http://elizabethkennedybayer.com composer/blogger Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:16:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Make some music! lab.andre-michelle.com No posting- you'll have to go to the site to see for yourself! http://elizabethkennedybayer.com/604-am-lab/ 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 ... http://elizabethkennedybayer.com/602-racter-songs/ 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 ... http://elizabethkennedybayer.com/600-welcome-back/ 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 ... http://elizabethkennedybayer.com/598-peanuts-gallery/ 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 ... http://elizabethkennedybayer.com/596-a-new-man/ Listen to the whole thing here until Feb. 2nd. Written by Swedish bro/sis duo The Knife and commissioned by Hotel Pro Forma. Here is a clip: http://elizabethkennedybayer.com/594-darwin-electro-opera/ 3 contests later and roughly $80 poorer, I don't really feel like I have accomplished much. Editing always makes me feel uncreative and boring. I need to re-start my thesis. But that probably won't happen until after the production of Dreaming Darwin- which you all should see, BTW!! http://elizabethkennedybayer.com/592-postage/ No, I am not talking about porn. I just discovered that Bang on a Can has their own Vimeo channel (are they called channels?). I just watched this piece for multiple basses and Obama. Music for Multiple Basses, and the President of the United States from Bang on a Can ... http://elizabethkennedybayer.com/590-bang-on-a-video/ What: Musci10 Festival Application fee: $35 Airfare and lodging will be covered up to $2000... airfare to Switzerland!! Deadline: Feb 1st- that's a receipt deadline, so mail now! http://elizabethkennedybayer.com/588-8bb-will-totally-play-your-stuff/ I was looking around on the interwebs, and which checking on the site of Meredith Monk, I noticed that she has a Book of Days project. Well, so does Eve Beglarian. Time to learn. Meredith Monk's Book of Days is a film project from 1988. Meredith directed and wrote the score ... http://elizabethkennedybayer.com/586-book-of-days/