Though it may seem that this post is about testing you on your professional music acronyms, I promise that's not the case. Laurel's been a busy bee since school let out in early May. New Music Gathering 2017 New Music Gathering (NMG) is a pretty cool 3-day conference for anyone who participates in new music. From May 11-13 we all gathered at Bowling Green State University to talk about, listen to, and dream about new projects together. You can view this year's lecture, presentation, panel, and recital schedule here . It was really cool - and not just because Steven Schick was the keynote speaker and featured guest artist. L+M Duo performed during a concert on Saturday afternoon called Grab Bag of Awesome, featuring us as well as other chamber groups performing all kinds of music. We played our first-ever commission, Magicicicada , by Pennsylvania-based composer Rusty Banks . Though Marianne met Rusty before (actually at NMG 2016...
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