On Saturday May 27, 2023 2:00 PM EDT (UTC-4) This episode of Composer’s
Voice features Andrew White performing contemporary art song. This
performance comes from “Collaboration and Accompaniment” an online event
from Vox Novus to foster and broaden the art song genre. This project
creates an opportunity for composers to “voice” or express their musical
ideas. It is also an opportunity to explore and experiment with
accompaniment through the digital video medium.
The composers included in this performance are: Lisa Neher, Stanley M.
Hoffman, Allen Molineux, Ella Deloon, Mike McFerron, and R. Michael
Daugherty.
New York Concert Review hailed Andrew White as a "... a formidable
interpreter ... Every song composer should be so lucky with
collaborators." A champion of Art Song and contemporary music, Andrew
White has distinguished himself in recitals of French mélodie, Lieder,
and contemporary American art song, including numerous premiere
performances.
More can be found at Vox Novus on Composer’s Voice at the following:
Composer’s Voice is a contemporary music project empowering the new
music community. Empowering living composers, Composer’s Voice features
musicians who champion new music. The performance series has produced
over 150 concerts in New York City, and abroad. Since 2021, Composer’s
Voice airs a monthly half-hour TV show on Manhattan’s cable access
network. More can be found at ComposersVoice.com
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New music powerhouse Lisa Neher is a mezzo-soprano, composer, and
actress on a mission to transform audiences through story, sound, and
vulnerability. Described by Oregon Arts Watch as “a small woman with a
very big voice.”
American Waters explores bodies of water as literal and metaphorical
barriers between us and the places and people we know and love.
Stanley M. Hoffman was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1959. He has lived in
the greater Boston area since 1977. He received degrees in Composition
from Brandeis University (Ph.D. 1993), The New England Conservatory of
Music (M.M. 1984), and the Boston Conservatory (B.M. 1981).
“In 1988, I began collecting poems to set to music someday including
PEARS by Linda Pastan. The idea for certain poems was and is is to
create Songs of Passion.” – Stanley Hoffman
Allen Molineux (b.1950) received a B.M. degree in composition from
DePauw University, a M.M. in composition degree from the Eastman School
of Music and a D.M. in composition from Florida State University.
A few years back, I saw a call for scores by a countertenor. For it, I
composed a new song using Walt Whitman's "Music Always Round Me".
Ella Deloon is a composer inspired by space and our place in it. In
addition to a myriad of nonclassical influences, she draws from the
traditions of the Russian Romantics and French Impressionists.
This chamber vocal tone poem is set for the poem "A Solar Eclipse" by
American author and poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox, published in 1906 in the
collection Poems of Sentiment.
Mike McFerron is a professor of music and composer-in-residence at Lewis
University in the Chicago area. He has been on the faculty of Hong Kong
Baptist University, the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory
of Music and the Kansas City Kansas Community College, and he has served
as resident composer at the Chamber Music Conference of the
East/Composers' Forum in Bennington, Vt. McFerron is founder and
co-director of Electronic Music Midwest and serves on the board of the
directors for the Metropolitan Youth Symphony Orchestra and is a past
Chair of the Executive Committee for the Society of Composers, Inc.
R. Michael Daugherty’s catalog of compositions contains over 350 works,
including eleven song cycles and numerous individual songs. As a singer,
he makes sure his vocal works are text driven and reflect the strengths
of the voice. Dr. Daugherty holds a B.A. degree from Denison University,
studying with Elliot Borishansky and M.M. and D.M.A. degrees from The
Ohio State University studying with Marshall Barnes.
:Crab, my Dog is a speech that comes from Act II, scene 3, of
Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Here, it is the solo baritone
part performed in the play by Launch, described as a clownish servant of
Proteus, one of the two gentlemen.
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I'm looking forward to tuning in! Wishing you all the best for the performance.