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American Composers Alliance
As a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting contemporary music, ACA is a publisher-affiliate of BMI, archivist, and concert presenter, with a history dating to 1937. Our catalog of works is one of the most unique and diverse collections of American music in the United States and includes compositions from the early 1900s to the present day by such composers as Miriam Gideon, Robert Helps, Otto Luening, Daniel Pinkham, Dane Rudhyar, Halsey Stevens, Joan Tower, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Charles Wuorinen, and many others.
Recorded
between 1960 and 1973, the original eighteen LPs of Earle Brown’s legendary
Contemporary Sound Series have been highly sought after in the secondary market
since 1978 when they were discontinued. These rare and historically important
recordings of international avant-garde music have been carefully digitized and
remastered by the Earle Brown Music Foundation. The complete series is being
released by WERGO in six CD boxed sets. For a complete list of the winners, click here. For more information about what's happening at the Earle Brown Music Foundation, or to sign up for the EBMF Newsletter, click here.
In his nearly 40 years at the BGSU College of Musical Arts, Burton Beerman has
helped make Bowling Green synonymous with new and experimental music.
His own pieces have been performed around the world and have influenced
a generation of composers and performance artists.
On
Feb. 26, BGSU recognized him as a Distinguished Artist Professor.
Conferred by the board of trustees, the designation recognizes
professors who have earned national and international recognition
through research and publication or creative and artistic achievement. Read more
John Eaton 75th Birthday Concert to be presented by the New York Composers Circle, featuring the No Borders Quartet. Music by John Eaton, Patricia Leonard, Dinu Ghezzo, Dana Richardson, Brian Fennelly, Richard Brooks, Mauro Porro, and John de Clef Pinero will be presented at Loenard Nimoy Thalia at Peter Norton Symphony Space, 95th Street and Broadway, New York City. The No Borders Quartet features Alessandro Roselletti, piano; Andrea Biagini, flute; Michele Bianchini, saxophone, and Guido Arbonelli, clarinet. Tickets $15 in advance through Symphony Space; $20 day of concert;
Tony Clements, Director of the Humboldt Brass Chamber Music Workshop at Humboldt State
University, Arcata, CA, announced the 2010 Composition Contest winners on Monday, February 15, 2010.
John W. N. Palmer from Kingston, Ontario, Canada won the first place prize of US$2000 with his sextet titled “Neo-Baroque Suite.” Leon Steward, of Castroville, TX, took second place, winning US$1000 for “The Invasion of America.” The US$500 third place prize was awarded to James Joannesson Kopf of Washington, CA, for “The Rupert Suite.” Peter Felice, of Monticello, IN received Honorable Mention recognition for “Stages of Tragedy.”
Pianist Matthew McCright presents the New York première of Traces by
Augusta Read Thomas, a work that blends the styles of jazz icons with
the great composers of. McCright will also perform Thomas’s 6 Piano
Etudes, the world première of Ken Steen’s3 Situations for piano and
fixed media, and the virtuosic sweep of the Four North American Ballads
by Frederic Rzewski. Composers Augusta Read Thomas and Ken Steen will
take part in pre-performance discussions.
North River music Renee Weiler Concert Hall 46 Barrow Street New York, New York Thursday, March 18, 2010 8pm $15/$10
The 21st Century Consort, new music ensemble-in-residence at the
Smithsonian Institution for 3 decades, embarks on its third season at
the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium.
The third concert of their 2009-10 season, FLORA and FAUNA, features
music by Kaija Saariaho, Scott Wheeler, Evan Chambers, and The Book of Imaginary Beings, composed by Robert
Parris in 1972, based on the literary work by Jorge Luis Borges.
Led
by artistic director Christopher Kendall and featuring some of
Washington’s finest chamber musicans, including Sara Stern, Paul Cigan,
Gabrielle Finck, Lisa Emenheiser, Tom Jones, Elisabeth Adkins, Rachel
Young, and Rick Barber, along with acclaimed guest vocalists Lucy
Shelton and William Sharp and others, the Consort presents the riveting
and resonant music of our time.
Treemonisha performance: courtesy of Trilogy, An Opera Company, 2009Scott Joplin's TREEMONISHA
Feb 19-21, 26-28; Mar 5-7
The Washington Savoyardsbrings Scott Joplin’s 1910 opera Treemonisha
back to Washington for the first time since it was performed during the
Kennedy Center’s celebration of the Bicentennial in 1976. This rarely
performed opera—which was never performed during Joplin’s lifetime—is a
superb piece of American operatic literature which draws on African
American traditions for both its story and its music, but is also
deeply influenced by classical opera. Joplin posthumously received the
Pulitzer Prize 1976 for his contributions to American music .
Composers Recordings, Inc. LP Catalog Now Being Made Available by New World Records
First Batch of Unissued CRI LPs Now Available as On-demand CD-Rs
Fulfilling its promise to make the entire CRI catalog available
again, New World Records is pleased to announce the availability of the first
batch of digitized CRI LPs as premium-quality on-demand CD-Rs, including the
original liner notes. Twenty titles, including music by Charles Amirkhanian,
Jack Beeson, Easley Blackwood, Julian Carrillo, Theodore Chanler, Mario
Davidovsky, Robert Erickson, Ben Johnston, Kenneth Gaburo, John Melby, Quincy
Porter, Vladimir Ussachevsky, and Robert Ward comprise the first set of
releases,
Javier Alvarez: Temazcal for maracas and electronics Bill Alves: Inyo for shakuhachi and electronics John Cage: Ryoanji for shakuhachi and electronics Tom Flaherty: Shepard's Pi for toy piano and electronics Mary Jane Leach: Bach's Set for solo cello and 8 prerecorded cellos Dennis Miller: Faktura for video Maurice Wright: GENIS for video
Performed by Genevieve Feiwen Lee, toy piano Theresa Dimond, maracas Tom Flaherty, cello Rachel Rudich, flute Bill Alves, percussion Saturday, February 6 at 8:00 PM Lyman Hall, Pomona College 340 N. College Ave. Claremont, California Admission Free
On Saturday, April 10, 2010, The Emerson String Quartet gives the US Premiere of Lawrence Dillon's String Quartet No. 5: Through the Night in Watson Hall at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
The nu ensemble, under the baton of Ransom Wilson, gives the world premiere of Lawrence Dillon's "Genealogie" for actor, three singers and six instruments in Watson Hall at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts
Daedalus String Quartet performs Philadelphia premiere of Lawrence Dillon's "String Quartet No. 4: The Infinite Sphere" at the University of Pennsylvania's Irvine Auditorium.
KHOJ, THE SEARCH FOR LIGHT for orchestra and narrator, to be performed Saturday, March 13, 2010 at the Scottish Rite Center in Milwaukee. The Concord Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Jamin Hoffman, will be performing.
Khoj is a series of miniatures for orchestra and narrator illustrating the text of Asian Indian
story teller and author Gita Kar. The Hindi word 'khoj' means 'the
wonder of discovery.'
