Critics and “Users”
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- Ann Southam a one-woman tone poem
- Global Beat Fusion: ethnotechno Gnawledge and Pushing Air
- Around Crofton: Doors open at The Crofton School of Music
- Exclusive: Q&A with Electro-Pop Chanteuse Emilie S… |
Critics and “Users”
Washington Post
(r maybe the powers that be at the WP were in fact making a judgment on classical ballet avant-garde visual art opera and classical music and ?culture? vis-à-vis movies books classical theater and television. )Finally your mention of music critic Andrew Porter did remind me that his review in the New Yorker of George and Gene Rochberg?s 1982 opera ‘The Confidence Man’ (based on Herman Melville) did save me a very long drive out to Santa Fe that summer. (I also recall that Andrew Porter loved John Eaton?s orchestral and electronic operatic setting of Shakespeare?s ‘The Tempest’ for the Santa Fe pera three years later. I for one hope that the Washington National pera stages John Eaton?s ‘The Tempest’ before it stages Thomas Adès?s newer ‘The Tempest’. ) Posted by: snaketime1 | July 7 2009 1:33 PM |.
Ann Southam a one-woman tone poem
Globe and Mail
She played piano as a child loved the keyboard music of Brahms and other romantic composers and wrote some early pieces that mirrored their expressive sensibility. When she began to study composition seriously in 1960 her teacher Samuel Dolin steered her toward the 12-tone method that was then seen as the future’s gift to the present. Another teacher Gustav Ciamaga introduced her to the relatively new field of electronic music. “I loved the mucking-around quality of it” she said of her time in the University of Toronto’s electronic-music studio. “It was a combination of making things happen and letting things happen. There was no point trying to tune anything. Things would just kind of drift off.
Global Beat Fusion: ethnotechno Gnawledge and Pushing Air
Huffington Post
Since the publication of my first book in 2005. Following are four such albums that have made their way into my collection over the past month.
Around Crofton: Doors open at The Crofton School of Music
Annapolis Capital
" The Crofton School of Music is open for business. The school which opened June 1 at 1676-A Village Green offers a variety of lessons and programs for students of all ages and experience levels. Instruction is available in more than a dozen different instruments as are lessons in vocal performance music theory conducting and electronic music. Half-hour beginner lessons are $35; hour-long intermediate or advanced lessons are $65. Summer camp sessions for children and group classes for infants to adults are ramping up as well. Crofton residents Keith and Leigh Ann Hinton own the school along with Matt and Dallis Byrne of Virginia. Since leasing the property in March the four have been occupied with extensive renovation and remodeling efforts now nearly complete.
Exclusive: Q&A with Electro-Pop Chanteuse Emilie S… |
Flavorwire
And you have to ask yourself what am I doing here? What is my place here? What do I want? And so you have all these questions about what do I want in my life now? You know all of the things that are very positive for your evolution and also for the writing because you are going inside a lot. FP: So the new music was inspired by the city and it must be different because you were doing a lot with sounds from nature before. I wanted to change a little bit the way of working. I worked a lot around the idea of base drums and melodies as the center of the production. My programmings are still very important but they are more minimal.
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