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Connecticut College honored composer Arthur Kreiger with a full concert of his music last November. The concert, at Evans Hall, featured percussionists Peter Jarvis and Christopher Graham along with audio engineer Jim McNeish and many other artists. Nine works were performed, including Companion Stars, Electronic Miniature, Four Settings of William Carlos Williams, Close Encounters, Kindred Spirits, and Precious Metals, among others. Kreiger is the Sylvia Pasternack Marx Professor Emeritus of Music.

The composer's catalog contains works for orchestra, chorus, mixed ensembles, solo instruments, and electronic media. Kreiger completed his DMA at Columbia University and has worked as a composer for 45 years. He won the 1993 Brandeis University Creative Arts Medal, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Rome Prize, as well as commissions from the Fromm and Koussevitzky Foundations and the National Endowment of the Arts. He was awarded the Walter Hinrichsen Award by the Academy of Arts and Letters in 2013.

September 20 and 21 - Bushwick Open Studios - Electronic Music works by many composers!

BUSHWICK OPEN STUDIOS | ELECTRONIC MUSIC WEEKEND
MISE-EN_PLACE Bushwick
(678 Hart St, Brooklkyn, NY 11221)
FREE ADMISSION

9.21.2019 @ 6pm
Libby Fabricatore (USA): Electrotropism (2019, world premiere)
Heejin Jang (South Korea): Dust, and Blues (2019, US premiere)
Vasko Dukovski (Macedonia): Trees, Pigs, Figures, Rags (2018)
Robert Scott Thompson (USA): Nullius in Verba (2018, US premiere)
Young-Shin Choi (South Korea): Sigan (2017, NY premiere)

and much much more

University of Nebraska at Kearney faculty member, baritone Andrew White will present a recital of song settings of poetry by Walt Whitman on Dec. 2. Faculty pianist Nathan Buckner will accompany him. Works will include Darleen Mitchell's Three Whitman Songs. Part of Concerts on the Platte (COTP) series at UNK.

The full program is to include AWhitman"Sampler," by Greg Steinke (President of National Association of Composers USA, and Prof. Emeritus of Marylhurst University, OR); Nocturnal Songs, by Jonathan McNair (Prof. of Composition at U of Tenn, at Chattanooga); ThreeWhitmanSongs, by Darleen Mitchell (Prof. Emeritus of Composition at UNK); One Hour to Madness and Joy, by Frederick Koch (Cleveland composer); Whispers of Heavenly Death, by Jeffrey Quick (Cleveland composer); and Good-Bye My Fancy, by Sylvia Rickard (Victoria, BC, Canada). In addition, the concert includes program notes and a pre-concert lecture by scholars from the Whitman Archives at The University of Nebraska at Lincoln (UNL).

The concert will also be presented at UNL Sunday, Dec. 8 at 3:00 p.m.