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Media Contacts: 

Nanette McGuinness / nanette@E4TT.org

Renata Volchinskaya / renata@E4TT.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

August 12, 2026

Ensemble for These Times

Announces

For Good Measure, Season 3:

“Talking @ Text”

Will Be Launched on

Monday, August 17, 2026

San Francisco – Award-winning SF contemporary chamber group Ensemble for These Times (E4TT) is excited to announce the third season of its podcast, “For Good Measure,” which will begin on August 17, 2026. First launched on June 6, 2022, “For Good Measure” consists of weekly conversations with women composers and diverse creative voices. Entitled “Talking @ Text,” the new season will feature 11 creatives who work with text in music – Lisa Delan, Jodi Goble, Jennifer Higdon, Leilehua Lanzilotti, Kendra Preston Leonard, Laura Stickling, Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Eda Er, Karen Poppy, Jessica Rudman, and Meilina Tsui – each of whom is a composer, librettist/poet and/or singer. Released weekly on Mondays, episodes are available free of charge on all major podcast platforms. 

A PODCAST OF CONVERSATIONS WITH WOMEN AND DIVERSE CREATIVES

Released weekly every Monday since June 6, 2022, E4TT’s podcast “For Good Measure” celebrates women creatives and diverse composers. The podcast is co-produced by E4TT Artistic Executive Director, soprano Nanette McGuinness and E4TT A/V Project Specialist, composer and musician Stephanie M. Neumann, engineered by Neumann, and hosted by McGuinness. To date, “For Good Measure” has over 5700 downloads and has featured over 40 guests.

For the third season of “For Good Measure,” E4TT will welcome 11 guests to discuss the topic, “Talking @ Text”: Lisa Delan, Eda Er, Jodi Goble, Jennifer Higdon, Leilehua Lanzilotti, Kendra Preston Leonard, Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Karen Poppy, Jessica Rudman, Laura Strickling, and Meilina Tsui. The season will end with special interviews with two singers, coloratura soprano Chelsea Hollow and E4TT’s Artistic Executive Producer, lyric soprano Nanette McGuinness. Prior guests have ranged from established world-renowned composers Pamela Z, Elinor Armer, Gabriela Lena Frank and Anthony R. Green, to visual artist Corinne Whitaker, musicians Mia Nardi-Huffman, Brice Smith and Dale Tsang, and emerging composers Madeline Clara Cheng, Sea Novaa, and Devon Lee.

ABOUT ENSEMBLE FOR THESE TIMES

Winner of The American Prize in 2021 for Chamber Music Performance, ENSEMBLE FOR THESE TIMES (E4TT) consists of award-winning soprano/Artistic Executive Director Nanette McGuinness, cellist Megan Chartier, pianist Margaret Halbig, and co-founder/ Senior Artistic Advisor composer David Garner. E4TT made its international debut in Berlin in 2012; was sponsored by the U.S. Embassy in Budapest for a four-city tour of Hungary in 2014; and performed at the Krakow Culture Festival in 2016 and 2022, and at the Conservatorio Teresa Berganza in Madrid in 2017. In California, E4TT has performed at the Paderewski Festival, the LAMOTH, UCLA, and in the Bay Area at the German Consulate General, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Old First Concerts, JCC Peninsula, Trinity Chamber Concerts, and Noontime Concerts, among other venues. 

E4TT’s six albums have all medaled in the Global Music Awards: El Tiempo Latine (2026), a double album of classical chamber music by nine of today’s Latine composers; Emigres & Exiles in Hollywood (2024) featuring music by some of the talented émigré composers who fled persecution during WWII for Hollywood, changing movie music as we know it; The Guernica Project (2022), commemorating the 85th anniversary of the horrific carpet bombing of civilians and Picasso’s masterwork in response; Once/Memory/Night: Paul Celan (2020), honoring the centennial of the seminal 20th-century poet; The Hungarians: From Rózsa to Justus (2018), with works by Hungarian émigré Miklós Rózsa, and three of his compatriots who perished in the Holocaust; and Surviving: Women’s Words, (2016), new music to poetry by women Holocaust survivors. The group has produced a weekly podcast of conversations with women and BIPOC creatives, “For Good Measure,” since 2022.

For more information about E4TT’s 2026/27 Bay Area Home Season, please visit our website after 8/20/2026.

High resolution jpgs are available for download at https://E4TT.org/presskit.html.

For press inquiries, interview requests, or to request review copies of E4TT’s latest recording, El Tiempo Latine, contact Alanna Maharajh Stone (917-359-4449), alannamaharajh@yahoo.com.

For radio play and interview requests about El Tiempo Latine, contact Max Horowitz (838-284-2441), maxcrossover@gmail.com.

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