In a massive 9-1 ruling, Brazil's Supreme Court has ruled that homophobic hate speech is now punishable by prison.⁠
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Now on the same legal level as racist hate speech, perpetrators of the crime will face two to five years in prison.⁠
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Justice Edson Fachin, the lead judge on…

Rest in power, Gloria Coates. youtu.be/UEPl-PEEzaM

At 97, Kurtág takes the prize for hippest zoom background

Tonight @ 7:30 pm CT. LIVE from the Mizzou International Composers Festival, AWS performs music by Tania León, Marcos Balter, Texu Kim, Claude Baker, and John Orfe. Join us!

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This Thursday! Join us online for the opening concert of the Mizzou International Composers Festival. You've gotta hear this stuff. Hot new pieces by Marcos Balter, @texu_kim, Claude Baker, and John Orfe and Tania León's groovy Toque. youtube.com/live/eerwr0bAo…

João Donato, a Brazilian composer, musician and producer who was a pioneer of bossa nova and went on to cross-pollinate music across the Americas, has died at 88. nytimes.com/2023/07/21/art…

All those theaters doing the Barbenheimer double feature thing missed _such_ a good portmanteau opportunity. It should totally be Oppenbar.

delighted to curate a concert of queer and latinx music next season with Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra at MOLAA and Los Angeles LGBT Center ✨ featuring music by Tania J Leon, Marcos Balter , Angélica Negrón , Carolina Heredia , and Violeta Parra 🪐

When I need a reminder of the power of seeing someone who looks like you shine in mostly non-Black spaces (like most spaces in my profession), a recurring memory is the thrill and pride I felt in my youth seeing him live. Rest in Power, André Watts. 👑 youtu.be/RBz6E28wOHI

Affirmative action was never a complete answer in the drive towards a more just society. But for generations of students who had been systematically excluded from most of America’s key institutions—it gave us the chance to show we more than deserved a seat at the table.

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Astrud Gilberto, bossa nova singer of The Girl from Ipanema, dies aged 83 theguardian.com/music/2023/jun…

In memoriam Kaija Saariaho, with love and gratitude.

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Kaija Saariaho

Tonight! 6:30pm in NYC. Free admission. Music of Marcos Balter, Renee Baker, Adam Silverman, Helen Feng, Alfredo Cabrera. More info and ticket reservation at link below.
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'I really needed to be a composer. I was very unhappy before I dared to take this path, so maybe I would have been an unhappy organist in a small village in Finland. I don’t know.' Kaija Saariaho (in a 2016 interview with A.Z. Madonna)
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Kaija Saariaho was one of my heroes, one of the greatest composers of our time. She was also an extremely kind person, and one of the most insightful mentors I’ve ever encountered. I’m heartbroken to learn of her passing. My condolences to her loved ones. youtu.be/SZYx9X_N-RQ

Josh Jones, a well-known percussionist, was the first Black musician offered a chance at tenure with the Kansas City Symphony. He believes he lost out on the job, in part, because of his race. kansascity.com/news/local/art…

Gave a pre-show talk The Kitchen last night for the 5th of Claire Chase’s 10 Density shows: Pan, by Marcos Balter. Was upstaged by Chase’s contrabass flute alas

PRISM's FREE PREMIERES concerts in NYC-6/5 & Philly-6/6 feature Marcos Balter's yarn.
'Quality yarn is typically loose and lightweight; fragility and exquisiteness are intrinsically correlated. The ultimate price of refinement is ephemerality.' -MB
RSVP: prismquartet.com

“It’s so difficult to talk about Claire,” the composer Marcos Balter said. “She’s so much more than a virtuoso flutist or a pedagogue. She is a true catalyst for change. But also not only that. She makes you think that everything is possible.” nyti.ms/3W5QMUs