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Simply speaking, today’s art music can no longer be contained in neat little boxes. The walls built to separate classical music, jazz, pop, world, electronic, and more in the 20th century have come crumbling down. The issue is that not everyone knows that. Enter A New Canon, the online media resource devoted to the progress and presentation of creator-driven art music in the 21st century.

The premise behind A New Canon is in the uprooting and decolonization of the rhetorical Germanic canon of classical music that begins in the 18th century with Bach, reaches its apex in the 19th century with Beethoven, and ends abruptly in the early 20th century with Strauss and Mahler.

Classical music is a collection of ideas and not a hard and fast rule. The music’s creators have always been inspired by the world around them – major events, their travels, love – all things from which great art is born. As centuries go by, the ideas change, the world changes and yet the spirit remains the same – the purpose of music is to illuminate, lift up, and transcend life’s experiences.

Great artists know this, so it doesn’t matter if the music is classical, jazz, electronic, world, or whatever. It matters that the music is thoughtful and purpose driven. Luckily, we live in a time when the genre lines of yore are becoming blurrier and blurrier.

A New Canon’s mission to curate music that opens minds and promotes unity by rebuilding the bridge between today’s audiences and independent, creator-driven music from around the world.

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Kevin Doherty, founder and editor-in-chief: Kevin, also known as the “Wandering Curator” lives in Sacramento, California. A veteran radio host, Kevin is the Program Director of CapRadio Classical and Jazz, KXPR 88.9 FM. At CapRadio Kevin was the host of a 2-hour-long new music program called “Saturdays at 6” which focuses on genre-fluid music (classical, jazz, ambient, folk, etc.) from around the world. He was also the editor for the podcast “A Music of Their Own.”

Kevin is co-founder of Rogue Arts and Media, Inc. in Sacramento dedicated to producing out-of-the-box musical and theatrical experiences for audiences who are looking for something different.