COMPOSER SABRINA PENA YOUNG | MUSIC TECHNOLOGY | FILM | CLASSICAL | OPERA

READ THE ORIGINAL FULL BLOG POST BY DAVE RUCH HERE:  http://daveruch.com/advice/educate-your-audience/ FEBRUARY 8, 2016 Educate Your Audience and Write Your Ticket It turns out that just about every audience loves to learn something while they’re being entertained. In today’s  Educate and Entertain  article, I’m going to explain how making this shift has allowed me to literally  write my own rules  in terms of the types of gigs I do (and don’t do), what I charge, how often I travel, how far, how long my gigs last, and more. I realize it sounds a bit pretentious to say “educate your audience,” as if somehow they are  un educated before they arrive at your performance. I don’t mean it that way at all. What I mean is that  separate  from your artform, you probably have some really specialized and interesting knowledge around one or more topics that you’re passionate about. The day I started to combine some informative, “enlightenin...

This past academic year has been a busy one, with my first semester teaching Music Synthesis and Music Theory at Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky. Recent projects include a commission from Millikin State University to compose an original oratorio for their sixty member women's chorus group, video, tape, electronic piano, and percussion. The Women's Chorus is directed by Michael Engelhardt. The oratorio is an audio visual comparison between the creation and the miracle of procreation (from conception to birth). Presented in several movements, the oratorio borrows text from Genesis, Psalms, and Revelation in the languages of English, Spanish, and Swahili. Musically, the work delves into a hybrid of traditional African rhythms and electronic synthesis. The 3D animation, created with Poser, Bryce, and Final Cut, combines familiar imagery of fetal development with the seven days of creation. The oratorio finishes with a massive chorus of joy. WKMS, the local public radio ...