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Winners of the 2008 BMI Student Composer Awards

2008-05-20 20:42:00 by Editor in News
 
...Composer Award-winner in 2006, Bancks has also been honored with a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Education, the Century Fellowship from the University of Chicago, and the Eastman School of Musics Howard Hanson Orchestral Prize. His music has...
 
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56th Annual BMI Student Composer Award Winners Announced

2008-05-20 20:37:00 by Editor in News
 
...composers, ranging in age from 11 to 26, have been named winners in the 56th Annual BMI Student Composer Awards. BMI Foundation President Ralph N. Jackson and BMI Foundation Advisory Panel member Ellen Taaffe Zwilich announced the decisions of the jury and presented the awards at a reception held May 20 at the Jumeirah Essex House Hotel in...
 
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Legendary Emmy-Winning Composer Earle Hagen Dead at 88

2008-05-27 18:01:00 by Editor in News
 
...composer of some of the most memorable musical themes in television history, died of natural causes Monday at his home in Rancho Mirage, California. He was 88 Hagen wrote the popular themes for The Andy Griffith Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Danny Thomas Show, I Spy, That Girl, The Mod Squad, Mickey Spillanes Mike Hammer , and many more....
 
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Boston Modern Orchestra Project Honors Composer Robert Erickson

2008-02-13 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
 
...composer Robert Erickson (1917-1997). As part of BMOPs new Composer Retrospectives series, this special event features a cornucopia of Ericksons works ranging from his piece Auroras (1994) for full symphony orchestra to the lesser known Night Music (1978). Other program highlights include: Fantasy (1954) for cello and orchestra with Rafael...
 
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NYU BMI Day Featured Composer Guide To Career Development

2008-04-09 20:53:00 by Editor in News
 
...composers. NYUs Ron Sadoff, Associate Professor & Director of Scoring for Film and Multimedia moderated the discussion open to NYU students enrolled within the department Charles Fox Songwriter Hall of Fame inductee Charles Fox , lectured during the first half of the event on his experience as a composer in the television and motion picture...
 
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BBC SO axes Composer Weekends in favour of Composer Days

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2008-01-21 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
In a surprise move, the BBCSO has announced that it will no longer continue its annual January Composer Weekends beyond 2008 Instead, there will be Composer Days scattered between January and March, next year focusing on Stockhausen, Murail and Xenakis More here: http://www.musicalcriticism.com/news/bbcso-composer-0108.shtml Any reactions to...
 
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Midtown Brass Performs Work by Atlanta Composer, Erik Kofoed

2007-10-18 13:32:00 by Nicole Randall in AtlantaComposers.Com
 
...composer, and Paul Poovey, trumpet for Midtown Brass Sunday,10/21 from 3-4:30pm at the Florence Kopleff Recital at Georgia State University For anyone who is interested the Midtown Brass Quintet is playing my piece, 'The Green Movement' this Sunday afternoon at Georgia State University. I will also be MCing the concert for them. They are a...
 
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Name that Composer

2008-01-28 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
 
...composer's music can be anything that s/he wants it to be. In the case of this composer, the music this composer writes could probably not be described any more accurately, eloquently, or honestly
 
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Seriousness of Composition, the Composer, Xenakis

2008-02-20 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
 
...composers and pieces of music Ive strongly connected with share a certain seriousness to them. Listening to the music, I always felt a certain sense that there was a great deal of the composer in the work, not necessarily something expressive (and more often the case no sense of expressionism at all), but rather as if the composer had put a...
 
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The composer conducts - badly?

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2008-02-23 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
...composer's protestations that he was not competent to do it, Diaghilev almost dragged him to the pit at rehearsal. After a few bars they reached some cross-rhythms. Falla stopped beating so the orchestra stopped. 'No, no,' he cried, 'you go on.' He was totally unable to conduct the rhythms he had devised - from Barbirolli the authorised...
 
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