The Soundbox Fellowship Program returns with a new cohort of resident artists and composer fellows. This time, the program centers around a live performance, storytelling and docuseries event titled "Hearing Memory," featuring internationally-renowned oboist James Austin Smith. This afternoon at the Sarasota Music Archive presents a conversation about how notated music bears witness to history and the issues both composers and performers grapple with when dealing with musical scores and texts.

This event is free but requires reservation. Click here to RSVP via the Sarasota Music Archive.

1. Open workshop rehearsal
This short session previews a work by a Soundbox composer fellow to be recorded by Soundbox artists on Sunday, April 12! Includes conversations between musicians and one of Soundbox's composer fellows in residence for this week's fellowship program.

2. Interpreting Musical Text as Historical Witness - Lecture by Max Tan
What is the nature of musical scores that composers write? And why do performers need to interpret them? Is music just about how it sounds? While musicians may decode a musical score to perform the music, the composer's score and performance recordings contain interesting stories that preserve some of the last traces of a person's legacy and a culture that may have been long lost. Through experiments, exercises, and recordings from before World War II (of composers performing their own music), this lecture explores how something as ephemeral as music can encode memory across the ages.