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While supply and demand must be used to evaluate salaries, the salaries for orchestral musicians are virtually always less than the salaries of the stagehands who set up their music stands and chairs!

American Composers Forum What do the American Composers Forum's social media efforts do for you? Do you like the content? Do you wish for more, less, something else entirely? Share with us your feedback and ideas, and we can make it even better!

American Composers Forum Hey Forum Fans - should it worry me that Common Squirrel has more twitter followers than us? http://twitter.com/COMMON_SQUIRREL By the way, you can find us on twitter @composersforum

Mark
Southern Utah University is accepting scores for the 2010 Composition Project. Details are available at the website:
http://www.suu.edu/pva/music/pdf/Commiss ioningFlyer.pdf
Source: www.suu.edu

Robin
hey, composers! Accessible Contemporary Music (Chicago) is looking for
scores for our sixth season of Weekly Readings. If you have
a score that you would like to have read and recorded, please contact us at
info@acmusic.org. For more information about our Weekly Readings
project, submission/instrumentation guidelines, and further information about ACM, please visit
http://www.acmusic.org/weeklyreadings_mo re.htm Thanks!
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Each week members of ACM and professional guest musicians from the Chicago area meet and conduct a prepared reading of a different new piece of music by a living composer who has submitted a piece to us specifically for this project.

American Composers Forum Giving to arts organizations is about to get easier in Minnesota!
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More than a dozen Minnesota foundations are pooling resources to bring philanthropy into the 21st century here. They are launching the new website GiveMN Nov. 2 to encourage individual donors to support their favorite Minnesota nonprofits by giving online. ...

Matthew Russell
Here's a question...do composers in the 21st century care about writing GREAT choral/vocal ensemble music that is accessible/singable, communicates both textually and musically, and profoundly captures the poet's/author's intent metaphorically, aesthetically, and feelingfully? We are truly in desperate need of some rea...lly GREAT, quality choral music that is culturally relevant. Would love to begin a thread on this topic. -- Matthew Russell (NYC Metropolitan Area)Read More

American Composers Forum I can't believe how fast my new work computer is. YAY!!!!

American Composers Forum Tuesday Salon tonight! Works by Julie Johnson, Mark Raigna, and Josh Clausen. 7:00p.m. @ Studio Z.

American Composers Forum Check out my friend, John Newton tonight! 5 new works to be premiered! October 9, 8:00 EST at Corthell Hall, Univ of Southern Maine, Gorham ME Also available at http://www.newtonmusic.com for live broadcast. Tickets and simulcast are both free, and there will most likely be videos posted to YouTube afterwards as well!

American Composers Forum WOW! 900 Fans?!?! Let's keep it going!

American Composers Forum America's two million artists understand what it means to be a worker in the 21st century, independent, untethered, and mostly expected to fend for themselves. So for them, the number of uninsured Americans isn't an abstract statistic. It's their life. They are the canaries in the coal mine when it comes to health-care reform.
Source: www.philly.com
Opinion, editorial columns, and commentary from todays edition of the Philadelphia Inquirer.

American Composers Forum When life hands you lemons...
Source: www.sltrib.com
Utah Theatre: Turning a crisis into opportunity

American Composers Forum Ultimately, the goal for a music director is "someone who can inspire musicians and audiences on a consistent basis," said former Philadelphia Orchestra president Kluger. But that inspiration is as individual and hard to pin down as any other form of human attraction. "I can't tell you," Kluger said, how it happens. "But I know it if I see it."
Source: www.washingtonpost.com
New season. New beginnings. New music directors. No, not at the National Symphony Orchestra, which Saturday night opened its second interim season under its principal conductor, Iv?n Fischer, while waiting for Christoph Eschenbach to take charge in the fall of 2010. But the New York Philharmonic ...


















