Collected Poems: A Bilingual Edition - Stéphane Mallarmé. Music Review - 'Kafka Fragments' - The Soprano Dawn Upshaw Performs at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater. College: Music Department. Founded in 1883 and an accredited member of the National Association of Schools of Music since 1946, Houghton College continues to build on its reputation for musical excellence, academic strength, and Christian worldview. As a conservatory model school of music within a nationally-ranked, liberal arts college, the Greatbatch School of Music offers a unique combination of depth and breadth, equipping musicians for a lifetime of success and fulfillment.
Presidential Scholarship to incoming music student: $50,000 value over 4 yearsPerformance Scholarships for music and non-music majorsGraduate Assistantships to qualified applicantsState-of-the-art Center for the ArtsInternational touring with our EnsemblesAccomplished, performing Faculty who care about their students and teach with integrityInteraction with guest artistsPro Tools certification, Internships and Residencies. Copyright Infringement by Alan Korn. Frost Cycle for so hn po - Folder Shared from Box.net - Free Online File Storage. Operas With Few Roles. The Diction Police. American Orchestras: Yes, it’s a crisis (part IV) | Tony's Blog. “I am convinced that if the rate of change within an organization is less than the rate of change outside, the end is near.” – Jack Welch In the last twelve months the Honolulu, Syracuse, and New Mexico Symphonies have filed for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy; the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Louisville Symphony filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy; the Detroit Symphony suffered the longest strike in the history of America Orchestras, and the Cleveland Orchestra also walked out during a brief strike in January 2010.
There are stories echoing across the industry of major problems at the Baltimore, Seattle, Atlanta, New York Philharmonic, and Minnesota Orchestras. Even the settlements made in Detroit and Cleveland have left these orchestras with substantial structural deficits and depleted endowments, with no clear plan how issues might be addressed, apart from the panacea of more fundraising. Clearly, the field is in crisis. It should be screaming for change, for new ideas. This is the reality. Jobs, Online Resumes, Industry News | US Music Jobs. Artsongcentral. Gerald Barry’s opera The Intelligence Park at IMMA « Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland. Gerald Barry’s opera, The Intelligence Park, widely regarded as one of the most innovative and compelling operas of recent times, will be presented in a concert performance at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Wednesday 18 May 2011.
Described by The Irish Times in 1990 as “the most original piece of music to come out of Ireland this century”, the opera is set in Dublin in 1753 and embraces love, power, prison and an eclipse of the sun. Presented in collaboration with Crash Ensemble, the production forms part of an exciting season of performances being staged at IMMA in May to mark the 20th anniversary of the Museum’s foundation in 1991. The Intelligence Park, to a libretto by Vincent Deane, tells of a composer, Robert Paradies, who has lost the power to write but rediscovers it through his obsession with an Italian singer, the castrato Serafino. When first produced in London for the Institute of Contemporary Arts/Almeida Festival in 1990, it met with an extraordinary critical response.
Peabody Institute - Career Counseling and Placement: Office of Career Counseling and Placement. A Dream Play by S.J. Pettersson - Download A Dream Play. UbuWeb. You've Cott Mail for Friday, April 29, 2011. Crowdfunding sites now bring in millions of dollars per week Austin [TX] American-Statesman, 4/9/11 Proponents say crowdfunding --"micropatronage" -- is a modern twist on the age-old artist-patron relationship. "Back in Beethoven's day, he had a handful of healthy, wealthy patrons footing the bill for his creative endeavors.
Now, a creative entrepreneur can rely on a network of folks to make a project happen," said Brian Meece, founder of Rockethub.com, one of the largest crowdfunding websites. "I like to say that Beethoven plus social media equals crowdfunding. " 2 years since launch, Kickstarter.com has raised millions for the arts Yancey Strickler, The Kickstarter blog, 4/28/11 Two years ago today on April 28, 2009, Kickstarter.com launched. Total Dollars Pledged: $53,107,672. Total Projects: 20,371. 7,496 of these -- approximately 43% -- have been successfully funded.
In Canada, new crowdfunding opportunities for the arts Rebecca Coleman's blog, 4/22/11. The New Synthetists. There’s something happening here. What it is has become a bit clearer (to me, at least) with the simultaneous arrival on my desk of new CDs by Todd Reynolds, the Kronos Quartet, the Now Ensemble and Build. Listened to back to back, ther family kinship is easily recognized.
They have lots of cousins out there in the marketplace already and each month brings new examples. So, what’s happening here? Is it a new…sound? Impulse? But, wait, let’s back up for a moment. Not so, the new…what shall we call them? Many of the Synthetists are entrepreneurs and marketers and their godparents are the Bang on a Can founders–David Lang, Michael Gordon, Julia Wolfe–who realized many years ago that if they wanted to hear their music played they were going to have to build the production and marketing infrastructure to do it themselves.
Its composers mainly belong to the past two generations although they seem to have absorbed all of music history and quote from it liberally. Videos: On Stage - Joyce DiDonato - page 2. Nico Muhly. New Sounds: New Sounds Live Nuggets. NewMusicbox. There is so much work left to do… That is what I think when I hear about or read about or see an example of ignorance in one form or another about the state of contemporary concert music today. It is the reason why I started a radio show back when I lived in Oklahoma, and it’s the reason why I decided to interview 50 composers and edit their words into something that both laymen and professionals can find both entertaining and informative. It is what I have been reminded of by a confused and confusing newspaper article and what compels me to respond. Recently the Guardian‘s Fiona Maddocks gave to the world “Women composers: Notes from the musical margins,” an article that both decries the lack of female composers in today’s musical world and provides vivid examples of the exact attitude that has made it so difficult for composers of both genders to gain a foothold in that world.
So now that the alibis and inequalities have gone, all doors are open. Julia Bentley, mezzo-soprano. NRM Season 25: Joan La Barbara, March 17. An Evening with Vocalist/Composer/Improviser Joan La Barbara Works by John Cage, Morton Feldman and La Barbara Thursday, March 17 at 8 pm TICKETS: $15 General Admission ($10 Students/Seniors) Greenwich House Music presented an evening devoted to vocalist/composer/improviser Joan La Barbara on Thursday, March 17 at 8 pm, as part of the 25th anniversary of the North River Music series.
“One of the great vocal virtuosos of our time" (San Francisco Examiner), Joan La Barbara has explored the human voice as a multi-faceted instrument, developing a unique vocabulary of experimental and extended vocal techniques that have become her “signature sounds.” In celebration of St. Founded by Frank Wigglesworth in 1985, GHMS’s North River Music is one of New York City’s first concert series devoted to new and experimental music. VENUE: Renee Weiler Concert Hall, Greenwich House Music School 46 Barrow Street (between Bedford St. & 7th Ave. The Program About the Artist. Performance Today from American Public Media. "Never mind about me, God. Just bless America, and maybe some of it will trickle down." at The Cartoon Bank.