Articles and Essays

Archival Resources: Articles and Essays

ACA Composer Features

Stir Up Your Repertory with Music by T.J. Anderson, Jr.

T.J.’s socially engaged musical practice, undertaken over the last seven decades, has amassed a varied oeuvre - there is something waiting for you in T.J.’s ACA catalogue.

by John D. McDonald (2024)

My Journey with Miriam Gideon's Sonata for Viola and Piano

It was the hunt for repertoire by American women composers of the twentieth century that led me to perform, record, research, andwrite about Miriam Gideon’s Sonata for Viola and Piano.

by Sigrid Karlstrom (October 2022)

Telematic Music Activity: Interactive Electronics, the Internet, and Graphic Scores

Spring 2020 introduced a new reality concerning music making for practitioners of every style and genre. To quote Agostino DiScipio, "air is the interface." This works differently over the internet.

by Scott L. Miller (October 2021)

Revisiting the Shapeshifting scores of Burr Van Nostrand

Van Nostrand's "Voyage in a White Building" and "Lunar Possession Manual" scores are prescient shapeshifting from which the most detailed sounds arise from a graphic key that Van Nostrand would continue to use in his following works.

by Jason Belcher (April 2022)

Clarinet Works by Black Composers

The struggle continues for acceptance and inclusion of the African American composer on regular concert series and not only in Black History Month.

by Marcus Eley - The Clarinet 48/1 (December 2020)

Four Score Divertimento: The American Composers Alliance at 80

In observing the eighty-year milestone of this vital American institution, we hear a few brief words from four of the composers featured on upcoming ACA concerts.

by Jeff Talman (April 2017)

Setting an “Unused Poem”: Miriam Gideon’s “Böhmischer Krystall”

Miriam Gideon wrote “Böhmischer Krystall” in 1988 as part of The Schoenberg Institute’s Pierrot Project. Although “Böhmischer Krystall” is an extremely late work in Gideon’s output, it nevertheless exemplifies the stylistic attributes of her previously written vocal chamber works.

by Stephanie Jensen-Moulton (2012)

The Strange Life of Ben Weber

Ben Weber was born in St Louis, Missouri in 1916 and died in New York City in 1979. A self-taught composer, he was the first American to adopt the twelve-tone technique of Arnold Schoenberg.

by Roger Tréfousse (2012)

A Conductor's View of Symphony No. 1 by Lee Gannon

Symphony No. 1 by Donald Lee Gannon is a relatively unknown gem in the wind band repertoire due both to the untimely death of the composer along with the lack of published parts and score. Those who have had the privilege of performing the work are quick to praise the construction, depth and energy of the piece and agree to its significance in the wind band repertoire.

by M. Gregory Martin (2002)

Articles about ACA

The ACA Story: Back to the Future with Francis Thorne

ACA keeps one simple goal in mind: to support and promote American composers and their music. Today ACA continues its close affiliation with BMI. Together they strive to fortify the still tenuous position of the American composer of concert music.

by Francis Thorne - BMI: The Many Worlds of Music, Issue No. 1 (1984)

ACA and Special Collections in Performing Arts (SCPA)

The complete ACA collections, which include 25 linear feet of organizational records, over 1200 contemporary music scores, and over 65 linear feet of affiliated personal collections, play an important role in helping us realize our mission of helping researchers find moments that further their growth as performers, scholars, and humans.

by Christina Gibson (October 2021)

The American Composers Alliance Catalog and Archives

When I first arrived at the tiny ACA office at 648 Broadway, I found a daunting stack of unprocessed purchase orders that had been coming in—requests for scores, parts, and mechanical licenses from musicians, record companies, stores and re-sellers around the world.

by Gina Genova - New Music Connoisseur 22.1, (2016)

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