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John Morris Russell’s Holiday Pops Friday, December 15 Kleinhans Music Hall,  10:30 am Buy Tickets The Coffee Concert Series is presented by The Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus joins us for Western New York’s #1 holiday tradition! By now, you know he’s Mr. Christmas, and JMR loves sharing the magic with you! This year, as a special treat, Mike Randall of Channel 7 reads The Polar Express, with its beautiful illustrations projected above the orchestra, set to the gorgeous orchestral score from the film. Jazz singer Katy Miner, Girlchoir, and Normal Street Entrance are all featured on the program.  Come at 9 AM for complimentary coffee and doughnuts to get you in the holiday spirit.

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First International master-courses for young composers in St. Petersburg Russian Musical Union International MolOt Group Russian institute of Art History Youth Department of Russian Composers Union ​ are delighted to present ​ The First International master-courses for young composers in St. Petersburg The master-courses will take place in St. Petersburg on the base of Russian institute of Art History from November 19 to November 26, 2017. The invited professors for the master-courses are composers Alexander Knaifel (St. Petersburg, Russia) and Helena Tulve (Tallinn, Estonia). ​ The master-courses have two sections: Music for chamber ensemble Music for chamber choir ​ The performing ensembles of the master-courses are St. Petersburg MolOt-ensemble and Festino Chamber Choir. ​ Ensemble lineup: Flute (also piccolo, alto) Clarinet (also piccolo, bass) Piano (also MIDI-keyboard) Violin Cello (also bass guitar) ​ The choir lineup is 16 voices (SATB, four singers for each part) ​ 10...

Part of a lecture by Vancouver composer Rodney Sharman.  Mr. Sharman was the mentor for the 2014 Arraymusic Young Composers' Workshop. Four composers experimented and composed over the entire month of May. The workshop culminated in a concert of works created during that period.  Rodney Sharman lives in Vancouver, BC. He has been Composer-in-Residence with the Victoria Symphony, the National Youth Orchestra of Canada and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. In addition to concert music, Rodney Sharman writes music for cabaret, opera and dance. He works regularly with choreographer James Kudelka, for whom he has written scores for Oregon Ballet Theatre and San Francisco Ballet. He is working on a score for Coleman Lemieux Company, Toronto. Premieres in 2011 include Notes on "Beautiful", a transformation of music by Stephen Sondheim for pianist Anthony de Mare, and a violin concerto for Jonathan Crow and the Victoria Symphony Orchestra. Sharman maintains a presence on ...

In this beautiful romantic classical music work the composer was inspired by the wind and sand spiraling during a hurricane in South Florida. Composed by award-winning composer Sabrina Pena Young for her wedding day. Scores are available through the composer's website (sabrinapenayoung.blogspot.com) and the Petrucci Library. ASCAP. Pena Young Publishing. First performed by Monica Strawbridge at the Sigma Alpha Iota American Musicale at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida.

With Brooklyn’s National Sawdust, Paola Prestini has given cutting-edge orchestral music a world-class concert hall and much, much more. The diverse array of resident artists and curators have been given a mandate to dream big, think out of the box, and collaborate across genres, nationalities, and forms. Watch as Prestini grants an exclusive peek into Brooklyn’s new space as she talks about how her own experience as a composer has inspired her to shake up her industry’s status quo.

Jennifer Higdon is one of the most performed living American composers. Her list of commissioners and performing organizations is extensive and includes the Cleveland Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Tokyo String Quartet, the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the President’s Own Marine Band, among others. Higdon received the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Music for her Violin Concerto, with the committee citing her work as a “deeply engaging piece that combines flowing lyricism with dazzling virtuosity.” Her lecture is co-sponsored by the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra.

Talks with John Corigliano, Karl Schindler, Bruce Pulk, Marc Parella, and Jody Rockmaker with insight into the world of being a composer of concert music. This was produced in 2006 for my Freshman Music Business class at Mesa Community College.

PHOTO CREDIT: cdn-images How do you know if you or someone you know is a classical music elitist? Read on to find out! Someone you love might just have a serious classical music elitism! 1. You are a classical music  elitist  if you own boxes of classical music albums that you never play . How can you get rid of these recordings? Really? Such beautiful music going to waste? You don't care that you no longer have walking room in your house. What matters is that you have that one prized Mozart recording from 1943 that you will cherish forever. (Now if you could only find a record player!) 2. You are a classical music  elitist  if you can't wait for the latest release of Tchaikovsky's  Symphony #6 to add to your other 105 Symphony #6 mp3s. You can never have enough classical music. Multiple copies of Beethoven, Mozart, Strauss, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, and the rest of them is absolutely necessary to feed your classical music frenzy. Who cares ...

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" Cuba is famous for its music. A lot of people have heard artists like the Buena Vista Social Club and Celia Cruz . But the country also has a long history of cultivating classical composers and performers. on a recent trip to Cuba, I met one group that stands out".  READ FULL ARTICLE ON NPR CLASSICAL HERE:  http://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2016/03/26/469944530/meet-cubas-all-female-orchestra Related articles Ry Cooder: 15 essential songs How Americans Can Travel To Cuba WOMAD 2016: Glam Chats With IBEYI (France) Self-calibrating Ossic X headphones envelop users with 3D audio With baseball and tango Obama offers Latin America a softer US This App Makes Composing Sheet Music As Easy As Finger Painting A Playlist of Women Composers for International Women's Day! Jazz Listings From The New York Times Meet the Artist......Sunwook Kim, pianist The Classical Music Study Playlist

" The Walden School is one of America ’s greatest hidden treasures." – Joan Tower , composer The Walden School Creative Musicians Retreat will be held  June 18-26, 2016  on the campus of The Dublin School in Dublin, New Hampshire .  The Walden School seeks composers , improvisers, electronic musicians , performers of new music, choral musicians and music teachers to participate in a week of concerts, composers forums, presentations, and workshops.   Mivos Quartet will be the 2016 ensemble-in-residence and will be available to teach lessons, offer coachings, and workshop and perform pieces by composers at the Festival.  Michael Daugherty , our 2016 Composer-in-Residence , will offer private lessons, lead master classes and will moderate the three composers forums.  There is a pedagogy track and a choral track as well as our performance and composition tracks.   For more information and to download an applicatio...

Composer Sabrina Pena Young Mixes in her Home Studio How to Make Money as a Musician : Can I Make It as a Musician? In light of student debt crises, unemployment, and a push for more "practical" careers in the STEM industries in the US, many students and parents are wondering if pursuing the arts is a career worth going into debt over and some musicians today are wondering if they made a wrong turn in choosing to follow their passions.  There have been several factors that have affected the music industry significantly in the last decade and affect how to make money as a musician: The economic slump led to changes in buying/purchasing habits of consumers Traditional havens for musicians like academic institutions crunched for cash have eliminated quality tenure positions and replaced them with low paying adjunct positions Public schools, obsessed with testing, have cut out the arts , physical education, and more to grill testing into low income schools, elimi...