posted for Elizabeth Hoover, graduate student in musicology
For over a year now I have been working with Madelyn Roehrig, the Education Specialist in Adult Studies at the Carnegie Museum of Art, in order to create an educational program in which music and art take center stage together. Due to my background in art history and my interest in using this discipline to explore music, the wonderful Joan McDonald recommended my name to Madelyn in the summer of 2007. Ever since then, Madelyn and I have been brainstorming possible lecture topics and performance scenarios to present at the museum. (more…)
Last year the Men’s Glee Club commissioned a composition by David N. Childs titled The Silent Land and gave the premiere during their spring concert. The Club’s director, Richard Teaster, received word this week that The Silent Land will be published by Santa Barbara Music Publishing. Barbara Harlow, President and Editor of Santa Barbara Music Publishing was particularly impressed by the live recording of the premiere writing, “Kudos to you and your young men!”….”What a beautiful performance!”
Works published Santa Barabara Music Publishing are distributed throughout the United States as well as Australia, Canada, Japan and Norway.
Congratulations to the Men’s Glee Club, director Richard Teaster, and composer David Childs.
City Paper ran a great preview of tomorrow night’s IonSound Project concert. The announcement of the group’s residency at Pitt is generating a lot of enthusiasm in the community. An excerpt from Aaron Jentzen’s article:
“While Pitt’s Music on the Edge series has long brought in top-notch performers from around the world for concerts and workshops with the program’s composition students, such opportunities were a bit scattered. “We’re not a conservatory, we’re not a school of music,” Rosenblum says. “We’re a liberal-arts university, so most of our [undergrad] students are double-majors in music,” he says, “but the composers don’t have the same types of opportunities to get their pieces played as they would at these other local universities.”
IonSound’s residency, he says, will change that. Throughout the year, IonSound will work with student composers, presenting workshops on “new instrumental techniques and different kinds of things that would interest young composers,” as well as performing the best student compositions at an annual spring concert. “These guys are out there, really dedicated to New Music of all styles,” says Rosenblum. “So composers can hit them with almost anything, and they can deal with it.”
