Fox & friends: Francisco Nunez is changing young lives with music
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Oct. 10, 2014 - 6:55 - Alicia Acuna profiles the director of the Young People's Chorus of New York City
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PRX Radio: Making Beautiful Music
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Jo Reed: That is the Young People's Chorus of New York singing “Every Stop on the F Train.” YPC Founder and Artistic Director Francisco Nunez is conducting. And this is Art Works, the weekly podcast produced by the National Endowment for the Arts. I'm Josephine Reed.
Read MoreLA Master Chorale Caps 50th Season With 3 Premieres
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While the Los Angeles Philharmonic gets the lion’s share of attention for its progressive programming, its co-resident in Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, has been mirroring that trait all along. Under Grant Gershon, its enthusiastic, boyish-looking music director, the Master Chorale has kept one foot planted in the usual choral tradition and the other foot eagerly stepping out of the mold.
Read MoreReview L.A. Master Chorale caps its 50th season with three new works
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The Los Angeles Master Chorale ended its 50th season Sunday night at Walt Disney Concert Hall with the premiere of three new works commissioned for the occasion and two other recent Chorale commissions. That's news. But so too is the way that this chorus operates.
Read MoreA Grand Finale -- and a Brand New Start
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Both the "tomorrow" and the "beyond" perspectives of our program are the focus of the new commission Es Tu Tiempo by Francisco J. Núñez.
Read MoreKodaly-Inspired Music Educator Named a 2011 MacArthur Fellow
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on September 20, 2011, Francisco J. Núñez was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship as choral conductor and composer. Núñez's award is the first for a Kodaly-inspired music educator in the history of MacArthur Fellowships.
Read MoreChoir & Organ: Chorus Lines
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7. Artists in the making: youth and children's choirs can be as good as professionals, given inspiring leadership and top-quality music, claims Francisco J. Núñez.
Read MoreHuffington Post: More Music Please
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“It’s not just about the best music curriculum in the world. The school system needs teachers like Francisco to make the curriculum work.” — Joan Tower
Read MoreNew York Times: Fresh Music and Spice, Stirred Up With Batons
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Francisco J. Núñez knows a thing or two about directing children’s choirs.
Read MoreChoral Director: Renewable Energy – Francisco Núñez
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Much has been made in the contemporary music world of the recent push toward so-called “alt-classical” – creative approaches to showcase, perform, and commission new works of music that utilize new instrumentation, new venues, and new composers.
Read MoreThe Power to Foster Social Renewal Through Song
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Francisco Núñez wears his MacArthur Award lightly. The 46-year-old composer-conductor who founded the Young People's Chorus of New York City—a group that embodies both the pinnacle of musical achievement and its ability to foster social renewal—proudly displays the gifts that friends showered on him when the "genius" grant was announced: a Rubik's Cube and the games Cranium and Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?
Read MoreDirector de coro juvenil de NY extiende su labor a Dominicana
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NUEVA YORK, (AP).- Desde que Francisco J. Núñez fundó el Coro de Jóvenes de la Ciudad de Nueva York en 1988, con el fin de combatir la pobreza uniendo a personas de distintos estratos sociales, nacionalidades y religiones, el compositor y director artístico nacido en esta ciudad soñó con llevar su programa a la República Dominicana de sus padres.
Read MoreDaily News: Hora Hispana
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Coro de Jovenes de N.Y. promueve un programa en R.D.
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CNN: Un coro une a los jóvenes de Nueva York con una misma voz
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Durante más de dos décadas, Francisco Núñez ha estado inspirando a jóvenes en la ciudad de Nueva York a soñar en grande a través de la música.
Read MoreNew York Times: Two Chosen "Geniuses" Reflect on the Label
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The MacArthur Foundation has never attached the word “genius” to its annual grants to exemplary scientists, scholars, researchers, writers, artists, composers and other creative Americans
Read MoreABC News with Diane Sawyer: Francisco J. Nunez Awarded MacArthur Grant
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Francisco Núñez, artistic director and founder of the Young People’s Chorus of New York discusses receiving 2011 MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship.
Read MorePBS Newshour: Conversation - Francisco Nunez, Choral Conductor for Kids
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Last week, the latest round of MacArthur fellows were announced. Francisco Nunez, a conductor, a composer and pianist, was on that list.
Read MoreASSOCIATED PRESS: MacArthur Foundation reveals 2011 'genius grants'
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A Chicago skyscraper architect, a New York City children's choir founder and a North Carolina scientist who studies how to prevent sports-related concussions are among the latest 22 recipients of the no-strings-attached MacArthur Foundation "genius grants."
Read MoreThe New York Times: A Morning Scherzo, Slowing to Adagio
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Francisco J. Núñez, 44, is the founder and artistic director of the Young People’s Chorus of New York City, a youth choir as diverse as the city it calls home.
Read MoreBBC Music Magazine: Transient Glory II
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The Young People's Chorus of New York City has performed over 50 premieres since 2002 thanks to the commissioning efforts of its enterprising music director, Francisco J. Núñez.
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