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3	Joining 11 of her peers, Alex co-founded the Creative Repertoire Initiative to encourage composers to create adaptable works for ensembles with varying personnel and rehearsal circ***stances.
4	For this world in constant flux, Alex's latest electroacoustic work, Pa*AGES, offers a calming, centering, meditative, and encouraging outlook for any combination of instruments. Each cellular phrase sounds beautiful whether stacked or exposed, and played with any of the chords in the accompaniment track. It's never quite the same piece twice, because musicians make random choices from a selection of melodies and rhythms of varying difficulty. The music is especially well suited for musicians recording themselves during distance learning sessions, and even for soloists wis*ng to improvise!
5	Stream an excerpt from the accompaniment track:
6	Download an excerpt from the accompaniment track:
7	Alex has many more electroacoustic large ensemble commissions being delivered between now and 2023. More details on these will be coming shortly!
8	Alex has just finished an unusual, sound design-heavy electroacoustic concert opener for wind band, ASCENT. It was scheduled to be performed by the University of Hawai'i Wind Ensemble conducted by lead commissioner Jeffrey Boeckman at the CBDNA Western/Northwestern Division Conference in Tacoma, WA on March 19, 2020, but we all know what happened to this and every other conference across the world that month. The work was commissioned by 25 ensembles from the U.S. and Canada.
9	Also featured at the conference on March 20th was Alex's band work MOMENT, performed by the University of Alberta Symphonic Wind Ensemble conducted by Angela Schroeder, and a presentation on large ensemble multimedia works and social activism that she was looking forward to giving, with University of Puget Sound Director of Bands Gerard Morris.
10	Nonetheless, right before all the concert cancellations, the University of Hawai'i Wind Ensemble was able to perform ASCENT a couple of times for their local island audiences. You can hear the fantastic job they did for the Honolulu premiere by clicking on the links below!
11	Band director Jim Mobley loves the fresh genre of electroacoustic wind band music, and believes that there should be more such pieces in the repertoire— especially for younger musicians to perform. He put together the N-BEAM consortium, which over the course of three years, has supported the addition of three new Grade 2.5 EA works to the concert band world. Composers Daniel Montoya Jr. and Benjamin Taylor wrote their pieces-- TECHNO BLADE, and AXE TO GRIND, respectively-- for the 2018 and 2019 seasons, and Alex has just delivered OFF THE EDGE, to its 35 commissioning ensembles.
12	Have a listen to Alex's pop-EDM approach to music for middle schoolers, as performed in March 2020 by the Center Grove Middle School Central Band in Greenwood, Indiana, conducted by Samuel Fritz. Play it loudly!
13	The first round of N-BEAM has been so successful that Jim Mobley and the three composers have agreed to launch N-BEAM 2.0! Three new pieces will roll out between 2020 and 2023. Interested in being a partic****nt in this unique and wonderful adventure? Click here:
14	Want to witness just how ridiculous three composers and a band director can be under the glare of conference floor lights at the Midwest Clinic? Click here:
15	Enjoy the live recording!
16	Even more new electroacoustic wind band works:
17	One year after leading a consortium of seven schools that commissioned Alex's now-familiar 12-tone Afro-Cuban-grooved TIGHT SQUEEZE (just like Schoenberg!), Composers & Schools in Concert partnered again with Alex on a new piece with an emphasis on visual multimedia, t**led LIGHTS OUT. A consortium of 19 schools around the U.S. interacted with Alex via Skype, as she solicited creative visual ideas from the musicians for their Spring 2015 premieres, as well as for inclusion in the published score to inspire other bands. Wanna get a sense of what they all came up with? Click here!
18	In February 2016, Alex delivered a third CSIC-led electroacoustic wind band piece for an 18-member consortium, and the new work, t**led MOMENT, premiered throughout Spring 2016 around the U.S. You can read about the enivronmental awareness behind the very emotional music here:
19	And, March 2016 brought with it an unusual minimalist piece for musicians of all ages t**led ROCK MUSIC, commissioned by Patrick Marsh Middle School Band and its adventurous conductor Chris Gleason. The piece, which addresses glacial melting and climate change and includes many extended techniques not heard on the demo below, premiered in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin on May 10, 2016. You can read about it-- and see a video!-- here:
20	If you're interested in partic****ting in future consortia, please contact Activist Music!
21	LIQUID COMPa***
22	REMEMBRANCE
23	KETTLE BREW
24	PERPETUAL SPARK
25	Earlier:
26	A bit later:
27	UNABASHEDLY MORE
28	Listen to excerpts (2)
29	Earlier in the piece
30	Later in the piece
31	IMMERSION
32	Want to hear exactly how Alex's island environment influences her music? Click on the excerpts, or listen to it stream in its entirety, below.
33	Symphony for winds, percussion and digital audio. Live premiere February 2011 in Minneapolis by the University of Minnesota Symphonic Band, Jerry Luckhardt, conductor.
34	Mov't 1: Depth
35	Mov't 2: Surface
36	Mov't 3: Beneath, clip 1
37	Mov't 3: Beneath, clip 2
38	CLICK

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1	(and... speaker... essayist. activist... naturalist photo-blogger. fun person.)
2	"[Shapiro's music is] enough to give one hope for the contemporary music scene."
3	Contact Alex
4	Performance calendar
5	What does Alex sound like?
6	CD releases
7	What's Alex doing now?
8	Click here for wind band!
9	Webhearsals and coaching
10	The tides and Alex
11	Connect with Alex
12	A note for this time of COVID-19:
13	A number of Ms. Shapiro's wind band pieces can already be effectively performed with reduced ensemble personnel, thanks to the power of their accompaniment tracks. These tracks and their versions with a click, make it easy for musicians to practice, and if desired, record their parts at home.
14	Additionally, Alex is currently adapting several of her solo and duo professional level electroacoustic works for grades 2,3, and 4. Email Alex for specific information and requests!
15	Interact! Become one of Alex's online friends and share your world with her.
16	Looking for something? Search this site:
17	Looking for composers with diverse backgrounds? Click HERE for helpful PROGRAMMING RESOURCES!
18	Composing a lot of music (mostly for chamber ensembles and symphonic wind bands, often paired with prerecorded audio soundscapes)
19	Speaking at events, residencies, and conferences around the world and virtually
20	Partic****ting on advocacy boards and committees
21	Writing articles and essays
22	and
23	Photo-blogging wildlife from the remote island on which she creates!
24	Get a sense of Alex, as she responds to the question, "What kind of composer are you?" in this 50-second excerpt from a 2010 interview, below:
25	In March 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic grew, the arts advocacy organization Composers Now invited Alex and other artists to offer a few words of hope.
26	What Alex has been up to:
27	Recordings (2)
28	Commissions & premieres
29	Interviews & articles
30	Appearances
31	Residencies & workshops
32	Media & community
33	Currently/Most recently
34	Latest recordings:
35	A [non-performing!] pianist herself, Alex has always loved composing for the instrument. Pianist Adam Marks has recorded all of Alex's solo piano works for a gorgeous album on Innova Recordings t**led ARCANA. The release date is August 28, 2020, and if you visit the dedicated page for the [slightly unusual] project, you can read about it and enjoy preview excerpts!
36	Activist Music has created a collection of Alex Shapiro's complete solo piano works, available at a discounted rate as a set of .pdf downloads. Ranging from short offerings to those with multiple movements, these idiomatic pieces reveal an especially personal musical world. For complete information about the published collection, click HERE.
37	Flutist Tessa Brinckman released a beautiful CD single on World Oceans Day, June 8, 2020, of Alex's electroacoustic duet for contraba*** flute and Pacific Humpback whale, BELOW. Click HERE to see an excerpt from the mesmerizing video created for the project by Diana Lehr.
38	Latest mix:
39	When conductor Stephen Squires led the Fox Valley Orchestra in Aurora, Illinois in a performance of BENEATH, he also recorded the ensemble so that Alex could mix the track in her studio. Venture to the depths of the sea with the plaintive song of a Humpback whale as your guide, and listen to this orchestra's beautiful recording!
40	Latest 2020 publication:
41	Latest 2020 premiere:
42	Latest unusual project:
43	COVID-19 has brought many challenges to university music programs, but in the face of limitations there are also positive opportunities. Rather than try to make something as precious as live ensemble performance exist in a format not yet designed for it, Alex gave some thought to what an online connection for students in band and orchestra can uniquely provide.
44	At the invitation of the University of Was***ngton's Director of Bands Timothy Salzman, Alex came up with a syllabus for the students that reflects our current reality. Click here to read the article about the successful project, Putting the E- in E-nsemble.
45	Latest choral premiere:
46	Alex has composed an emotional electroacoustic work for SATB choir, t**led O DEATH ROCK ME ASLEEP. The dramatic piece is set to a moving text penned by Anne Boleyn while imprisoned in the Tower of London as she awaited her beheading. Commissioned by Suzi Digby and The Golden Bridge, the new work premiered in Beverly Hills, CA. on September 7, 2019.
47	Click here to listen to, or watch, the flawless premiere.
48	Latest 2019 delivered commission:
49	Latest press:
50	Sheet Music Plus features Alex and her career in a wide-ranging piece for its September 2019 Take Note blog. Read about the connection between music, activism, multimedia, and yes, even Beethoven, by clicking here.
51	Minnesota Public Radio's Your Cla***ical division created a Top Ten list of wind band composers, to expand the public's knowledge of the genre. Alex [randomly!] came in at #2 after Sousa. You can peruse the list by clicking here.
52	Latest clinics:
53	Alex was a clinician for the 2019 British Columbia Music Educators' a*ociation Conference in Vancouver, Canada on October 25 and 26. She gave two presentations: one about the power of musicians to use their art to effect change, tled Activism of the Musical Heart: Raising Awareness by Connecting All Those Dots. The other was an exploration into the new tools available to composers and musicians, t**led The e-Frontier: Electroacoustic Music, Multimedia, Education, and Audiences in the Digital World. Alex also joined University of Victoria Director of Bands Steven Capaldo for a clinic about diversity and inclusion in concert programming.
54	In lieu of presenting a similar presentation at the COVID-cancelled CBDNA Western/Northwestern Division Conference in March 2020 in Tacoma, WA., in June 2020 Alex gave the talk online in a Zoominar, and invited conductors Rob Taylor (University of British Columbia), Gerard Morris (University of Puget Sound) and composer Steven Bryant to join her.
55	Latest exhibit:
56	From June to September 2019, the San Juan Islands Museum of Art featured a stunning exhibit t**led DEEP DIVE, which uses artworks in many media to raise awareness of the sea and its creatures in an increasingly precarious environment. Four of Alex's works: BENEATH, DEPTH, BELOW, and DEEP, played continuously on a loop, accompanying the message and its creative expressions.
57	Latest longform interview:
58	The second edition of Spain's wind band publication Estudios Bandisticos features a lengthy interview that Alex gave to Camila Fernández over breakfast at Lincoln Center in New York City. To read what Alex had to say in this wide-ranging conversation, click here.
59	Latest article:
60	In September 2018, the online music magazine NewMusicBox published Alex's latest article, Dissing the Competion. In it she exposes the myriad problems with some pay-to-enter composer competions, and lists many better ways emerging writers can spend their money. To read it, click here.
61	Latest international workshops:
62	Alex was in
63	Tokyo, j***an
64	in late May 2019 for meetings with her colleagues on the Executive Committee of The International Council Of Music Authors (CIAM)— the writers council of CISAC.
65	While there, she and several CIAM ExCo members gave a workshop hosted by j*an's collective management society JASRAC, for an auditorium of j*anese music creators, addressing local and international copyright issues.
66	In January 2019 during the CIAM ExCo meetings in
67	Cabo Verde, Africa,
68	Alex partic****ted in career and copyright workshops with her CIAM ExCo writer colleagues.
69	In November 2018 in Mexico City, Alex was with her writer colleagues on the CIAM ExCo at the Annual CIAM Congress in
70	Mexico City.
71	She moderated a panel discussion with music creators from Australia, Europe, Canada, and South America, discussing not only the problems of far-reaching biases, but the solutions. Also in attendance were ASCAP President and Chairman Paull Williams, and ASCAP CEO Elizabeth Matthews.
72	Alex again joined her international writer colleagues on the CIAM ExCo at the May 2018 CISAC General a***embly meeting in
73	Warsaw, Poland,
74	at which she spoke on a panel addressing gender inequity issues throughout the music industry. You can read about it by clicking here.
75	CIAM addresses issues ranging from global copyright and royalty payment improvements, to transfer of value, fair trade music, blockchain potential, and much more, in an effort to advance the wellbeing of music creators around the world.
76	Clinician, December 19-22 2018, in Chicago, Illinois:
77	Joining composer Jennifer Jolley, and conductors Jeffrey Boeckman, Courtney Snyder, Chester Bryant Phillips, and Jacob Wallace, Alex partic**ted in a presentation at the 2018 Midwest Clinic tled, "Bridging the Gender Gap: Developing Strategies for Creating Equity in Ensemble Programming."
78	Speaking and presenting, December 12, 2018, in New York City, NY:
79	Alex and fellow ASCAP Board member Marcus Miller gave a talk to the winners of the ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composers Award, prior to the awards ceremony at which the duo acknowledged the receipents. Alex was also pleased to present composer Melinda Wagner with the ASCAP Foundation Masters Award.
80	Panelist, May 8, 2018, in Hollywood, California:
81	Partnering with fellow ASCAP Board members Desmond Child and Mich**e Lewis plus producer Deputy, Alex spoke on an entertaining panel tled Welcome to Splitsville, U.S.A.: Where co-writers live together in harmony forever... like our songs. The quartet demonstrated the importance of accurate songwriting agreements to ensure payment. Click to read about the panel here.
82	Recent commissions and premieres
83	Electroacoustic s***tet and band piece:
84	Alex's unusual piece for low winds, TRAIN OF THOUGHT, was commissioned by Paul Kile for the Cochran Chamber Commissioning Project, and premiered in Edina, Minnesota on May 22, 2016. Click the t**le to read the story behind the music. It gives new meaning to the term, "audio track"!
85	Kile joins conductor Adam Campagna and several other partic**nts in a consortium that has commissioned Alex to create a version of the piece for full symphonic wind band. The new work, tled TRAINS OF THOUGHT, has begun its partic****nt premieres, starting off with the University of Puget Sound Wind Ensemble performing on March 3, 2018, conducted by Gerard Morris.
86	Even more new electroacoustic wind band works:
87	Listen to LIGHTS OUT:
88	Listen to MOMENT:
89	Listen to ROCK MUSIC:
90	Recent podcasts
91	March 2020: Beloved band director Charlie Menghini launched a new podcast series of conversations with composers, conductors, and educators, Band Talk with Charlie Menghini and Friends, and Alex was the first of his guests for Episode 2. Click the icon at right to have a listen.
92	March 2018: Alex really enjoyed talking with Mark J. Connor as a guest on his pop****r podcast, Everything Band. Covering everything from career to clarinet-playing gerbils (!), it was a far-ranging chat! Click the icon at right to have a listen.
93	January 2016:
94	Alex spent the better part of an afternoon chatting about the business and philosophical aspects of a happy composing career, with composer and The Portfolio Composer podcast host Garrett Hope (pictured at right). Their wide-ranging conversation over drinks in Alex's San Juan Island, WA living room, is posted in two March 2016 parts, and you can hear it below:
95	Part 1:
96	Part 2:
97	May 2017 and April 2016:
98	In May 2017, Alex returned to MPP to join co-hosts Dennis Tobenski and mezzo-soprano Megan Ihnen for a discussion about the wide range of creative commissioning techniques available to performers and composers. Want to hear Alex's Plan A,B,C,D and beyond? Click here:
99	The previous April, Alex was the inaugural guest for composer Tobenski's new series, Music Publis***ng Podcast. Despite some technical issues with a Hangout connection that apparently had Alex reaching for her snorkel, she and Dennis had an excellent conversation about the business of being a busy composer. You can stream it in the background while doing something mindless above the mean tide line, by clicking here.
100	Composers Datebook is a daily two-minute syndicated radio program produced by American Public Media in a*ociation with the American Composers Forum. The series highlights moments in music history of the past and the present, and its February 11, 2017 and 2020 segments feature Alex Shapiro and the anniversary of the premiere of her sonata for tuba and piano tled Music for Two Big Instruments. You can listen to the amusing description by clicking here and then clicking the "play" arrow at the top of the page
101	You can listen to more interviews with Alex here.
102	A recent doc***entary appearance
103	Alex appears in two of director Michael Stillwater's doc*entary films: s*ning Night, and In Search of the Great Song. Click below to listen to a short excerpt from the latter, filmed at Alex's home on San Juan Island, WA. and scored with her piece BELOW. Alex shares her thoughts about how the sea inspires her muses.
104	A featured article
105	Alex was asked to contribute her thoughts to NewMusicBox's April 2016 series about music and money, and delivered a piece t**led Let's Make a List, that many college professors are already making required reading for their composition students. In it, Alex offers a detailed road map to point music-makers toward the many revenue streams that can be generated from their copyrights. You can read the essay-- and add to the comment thread with your own suggestions-- by clicking here.
106	A few appearances
107	November 7-9, 2017, in Tokyo, j***an:
108	Alex was elected to be ASCAP's representative on the Executive Committee of The International Council Of Music Authors (CIAM)— the writers council of CISAC, a global network of authors' societies that represents four million creators in 121 countries. She spoke on a panel t**led, "The Future of Collective Management."
109	June 7-10, 2017, in Lisbon, Portugal:
110	Alex was invited to represent the writer members of ASCAP at the Executive Committee meetings for CIAM, the International Council Of Music Authors. The Council was formed by CISAC, the global collective of performing rights societies, and is comprised of creator members of performing rights music organizations around the world.
111	April 26, 2017, in Was***ngton, D.C.: Alex returned to Capitol Hill where each spring, members of the Board of Directors of ASCAP and writer members who are strong copyright advocates meet with Senators, members of Congress, and their aides, to keep the message of fair compensation for music creators front and center. Known as "Stand with Songwriters" Advocacy Day, the office visits are preceded by an inspiring evening concert at the Library of Congress called, "We Write the Songs," where policy makers enjoy performances by some of the world's top ASCAP creators.
112	Over the years Alex has spoken with many Representatives, including Joaquin Castro (D-TX), pictured here in May 2016 with Alex and ASCAP board President and Chairman Paul Williams.
113	April 13-15, 2017, in Hollywood:
114	The 12th annual ASCAP EXPO brought artists from every genre together for an inspiring conference of workshops, panels, performances and networking at the Loews Hollywood Hotel. Alex spoke on a panel t**led "Getting Credit Where Credit is Due," addressing the need for accurate attribution across all genres and in all uses of digital media, alongside songwriter and performer Aloe Blacc, songwriter and fellow ASCAP Board member Desmond Child, attorney and panel moderator Dina LaPolt, and Auddly founder Niclas Molinder (pictured L-R). You can read about the animated discussion-- which included comments from Pandora's head of publisher licensing Adam Parness during the Q&A by clicking here.
115	At the 2016 EXPO, Alex gave a lively presentation on a panel about creative uses of multimedia in concert music, t**led "Seeing Music: Multimedia Concerts for a Visual World." Pictured L-R: Composer Veronika Krausas, Alex, visualists Candace Reckinger and Michael Patterson, and ASCAP VP of Concert Music Cia Toscanini.
116	December 14, 2016, in New York City:
117	The ASCAP Foundation Awards event honors emerging and distinguished music creators from a broad array of genres, and Alex was honored to present the Life in Music Award to her friend and renowned composer Morten Lauridsen. For information, click here
118	November 4-6, 2016, in Friday Harbor:
119	Alex handled the Q&A sessions with the Friday Harbor Film Festival audiences for four screenings of two doc*entary films in which she and her music appear: s*NING NIGHT, and IN SEARCH OF THE GREAT SONG, both directed by Michael Stillwater. For information, click here!
120	April 24, 2016, in Los Angeles:
121	Alex (pictured on the left) was back in the saddle at the Los Angeles Composer Salon series that she co-founded in 2000 with composer Kubilay Uner (pictured second from right). She co-moderated the celebratory 60th event at Tuttomedia Studios in Venice, CA. with Giovanna Imbesi, pictured at right, and a stellar lineup of guests including L-R: Billy Childs, Gloria Cheng, and Deborah Lurie.
122	Recent residencies
123	May 16-19, 2019:
124	Alex was in residence at Mt. San Antonio College, rehearsing her music with its band led by conductor Dr. Gregory Whitmore. Whitmore is also the conductor of the Pacific Symphony Youth Wind Ensemble, which performed two of Alex's most pop****r works, TIGHT SQUEEZE and PAPER CUT at Segerstrom Hall in Costa Mesa.
125	January 19-21, 2018:
126	Alex was at Shenandoah University, working with the composition students and enjoying performances of three of her works: her trio CIRCUS OF FLEAS, as well as
127	MOMENT (4)
128	and TIGHT SQUEEZE, conducted by Tim Robblee.
129	April 10-11, 2017:
130	Alex was at University of Minnesota, speaking with the conducting students as well as the instrumentalists.
131	February 25-26, 2017:
132	Alex returned to The University of Hawai'i at Manoa, to work with composition students as well as with Jeffrey Boeckman and the University of Hawai'i Wind Ensemble, which performed two of Alex's works: HOMECOMING, and MOMENT. Click HERE for more info.
133	December 7, 2016:
134	Alex was a guest speaker and gave her multimedia presentation on electroacoustic wind band music to the composition students at Columbia College.
135	December 6, 2016:
136	Alex came to Chicago to work with the musicians at Roosevelt University's Chicago College of Performing Arts. In addition to lectures and private lessons all day, the evening featured a concert conducted by Stephen Squires that included three of Alex's wind band works: BENEATH, LIQUID COMPa***, and LIGHTS OUT.
137	November 11-13, 2016:
138	Alex was the Composer-in-Residence at University of Montana, in Missoula, and her visit included two concerts featuring three of her recent wind band works: ROCK MUSIC, MOMENT, and LIQUID COMPa***, conducted by James Smart and Parker Bixby.
139	August 2-11, 2016:
140	Alex joined composer and Festival founder Anne Guzzo to be the Composer-in-Residence for the inaugural year of The Wyoming Festival. Bringing visiting composers together with world-cla*** performers including violinist Holly Mulcahy, the Festival included two concerts held in Grand Teton National Park at the Craig Thomas Visitor Center Auditorium, and the UW-NPS AMK Ranch research station.
141	July 23-24, 2016, in Vancouver, B.C.:
142	Alex was the guest composer at the 4th Annual UBC Wind Conducting Symposium, held at The University of British Columbia School of Music. Conductor and host Rob Taylor chose electroacoustic wind band music as the focus for the Symposium, and Alex gave an in-depth presentation on conducting and producing electroacoustic music and multimedia concerts. To top it off, Rob set up an "electroacoustic petting zoo," allowing any of the 45 conductors in attendance to come up to the podium, don a set of headphones, get comfortable with a click track, and conduct one of Alex's wind band pieces!
143	A few publications
144	Over the past decade, Susanne Kessel has recorded and toured with two of Alex's short solo piano works, FOR MY FATHER, and SLOWLY, SEARCHING. On October 6 2014, Kessel once again recorded a new short work of Alex's, CHORD HISTORY, on the gorgeous Steinway at WDR Radio in Cologne, Germany, for a CD released on Obst in July 2016.
145	The piece is a small part of Kessel's wide-ranging 2014-2020 CD project and tour, 250 Piano Pieces for Beethoven, celebrating the upcoming 250th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven, with whom Kessel shares a Bonn, Germany heritage (though definitely not his reportedly sour personality). It's included in Volume 1, a 152 page book of the first 25 pieces in the series, published by Editions Musica Ferrum.
146	You can learn more about CHORD HISTORY here.
147	June, September, 2014:
148	Alex's brain is about 8,000 words lighter: she's written an extensive two-part article echoing the clinic presentations on new media in the band world that she gave at The 2013 Midwest Clinic and the 2014 Texas Music Educators a*ociation Conference. The essay, tled The e-Frontier: Music, Multimedia, Education, and Audiences in the Digital World, appears in the June and September 2014 issues of the magazine of the World a***ociation for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, WASBE World.
149	Read the full article, offered with the kind permission of WASBE.
150	Two of Alex's electroacoustic wind band pieces, PAPER CUT, and TIGHT SQUEEZE, are featured in the educational book/CD series, Teaching Music Through Performance in Band, Volume 10, edited by Eugene Migliaro Corporon and released by GIA Publications December 2014.
151	You can learn more about this book/CD set here.
152	Recent appointments
153	November, 2017:
154	Alex Shapiro became ASCAP's elected representative on the Executive Committee of The International Council Of Music Authors (CIAM)— the writers council of CISAC, a global network of authors' societies that represents four million creators in 121 countries. CIAM members convene several times a year in cities around the world to address the many ways to fiercely protect the rights of composers, authors and copyright holders so that they're properly remunerated for the commercial uses of their work. The Council also takes an active role in advising newly established collective rights societies. Working with advocates in countries whose creators have not had the benefit of essential rights like copyright protection and royalty distribution, CIAM shares information about best practices to help them serve their members.
155	November, 2016:
156	Alex is honored to have been elected to the Board of Directors of The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, which provides financial support for myriad composers and musicians seeking a***istance in launching recording and performance projects, and handles permissions for uses of Copland's music. Click here to peruse the site!
157	March, 2015:
158	Alex was elected by the members***p to the Board of Directors of ASCAP, to serve as the Symphonic & Concert writer representative. She began serving in this capacity in April 2014 when she was elected by the board to fill the mid-term vacancy of the seat previously held for over twenty years by the late, esteemed composer Stephen Paulus.
159	July, 2015:
160	New Music USA is a major national arts advocacy organization which provides over $1 million each year in grant support for the creation and performance of new work and community building throughout the country. Alex was an inaugural co-chair of its Program Council, an advisory committee of people working in the field, and continues to serve as a member.
161	October, 2015:
162	Alex is very pleased to serve as a member of the Columbia College Chicago Music Department Advisory Panel, exploring what contemporary education should offer to students to best prepare them for productive, happy careers.
163	December, 2015: (2)
164	Composers Now is an important organization that celebrates the diverse music of living composers, and Alex is delighted to have joined its Distinguished Mentors Council. Click here to learn about the February 2016 Festival, as well as other upcoming events across New York City throughout the year!
165	Alex was elected to the Board of Directors of The ASCAP Foundation, which provides funding for a remarkably broad scope of composers and performers working in nearly every genre. Click here to peruse the site!
166	Event Archive (2)
167	Full streams of some premieres:
168	May 10, 2014:
169	Commemorating the 140th anniversary of Carthage College's wind band, LIQUID COMPa*** takes the musicians and the audience on a journey across the sea, and spans the mystical and the triumphant. The piece migrates to different places, but never loses its bearings in pursuit of a musical true north.
170	Featuring the live resonance of water dripping into metal bowls, this piece is not only electro-acoustic, but electro-aquatic! LIQUID COMPa*** allows electricity and water to mix safely!
171	August, 2013:
172	REMEMBRANCE, Alex's emotional work for string orchestra, was very beautifully brought to an audience for the first time on August 6, 2013 in Was***ngton D.C., by the U.S. Army Strings conducted by Major Tod. A. Addison.
173	Click here if you'd like to read about the evolution of the piece.
174	If you are in a reflective mood-- or would like to be in one-- have a listen
175	February 8, 2013:
176	KETTLE BREW was premiered by its co-composer David Jarvis at Was***ngton State University, during Alex's visit as the guest composer for WSU's Festival of Contemporary Art Music. The electroacoustic piece is the result of a very fun collaboration that brings the words "funk timpani" and "lounge chill" together for [we're guessing] the first time. Click here to read the story of how this happened.
177	Sit back and chill for seven minutes as you stream the entire piece, recorded by David Jarvis, or watch the cool video, below:
178	Listen to excerpts from other Shapiro premieres:
179	February, 2012:
180	PERPETUAL SPARK, Alex's latest chamber s*tet, was heard in six Chicago-area concerts throughout February and into March, premiered by familiar partners to her musical crimes, Fifth House Ensemble,which recorded the work fall 2013 for their 2014 CD, Excelsior, produced by Judith Sherman, on Cedille Records. Featured as WQXR's Q2 Album of the Week in New York City, and one of Rhapsody's Top Ten Cla*ical Albums for Sept. 2014, the track and what WQXR calls its "luminous energy" has been getting wide airplay across the U.S.
181	Dedicated to the late Mara Bershad, this piece for flute/piccolo, violin, viola, cello, double ba*** and piano, originally came to life as SPARK for solo piano, premiered by Teresa McCollough at Roulette in New York City in November 2011. You can enjoy Teresa's performance of SPARK at the 22-minute mark of the first stream, along with all the concert selections, from the archival page made available by Roulette, here.
182	Listen to excerpts of PERPETUAL SPARK from Fifth House Ensemble's live premiere performance at the Chicago Cultural Center:
183	Read about UNABASHEDLY MORE
184	Flute/piccolo, clarinet, violin, viola, cello and piano. Performed live in New York City April 2011, by Lunatics at Large.
185	Read about IMMERSION
186	February 15, 2012:
187	For a three-hour broadcast devoted to her music, Alex joined Marvin Rosen for his radio show out of Princeton University, Cla***ical Discoveries, during which they broadcast all of IMMERSION, and spoke about how the piece came into existence.
188	Enjoy the live premiere performance, February 16, 2011, by the University of Minnesota Symphonic Wind Band, Jerry Luckhardt, conductor. Recorded by Minnesota Public Radio; Produced by Alex Shapiro.
189	Listen to Alex describe IMMERSION, and hear the full symphony:
190	Concerts (2)
191	Recordings of Alex's music:
192	Shapiro chamber music collection
193	The Innova Recordings release of Alex's album, Notes from the Kelp, is a collection of eight of Alex's representative chamber works. To read about the music and hear excerpts, click here
194	Add some algae to your life and buy a copy:
195	Or, download and enjoy all the tracks right now:
196	Discography
197	Clariphonia: Trio for Clarinet, Violin and Piano
198	New American Piano Music: Sonata for Piano
199	Music for Hammers & Sticks: At the Abyss
200	Coast to Coast: Music for Two Big Instruments
201	Above and Beyond: Bioplasm
202	Solo Rumores:
203	An Robert Schumann: Slowly, searching
204	La Discordantia: Slip
205	2017 NAfME Northwest: Liquid Compa***
206	Jenni Scott: s***ny Kiss
207	Trio Chromos: Elegy
208	Below: Music for Low Flutes:
209	Below (3)
210	The Dreams of Birds: Intermezzo
211	Garrison Piano Compet**ion: Scherzo
212	Alex Shapiro: Notes from the Kelp
213	Delicate Balance: Water Crossing
214	250 Piano Pieces for Beethoven:
215	Chord History
216	Purchase (2)
217	Where Alex's music can be heard live:
218	2020
219	Jan 3
220	PAPER CUT (17)
221	Missouri (4)
222	Jan 12
223	TIGHT SQUEEZE (15)
224	Jan 13
225	LIGHTS OUT (9)
226	Wisconsin (2)
227	Jan 21 (2)
228	Kansas
229	Illinois (2)
230	Jan 24
231	ROCK MUSIC (3)
232	Quebec, Canada (2)
233	Jan 25
234	Jan 30
235	Ohio (3)
236	Feb 1 (2)
237	France
238	Georgia (2)
239	Feb 4
240	DEEP
241	California (5)
242	Feb 6
243	Iowa (4)
244	Feb 7
245	LIQUID COMPa* (3)**
246	Canada (2)
247	Feb 8
248	Luxembourg
249	Feb 10
250	MUSIC FOR TWO BIG INSTRUMENTS
251	New York
252	Feb 13
253	Feb 22
254	Kentucky (2)
255	Feb 23
256	ASCENT (7)
257	Hawai'i (3)
258	Feb 24
259	Feb 26 (2)
260	New Jersey (3)
261	Feb 27
262	Feb 29
263	RE:PAIR (2)
264	Louisiana (2)
265	Mar 1 (2)
266	TRAINS OF THOUGHT (3)
267	Pennsylvania (6)
268	Mar 2
269	Texas (4)
270	Mar 3 (2)
271	HOMECOMING (4)
272	DESERT STORY (4)
273	Mexico (4)
274	Mar 4 (3)
275	Colorado
276	TRAIN OF THOUGHT
277	Mar 5 (4)
278	South Carolina
279	Mar 7 (4)
280	MOMENT and TIGHT SQUEEZE
281	Alberta, Canada
282	DESERT TIDE (2)
283	Mar 8 (3)
284	Arizona
285	Mar 10
286	OFF THE EDGE (3)
287	Indiana (5)
288	Mar 11
289	Mar 12 (4)
290	Connecticut (3)
291	Singapore
292	South Dakota
293	Mar 13
294	Mar 14
295	And.... we all know what happened next. The listings below represent just a handful of the 100 or so performances that would have taken place between March and June, 2020. Everyone: stay healthy!
296	Mar 15
297	Was*ngton (7)**
298	Mar 18 (2)
299	Mar 19
300	Mar 21
301	Mar 29
302	Apr 3
303	Apr 5
304	Apr 16
305	Apr 18
306	ARCANA PLANET
307	North Carolina
308	Apr 19
309	Apr 22
310	Apr 23
311	Apr 25
312	Apr 30 (2)
313	Virginia
314	May 2
315	May 3
316	May 4
317	May 7 (2)
318	May 8
319	Minnesota
320	May 9
321	May 12
322	May 14
323	May 19
324	Maine
325	May 27
326	June 4
327	Ontario, Canada
328	June 7
329	June 9
330	And now for something completely different:
331	Alex called upon her 15 years working in commercial music in Hollywood, and got into the team spirit with the Clemson University Tiger Band! In 2015 she was commissioned by band director Mark Spede to create the audio track to which Clemson University edited a video for the Jumbotron screens in its 85,000 seat Memorial stadium. The video-- which you can see below-- has played during every football game since September 2015, as the 290 musicians of the Tiger Marching Band pour out on to the field to perform. Go Tigers-- the 2016 National Champions!
332	Here's what it looked and sounded like on January 9, 2017, as the Clemson University Tiger Band entered the field at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida for the 2016 College Football Playoff National Champions***p:
333	Meet Alex:
334	"…Shapiro has tremendous technical skills, a deep connection to nature, and an engaging and articulate personality that has gotten her multifariously involved in the new-cla***ical-music world… She gets more performances than any one person could attend, and despite her nature wonderland she’s socially inclined…" --Journalist and composer Kyle Gann, Chamber Music magazine.
335	Speaking as an artist: hear Alex's response when asked to describe how she composes, in this :60 excerpt from a June 2010 interview she gave to Carey Nadeau from the American Composers Forum:
336	Speaking as an advocate: Alex became one of 12 writer and 12 publisher members of ASCAP's board of directors in 2014. Since most of the 640,000 members haven't met their representatives, ASCAP launched a series of "meet the board" videos in 2017. Here's Alex's:
337	Biography
338	Media:
339	Essays, such as:
340	Offering challenging thoughts on the new digital paradigm, the internet, free speech and the meaning of net neutrality to all artists, a number of Alex's articles have been published in essays for the online magazine NewMusicBox
341	:
342	Read The Economy of Exposure: Publicity as Payment? here
343	Read What I Learned About My Tiny Business From Paramount Pictures here
344	Read As Important as the Printing Press: Net Neutrality and Artists' Freedom here
345	Guest blogs, such as:
346	Greg Sandow is the author of an insightful blog on the future of cla*ical music, and invited Alex to be a guest blogger in March 2013. Click here to see what she has to say about the fun of living in the middle of nowhere and being in the center of everywhere, in an essay tled E-ing there
347	Video podcasts, such as:
348	SoundNotion.tv is a weekly online series for, and by, music-makers, and Alex was the guest for their April 14, 2013 episode. Click here to stream or download Alex's concepts of how all composers can use the 21st Century tools available to them no matter where they live, as well as her thoughts on issues of self worth that artists of all genders face, on this podcast t**led Out There
349	Broadcasts, such as:
350	On February 15, 2012, Alex was the in-studio guest on Marvin Rosen's radio show broadcast from Princeton University, Cla***ical Discoveries. Want some background sound while you're doing other things? Click at right, and hear the entire MP3 stream of their exceptionally wide-spanning, lively two-and-a-half hour conversation, including seven of Alex's diverse works. Here's what Marvin has to say about it on his blog, Marvin the Cat.
351	Articles and Broadcasts
352	Additional media:
353	Art films, such as:
354	Alex's music is the soundtrack for REFLECTION, a short video created by artist Grimanesa Amoros. The video was premiered in December 2011 at the International Streaming Festival, Sixth Edition at the Hague in the Netherlands, and is included in Amoros's 2013 Video Retrospective in Lima, Peru. An excerpt of the video can be seen here
355	Books, such as:
356	Alex is the author of "Releasing a Student's Inner Composer," one of the chapters in the 2013 book, "Musicians***p: Composing in Band and Orchestra." The book, edited by Clint Randles and David Stringham, is published by GIA Publications.
357	Doc***entary appearances, such as:
358	In a segment filmed at her San Juan Island home, Alex is featured speaking about composer Morten Lauridsen at the opening of a beautiful film about his life and music, tled sning Night. Winner of Best Docentary at the 2012 Was*ngton, D.C. Independent Film Festival, the film was directed by Michael Stillwater, and has been screening at festivals in the U.S. and Europe in conjunction with the release of the DVD. You can enjoy a trailer of the film here.
359	Alex also appears in a longer segment at the opening Stillwater's 2015 doc*entary, In Search of the Great Song, which is the winner of the award for Best Doc*entary from the 2016 Moondance International Film Festival in Boulder, CO. Alex speaks about the many inspirations for her music that are found in the natural world surrounding her, as BELOW, in which she features a Humpback whale song, plays as the underscore.
360	In Michael Stillwater's third film, Beyond the Fear of Singing, Alex talks about non-musicians freely embracing the freedom of expression.
361	You can enjoy previews of all three beautiful doc***entaries here.
362	Photography, such as:
363	Visitors to Alex's blog know she's rarely without her camera, and her photos have been used for other people's CD covers and websites. Alex is one of the winners of the 2012 IMA Marine Life Photography Contest, hosted by the San Juan Islands Museum of Art and judged by the legendary Ernest Brooks II. Alex's photo of a Bald Eagle headed straight toward her hung in the museum throughout the summer, alongside Brooks's stunning Silver Seas exhibit. That bird also spent the summer of 2013 hanging in Seattle's Museum of Flight, as a selection for its Spirit of Flight exhibit. The photo, Incoming!, (also a first prize winner at the 2012 San Juan County Fair!) can be viewed slightly larger, by clicking on the bird.
364	A sampling of what Alex sounds like:
365	The best thing about composers' websites is that they're sonic business cards! Click the MP3 icon to hear an excerpt. Click the t**le to learn more about it. Alex's education and career have allowed her voice to be expressed in music for...
366	chamber ensembles
367	Current Events
368	film, TV and games
369	Archipelago
370	The Last Job
371	symphonic wind bands
372	A Delicate Balance
373	Surface
374	jazz groups
375	Homecoming (2)
376	Dorian Mood
377	electronics
378	Longing for You
379	Deep
380	indie pop songs
381	Desert Tide
382	Falling in You
383	choir
384	Addiction
385	Celebrate!
386	and even country pop.
387	On Thanksgiving
388	Alex calls herself a pan-genre composer, with a penchant for organically spanning across idioms, often within a single piece. One of the most welcoming sonic worlds for her unique voice has been that of symphonic wind band, for which she's been composing electroacoustic works unlike anything else in the repertoire.
389	Paper Cut
390	Tight Squeeze
391	Immersion
392	Liquid Compa***
393	Lights Out
394	Moment
395	Trains of Thought
396	Rock Music
397	Wind band
398	How did this mostly-chamber music composer get into writing for symphonic band? Listen to Alex describe how it happened, in this two-minute excerpt from an interview she gave to Carey Nadeau from the American Composers Forum in June 2010.
399	Works
400	Dial-a-Mood
401	Alex loves coaching and teaching...
402	Webhearsals:
403	Alex really enjoys interacting with students and faculty during rehearsals and guest artist residencies. But when budgets and schedules and, oh, y'know, global pandemics don't allow for travel, Zoom, Skype, Webex, Google Hangouts or anything similar have become the next best thing.
404	A composer's live feedback is valuable, and musicians get an additional smile when Alex turns her camera around to show them a source of her inspiration: the sea at her feet on Was***ngton State's remote San Juan Island, with the occasional Bald Eagle or Orca whale gliding past.
405	Webhearsals
406	Private mentoring:
407	Alex Shapiro has a private teaching studio for those wis*ng to study composition and/or business skills with her online. She offers instruction in the many ways to use one's web presence to generate income, as well as specific consultations in music copying, publis*ng, promotion, and other necessary professional skills for today's composers.
408	A familiar guest lecturer at universities and conservatories, Alex is available to speak to music and business school cla***es.
409	email Alex
410	Alex loves to speak to audiences...
411	Alex speaks at many events and motivates people in and outside of the music world. Whether discussing music-making, the new digital paradigm, the philosophy of self worth, or the importance of a sense of humor, Alex is an engaging and encouraging presenter who's been referred to by more than a few people as "the Anthony Robbins of contemporary music, but a lot shorter."
412	click here
413	Keeping up with Alex...
414	Interact! Become one of Alex's online friends and share your world with her.
415	Internet networking sites have brought many wonderful collaborations and commissions to Alex's virtual doorstep. Enjoy watching one of her online friends, artist Simon Kenevan, make a pastel study for his painting 'Afternoon Sun,' to her Phos Hilaron:
416	Alex loves hearing from visitors, so don't be shy if you'd like to send her an email. To join the mailing list for concert information and news of Alex Shapiro CD releases, click here
417	Your contact information will not be shared with anyone for any reason, even if sharks surround Alex's kayak and demand it. Promise!
418	Alex in her natural habitat...
419	Perhaps the best way to get to know Alex's music, is to get to know Alex through the personal offerings on her blog, Notes from the Kelp. Thousands of visitors join her on explorations of the San Juan Islands and beyond, using Alex's award-winning essays, photographs and music (and her sense of humor) as their guide.
420	Scroll down this page to share life through Alex's eyes-- and ears.
421	A note from Alex...
422	________ (2)
423	I compose to communicate.
424	When I'm not composing, I'm marveling at the abundant sh****line life a few steps from my house.
425	_____________
426	Ideally, my music will show you not only a glimpse of me, but a reflection of yourself.
427	continue here
428	Or, begin clicking around
429	Drop me an email
430	Enjoy!
431	Zoom
432	back up to the top!
433	_____________________
434	© 2000-2020 by Alex Shapiro. All nature photos by Alex Shapiro (like 'em?). All rights reserved to design and content.

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2	PROGRAMMING RESOURCES!
3	Latest recordings:
4	BELOW. Click HERE to see an excerpt from the mesmerizing video created for the project by Diana Lehr.
5	Latest mix:
6	BENEATH, (2)
7	Latest 2020 publication:
8	Pa***AGES
9	Latest 2020 premiere:
10	ASCENT.
11	MOMENT,
12	ASCENT
13	Latest unusual project:
14	Putting the E- in E-nsemble.
15	Latest choral premiere:
16	O DEATH ROCK ME ASLEEP.
17	Latest 2019 delivered commission:
18	TECHNO BLADE,
19	AXE TO GRIND,
20	OFF THE EDGE,
21	Latest press:
22	Your Cla***ical
23	Latest clinics:
24	British Columbia Music Educators' a***ociation Conference
25	Activism of the Musical Heart: Raising Awareness by Connecting All Those Dots.
26	The e-Frontier: Electroacoustic Music, Multimedia, Education, and Audiences in the Digital World.
27	Latest exhibit:
28	San Juan Islands Museum of Art
29	DEEP DIVE,
30	DEPTH,
31	BELOW,
32	DEEP,
33	Latest longform interview:
34	Estudios Bandisticos
35	Latest article:
36	Dissing the Compet**ion.
37	Latest international workshops:
38	here (11)
39	Clinician, December 19-22 2018, in Chicago, Illinois:
40	"Bridging the Gender Gap: Developing Strategies for Creating Equity in Ensemble Programming."
41	Speaking and presenting, December 12, 2018, in New York City, NY:
42	Panelist, May 8, 2018, in Hollywood, California:
43	Welcome to Splitsville, U.S.A.: Where co-writers live together in harmony forever... like our songs.
44	here. (6)
45	Electroacoustic s***tet and band piece:
46	TRAIN OF THOUGHT,
47	"audio track"
48	TRAINS OF THOUGHT
49	Even more new electroacoustic wind band works:
50	TIGHT SQUEEZE (3)
51	LIGHTS OUT. (2)
52	MOMENT (2)
53	ROCK MUSIC,
54	LIGHTS OUT:
55	MOMENT:
56	ROCK MUSIC:
57	If you're interested in partic****ting in future consortia, please contact Activist Music!
58	March 2020:
59	Band Talk with Charlie Menghini and Friends,
60	March 2018:
61	January 2016:
62	The Portfolio Composer
63	May 2017 and April 2016:
64	Music for Two Big Instruments.
65	s***ning Night,
66	In Search of the Great Song.
67	Let's Make a List,
68	November 7-9, 2017, in Tokyo, j***an:
69	"The Future of Collective Management."
70	June 7-10, 2017, in Lisbon, Portugal:
71	April 26, 2017, in Was***ngton, D.C.: Alex returned to Capitol Hill where each spring, members of the Board of Directors of ASCAP and writer members who are strong copyright advocates meet with Senators, members of Congress, and their aides, to keep the message of fair compensation for music creators front and center. Known as
72	"Stand with Songwriters" Advocacy Day,
73	the office visits are preceded by an inspiring evening concert at the Library of Congress called,
74	"We Write the Songs,"
75	where policy makers enjoy performances by some of the world's top ASCAP creators.
76	April 13-15, 2017, in Hollywood:
77	"Getting Credit Where Credit is Due,"
78	"Seeing Music: Multimedia Concerts for a Visual World."
79	December 14, 2016, in New York City:
80	November 4-6, 2016, in Friday Harbor:
81	s***NING NIGHT,
82	IN SEARCH OF THE GREAT SONG,
83	April 24, 2016, in Los Angeles:
84	Los Angeles Composer Salon
85	May 16-19, 2019:
86	PAPER CUT
87	January 19-21, 2018:
88	CIRCUS OF FLEAS,
89	April 10-11, 2017:
90	February 25-26, 2017:
91	HOMECOMING,
92	MOMENT.
93	December 7, 2016:
94	December 6, 2016:
95	BENEATH, LIQUID COMPa***,
96	HERE. (2)
97	November 11-13, 2016:
98	ROCK MUSIC, MOMENT,
99	LIQUID COMPa***,
100	August 2-11, 2016:
101	July 23-24, 2016, in Vancouver, B.C.:
102	FOR MY FATHER,
103	SLOWLY, SEARCHING.
104	CHORD HISTORY,
105	250 Piano Pieces for Beethoven,
106	CHORD HISTORY
107	June, September, 2014:
108	The e-Frontier: Music, Multimedia, Education, and Audiences in the Digital World,
109	PAPER CUT,
110	TIGHT SQUEEZE,
111	Teaching Music Through Performance in Band, Volume 10,
112	November, 2017:
113	November, 2016:
114	Click here (3)
115	March, 2015:
116	July, 2015:
117	October, 2015:
118	December, 2015: (2)
119	LIQUID COMPa* (2)**
120	REMEMBRANCE,
121	(full piece; 7:49):
122	KETTLE BREW
123	Festival of Contemporary Art Music.
124	PERPETUAL SPARK,
125	SPARK
126	PERPETUAL SPARK
127	Read about UNABASHEDLY MORE
128	Listen to excerpts (2)
129	Read about IMMERSION
130	IMMERSION
131	Enjoy the live premiere performance, February 16, 2011, by the University of Minnesota Symphonic Wind Band, Jerry Luckhardt, conductor. Recorded by Minnesota Public Radio; Produced by Alex Shapiro.
132	Notes from the Kelp,
133	"…Shapiro has tremendous technical skills, a deep connection to nature, and an engaging and articulate personality that has gotten her multifariously involved in the new-cla***ical-music world… She gets more performances than any one person could attend, and despite her nature wonderland she’s socially inclined…"
134	Speaking as an artist:
135	Speaking as an advocate:
136	E-ing there
137	Out There
138	"Releasing a Student's Inner Composer,"
139	"Musicians***p: Composing in Band and Orchestra."
140	s***ning Night.
141	Best Doc***entary
142	In Search of the Great Song,
143	Beyond the Fear of Singing,
144	Spirit of Flight
145	Incoming!,
146	Current Events
147	Archipelago
148	The Last Job
149	A Delicate Balance
150	Surface
151	Homecoming
152	Dorian Mood
153	Longing for You
154	Deep
155	Desert Tide
156	Falling in You
157	Addiction
158	Celebrate!
159	On Thanksgiving
160	Phos Hilaron:
161	Notes from the Kelp.
162	Notes From the Kelp
163	Zoom
164	back up to the top!

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1	(and... speaker... essayist. activist... naturalist photo-blogger. fun person.)
2	—All Music Guide
3	Contact Alex
4	In March 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic grew, the arts advocacy organization Composers Now invited Alex and other artists to offer a few words of hope.
5	Earlier:
6	A bit later:
7	Earlier in the piece
8	Later in the piece
9	Mov't 1: Depth
10	Mov't 2: Surface
11	Mov't 3: Beneath, clip 1
12	Mov't 3: Beneath, clip 2
13	(wind band, prerecorded soundscape, printer paper) (17)
14	(wind band, prerecorded soundscape) (20)
15	( (34)
16	wind band, prerecorded soundscape) (24)
17	(wind band, prerecorded soundscape, rocks (2)
18	) (2)
19	contraba***oon, prerecorded soundscape)
20	tuba, piano)
21	PREMIERE! (3)
22	flute, oboe)
23	(wind band) (4)
24	clarinet, ba*oon, piano) (4)**
25	French horn, ba*** clarinet, bari sax, trombone, euphonium, tuba)
26	Co-Commissioner PREMIERE! (2)
27	(soprano saxophone, prerecorded soundscape) (2)
28	Co-Commissioner preview
29	premiere of version with pipe organ!
30	(wind band, rocks, prerecorded soundscape)
31	clarinet, ba***oon)
32	piano, prerecorded soundscape)
33	Consortium PREMIERE!
34	Alex doing a webhearsal in her San Juan Island studio.
35	CLICK to watch what it's like!
36	The Economy of Exposure: Publicity as Payment?
37	What I Learned About My Tiny Business From Paramount Pictures
38	As Important as the Printing Press: Net Neutrality and Artists' Freedom
39	Happily surrounded by bra***, at NYC's Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2014.

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69	Mich****e Lewis	text
70	Deputy,	text
71	Welcome to Splitsville, U.S.A.: Where co-writers live together in harmony forever... like our songs.	text
72	here.	text
73	-	image
74	-	image
75	-	image
76	Composers & Schools in Concert	text
77	CSIC	text
78	Patrick Marsh Middle School Band	text
79	Band Talk with Charlie Menghini and Friends,	text
80	Click the icon at right	text
81	-	image
82	-	image
83	Click the icon at right	text
84	-	image
85	-	image
86	The Portfolio Composer	text
87	-	image
88	-	image
89	MPP	text
90	commissioning techniques	text
91	Music Publis***ng Podcast.	text
92	-	image
93	Composers Datebook	text
94	here	text
95	-	image
96	-	image
97	s***ning Night,	text
98	In Search of the Great Song.	text
99	NewMusicBox's April 2016 series about music and money,	text
100	Let's Make a List,	text
101	here.	text
102	-	image
103	-	image
104	CIAM	text
105	CISAC,	text
106	-	image
107	ASCAP	text
108	CIAM,	text
109	CISAC,	text
110	-	image
111	Board of Directors of ASCAP	text
112	"Stand with Songwriters" Advocacy Day,	text
113	"We Write the Songs,"	text
114	ASCAP EXPO	text
115	"Getting Credit Where Credit is Due,"	text
116	Aloe Blacc,	text
117	Desmond Child,	text
118	Dina LaPolt,	text
119	Niclas Molinder	text
120	Adam Parness	text
121	here.	text
122	-	image
123	"Seeing Music: Multimedia Concerts for a Visual World."	text
124	-	image
125	-	image
126	-	empty
127	-	image
128	The ASCAP Foundation Awards	text
129	here	text
130	-	image
131	-	image
132	s***NING NIGHT,	text
133	IN SEARCH OF THE GREAT SONG,	text
134	here!	text
135	-	image
136	-	image
137	Mt. San Antonio College	text
138	Pacific Symphony Youth Wind Ensemble	text
139	-	image
140	-	image
141	Shenandoah University	text
142	-	image
143	-	image
144	The University of Hawai'i at Manoa,	text
145	HERE	text
146	-	image
147	Columbia College.	text
148	-	image
149	Roosevelt University's Chicago College of Performing Arts.	text
150	HERE.	text
151	-	image
152	HERE.	text
153	-	image
154	The Wyoming Festival.	text
155	Craig Thomas Visitor Center Auditorium	text
156	UW-NPS AMK Ranch research station.	text
157	-	image
158	4th Annual UBC Wind Conducting Symposium,	text
159	-	image
160	Susanne Kessel	text
161	Obst	text
162	250 Piano Pieces for Beethoven,	text
163	Editions Musica Ferrum.	text
164	-	image
165	WASBE	text
166	Teaching Music Through Performance in Band, Volume 10,	text
167	GIA Publications	text
168	here.	text
169	-	image
170	-	image
171	CIAM	text
172	CISAC	text
173	-	image
174	-	image
175	The Aaron Copland Fund for Music	text
176	Click here	text
177	-	image
178	ASCAP	text
179	-	image
180	New Music USA	text
181	Program Council,	text
182	-	image
183	Columbia College Chicago Music Department Advisory Panel,	text
184	-	image
185	Composers Now	text
186	Click here	text
187	-	image
188	The ASCAP Foundation	text
189	Click here	text
190	-	image
191	U.S. Army Strings	text
192	-	image
193	David Jarvis	text
194	guest composer for WSU's Festival of Contemporary Art Music.	text
195	Fifth House Ensemble,	text
196	Teresa McCollough	text
197	Roulette	text
198	here.	text
199	-	image
200	-	image
201	Cla***ical Discoveries,	text
202	-	image
203	-	image
204	-	image
205	Clemson University Tiger Band!	text
206	Mark Spede	text
207	NewMusicBox	text
208	:	text
209	The Economy of Exposure: Publicity as Payment?	text
210	-	image
211	What I Learned About My Tiny Business From Paramount Pictures	text
212	-	image
213	As Important as the Printing Press: Net Neutrality and Artists' Freedom	text
214	-	image
215	-	image
216	here	text
217	E-ing there	text
218	-	image
219	-	image
220	-	image
221	here	text
222	Out There	text
223	-	image
224	-	image
225	Cla***ical Discoveries.	text
226	Marvin the Cat.	text
227	Grimanesa Amoros.	text
228	International Streaming Festival, Sixth Edition	text
229	-	image
230	-	image
231	"Musicians***p: Composing in Band and Orchestra."	text
232	GIA Publications.	text
233	-	image
234	Morten Lauridsen	text
235	s***ning Night.	text
236	Michael Stillwater,	text
237	here.	text
238	-	image
239	In Search of the Great Song,	text
240	Beyond the Fear of Singing,	text
241	here.	text
242	-	image
243	-	image
244	-	image
245	-	image
246	San Juan Islands Museum of Art	text
247	Ernest Brooks II.	text
248	Museum of Flight,	text
249	-	image
250	-	image
251	-	image
252	-	image
253	Simon Kenevan	text