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Piano Etudes of H ACA 21st Century Bulletin // Volume 1 Table of Contents From the ACA President 3 Composers, Board, and Staff 4 ACA Update: Keeping in Step (by Gina Genova) 6 Shelter Music Recordings 10 Composers Reflect on the Year (by Nicoletta Lamarca Sacco) 13 Recent News and Events 16 Upcoming Events 20 Report: Will’s Office (by Will Rowe) 23 More and More Music: Current and Upcoming ACA Publications 24 Anthologies 25 American Highlights 26 Etudes 27 Strange Imaginary Creatures: Explorations in Graphic Music 28 Special Listings: ACA Music by Black Composers 29 Special Listings: New and Updated Works 35 Obituaries 45 Our Donors and Acknowledgment 46 American Composers Alliance is a nonprofit composers’ collective and music catalog, originally started in 1937 by Aaron Copland and associates. With support from BMI and the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, ACA strives to deliver materials to the new music community and to preserve scores for long term future access, and to nurture creative opportunities for composers in the U.S. The 21st-Century Bulletin is planned for publication each April and October. Thank you for visiting our first April issue. www.composers.com [ 2 ] ACA 21st Century Bulletin // Volume 1 ACA From the ACA President …. We have reached the one-year mark of the covid pandemic, and I think all of us have experienced profound changes in our work and our lives. During this time, I have been heartened by the resiliency and imagination that I have seen in performers, composers, and supporters of our art. This has been a brightness in a dark time. Like other important organizations, the American Composers Alliance has continued to be a support for our music and our work as composers. The catalog continues to grow, and new composers have joined as members. The ability of ACA to preserve scores and documents has been strengthened through a formal relationship with the University of Maryland, and the ACA Custodial Program continues to guarantee a legacy for our work. Sales of physical scores and downloaded files of our music are strong, and these have been bolstered by new and imaginative ways of presenting our music for sale. I have always believed that my work as President of the ACA Board of Directors has included a responsibility to hear, imagine, and forward new actions and initiatives that will keep ACA agile. The need to adjust to ever changing professional realities is constant. In this category has been the “Shelter Recordings” project, designed to be a performance venue in a time when there have not been concerts. Outside of the usual business of ACA, it has provided an important short-term boost to making music while observing the social distancing required. To ACA composers, and to all those who follow and support our work, I send my best wishes for a productive and satisfying year of composing and music making. David Liptak [ 3 ] ACA 21st Century Bulletin // Volume 1 AMERICAN COMPOSERS ACA ALLIANCEA M E R I C A N C O M P O ComposersS E R S A L L I A N C E H Leslie Adams Eleanor Cory Hubert Howe BOARD OF GOVERNORS Milton Adolphus Gheorghe Costinescu Jere Hutcheson BOARD OF GOVERNORS Bradley Albers Lou Coyner Edward Jacobs RobertDavidRobert Liptak Carl Carl (President) T J Anderson Arthur Custer Loretta Jankowski DavidDavid Froom Froom (Vice President) President)President) RobertBarbaraRobert Gibson GibsonJazwinski (Secretary) Andrew Ardizzoia Joseph Dangerfield Barbara Jazwinski BarbaraNoelBarbara Zahler Jazwinski Jazwinski (Treasurer)(Secretary) (Secretary) Bülent Arel Matthew Davidson Andrew McManus David Liptak (President) DavidRobert Liptak Carl (President) Jody Rockmaker Christopher Auerbach-Brown William DeFotis Donald Martin Jenni JodyRobert Rockmaker Gibson StevenSteven Christopher Christopher Sacco Sacco Elizabeth R Austin Michael Dellaira David Evan Jones JodyBrian Rockmaker Schober Brian Schober Aaron Avshalomov Lawrence Dillon Louis Karchin StevenAlice Shields Christopher Sacco Alice Shields Jacob Avshalomov John Eaton Ulysses Kay MarilynBrianMarilyn Schober Shrude Shrude ChristopherMarilynChristopher Shrude Shultis Emil Awad George Edwards Homer Keller Daniel Tacke DanielChristopher Tacke Shultis Frederic Balazs Robert Evett Robert Kelly Noel Zahler (Treasurer) NoelDaniel Zahler Tacke (Treasurer) James Scott Balentine Margaret Fairlie-Kennedy Sunbin Kim ADVISORS George Barati Noel Farrand Ellis Kohs ADVISORS Gerry Fifer, Esq. 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