invisibility, and the impact it has had, and continues to have, on the island of Puerto Rico, prior to the hurricanes all the way up to present day. Featuring José Antonio Zayas Cabán and the trio {Trés}, this project includes both a new composition by Miguel Zenón and a recording with Miguel Zenón as a guest artist. |
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MIND THE GAP: Reflections on Beauty |
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PUBLIQuartet was nominated in the Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance category for their album Freedom and Faith.
MIND THE GAP: Reflections on Beauty is supported by a 2019 New Music USA Project Grant. Created by PUBLIQuartet (part of the New Music USA Impact Fund Cohort) and featuring A'Lelia Bundles, Jannina Norpoth, Nicholas Revel, and Curtis Stewart, the project is an original performance concept that chronicles the life of the first female African-American self-made millionaire in America, Madam C.J. Walker, through a convergence of music, poetry, and literature.
If you're near New York City, don't miss PUBLIQuartet‘s preview performance of Reflections on Beauty on Friday, December 6th, hosted by AC Institute, 16 E 48th Street NYC. |
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12 Things I've Learned from Church Music (Parts 7-9): Write Faster; Hear It, Change It; Churches Do Tons of New Music |
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The Crossing's recording of The Arc in the Sky by Kile Smith, under the direction of Donald Nally, is nominated in the Best Choral Performance category.
Smith wrote a series of articles for NewMusicBox in 2014 on the valuable lessons he learned from writing church music.
"The plight of orchestras attracts attention. Perhaps we worry about their commitment to new music, but until we can agree if or how much we should worry, at the very least, let’s think about putting our new music in front of people who adore new music." |
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Caroline Shaw: Yes, a Composer, but Perhaps not a Baker! |
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Caroline Shaw's Orange, performed by Attacca Quartet, is nominated in both the Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance category and Best Contemporary Classical Composition category.
In 2015, Frank J. Oteri sat down with Caroline Shaw to discuss everything from performance practice to sashimi to painting.
"I love concerts where I sit and listen very carefully to something that was beautifully constructed a long time ago. I love that experience. But I think that sometimes there’s not a real awareness and consciousness of what that is and what it means for new music now and what the possibilities are for thinking about older music and thinking about newer music." |
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Support for New Music USA is provided by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Major annual program and operating support is provided by grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Scherman Foundation’s Katharine S. and Axel G. Rosin Fund, the Howard Gilman Foundation, Baisley Powell Elebash Fund, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, The Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, The Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, and the Amphion Foundation, with additional annual support from the ASCAP Foundation, ASCAP Corporation, BMI Foundation, BMI Corporation, Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Rodgers and Hammerstein Foundation, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and many individuals. New Music USA acknowledges and is grateful for the support of its endowment donors, including Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Helen F. Whitaker Fund, Baisley Powell Elebash Fund, Hewlett Foundation, Fidelity Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, and Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts.
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