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WATCH LIVE TONIGHT: New Music Town Meeting

April 1, 2011 by Molly Sheridan

UPDATE: The archived footage of the presentation has now been posted here if you missed Friday night’s live stream.

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You might have heard this bit of new music news already, but the American Music Center (the kindly people who employ me) and Meet The Composer have announced their intention to merge into a new advocacy and service organization, New Music USA, which will focus on grantmaking and media. The American Composers Forum will take over the membership and professional development services the American Music Center previously dispensed.

The leaders of all three organizationsâ€”Joanne Hubbard Cossa, president and CEO of the American Music Center, Ed Harsh, president of Meet The Composer, and John Nuechterlein, president of the American Composers Forumâ€”are hosting a three-city series of town meetings to discuss plans and take questions. The first event will be held tonight in New York City, and it will also be streamed live. You can watch right from this post in the window below.

Formal remarks are set to begin at 5:45 p.m. EDT, so get your questions ready. You can use the chat window or Twitter (hashtag #newmusicUSA) to submit them to the panel. If you have any issues on this page, you can also access the presentation directly via Ustream.

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Molly Sheridan

Molly Sheridan is a writer, editor, and producer specializing in classical and experimental music, with a focus on multimedia content designed for the web. A winner of ASCAP’s Deems Taylor Award for music journalism, she’s executive editor of NewMusicBox and CounterstreamRadio, both programs of New Music USA.

She hosted Carnegie Hall’s Sound Insights podcasts and online artist interviews and her writing has appeared in publications such as TimeOut, The Washington Post, and theÂ occasionalÂ concert program.Â She attended the Honors Tutorial College at Ohio University, earning a bachelor’s in journalism with a specialization in violin performance and French in 1999.

She currently divides her time between New York City and Baltimore, where she lives with her husband, the saxophonist Brian Sacawa, and cooks for Wonderland Kitchen.