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Elizabeth Kennedy Bayer
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Racter Songs
Last night Josh Hill (who needs to get a website!) presented a song cycle with text from The Policeman’s Beard is Half Constructed, a book of prose written by a computer program in the early 80s.
The following texts were presented:
More than iron, more than lead, more than gold I need electricity.
I need it [...]
Welcome back!
So it’s been a very, very, VERY long time since I posted last. And yes, it is 3:30 or so in the AM, but I fell asleep earlier and should be up and at ‘em for the organ masterclass tomorrow at 10:30 with composer Margaret Sandresky. I haven’t read anything about her yet- but Devon [...]
Peanuts Gallery
I just discovered Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s Peanuts Gallery for piano and orchestra. I have to share because it’s so ridiculously adorable. Each of the six movements comes in between 2 and 3 minutes making for a 15 minute piece. It begins with Schroeder’s Beethoven Fantasy, a bright, exuberant fanfare of course heavily quoting Beethoven and [...]
A New Man
I’m very glad my office mate, Kurt of Kurticus.com, reminded me to stop by the Freshman Composition Seminar today. Composer Jonathan Newman is present today speaking about his chamber work, The Vinyl 6. He describes it as “…a Pierrot ensemble gone bad.”. But bad in a good way. The tune is lively, fun and interesting [...]
