The Midwest Composers Symposium is coming to the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music! For those who don't know about this yearly event, read here:
The Midwest Composers Symposium is a consortium made up of the composition departments of four American Midwest Universities: The University of Cincinnati, Indiana University, and the Universities of Iowa and Michigan. The purpose is to allow students to have contact with other composers at nearby institutions, and to foster connections and self-identity.Here is a preview of the pieces (with some links). (N.B. My piece
The Symposium began in 1948 by Anthony Donato of Northwestern University and originally Michigan, Illinois, and Iowa. For a few years during the 1960s, the symposium concerts ceased due to a change in academic calendars, but resumed in the early 1970s when most schools adopted the quarter system. Oberlin College joined at this point, and a few years later, Indiana University. Northwestern dropped out in 1992, and Illinois and Oberlin dropped out in 2007. The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music joined the symposium for the first time in 2008.
Concert I
Friday, October 22, 2010
Corbett Auditorium
8 PM
Differences (2007) for saxophone quartet
Shane Hoose (University of Iowa) (b. 1985)
CCM Graduate Student Saxaphone Quartet
The Silent World (2010)
Jennifer Jolley (College-Conservatory of Music/University of Cincinnati) (b. 1981)
Café MoMus
Annunziata Tomaro, conductor
Ajax for saxophone solo/large ensemble
William Zuckerman (University of Michigan) (b.1988)
Café MoMus
Annunziata Tomaro, conductor
A Strange Mythography: Three Songs for Cy Twombly (2009)
I. Bacchus
II. Orpheus
III. Apollo
Danny Clay (CCM) (b. 1989)
CCM Chorale and Café MoMus
Dr. Brett Scott, conductor
INTERMISSION
Aerodynamics (2009-10)
Roger Zare (University of Michigan) (b. 1985)
CCM Wind Symphony
Rodney Winther, conductor
Coronary Dance (2008)
Eric Lindsay (Indiana University) (b. 1980)
CCM Wind Symphony
Rodney Winther, conductor