I won! If you are in Boston May 15th or 16th, join me for the premiere of One Day When It’s Winter (text by Louise Rill).
Many thanks to Ray Fahrner (director)!
Happy singing!
Elizabeth Kennedy Bayer
composer/blogger
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Cambridge Chamber Singers’ 13th Annual International Composition Competition
aM Lab
Make some music!
lab.andre-michelle.com
No posting- you’ll have to go to the site to see for yourself!
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 [...]
