Wiry Cries News Today

Two nights of Waco song competition in Friday nights CenTex songSLAM and Saturdays Waco Lullaby Project are intended to spark creation of new works by providing a platform for composers.

Sparks & Wiry Cries presents the eighth annual songSLAM on Friday, January 19, 2024 at 7:30 p.m. at National Sawdust. One of eight nationally and

“Songs in Flight,” a new cycle by composer Shawn Okpebholo, with texts chosen by Tsitsi Ella Jaji, a poet and associate professor at Duke Un

The composer Shawn Okpebholo has created a song cycle that imagines the inner lives of fugitives from American slavery.

NATS welcomes 10 mentees to its 2022-23 Mentoring Program for Composers.

The Acting Company has named two seasoned arts executives to further bolster its commitment to bringing audiences across the country excellent live theatre. Erik Schroeder will serve as Managing Director and Deborah Steinglass will become Director of Advancement. They join the recently appointed, Artistic Director Kent Gash at The Acting Company. 

May 13, 2021 The National Endowment for the Arts has approved a $30,000 Grants for Arts Projects award to the Department of Music to support a musical response to Freedom on the Move (FOTM), a database housing digitized, searchable fugitive slave advertisements. The grant, co-written by Lucy Fitz Gibbon, interim director of the Vocal Program, and Martha Guth, Ithaca College, will provide foundational support for Freedom on the Move: Songs in Flight, an ambitious musical project commissioned and...