Vox Novus   & – Max Shea, Martian Gardens WMUA 91.1 FM www.WMUA.org Chris Pasles of the LA Times writes about Rob Voisey and the 60x60 project: www.calendarlive.com/music See also: Fly Global Music Culture Magazine written by Anne Cammon: www.fly.co.uk/fly and... MySpace realm: www.myspace.com/60x60 www.myspace.com/voxnovus60x60project2004 www.myspace.com/60x60cd www.myspace.com/robvoisey 2006 Midwest Minutes includes 60 60-second works by 60 composers: Count them...sixty (60) composers Aaron Acosta Brian Allen Dwight Ashley Jeremy Baguyos Marita Bolles Nils Bultman Nicolas Buron Christopher Cook David Cubberly Lucio Cuellar Brad Decker Ian Dicke Greg Dixon Mark Eden Timothy Dwight Edwards Ivan Elezovic Doug Geers Scott Gendel Michael P. Geraci Michele Gillman Monroe Golden Arthur Gottschalk Richard Hall James Hegarty Stuart Hinds Lynn Job Cory Kasprzyk Michael Khoury Gary Knudson HyeKyung Lee Patrick Liddell Stan Link Don Malone Charles Norman Mason Deborah Monroe David Morneau Jeff Myers David Newby Judith Newby Lewis Nielson   Sean O'Neill Thomas Park Colin Pool Carmel Raz Steven Ricks John Ross Stephen Rush Bill Ryan David Sartor Brian Schorn Mozhgan Shahidi Rachel Slusarczyk Alex Templ Balie Todd Joseph Vogel Robert Voisey Andrew Walters Justin Writer Cherilyn Young and ~chromatik_d_zabu.tmp (collective) The Opening Concert will also feature [un] wired by Jesse Allison, John Fillwalk and Keith Kothman. ======================= 2003 Project premiered: New York City Premier UNDER St. Marks 94 Saint Marks Place, between 1st Avenue and Avenue A basement space, East Village, Manhattan, New York

Composers and their works: 1. Hiromi Abe Guess 01 2. Aaron Acosta Traffic Under 60 3. Norman Adams Partial precept 4. John Allemeier Skrit 5. Nery Pedro Bauer Junior Machine #01 6. Vladimir Beluntsov A minute weight 7. Charles Berry Passing Gas 8. Scot Brickman Signature: Peace 9. George Brunner Radio Play 10. David Campbell The Sputnik Diary 11. Eliot Carson love hurts 12. David Claman Loomings 13. Andy Cohen rim at x (rat mix) 14. Douglas Cohen Welcome 15. Noah Creshevsky Try 16. Stephen Decesare Moondance 17. Derek Devore System Activated 18. Michael Edgerton A Little Watter, man 19. Daniel Eichenbaum Car Accident 20. Mikado Endo Where am I? 21. Elaine Fine Imagine Happiness 22. Wesley Fuller Aegean blue 23. Matias Giuliani Un Siglo, un minuto 24. Gerado Perez Giusti Mini-A-Tura 25. Gordon Green Birds 26. David Hahn Goo Mee 27. James Hegarty Reset: 59.5 28. Norbert Herber Trak News Agency 29. David Evan Jones Writing Out Loud 30. Michael Kinney One Minute of listening pleasure 31. Mary Jane Leach Dido Remembered 32. Stan Link Cavatina from an Imaginary Opera

33. Tom Lopez Moth 34. Eric Lyon Molten Statues 35. Eugene Marlow 48 Rows in One Minute 36. David Evan Mooney Ducks in Motion 37. Samy Mousa Papa 38. Marco Oppedisano The End is Near 39. Terry Winter Owens Disclavier-Das Klavier 40. Maggi Payne 60 Spin 41. Mark Petering Life Cycle 42. Gene Pritsker Junk Fragment 43. Aaron Rogier Going 44. James Romig Fragment 45. Josh Ronsen brkekexkoaxkoax 46. Marianna Rosett Two-Part Invention 47. Philip Schuellser Peptyde Hallucinatione 48. Coa Schwab Miniature 01 49. Eric Schwartz the electronic music revolution will most certainly be televised with the five part harmony, full orchestration, and all the phenomena 50. Andrew Shapiro Coda Piece 51. Judith Shatin Glimmerings 52. Juan Solare nice noise 53. Allen Strange shadow boxer 54. Benjamin Thigpen nous n'avons qu'un espair au monde 55. Eldad Tsabary Lost-Salvage-Divined 56. Michael Vernusky The Singularity 57. John Villec Glassbur 58. Robert Voisey ripples in sand 59. Christopher McWard Dance, Truman, Dance. 60. Dwight Winenger rnd.snd.bas

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   The Music of   H. Leslie Adams News Update-- (Wednesday, April 1, 2008)

   Opera North, Pennsylvania's only African American Opera Company, cordially invites you to "Blake", the second presentation of An African American Triptych on Saturday, April 12th at 8:00 pm, at the Trinity Center for Urban Life, 2212 Spruce Street in Philadelphia.
   ============================ "Love Rejoices: Songs of H. Leslie Adams" [2nd ed.; Darryl Taylor, tenor] www.amazon.com cdbaby.com MP3 Download: www.greatindie.com ____________________ www.towerrecords.com		===================== "Twelve Etudes" [Maria Corley, pianist] imaramusic.com cdbaby.com MP3 Download: www.greatindie.com ____________________ www.amazon.com
   ======================= HOMEPAGE: www.hleslieadams.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- africlassical.blogspot.com

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   BLAKE was given two notable excerpt performances following its VOX Showcase presentation. On November 7, 2006 THE BLAKE SUITE was featured on the Chamber Music Live Series at Queens College, Flushing New York, and on January 3, 2007 at the Schomburg Center in New York City. The latter presentation, by Avava Artists, was the official opening concert for the 52nd Annual Convention of the National Opera Association Convention.

   The opera tells the story of young love, forced separation and the search for true love in the antebellum South prior to the Civil War. It also depicts the quest for freedom during those turbulent times in America. The opera, when performed in its entirety, is in four acts with a running time of about two and a half hours.

   Adams' works are increasingly gaining in visibility and audience and critical acclaim. The composer recently did a week-long residency at Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia, (February, 2007) which culminated in a concert of his art songs and music from a new drama with music, "Slaves." An all-Adams concert was also presented by the East Cleveland, Ohio Public Library in the Greg Reese Performing Arts Center (January, 2007). ###

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   On January 7, 2006 the National Opera Association awarded its Lift Every Voice Legacy Award to Composer H. Leslie Adams.

   The event took place in Ann Arbor, Michigan at the Four Points Hilton Hotel, which hosted NOA's 51st Annual Convention.

   Adams was present to receive the award, and earlier in the week participated in a Panel of Composers and Impresarios discussing the "Future of Opera in America."

   His song group, "Daybirth, " on texts of Joette McDonald, was the topic of a scholarly paper presented by Gail Robinson, with McDonald also present.

   Adams accompanied Robinson on "Lullaby Eternal," a song from "Daybirth" at the paper presentation and again, at the request of the Convention, as a finale to the final session: a banquet which featured winners of the vocal competitions held during the convention.

   Adams award reads, "The National Opera Association presents this 'Lift Every Voice Legacy Award' to H. Leslie Adams; January 7, 2006." ###

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3. Maestro Aurelio de la Vega presented an illustrated lecture on his music April 19, 2006, at the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies of the University of Miami, Florida. The title of the lecture is "A Long Musical Journey." The illustrated lecture was given in connection with an on-going international celebration of his 80th anniversary. For reservations, phone (305) 284-2822.

4. Rodney Oakes In Concert

   I am enclosing the announcement of my solo concert on April 29. Although I have performed off and on over the past few years, I have not presented a solo concert of my original music in about 14 years. I decided it was time to share some of my more recent works in an intimate setting.

   The room at Alvas is quite nice. It is a small venue, seating only 60. I hope I can fill it for this performance!

   I have created what I believe to be some interesting works recently. I am especially excited about the Blue Bridge, a work for MIDI trombone and DVD. The material is the Vincent Thomas Bridge and its recent lights.

   I hope to finish another work for MIDI trombone and DVD, Variations on The Krakow Fanfare. The material dates back to 1241, and am pleased with the progress I am making with this piece.

   Thanks for letting me share with you information about this event.

   Rod Oakes

   Rodney Oakes In Concert

   Original Music for the Trombone and Electronics
   April 29, 2006
   8:00 PM
   Rosalie & Alva's Performance Gallery
   1417 W. 8th Street
   San Pedro, CA 90732
   Ten dollar admission

   Tickets and information available at (800) 403- 3447

5. Irwin Swack's work, "Profiles" for clarinet, violin and cello, was performed at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Sat., Mar. 4, at 2:00 p.m.

6. ASCAP AND LOTTE LEHMANN FOUNDATION ANNOUNCE WINNERS OF NEW SONG CYCLE COMPETITION FOR YOUNG COMPOSERS

   New York, NY, February 13, 2006: Frances Richard, ASCAP Vice President and Director of Concert Music and Daron Hagen, President of the Lotte Lehmann Foundation (LLF) announced today the winners of the first ASCAP/Lotte Lehmann Foundation Song Cycle Competition. The competition, named for legendary soprano Lotte Lehmann, was established to encourage and recognize gifted young composers who write for voice. The winning works were selected via a juried national competition from more than 100 entries received from eligible composers under the age of thirty.

   The First Prize ($3,500) has been awarded to Scott Gendel, age 28, of Madison, WI. Gendel will receive a commission to write a song cycle for voice and piano, to be published by E.C. Schirmer. The commissioned song cycle will be performed in three major American cities, including New York.

   Second Prize ($1,000) was awarded to Mark Buntag, age 29, of Bloomington, IN and Third Prize ($500) was awarded to Michael Djupstrom, age 25, of White Bear Lake, MN. Both Second and Third Prize winners receive commissions to compose an art song for voice and piano. The Damien Top Prize ($500) was awarded to Eli Marshall, age 28, of Montville, ME. The Damien Top Prize is a commission to set a poem by Andrée Brunin to be premiered at the 2006 Albert Roussel International Festival in France.

   The jury selected two composers for Honorable Mention: Ola Gjeilo, age 28, of New York, NY; and Jocelyn Hagen, age 25, of Minneapolis, MN.

   The competition judges were composers Richard Rodney Bennett and Russell Platt, soprano Judith Kellock, and conductor Michael Morgan.

   Bios and photos of the winners are available at: /www.lottelehmann.org/llf/programs/ascapllf/2005.html

   Commenting on the ASCAP/Lotte Lehmann Foundation Song Cycle Competition, Frances Richard, ASCAP Vice President and Director of Concert Music said, `Founded in 1914 by great American songwriters, ASCAP welcomes the opportunity to encourage today`s young composers to perpetuate the classical art song tradition in memory of the great Lotte Lehmann`.

   Daron Hagen, Composer and President of the Lotte Lehmann Foundation said: `Lotte Lehmann, the legendary opera singer and performer of art song, believed passionately in the potential for the union of excellent music and poetry of high literary quality to profoundly move music lovers. Encouraging young composers to create these works is central to the Lotte Lehmann Foundation`s mission. The quality of submissions was high, and the applicants were many. We look forward very much to the next round of commissions in 2007.`

   World famous soprano Lotte Lehmann (1888-1976) was one of the great musical artists of the 20th Century. Lehmann`s glorious, expressive voice and interpretive talent enthralled audiences with repertory ranging from opera to Lieder (classical German song). Lehmann fled her native Germany for the US in 1938, and became an American citizen. After her singing career ended she continued to write books, give master-classes and helped found the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, CA. Her influence in the world of opera, art song and education was enormous.

   Founded in 1998, The Lotte Lehmann Foundation is devoted to the preservation of the magnificent Lehmann artistic and teaching legacy, and to her commitment to educating the public to appreciate art song. Art song, (also called classical song, solo song, Lieder or mélodie) is music written for classically trained voice and piano, set to pre-existing poetry. www.lottelehmann.org/

   Established in 1914, ASCAP is the first and leading U.S. Performing Rights Organization representing the world`s largest repertory totaling over 8 million copyrighted musical works of every style and genre from more than 225,000 composer, lyricist and music publisher members. ASCAP also represents the repertories created by the international affiliates of 70 foreign performing rights organizations. ASCAP protects the rights of its members and foreign affiliates by licensing the public performances of their copyrighted works and distributing royalties based upon surveyed performances. ASCAP is the only American Performing Rights Organization owned and governed by its writer and publisher members. www.ascap.com

   To view the direct link to this announcement, please click here.

   The Lotte Lehmann Foundation 545 Eighth Avenue, Suite 401 New York, New York 10018 USA Telephone: 347.684.1640 www.lottelehmann.org/

7. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

   February 1, 2006, Verona, New Jersey - Subito Music Corporation has acquired the catalog of Seesaw Music from the family of the late Raoul Ronson. Subito will retain the Seesaw name and imprint on the entire catalog, which consists of over 3600 works by more than 300 composers.

   Seesaw Music Corporation was founded in New York City by Mr. Ronson in 1964 to create a place for the serious music being created at the time. Subito President Stephen Culbertson states: `Seesaw Music was one of the first `print-on-demand` publishers, before that term became current. There are many works with a long performance history, as well as gems that we hope to re-introduce to the concert music community. We are pleased to be able to keep the entire catalog intact and available. We hope to add new works to the catalog as well as modernize the distribution system by using current technology and adding online ordering capabilities.`

   Acquisition of the Seesaw catalog marks a period of unprecedented growth and expansion for Subito Music Corporation, which recently assumed distribution for the Subito print catalog, the CD Sheet Music 2.0 product line, and several other series including Large Print Music and The Digital Editions.

   From its inception in 1980, Subito Music Corporation has been a leader in the concert music publishing industry. Informed by over 125 years of combined experience, SMC is a full-service music publisher, featuring a roster of world-class composers among its list of exclusive artists, and offering typesetting and printing, promotion, rental, sales, distribution and copyright administration services for composers and publishers. In addition, SMC consistently identifies creative and practical uses for digital technology, with initiatives ranging from digital sheet music delivery and short-run print-on-demand capabilities, to its innovative distribution and promotion agency services and e-commerce functionality.

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   Subito Music Corporation
   60 Depot Street
   Verona, NJ 07044
   tel: (973) 857-3440
   fax: (973) 857-3442
   www.subitomusic.com

   Subito contacts

   Stephen Culbertson, President - sc@subitomusic.com

   David Murray, Publishing Manager - dbm@subitomusic.com

   Bill Rhoads, Promotion Director - branda@subitomusic.com

   Patricia Kotsambas, Customer Service Manager - pak@subitomusic.com

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   Announcing the winners of the 2005 Hultgren Solo Cello Works Biennial. The winners of the 2005 Hultgren Solo Cello Works Biennial competition for composers are Nickitas J. Demos and Michael Angell. Demos' Tonoi IV for solo electric cello won both the $1,000 Birmingham Prize and the $1,000 Atlanta Prize. Angell's Sonata for Cello and Tape won the $500 Tuscaloosa Prize. Cellist Craig Hultgren presented the same program of seven cello works on August 28th at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, September 13th at Georgia State University and September 20th at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. These seven pieces were finalists selected from 115 submissions from 27 different countries. The Biennial was open to submission by living composers of solo cello music or cello and electronics. The audience in attendance at the each concert voted to select the winners. This was the fourth set of Solo Cello Works Biennial concerts which are organized every two years. A review panel from the Birmingham Art Music Alliance choose this year's finalists last May. The panel’s criteria for selection were innovative writing, instrumental playability, and compositional craft. The seven finalists for the 2005 Biennial were: Break-Out a miniature for solo cello by Katy Abbott (Northcote, Australia) Sonata for Cello & Tape by Michael Angell (Birmingham, Alabama) Tonoi IV for solo electric cello by Nickitas J. Demos (Atlanta, Georgia) Più mesto for 2-bow cello by Carlo Forlivesi (Imola, Italy) Voices from the Gorge for cello & tape with back-projected images by Stephen Gard (Thirlmere, Australia) Stigmata for solo violoncello by Vincent Chee-Yung Ho (Calgary, Canada) Everything is Permitted for solo cello by Robert Percy (Twickenham, United Kingdom) Nickitas J. Demos, founder and Artistic Director of the neoPhonia New Music Ensemble, is Associate Professor of Music at Georgia State University. He holds degrees in music from the Cleveland Institute of Music, Indiana University and the University North Carolina. He has received performances by many major orchestras including the Cleveland Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Nashville Chamber Orchestra and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. North/South Consonance, Thámyris, the Rialto Brass Quintet and the Converse College Brass Quintet have performed his chamber music works. Tonoi IV is part of a series of works for solo performers. The piece is abstract in nature, having no particular programmatic idea. The piece is typical of the previous works in the series in that the harmonic and melodic material presented at the beginning are used and developed throughout. Because of the electric nature of the instrument, effects processing plays a critical role in the composition. The piece was written for Hultgren. Michael Angell is Associate Professor of Music Technology and Associate Chair at the University of Alabama at Birmingham where he is founder and director of the the Computer Music Ensemble. An energetic organizer, he was a founding member and initial president of the Birmingham Art Music Alliance. He has received awards from the International Trumpet Guild, ASCAP and the Alabama State Council on the Arts. The Sonata for Cello and Tape was written for Hultgren. It combines computer generated and manipulated sounds with live cello performance. The work is in a cyclic form containing five continuous movements of different moods. The fourth movement is for cello alone. The two short interludes are for computer-generated sounds alone. The third movement introduces a video montage and contains a soundscape over which the soloist freely improvises gestures. Descriptive titles given for the separate movements are strictly the composer's personal images. The work is not intended to be programmatic. Cellist Craig Hultgren is a long-time activist for new music, the newly creative arts, and the avant-garde. A recipient of Artist Fellowships in 1992 and 1999 from the Alabama State Council on the Arts, he has been a member since 1993 of Thámyris, a contemporary chamber music ensemble in Atlanta. A cellist in the Alabama Symphony, he also plays in the Chagall Trio and Luna Nova, resident ensemble of the Associated Colleges of the South. Hultgren is featured in three solo CD recordings including The Electro-Acoustic Cello Book on Living Artist Recordings. He has served as president of both the Birmingham Art Music Alliance and the Birmingham Art Association, where he instituted Birmingham Improv, an international festival of improvisation. In 2004, the Birmingham Sidewalk Film Festival 48-Hour Short Film Rush cited him for the best soundtrack creation for the film The Silent Treatment. This year he has also adjudicated and performed Composers of the Internet2, a competition for high school and collegiate composers of solo cello pieces. Most recently he has been appointed to the Learning Objective, Learning Activity Editorial Board to develop materials for online education. More information about the finalists and their compositions can be found at www.vhnet.net/bama/Biennial.html. The 2005 Solo Cello Works Biennial was sponsored by the Alabama State Council on the Arts, the Birmingham Art Music Alliance, the neoPhonia Series of Georgia State University School of Music, the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Music and the University of Alabama School of Muisc.

   
   

9. Hi everyone!

   I hope you are all having a wonderful summer. I certainly can't complain given the incredible weather we've had here in Seattle these past few months. My main focus since the beginning of the year has been building my theater/dance/music ensemble, which is going quite well. We'll be holding auditions in a few weeks, so I thought I'd forward you the information in the even you know anyone out here who might be interested.

   Very best wishes and please let me know how you are and what you're doing these days,

   Stan
   stan@stanhoffman.com

   == www.somatheatre.org
   == www.stanhoffman.com
   == 206-522-3961

   -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

   SOMA THEATRE
   interdisciplinary performance ensemble
   Seattle, Washington

   is seeking

   DANCERS * SINGERS * ACTORS * MUSICIANS

   TO TRAIN IN The Practice of Presence:

   physical training
   inspired by the work of Tadashi Suzuki, as
   taught by Robyn Hunt and Steve Pearson

   somatic movement
   based on the work of Moshe Feldenkrais
   and Tibetan yoga

   improvisation with sound, body, music, mask

   generating intention and movement from the stillness within

   TO DEVELOP: a full-length work by artistic director Stan Hoffman

   WHEN: Wednesdays and Sundays, 6:00pm–9:00pm

   AUDITIONS: SEPTEMBER 14 AND 18, 6:00PM–9:00PM
   come to both sessions

   PERFORMANCES: May 2006 (tentative)

   INFORMATION :
   Stan Hoffman
   206-522-3961 stan@stanhoffman.com www.somatheatre.com

10. Dear Maestro WINENGER,

    I have the great pleasure to send You my new composition "Song of Mars", inspired by a very beautiful, a fantastic picture realized by the NASA in this extraordinary American mission to Mars. In fact, the background of this music (the "objective" like organ sounds) is a conversion of the attached "jpg image" to "midi sounds" (with the "MIDImage" software), and the melody is my "subjective" contribution...

    With the best wishes, Faithfully Yours, Dr. Serban NICHIFOR (Click the image to audition.)
    Dear Maestro WINENGER, It gives me great pleasure to send You (on MIDI file) also a new wonderful composition of Liana ALEXANDRA : RHYTHMS. I like this music ! With the best wishes, Faithfully Yours, Serban

11. 
    Reviews about NUOVA MUSICA CONSONANTE - LIVING MUSIC FOUNDATION 2003 (Computer Music from U.S.A., Belgium, Italy, England and Romania), for the Bucharest magazines "Actualitatea Muzi," (January 2004) and "Observator Cultural" (January 2004).

    With our highest regards, Liana ALEXANDRA & Serban NICHIFOR

    Click for Reviews in Romanian

    Update: February 1, 2004:

    Dear Maestro WINENGER,
          I have the pleasure of sending you my compendium "INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER MUSIC" - for my course at the National University of Music in Bucharest. In fact, this is an INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC OF THE UNITED STATES because Computer Music - this marvelous genre - is 99 % AMERICAN MUSIC !!!
          The text is in Romanian, but with numerous English Expressions. In Chapter A (Chronology), I have inserted some information about you and the your magnificent LIVING MUSIC FOUNDATION.
    Yours faithfully,
    Serban NICHIFOR

    Note to the reader: email copies of this compendium in Romanian are available from the webmaster

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12. Jose Salazar:

    Jose Salazar was presented in concert in New York City at the Weill Recital Hall,
    at Carnegie Hall, on March 26, 2006.

13. Here is the new program of the Composers Colloquium I am organizing at our UNI since 1996.
    With my regards.

    Violeta Dinescu

    Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg Fakultät III Musik Kammermusiksaal (A-11) Ammerländer Heerstraße 114-118 Komponisten Colloquium SS 2003 Musik unserer Zeit 25.4.2003 - 18.00 Uhr - Gertrud Meyer-Denkmann (Oldenburg) Zur Gleichzeitigkeit verschiedener Musikkulturen 2.5.2003 .00 Uhr - Peter Machajdík (Bratislava/Berlin) 23.5.2003 - 18.00 Uhr - Juliane Klein (Berlin) - in Kooperation mit Oh-Ton Oldenburg - 30.5.2003 - 18.00 Uhr - Daniel Rothman (LA/USA) Gast: David Smeyers (Klarinette) - in Kooperation mit Radio Bremen - 6.6.2003 - 18.00 Uhr - Lars Graugaard (Kopenhagen/Dänemark) 20.6.2003 - 18.00 Uhr - Peter Schleuning (Oldenburg) Schleunings Flötenzirkus. Fünf Flöten bilden eine Faust: Musikwissenschaft am Limit 27.6.2003 - 18.00 Uhr - Insa Oertel: Der Komponist Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt (Chile/Oldenburg) - Vortrag in Anwesenheit des Komponisten - Gast: Ljuba Markova (Klavier) 4.7.2003 - 18.00 Uhr - Mihaela Vosganian (Bukarest/Rumänien) und -20.00 Uhr - Diana Simon und Rucsandra Popescu (Bukarest) Gesprächskonzert

14. Dear Dwight,

    I am very happy to send you information about my new opera premiere in Oldenburg and also the program of the composer colloquium I am organizing at the UNI since 1996.

    With my regards,
    Violeta

    Info Eréndira
    Oldenburgisches Staatstheater, Kleines Haus
    Eréndira
    Kammeroper von Violeta Dinescu nach Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    Musikalische Leitung: Eric Solén
    Regie: Mascha Pörzgen
    Ausstattung: Cordelia Matthes

    Eréndira: Anja Metzger
    Grossmutter: Christina Ascher
    Ulysses: Paul Brady
    (sowie Marit Risnes, Ute Biniass, Alwin Kölblinger, Brian Joyce, Toshihiko Matsui, Anthony Gardner)

    Kartenbestellung
    Tel.: 0441 / 2225 111
    Fax: 0441 / 2225 221

    Sa., 16.11.2002, 20:00 Premiere
    Do., 21.11.2002, 20:00
    Mi., 04.12.2002, 20:00
    Mi., 11.12.2002, 20:00
    Sa., 21.12.2002, 20:00
    So., 12.01.2003, 20:00
    Sa., 18.01.2003, 20:00
    Do., 23.01.2003, 20:00

    Am Sonntag, 3. November um 17 Uhr findet die Einführung in das Stück und die Inszenierung statt.
    weitere Information unter www.oldenburg.staatstheater.de

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    Wüstenwind, Orangenduft und Grünes Blut ERENDIRA – Oper von Violeta Dinescu nach einer Novelle von Gabriel G. Marquez
    Bühnenbild-Detail

    Eine phantastische Novelle voller poetischer Bilder und magischer Anspielungen bildet die Vorlage für eine Oper mit einer zwischen Realität und Traumwelt oszillierenden Handlung. Magische Räume aus südamerikanischen Bilderwelten werden beschworen. Die Musik des Kammerorchesters bildet eine eigene Welt. Sie bebildert die Handlung nicht, sondern spinnt selber verschiedene Handlungsstränge fort. Sie symbolisiert das »Unterwegs-Sein« von Eréndira, ihr Suchen und die Offenheit des Endes. »Der Klangraum meiner Musik verändert sich ständig – wie Treibsand. Man kann in ihm versinken, wenn man selbst nicht schnell genug ist.« (Violeta Dinescu) Eine Musik, die nicht der Untermalung dient, sondern die der Magie der Geschichte eine eigene, poetische Ebene hinzufügt.
    Premiere

    16.11.2002
    20.00 Uhr
    Kleines Haus

15. Madelyn Byrne News...
    My Peace Cantata was performed by the Palomar College Chamber Singers
    on November 24, 2002 at 7PM.
    The address is listed below:

    San Marcos Lutheran Church 3419 Grand Ave San Marcos, CA

16. David Manson's Indie label isospin labs has released two CDs that you may be interested in if you like innovative and adventurous music.

    Fluid Motion is a jazz quintet featuring saxophonist Sam Rivers, a true legend in the jazz realm. The recording is a balance between structure and freedom. CD Baby has some excerpts in mp3. www.cdbaby.com/fluidmotion

    Visions is a compilation of performances from the EMIT series. The music ranges from free jazz to electronic and experimental. It is "music for the strong of ear" featuring Peter Kowald, Evan Parker, Sam Rivers, Amy Denio, Day & Taxi, Eugene Chadbourne, Davey Williams, Pamela Z, Daniel Carter and other artists. www.cdbaby.com/cd/emit

    The recordings are available via CD Baby, NorthCountry and Wayside.

    Thanks for your support of creative music!

    David Manson
    EMIT
    www.emitseries.org
    mansond@email.spjc.cc.fl.us

17. Vivian Adelberg Rudow's full orchestra music SPIRIT OF AMERICA was premiered on Friday, July 12, 2002, 7:00 PM performed by the Chesapeake Orchestra, Jeffrey Silberschlag conductor, during a FREE River Concert Series at St. Mary's College, St. Mary's City, Maryland.
          Adelberg Rudow and friends conducted in the audience during audience participation sections of SPIRIT OF AMERICA.
          The River Concert Series, a set of festive high quality outdoor concerts, draws approximately 4,000 people per concert. The variety of styles of music professionally performed, good food, the beautiful waterfront setting, create a unique music experience.
          For more information about the River Concert Festival and directions, see the web site: www.smcm.edu/rcs
          For more information from the composer: phone 410-889-3939, E-mail: VivianAR@jhu.edu

18. Liana Alexandra's paper on the Living Music Foundation, presented on Friday, 5 April 2002, at the National University of Music of Bucharest on the occasion of their annual festival of the faculty of Composition, Musicology, and Pedagogie was well-received and will be published in a cultural review to be reproduced in part here.

19. 
    

    Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 1:46 PM
    Subject: "Living Music" by Liana Alexandra

    Dear Sir,

    I have the honour to present my article intitled "Living Music" published at the review OBSERVATOR CULTURAL this week (nr.114). You can see this article on www.observatorcultural.ro

    Sincerely yours,
    Liana Alexandra lianaalexandra@pcnet.ro

20. Composer News - Jeffrey Hoover - March 27, 2002

    Michael Dean and Carol Ann Modesitt

    Rachel Barton

    Jeffrey Hoover's Tomorrow's Memory was performed by the Illinois Central College Chamber Singers, Prince Dorough, Director, on December 8 at the Illinois Central College Performing Arts Center, East Peoria, IL.

    Into the Night for trumpet and marimba was performed on December 10 at the New York University New Music & Dance Ensemble concert. The performance was in the NYU Frederic Loewe Theater, New York, with Shu-Wei Chang, trumpet, and Insook Cho, marimba.

    Chiaroscuro for solo violin was performed in a live radio concert by Rachel Barton in Chicago, WFMT and internationally thorough Internet broadcasting on December 2. Due to popular demand, the program was rebroadcast on January 17th.

    Michael Dean and Carol Ann Modesitt performed Soul and Fire, for clarinet, voice, and piano, and Dreaming, for clarinet and piano in numerous venues January 8-March 9: Southern Utah University, University of Las Vegas, Illinois Central College, Southeast Missouri State University, Rutgers University, Westminster Conservatory and Carnegie Hall. Pianists for the performances were Barbara Riske and Hui-li Chih.

    The St. Mary-of-the-Woods Chamber Ensemble (clarinet, Stephen Richter; soprano, Alison Meuth; piano, Darcy Prilliman) performed Latin Steps, clarinet and piano; Jerusalem, clarinet and tape; Soul and Fire, clarinet, voice, and piano; and Dreaming, clarinet and piano in concerts at St. Mary-of-the-Woods College (IN) and Illinois Central College on February 27 and March 15.

    Into the Night was performed at Illinois Central College by Jeffrey Hoover, soprano saxophone, and Brenda Conroy, piano, on March 24.
    Contact:

    Jeffrey Hoover, Ph.D. Chair - Fine, Performing & Applied Arts Illinois Central College One College Drive East Peoria, IL 61635

    email: jhoover@icc.cc.il.us ph.: (309) 694-5132 web: artmusic.home.att.net (original link not found)

21. Member News - Joseph Pehrson - 4/01/08

    The Composers Concordance would like to announce a new video on YouTube by our co-director, Joseph Pehrson.

    YouTube

    It's a piece called "Spinner" and it is here shown at the Moscow Composers' Union. The piece is for clarinet, bassoon, viola and cello (2007) and it was also performed in Moscow as part of the "Jurgenson Salon" on March 22, 2008.

    Performers are Alexander Filatov, clarinet, Sergei Grashchenkov, bassoon, Anastasia Ponochevnaya, viola and Lydia Zinchenko, cello...

    Joseph Pehrson recently had two performances of his Spectral Harmony for saxophone and French horn by Jean Luc Darbellay's group, the "Spectral Ensemble" in Bern Switzerland and Mulhouse, France March 15 and March 17, 2002.

    In addition, his work Three Pianopieces will be performed by pianist Jeffrey Jacob, of George Crumb notoreity at New York University on April 29, 2002 at Loewe Theatre. Mr. Jacob will also be recording the piece commercially this Summer.

    Two additional pieces by Pehrson will be featured this Spring which use electronics and which are in unusual tuning systems. On Saturday, May 25th, 2002 Pehrson's Blackjack for trombone and electronics in the just intonation "Blackjack" scale will be played by Chris Washburne, trombone on Johnny Reinhard's American Festival of Microtonal Music at the Roulette performance space in New York.

    The Composers Concordance will be presenting another unusual work in an alternate tuning for viola and electronics on Thursday, May 30, 2002 with Olivia Koppell, viola.

    In addition to these concert works, the Pulse Ensemble Theatre is presenting Shakespeare's The Tempest using Pehrson's music, and his arrangements of Renaissance "standards" in a run from April 17, 2002 through May 12, 2002. This is the second time this theatre company has presented The Tempest with Pehrson's music.

22. Serban Nichifor presented a recital of Solo Cello music during the International Festival NEW MUSIC WEEK in Bucharest, Romania, held in May 2002.
    "LIVING MUSIC FOR CELLO"
    - Interferente Romano-Americane -
    (Serban NICHIFOR - cello)

    The program consisted exclusively of music by American and Romanian members
    of The Living Music Foundation:

    Dwight WINENGER (USA): "Structural Variations on Two Obscure Themes"       pentru violoncel solo (p.a.) Liana ALEXANDRA: "Incantatii III" pentru violoncel si banda magnetica (p.a.a.) Charles Norman MASON (USA): "The Artist and His Model"       pentru violoncel si banda magnetica (p.a.) Serban NICHIFOR: "Isihia II" pentru violoncel si banda magnetica (p.a.a.) Rodney OAKES (USA): "Fantasy for Cello & Electronics" (p.a.)

23. Cellist Craig Hultgren performed a solo program of seven world premieres on a Nov. 18th, 2001 program for Artburst at the Unitarian Church of Birmingham, Alabama.

    This contemporary performance featured both acoustic and electronic works created for him. The works cover a broad panorama of visions and voices from the last three years surrounding the change of the century.

          H·yx’a for cello, speaking cellist & tape by Sherban Nichifor (Roumania)
          Only Four for solo cello by Charles Knox (Atlanta)
          After Hours for violoncello & tape by Kurt Carpenter (Sterritt, AL)
          Structural Variations on Two Obscure Themes for solo cello by Dwight Winenger (California)
          The Ninth Wave for cello & computer generated tape by Robert Scott Thompson (Atlanta)
          Lavender Slumber for solo cello by Andy Delikat (Birmingham)
          Waltzes for Capone for cello & digital electronics by Matthew Marth (Olympia, WA)

    The concert was an enormous success as testified to by the following review:

    Birmingham News/Today
    Entertainment News

    Hultgren uses novel cello to set surrealistic tone

    11/20/01

    MICHAEL HUEBNER
    News staff writer
    

    Artburst's challenging season of cutting-edge music, dance and theater continued Sunday night at the Unitarian Universalist Church. Cellist Craig Hultgren, Birmingham's leading cultivator of new music, provided the acoustic and electronic instruments. Seven composers furnished the compositions, most of which were world premieres.

    Hultgren has networked widely in his quest for innovative music, and for this concert he came up with some gems. Starting off with Robert Scott Thompson's "The Ninth Wave," Hultgren unveiled his new electronic cello a bodyless stick figure of an instrument that he used to great effect accompanying a bed of ghostly sound masses from the two speakers flanking him. Distant voices and seascapes echoed through the hall in a vaguely melodic, thoroughly engaging framework.

    Romanian composer Serban Nichifor's "Hyxía" is steeped in ritual, the cello and vocals (the cellist is required to sing in Hebrew, Greek, Latin and English), successfully bridging Eastern orthodoxy and Western Christianity through an evocative array of pre-recorded sounds and cello harmonics. For "After Hours," Kurt Carpenter resurrected an analog tape piece from the days when Moog, Arp and Buchla synthesizers ruled the avant-garde, and wrote a cello part for it.

    The juxtaposition of the live instrument with the synthesized whistles, bird calls and random bloops and bleeps worked surprisingly well. Hultgren mimicked, cajoled and otherwise provided a spirited accompaniment.

    Matthew Marth's provocative "Waltzes for Capone," for cello and digital electronics, was the evening's most tantalizing and technically advanced composition. Crystalline bell tones and quotes from Strauss waltzes set the taped background for the work, which explored the warped psyche of the notorious gangster. The result was a surrealistic, sometimes naive and bizarre dialogue with the live instrument.

    Of the three pieces for solo acoustic cello, two lacked the flare of the electronic works. The exception came from Dwight Winenger, whose Structural Variations on Two Obscure Themes delighted with its inventive and playful reminiscences on the Pink Panther theme and the hymn "Red and Yellow, Black and White."

24. The Calendar for New Music, published monthy by The SoundArt Foundation, Inc.

    William Hellerman, Editor P.O. Box 900 Philmont, NY 12565 USA

    The latest information on concerts, CDs, competitions in the New York City area.
    Subscribe for $15. Visit their website @ soundart.org

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    Cordially,
    Mirta Mulhare
    Member, Living Music

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