July 2008
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Midsummer matrimony
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Mendelssohn – Wedding March, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, conclusion WCFSO – February 2008
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Copywrong redux
I’m sure that the issue of copyright will come up again and again over the life of this blog, since it is an area that greatly impacts individuals working in orchestral music and is also, in my opinion, ripe for legal reconsideration.
In the meantime, a quick follow-up to my previous post on this subject. Tim Rutherford-Johnson notes that musicologists need to be more involved in shaping...
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Copywrong?
If you have ever programmed orchestral concerts on a budget – regional music directors and education conductors know what I’m talking about – U.S. copyright law and its arcane ramifications have doubtless driven you to distraction. Want to introduce kids to an array of music from the last 70 years? Sorry, it’ll probably cost too much.
Should your work require you to become more saavy...
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Enough 'elitism'
Many of us in the performing arts feel that the constant application of the concept of ‘elitism’ to our work is misguided, if not irrelevant. Mark Swed of the LA Times tries to convince everyone else.
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Iowa composers, WCFSO on air
Broadcast – My May 10, 2008 concert with the WCFSO featuring composers Michael Gilbertson, Jonathan Chenette, Jeremy Beck, Brooke Joyce and Jerry Owen will air on Iowa Public Radio’s Symphonies of Iowa series Saturday morning, June 26 at 9:30 am CST.
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Summer music
Amidst several consecutive seasons of wild midwestern weather, summer served up a perfect day for the fourth annual WCFSO concert at the Sturgis Falls Celebration. This year’s program paid tribute to Abraham Lincoln on the occasion of his bicentennial. [Image by Noah Henscheid]
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60 x 365 = New music
In 2007 composer David Morneau embarked on 60x365, a project to write a one-minute piece of music each day for a year. Morneau’s odyssey of daily composition ended on June 30 – explore the results at the 60x365 website. While you’re in the mood for listening visit the mp3 page of Morneau’s site, 5of4.
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It's about time
In 2005 I led the WCFSO in a concert highlighting composers engaged in dialogue with music from earlier centuries; the superb guitarist Manuel Barrueco was soloist. Three years later the guitarist and the outline of the programming concept make it to St Paul and NPR listens up.
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Score!
The web continues to open up the music publishing industry and facilitate ever greater access to musical materials. I’ve already posted a link to the complete Mozart critical edition at the International Mozarteum Foundation website, and this month the IMSLP returns with a new name [Petrucci Music Library], a fresh look and a virtual mountain of scores.
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As American as ...
The arrival of Independence Day coincides with the conclusion of Leonard Slatkin’s tenure as music director of the National Symphony Orchestra. The connection should be obvious – our national musical culture has been enriched by Leonard’s work, in particular his multitude of commissions and repeat performances of works by contemporary American composers.
Over the course of a dozen...
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New media music
The web video revolution meets classical music performance – check out medici.tv, a new web video portal from Medici Arts, for free streaming concert broadcasts and paid downloads.
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Blogging the classics [and the new stuff too]
This month, enterprising musicians who blog. More of this to come as I transfer links from the blog roll [and add new ones] to the links category via these posts.
Conductors Edwin Outwater We grew up on the same street – something in the water? Kenneth Woods From the podium, the incisive views of a respected colleague
Composers Daniel Wolf Fascninating and informed perspective on music in the...