strange music
www.strangemusic.com
nEWS
aRCHIVE 2004
15
DEC 04
Photos from sTRANGE LOOPS for sTRANGE TIMES
at The Monkey in NYC
John
Ferrari (L) and Patrick Grant (R) during soundcheck. The above photo
shows the Left-Front, Center and Right-Front Speakers of The
Monkey's
5.1 SurroundSound system as built by Dominic
Frasca. Not shown are the Left-Rear and Right-Rear Speakers that are located
behind the audience.
The
three performances that took place on Dec. 10-12 went fantastically well and represented
the new directions that I will be taking the music and our group into in the coming
year. Playing music that was based on repetitive loops, either through the compositions
themselves or through electronics, I called this configuration "PG and his
Orchestra" because, even though I was playing solo or as a duo with percussion,
the music built up into many, many layers that did indeed have orchestral porportions.
The Monkey is a great place to experiment and try out new ideas like this. All
musicians are lucky to have a brand new venue like this and to have the chance
to create and perform in SurroundSound. We look forward to coming back. - PG NYC
More
info on upcoming shows at THE MONKEY can be
found HERE
01
DEC 04
sTRANGEmUSIC
Makes a Move.................
The
new address is:
10
Waterside Plaza - 6B
New York, NY 10010
(212)
421-3274
Email
remains the same:
iNFO@strangemusic.com
27
NOV 04
"Living
Poetry": A New Video by Gary
Brackett
Gary
Brackett, an American born artist, actor, and video
maker currently living in Italy, has just completed "Living
Poetry". The video asks the question, "Does
poetry still have anything to offer us in this crazy and cruel world?"
He talks with Judith Malina and artists in and out of The Living Theatre,
with Steve Ben Israel, MC Baba, and others who participated in Public
Playgrounds, a presentation of the Forum
Freies Theater in Dusseldorf, Germany that took place in October.
Patrick
Grant's music is heard throughout the video as well as music by the other
participants.
The
video, in two parts, may take a little while in downloading with dail-up modems,
but high-speed should present no problems. It can be found on Brackett's video
page HERE
or, if it's easier for North American viewers, it can be right-clicked and downloaded
from below:
Part One 12 min.+ (60 MB)
Part
Two 12 min.+ (58 MB)
21
NOV
04
"Alerts and Alarms" reviewed in the Voice of Dance
Review
by Joanna G. Harris
...The
current program is intense, featuring the work of guest choreographer Margaret
Jenkins, assisted by Mary Carbonara with music by Patrick Grant
and Julia Wolfe. The program note tells us that their piece "Alerts
and Alarms," "focuses on ways in which we interact and
respond…during this…moment in history saturated with ‘alerts’
and ‘alarms’." The work is very dramatic for Ms. Jenkins, full
of recognizable gestures of fright, aggression and torment. A net curtain masks
downstage right, hiding some of the action, but adding to the façade of
exposed terror. The eight dancers move in small groups, often three against one,
grabbing, leaning and pulling one another. A lone figure, Molly McMahan
ends the piece with a remarkable slow solo of despair and self-consolation as
the group returns around her. All in all, a very moving work, built from episodes
and movement fragments. "Alerts and Alarms" is the finale of
the program...
Read
it all HERE
19
NOV 04
17
NOV 04
Bird on a Ledge...
The
sTRANGEST thing happened tonight. When I came home
there was this large bird (and I mean 3x bigger than any NYC pigeon) sitting on
the window ledge outside of the studio on the 41st floor. In my 11 years living
here I have never seen anything like it, not even any other kind of bird. Luckily
I had my camera charged and ready to provide proof. Was
he/she trying to tell me something? Was
it a hawk or some kind of short-eared owl? I am trying to find out.
More
pictures HERE
********************
UPDATE
18 NOV: My friend Tom
Rothwell at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC wrote me back:
"I
believe you have a Peregrine
Falcon... a great NYC story...once endangered....now thriving on high
rises eating pigeons!" http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/news/falcon.html
15
NOV 04
Director
Gerald Thomas Interviews
Patrick Grant for Brazil's TV UOL
This
four part interview has just been posted at director Gerald
Thomas'
Talk Shows web page HERE.
The
only catch is that one has to be a member of UOL
(it's like Brazil's version of AOL) to look at it. However, the audio portions
of this interview have been posted here as MP3s.
Part
1 -
A estranha música de Patrick / The strange music of Patrick
Part
2 - Música
aplicada / Applied music
Part 3 - Heróis na música / Heroes in music
Part
4 -
Música e arte performática / Music and the performing arts
Also
check out Gerald
Thomas' Blog
15
NOV 04
Devo Lyric
Let
me tell you about a man
A tragic case,
Love kicked-in his face
He shriveled
up and died
From a broken heart
Now reincarnated as a work of art
He’s
got a brand new start
Hey! Now he’s a happy guy.
****************************
01
NOV 04
"Danger
Orange" Reviewed in the Voice
of Dance
"...the
dancers dashing to the busy eighth notes and constantly shifting time signatures
of Patrick Grant’s score. And the enlarged company is dancing beautifully,
each dancer unique in dynamism but united by a piercing focus..."
Read
it all HERE
15
OCT 04
Margaret Jenkins to Choreograph to Fields Amaze
On
November 18, 19, & 20, Margaret
Jenkins will be premiering a new choreography created for 8 dancers of
the Mills
College Dance Repertory Company. She'll be choreographing to Fields
Amaze (Strange Music CD 001).
The performances will also will have choreography by Sonya
Delwaide, Anne Westwick, Molissa Fenley and Kathleen
McClintock.
More details on the eVENTS
page.
10
OCT 04
Strange Music Makes It Into the American Bar Association Journal
In
an article that highly criticizes judges'
and lawyers' over-reliance on internet search engines factoring into their decisions,
the American Bar Association
Journal cited as one of its examples the common law case of Strange
Music v. Strange Music that took place this summer in the Federal Court in
NYC.
IN GOOGLE WE TRUST?
Critics Question How Much Judges, Lawyers
Should Rely on Internet Search Results
...In July, U.S. District
Judge
P. Kevin Castel * searched Google and Yahoo! to check on a music composer’s
claim that hip-hop label Strange Music was infringing on the name of his company,
Strange Music Inc. Castel found thousands of “strange music” references
on the Web, but concluded that consumers wouldn’t be confused. He denied
the request for a preliminary injunction. Strange Music Inc. v. Strange Music
Inc., No. 04 Civ. 02915 (S.D.N.Y. 2004).
Read
the full article HERE.
In
his decision, the judge went on further to state that the defendants were unable
to show any proof of using the Strange Music name before we did, thus legally
granting us senior usage status. That was one good outcome and will be
useful in our future. However, until the name has fully gone through the trademark
process and receives its registered status (the finalizing "®"
is coming), he could only treat it as a common law case so, his dependence
on the ever-fluctuating results of internet search engines was the easy out. Still,
despite his opinion, we continue to be bothered with confusion from consumers,
and in our dealings with the public at large, regularly.
*
appointed by George W. Bush
01
OCT 04
Ayako Kurakake Dancers Premiere "The
Case of Two"
"The
Case of Two" boldly took the stage. (Patrick Grant's) synthesized score
ballasted over…the two dancers onstage (Sarah Chiesa and Nixon Beltran),
who performed the movement well…with an almost surgical steeliness. There
was a coldness about this piece…as the choreographer mentions that 'any
group of two is ultimately based upon the inherent separateness of its elements.'
She also mentions exploring unison, counterpoint and chaos...passion in this
cerebral offering from New York choreographer Ayako Kurakake,...the
swell of music...strong dancing came off well…engaging.
- The Voice of Dance
05
SEP 04
Musée
du Quai Branly, expected to open by the Seine in 2006.
A New
Museum in Paris Inches Toward Reality
The NY Times has
an article on the coming of the musee
du quai Branly. The museum's president, Stephane Martin, had chosen PG's
"Fields Amaze" (Strange Music CD 001) for it's video promo
and commissioned the piece "music for the quai Branly"
(Strange Music CD 008) for the exhibition of its artworks currently housed in
the Louvre (in les Pavilion des Sessions). Mr. Martin said that while the objects
will be presented here with "theatricality,'' the new museum would also explore
links between primitive art from different climes and different eras.
Read
the article HERE.
01
SEP 04
This
month, American Music Center's NewMusicBox,
in an issue dedicated to funding, has an article by PG on getting grants for
music (and
not getting grants for music) that can be found HERE.
24
AUG 04
PATRICK
GRANT INTERNET RADIO IS
ON THE AIR!
Check
out over 10 hours of music from the CDs of PATRICK GRANT as well as unreleased
studio and live tracks exclusive to this station.
Powered
by LIVE 365, the world's largest internet
radio network.
Click HERE
to listen.
==============
21
AUG 04
Patrick
Grant to Create and Perform Music for a Two Week Event in Germany
15-30
OCT 04
Düsseldorf
& Leverkusen, Germany
PUBLIC
PLAYGROUNDS
This
two-week series of events at the Forum
Freies Theater features workshops, performances, documentary films and
symposiums that will explore the expressive forms of globalization criticism using
dramatic means and investigate how the strategies of social protest have changed.
Several leading international
action theatre companies will be performing at the event, including:
The
Living Theatre (USA), VolXTheaterKarawane
(A), Gudrun Herrbold,
Donald
Becker, Folke Köbberling,
with MC
Baba, Steve
Ben Israel, Dirk
Szuszies & Karin
Kaper, Patrick Grant/composer
u.v.a.
more
iNFO at
http://www.public-playgrounds.de/
Forum
Freies Theater
Jahnstraße 3
40215 Düsseldorf
20
AUG 04
Not
Necessarily "Strange," but "Eerie..."
The
performance by Oddfellows Playhouse of Systole
& Diastole: Chambers of the Heart at the LongHouse
Reserve in East Hampton was reviewed. It reads in part:
"The
aesthetics of the play were brilliant. The location could not have been better,
as dusk fell quietly over the gardens and sculptures of LongHouse. It was like
walking through a dream. I looked down into a cluster of lilies to see a little
girl wrapped in a red cloak, waiting to be saved by Theseus. Eerie
music resounded from invisible sources. It was all-encompassing."
Read
the full review HERE.
07
AUG 04
Meet the Composer gives an award for dance music performances in the SF Bay Area.
A
Composers Performance Fund Grant has been awarded by Meet
the Composer for Patrick Grant's appearance at COLLABORATION!
Music & Dance 2004 in San Rafael, CA on Sept. 24-26, 2004.
He
will be performing live a new score he has created for Ayako
Kurakake's choreography for dancers Sarah Chiesa & Nixon
Beltran.
PG
will conduct a Meet The Composer Q&A Session after the Saturday night,
September 25th performance. This session will also include other Bay Area COLLABORATION!
composers who will discuss the issues that arise when working with choreographers
in a collaborative effort, as well as answering questions from the audience.
PRESS
RELEASE
SPONSORED IN PART BY 
THE
MARIN ARTS COUNCIL
05
AUG 04
National
sTRANGEmUSIC Day is August 24th!
Strange Music Day:
Listen to a CD you never heard before, just for the hell of it. More details about
this national holiday and ways to celebrate it can be found at these links:
@
Yahoo & @
Google
01 AUG 04
sTUDIO
41 Moves to Downtown NYC in Fall 2004
sTUDIO 41 and
the offices of sTRANGEmUSIC will
be moving to east 15th street in downtown Manhattan. The studio is currently closed
for the summer to outside projects and is expected to resume in early autumn when
the transition is complete. All other projects will continue as planned during
this time. More details TBA.
11
JUL 04
Strange Loops of Cognitive Dissonance
Hypothesis
1: Selective Exposure Prevents Dissonance
Hypothesis
2: Postdecision Dissonance Creates A Need for Reassurance
Hypothesis
3: Minimal Justification for Action Induces a Shift in Attitude
Tracking
Down the Cause and Effect of Dissonance...
Would
I Lie to You?
24
JUN 04
PGG member Kathleen Supové releases her solo CD Infusion on the Koch International label
Four
piano works for piano and electronics by: Carolyn
Yarnell, Randall
Woolf, Marti Epstein, Elaine
Kaplinsky
With the four compositions pianist Kathleen Supové performs on Infusion, the walls between acoustic sound and electronics are completely porous. Sometimes she will play in duet with computer-generated piano sounds that will only sound electronic once you realize that no human being, not even a pianist as dexterous as Supové could ever tackle such speeds. Other times the notes she strikes will be altered in real time and made to sound completely un-piano-like. Of course, in order to pull off this kind of instant relay between acoustic and electronic sounds requires the careful hands and ears of a producer. In this function, Sheldon Steiger, who has worked with artists as diverse as Paul Simon, rap groups from Run-DMC to P.M. Dawn, Aerosmith's Steven Tyler, the string quartet Ethel, the American Composers Orchestra, and the Lincoln Center Festival, proved the perfect collaborator.
"This is meant to be a real 21st Century Piano CD," beams Supové. "The medium melds two great technologies: electronic sound and the acoustic grand piano. I chose these pieces because they were imaginative, non-doctrinaire, beautiful, intriguing---accessible to the listener, but never mindless. I wanted the person listening to be surrounded by mysterious beauty. I also wanted a seamless and continuous experience from beginning to end."
From
the CD liner notes written by Frank J. Oteri, New York-based composer and
the Editor of the American Music
Center's Web magazine NewMusicBox.
more
info at: www.kathleensupove.com
12
JUN 04
ANAPELUSO
Serpenteias
x 6
The
Brazilian poet and designer Ana Peluso was very kind to send me six short
poems (in Portugese) that she had written based upon hearing some of my music
that I'd like to share with you. Check out her web site(s) for more of her wonderful
work HERE.
Thank
you, Ana
- PG
**************************
Ouvindo
Clave Molino
serpenteiasWEB
soluções fenomenais de saída
o
mesmo discurso-rumo
o mesmo prumo no trato
que se rebusca desde o velho
homem:
o mesmo olfato sincero que o velho homem
sentia no velho homem
antes
quando
as palavras eram lidas.
Ouvindo Sex
from "Genome"
serpenteiasTEIAS
empolgações,
entumecimento
da cabeça até os pés
ou vice-versa.
—
Se você visse o webninho...!
— Aceita um uísque em jpg?
Ouvindo Fields
Amaze
serpenteiasVEIAS
conspirações
povoam mentes
que desmentem o que sentem
em nome do que publicam
ou se
obrigam a publicar.
Ouvindo Sacred
Sister 1
serpenteiasTELAS
coligações malditas
do diabo com o artista
numa alquimia bruta
sem mel, sem sono, sem luta.
o
artista sempre sucumbe.
sem a deuses, amém.
Ouvindo
Sacred Sister 2
serpenteiasMEIAS
movimentações latentes de ir e vir
e
tudo mais que se sabe do homem
(e o que não se sabe também)
dão
a exata certeza de que a continuidade
se dará com muros à frente
atrás
e adiante.
Ouvindo Species
from "Genome"
Entretanto, serpente, que mente,
rodeia,
norteia, bobeia, acorrenta e odeia,
serpenteias tanto,
mas não
voas
o tanto que serpenteias.
**************************
Ana
Peluso Web Site
11 JUN 04
A
Commission for Original Music in an Art Installation by Diane Tuft
©
Diane Tuft
Patrick
Grant will be creating the sonic element of an art installation created by
visual artist Diane
Tuft. The piece is called "Internal
Reflection"
and is comprised of photographic and sculptural components. The 16-track music
will be in just-intonation and is poly-rhythmically based on the complex resultant
patterns of the different layers sounding in simultaneous prime number groupings
(i.e. 1 : 2 : 3 : (4*) : 5 : 7 : 11 : 13...etc. to 41) with much
of the interest coming from changing textures via the use of negative space. The
idea is that all compositional processes reflect forms and operations that are
found in nature. The installation will be initially presented in New York City
in the summer of 2004 with future venues TBA.
(* 4 is the "exception
that proves the rule" but is musically useful in this context)
More
details to come.
25
MAY 04
Director Gerald Thomas Returns to NYC and Forms New Company Third
Rail Stage
Internationally
renowned American director Gerald
Thomas has been creating boundary-pushing pieces of experimental theatre and
avant-garde operas all over the world since the early 1980’s. He has directed
over seventy pieces, including several world premieres of new adaptations of Beckett’s
writings. He has had many fruitful collaborations with several artists including
Philip Glass, Heiner Mueller, Salvatore Sciarrino and Luciano Berio. Gerald was
the first director to stage the full version of Arnold Schoenberg’s “Moses
und Aron” in the composer’s home country, Austria.
For the last
eighteen years, Gerald has had his own Brazilian-based company - Dry Opera or
Opera Seca - which toured the world (thirty-two countries to be precise). Now
Gerald has returned to the United States to create a new theater company in New
York City, the Third Rail Stage, which will be a laboratory for the continuous
production of his experimental works.
Patrick
Grant / Strange Music are discussing with
Gerald ideas regarding the creation of musical scores
for various
upcoming Third Rail Stage productions.
More
details TBA
www.geraldthomas.com
Gerald's
Blog
07 MAY 04
"RESIST"
To Be Shown at Festivals in Berlin and San Francisco
PLAY
THE "RESIST" TRAILER (50
sec.)
The
Berlin Jewish Film Festival
Jüdische
Volkshochschule
June
17, 2004 
The
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
July
2004
More Details TBA
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Patrick
Grant's music used in the film and other music associated with
The Living
Theatre will be released on the Strange
Music label in 2004.
More details TBA
www.strangemusic.com
29
APR 04
"Margaret Jenkins Dance Company: Three Decades of Dance" Wins Prize at the Isadora Duncan Dance Awards ( The 2004 Izzies ) in San Francisco
An
extraordinary team of collaborators worked for more than a year to celebrate the
work of one of San Francisco’s bedrock choreographers. In April 2003, Margaret
Jenkins Dance Company: Three Decades of Dance transformed the vast
Herbst Pavilion into a living museum of dance history. Set designer Alexander
V. Nichols, poet Michael Palmer, videographer Martin Gould, and sound designer
Gregory T. Kuhn created a truly transporting environment to showcase the company’s
past. More than 100 former MJDC dancers were contacted to participate, and several
veterans performed significant past works during a pre-show. The company’s
program presented a new work, "Fractured Fictions," with
an original score by Patrick Grant (on
"Music from the Red Night"
Strange Music CD 009) and
also restaged MJDC classics not seen in many years, notably bringing writer and
performance artist Rinde Eckert back to the stage in the 1988 work Shorebirds
Atlantic and with sections of the milestone work The Gates (Far Away Near)
which had its score performed live by composer Paul Dresher and his ensemble.
The Margaret Jenkins Dance Company retrospective was an absorbing testament to
the company’s past and future.
21
APR 04
Collaboration
on a Video Soundtrack with Artist Jordan Wolfson
Video
Still from Jordan Wolfson's "Procession" 2004
The
artist Jordan Wolfson
came by Strange Music's sTUDIO 41 to create the soundtrack for his latest video
installation "Procession" with Patrick Grant.
See
the video and check out his site HERE.
It's great stuff.
(P.S.
15 JUN 04 - If you haven't done it yet, check out this site. More content has
been added and is recommended - PG).
01
APR 04
Patrick
Grant Receives a Commission for a Theater Score from Oddfellows Playhouse in NY
On
August 7, Oddfellows Playhouse will present "Systole
& Diastole: Chambers of the Heart" at the LongHouse
Reserve, East Hampton, NY
Directed by Maria Pessino
Musical
Score by Patrick Grant
Systole
& Diastole: Chambers of the Heart is
a guided journey through the LongHouse Reserve Gardens at dusk. The performance
will take place at site-specific locations set up by director Maria Pessino.
The tapestry of performances will be woven with the threads of song, spoken word,
visual and video arts, propelled along by an original score by composer Patrick
Grant. At the end of the evening, the audience's footprints will have created
an invisible path in space, the winding outline of the world's oldest maze: the
event's main set-piece being a replica of the labyrinth that Theseus battled the
Minotaur within on the island Crete in Greek mythology.
03
MAR 04
Documentary
film with music by Patrick Grant selected for the 2004
Tribeca Film Festival NYC
"RESIST,"
an award winng Belgian documentary (Best Documentary at the EuropaCinema, Italy
and the Golden Gate Festival, San Francisco) that marks the 50th anniversary
of The Living Theatre by German film makers Dirk
Szuszies and Karin
Kaper, has been selected for the official line up of the 2004
Tribeca Film Festival. The film contains a soundtrack with music by Grant
and by Carlo Altomare and Andrea Liberovici. The film festival,
founded by Robert De Niro in 2002, will take place in New York City May
1-9.
Screenings
will be at the
United
Artists Theaters
102 North End Ave.
(enter on Vesey between North
End and West Sts.)
New
York City 10282
Sun,
May 2 at 3:00 PM
Wed,
May 5 at 8:45 PM
Thu, May 6 at 1:30 PM
Tickets
are $10.00
Full festival schedule HERE.
16
FEB 04
"Fractured
Fictions" Nominated for Best Dance Score of 2003 in San Francisco
Photos
of "Fractured Fictions" by Bonnie Kamin from the Margaret
Jenkins Dance Company web site
Called
"the
strangest and most ravishing dance of the year"
by the San Francisco Chronicle, "Fractured Fictions,"
a choreography by Margaret Jenkins
with music by Patrick Grant has been nominated for Best Dance Score of
2003 by the Isadora Duncan Dance Awards. Known as the "Izzies,"
the awards ceremony will take place in SF in April. The music is featured on the
CD "Music from the Red Night"
(Strange Music CD 009). The complete list of nominees can be found here.
More
info to be posted at www.izzies-sf.org
15
FEB 04
sTRANGEmUSIC
and THE LIVING THEATRE present
Living
Composers Concerts
At the new home
of
The
Living Theatre
428
West 49 St. (off 9th Ave.) NYC
The
1st and 3rd Wednesday of January through May 2005
All programs feature the
works of living composers
2005
Schedule
JAN
05, 2005
JAN 19, 2005
FEB 02, 2005
FEB
16, 2005
MAR 02, 2005
MAR 16, 2005
APR
06, 2005
APR 20, 2005
MAY 04, 2005
MAY
18, 2005
Composers and performers
TBA
************************************
The Living Theatre, directed by Hanon Reznikov and Judith Malina (who founded the theatre in 1947 with the late Julian Beck), is returning to NYC after being in Europe since the 90s. To do so, they are building a brand new space from the ground up in an empty lot in Hell's Kitchen. The new theater will be open and operating in autumn 2004.
Over their five decades of existence they have premiered, presented and collaborated with many composers such as Carlo Altomare, John Cage, Philip Corner, Conrad Cummings, Alvin Curran, Morton Feldman, Patrick Grant, Lou Harrison, Hans Werner Henze, Alan Hovhaness, Lucia Hwong, Steve Lacy, Jackie MacLean, Pietro Pirelli, Freddie Redd, Frederic Rzewski, Michael Shenker, Cecil Taylor, Richard Teitelbaum, Christian Wolff, and many more.
Concert
programmer Patrick Grant was music director and composer-in-residence for the
Living Theatre from 1990-1994. During that time he created the scores for the
productions German Requiem by Eric Bentley, Humanity
(Die Menschen) by Walter Hasenclaver, Anarchia by Hanon Reznikov
and the "chamber opera" The Rules of Civility after a
text by George Washington adapted by Reznikov. He has previously produced the
Silent Treatment new music series (1989-1992) on the Lower East Side, the
One-Two-Three-Go! concert series in NYC art galleries (2001-2002) and independent
Strange Music productions in alternative spaces.
More
iNFO: www.strangemusic.com
29
JAN 04
Film with music by Patrick Grant Wins for Best Documentary at the Golden Gate Fiction & Documentary Festival
"RESIST,"
a Belgian documentary marking the 50th anniversary of The Living Theatre
by German film makers Dirk Szuszies and Karin Kaper won the prize
today for Best Documentary at the Golden
Gate Fiction & Documentary Festival 2003 in San Francisco. The
film also contains music by Carlo Altomare and Andrea Liberovici. More news is
sure to follow as the film begins its circuit of the international festivals.
20
JAN 04
California
College Links to Strange Music Website as Resource for Students (?!?)
The
Schauerman Library at El
Camino College in Torrence, CA has linked
to this website as a resource for its students studying avant-garde theater,
in particular the works of French surrealist Antonin Artaud and his essay The
Theatre of Cruelty. Last year I was commissioned to write a tone poem for
gamelan, strings & keyboards for the Cornell
Gamelan Ensemble based on a scenario by Artuad, "The
Philosopher's Stone" (La Pierre Philosophale). The project included
an extensive analysis of
the scenario plus many back up materials that were
put onto this site. For some inexplicable reason, these pages were included as
resources materials for their students. Now that's surreal!
12
JAN 04
YOU
ARE INVITED TO ATTEND AN IMPORTANT TOWN MEETING:
"TOWARD
A NEW MUSIC NETWORK"
Friday, January 16, 2004, 3:15 PM - 5:00
PM
at the
Westin
New York at Times Square
270 West 43rd Street at Eighth Avenue
The Town Meeting is being presented during
Chamber
Music America's 26th National Conference
Join in a town meeting to take the first steps toward creating a sustainable network for the presentation of contemporary music. More and more ensembles maintain a firm commitment to the music of our time, and there are success stories everywhere of presenters finding an audience. Yet contemporary music presentation lacks the support found among other art forms (such as modern dance). A touring network can offer the administrative and funding support necessary to further develop presentations and audiences, and this conversation is the first step toward determining the needs and goals of all involved.
Everyone is welcome to participate, whether passionately committed to presenting the music of our time or doubtful about it. This is a facilitated dialogue of ideas and questions, and those who have doubts about their ability to be successful in presenting contemporary work are strongly encouraged to attend. Please come with your strong opinions and a desire to take constructive action to foster the presentation of contemporary music. No pre-registration required to attend this meeting.
We need your input!
This event is presented by Chamber Music America, American Music Center, and Meet The Composer.
01
JAN 04
hAPPY
nEW yEAR !!!
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