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2021-03-27 05:31:00
Classical Music News of the Week, March 27, 2021
[…] at live.bangonacan.org, as long as the closure of presenting venues continues, and perhaps beyond. The four-hour live Marathon will be hosted by Bang on a Can Co-Founders and Artistic Directors Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe, who say:New Commissions! On April 18, Bang on a Can presents its 2nd entire marathon of PREMIERES! 15 brand new works by 15 pioneering composers. Tune in to hear 4 hours of nonconformist, noncommercial, mind-blowing music. Andy Akiho! Carman Moore! Joan LaBarbara! Matana Roberts! Kelly Moran! Rudresh Mahanthappa! and many many more.This concert is FREE! But please do consider purchasing a ticket. That helps us pay more players, commission more composers, and make more music.For complete information, visit https://bangonacan.org/--Maggie Stapleton, Jensen ArtistsOpera Maine Presents a New Production of The Elixir of LoveOpera Maine is pleased to announce it will present live opera again this summer at Merrill Auditorium, with two performances July 28 […]
2020-09-11 23:45:00
University of Michigan African American Music Conference goes virtual, celebrates Willis Patterson's 90th birthday
[…] than seven linear feet of boxes including correspondence, research, photos and news clippings, focuses primarily on Patteron's professional and musical career from 1952 to 1999. Another highlight of the conference will take place at 7 p.m. Sept. 19. A "Facebook watch party" of a recent public workshop reading that SMTD presented of "Bre'r Rabbit and the Tar Baby," the first of three stories in Nkeiru Okoye and Carman Moore's "Tales from the Briar Patch." The workshop premiere was directed by Toppin in February 2020 and was read by a cast of five African American students. "While there is a historical component to this conference, I am excited about presenting this contemporary opera and having a forum for people to engage with and discuss it," Toppin said. "Projects like this are an example of the continued […]
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2020-05-26 14:35:32
The Dangers And Delights Of Choreographing Over-Familiar Music
Carmina Burana. Bolero. Arvo Pärt’s Spiegel im Spiegel. Even The Rite of Spring. They’re good pieces, they work for dance, and audiences are familiar with them. “Still, many choreographers have been sabotaged by the formidable nature and Muzak-y overuse of these iconic compositions,” writes Joseph Carman, who talks to several choreographers about how they’ve successfully […]
2019-04-01 00:52:00
The Syncopated Times: Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha: The First Stagings Remembered
[…] days and my family was blessed to be able to attend the premiere. Morehouse College was one of the sponsors of the event and they held a workshop and lecture the afternoon before the concert. I arrived just in time to hear a most distinguished panel discuss the opera and then to hear Rudi Blesh describe the life of Scott Joplin. The panel was a gathering of ragtime authorities. Carman Moore lead the discussion and was just beginning his distinguished career there at Morehouse. Max Morath, Eubie Blake, T.J. Anderson, Vera Lawrence, and William Bolcom set forth on a lively discussion about Joplin’s opera and the significance of the premiere. Anderson and Bolcom, I have always felt, were to become victims in what I fear was another unfortunate tale of the opera. But that’s story for another […]
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