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Week of Events
CANTATA FOR A MORE HOPEFUL TOMORROW
What is it: an innovative new short film directed by Emmy award winning filmmaker Bob Berg that tells a story from despair to hope, inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic, set to a new score for virtual chorus commissioned by The Washington Chorus and composed by acclaimed American composer Damien Geter. Sung and recorded virtually by […]
Symphonic Wind Ensemble Virtual Concerts
The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater’s Department of Music brings music straight to your home this November with a variety of virtual concerts. Two of these virtual events include the Symphonic Wind Ensemble (SWE) concert conducted by Glenn Hayes Ph.D., and the Whitewater Symphony Orchestra (WSO) conducted by Christopher Ramaekers, Ph.D. SWE will be performing “Canzona” by […]
All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 airs on PBS this holiday season
Composer Timothy C. Takach (a past JFund winner and Healing & Hope Through Song composer), is delighted that PBS will air All is Calm across the country. The show has changed quite a bit since they first premiered it as a radio drama in Minneapolis with 3 actors speaking the lines and the 9 members of Cantus […]
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Rethinking Music Theory Pedagogy: A Panel Discussion (Composers Coffee Break)
Rethinking Music Theory Pedagogy: A Panel Discussion (Composers Coffee Break)
Join Elliott Miles McKinley and two of Mckinley's fellow teachers of music at the college level, Dr. Peter Smucker (Assistant Professor of Music Theory at Stetson University) and Dr. Erich Stem (Associate Professor of Music Composition at Indiana University Southeast) for a free and open panel discussion on the role of music theory at the […]
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Lunchtime Concert Series – Autumn 2020 features black composers
Lunchtime Concert Series – Autumn 2020 features black composers
The University of Liverpool presents some of their very best instrumental tutors performing an exciting range of repertoire in our flagship SSL Studio. The concerts also showcase the continuation and creativity of their partnerships with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the Solem Quartet. In celebration of Black History Month this October you can also find […]
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Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s Front Row: The PSO Virtual Experience.
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s Front Row: The PSO Virtual Experience.
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra's free event: Front Row: The PSO Virtual Experience. Episode 2: Originators and Disrupters (Part 2) Friday, November 27, 2020 at 6:30pm CST / 7:30pm ET Part 2 brings together the musicians with modern American composers (Libby Larsen, Gary Schocker and Charles Rochester Young) and a Beethoven orchestration by Music Director Manfred Honeck […]
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Sounds From Home
Sounds From Home
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra will center their program over Thanksgiving weekend around their complex and ever-evolving sense of home. Dvořák wrote his American String Quintet after moving to the United States, blending Czech influences with popular American music. The program also features excerpts from Florence Price’s String Quartet No. 2, infused with African American dances […]
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Sounds From Home
Sounds From Home
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra will center their program over Thanksgiving weekend around their complex and ever-evolving sense of home. Dvořák wrote his American String Quintet after moving to the United States, blending Czech influences with popular American music. The program also features excerpts from Florence Price’s String Quartet No. 2, infused with African American dances […]