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Groundbreaking Trumpeter/Composer Wadada Leo Smith Appointed Spring 2024 Fromm Foundation Visiting Lecturer in Music at Harvard University

February 5, 2024

Leading PhD Student Seminar on “Creativity, Inspiration, and the Practice of Composition”

For all the minimalism of his sound, Smith has turned out to be a maximalist in his ambitions, evolving into one of our most powerful storytellers, an heir to American chroniclers like Charles Ives and Ornette Coleman…”  – Adam Shatz, The New York Review of Books

Wadada Leo Smith has played an outsize role in American experimental music...

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The Fromm Music Foundation Announces 2023 Commission Recipients and Project Grant Recipients

January 25, 2024

CAMBRIDGE, MA — The Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University is pleased to announce the 2023 commission and project grant recipients.

Each year, the Fromm Music Foundation accepts applications for commissions of new music, and awards commissions to fourteen American composers. The Fromm Music Foundation commissions represent one of the ways that the foundation strives to support the creation of new musical works and bring...

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The Fromm Music Foundation Announces 2022 Commission Recipients, Prize Winners, and Project Grant Recipients

March 14, 2023

CAMBRIDGE, MA — The Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University is pleased to announce the 2022 commission and project grant recipients, as well as the winner of the Fromm Music Foundation Prize.

Each year, the Fromm Music Foundation accepts applications for commissions of new music, and awards commissions to fourteen American composers. The Fromm Music Foundation commissions represent one of the ways that the foundation strives to support the creation of new musical works and bring contemporary concert music closer to the public.

2022 Fromm Music...

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Fromm Music Foundation Prize

November 20, 2019

FROMM MUSIC FOUNDATION AT HARVARD ANNOUNCES 2019 WINNER OF FROMM MUSIC FOUNDATION PRIZE

The Board of Directors of the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University is pleased to award the Ensemble Dal Niente a $25,000 Fromm Music Foundation Prize. This award recognizes innovative commitment to the music of our time, and the Ensemble Dal Niente are commended for what they have achieved in promoting new music.

The Fromm Music Foundation Prize is given annually at the discretion of the Fromm Foundation Board; there is no application process. Recipients of the...

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2020 Fromm Players

March 5, 2020

 

On April 3 and 4 at Harvard University, pianist and composer Vijay Iyer will present Black Speculative Musicalities: The Fromm Players Concerts, a festival and symposium created to shine a bright light on the radical sonic imaginings of the African diaspora.  The events will honor the artists who, through their powerful imaginations, have challenged and expanded our notions of what music is, what it can be, and what it can do.  The performers include Meshell...

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