ALIAS Chamber Ensemble is pleased to announce a $6,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for “Mestiza Music in Music City,” an educational and outreach project with composer Gabriela Lena Frank and ALIAS.
The project is one component of the GLF Project, and will feature a series of educational and outreach programs based in Nashville’s Hispanic community during Hispanic Cultural Heritage Month, from Sept. 15 through Oct. 15.
More details, including a schedule, will be available at aliasmusic.org when they become available.
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ALIAS and Terrazzo in The Gulch announce Arts and Flowers, featuring local artists and florists who will be teaming up to do presentations for “Best of Show,” and attendees will be voting on a People’s Choice Award.

Become a permanent part of ALIAS’ recording history by donating $250 to our GLF Project.
In turn, you will secure your spot on our limited listing of GLF Project supporters, which will be printed on the inside of ALIAS’ Naxos CD jacket.
To join the GLF Project, please click the following button, which takes you to our secure donations page at the Network for Good:

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Closing out the season, and the Emerging Voices series focusing on women composers past and present, is a remarkable string quartet by Guggenheim Fellowship recipient Gabriela Lena Frank. Also on the program is Frank’s Danza de los Saqsampillos for two marimbas. Soprano Sharon Mabry returns to the ALIAS stage to sing three songs by Lili Boulanger. Rounding out the program is a rarely heard work for two cellos by French composer Philippe Hersant, and the well-loved Introduction and Allegro by Maurice Ravel…