John Clare's Composing Thoughts LIVE: March 2008

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Hear it now

Hear some of the music from Saturday!
Listen to Mani play "Nocturne" from String Poetic by Jennifer Higdon
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Listen to Mani play "The Blue Hills of Mist" from String Poetic by Jennifer Higdon
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Files available by request...

Monday, March 10, 2008

On stage

Jennifer Higdon and John Clare at Composing Thoughts LIVE, Saturday March 8th at WITF's Public Media Center.

Meet the composer

Jennifer answered questions, signed autographs and met attendees after the show.

Even more winners

Thanks to Cedille Records, Telarc, and Naxos for providing cds for the giveaway.
Attendees also won tickets for the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra and Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra to hear Jennifer Higdon's music!

Winner Winner

Sy Brandon receives three cds by Jennifer Higdon!

Another winner

Jennifer draws another name from the basket.

A lucky winner

We gave away tickets and cds of Jennifer Higdon.

Attentive

The audience was captivated by Mani playing String Poetic by Jennifer Higdon.

Performance

Mani (Joel and Emi) playing String Poetic with the composer, Jennifer Higdon, present.

Laugh

A great moment.

Discussion

Interviewing Jennifer Higdon.

The crew

Cary, Casey and Joe working to record CT LIVE.

Mani performing

Joel Lambdin and Emi Kagawa (the chamber group known as Mani) playing Jennifer Higdon's String Poetic.

Discussing the work

Discussing String Poetic before Mani plays two movements at Composing Thoughts LIVE with Jennifer Higdon.

More at the zoo

More folks enjoying the Percussion Concerto score by Jennifer Higdon.

In the next cage

Another of Jennifer's scores, 2 movements from String Poetic: Nocturne and The Blue Hills of Mist - as a score petting zoo along the windows of FM Master Control. I included reviews and a blog entry about the premiere as well.

Score petting zoo

I set up Jennifer Higdon's Percussion Concerto score on 9 tables, along with reviews, and blog entries from myself and Dick Strawser.

Setup

Sunday, March 9, 2008

Thanks

It was a great turn out! Look for pictures, questions and a recap soon about the first CT LIVE!

Monday, March 3, 2008

Read n meet

Be sure to read Dr. Dick's fine article about meeting composers here.
And then follow the links back here to register!
Composing Thoughts LIVE is this Saturday!

Composing Thoughts LIVE

Composing Thoughts LIVE covered the world premiere of Souviners by Richard Danielpour in June 2009.
John Clare's Composing Thoughts LIVE was presented twice with the Cypress String Quartet and composer Kevin Puts in the Bay area in April 2009.
When the Austin Symphony gave the world premiere in May 2009 of Dan Welcher's Symphony #5, John had his cameras rolling at the composer's studio at UT Austin.
Composer Robert Xavier Rodriguez's Musica pur una tiempo got coverage by Clare when SOLI Chamber Ensemble premiered the work in March 2009.
Composer Jennifer Higdon joined in a conversation at WITF's Public Media Center, Saturday March 8th, 2008 from 3 to 5 p.m.
Higdon spoke with WITF host John Clare about her music, creativity, and answered questions from the audience.
Her Percussion Concerto, as well as String Poetic, were on the program.

Funded in part through Meet The Composer's MetLife Creative Connections program.

Leadership support for Meet The Composer’s MetLife Creative Connections program is generously provided by MetLife Foundation. Additional support is provided by The Amphion Foundation, Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund, BMI Foundation, Inc., Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc., The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, The James Irvine
Foundation, Jerome Foundation, media The foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and Virgil Thomson Foundation, Ltd.

About the host

John Nasukaluk Clare is a classical music enthusiast. A broadcaster for National Public Radio, Voice of America, the Canadian Broadcast Corporation and stations in Texas, Kansas, Nevada, California and Pennsylvania, programs and interviews by John have been heard around the world.
Clare accepted the 38th Annual Deems Taylor Award from ASCAP in December 2005. In 2004 Mr. Clare received the Electronic Media Award for Best Radio Show in Las Vegas, and the same evening, the award for Best OnAir Talent. The following year, John was a finalist for Best Radio Show and for Radio Manager of the Year.
He has played the violin for over twenty eight years, from New York to Nevada, including performances with tenors Luciano Pavarotti and Andrea Bocelli. He has also been a member of the Nevada Chamber Symphony, Southern Nevada Musical Arts Society, Glen Willow Symphony Orchestra, Shreveport Symphony, Abilene Philharmonic and Wichita Symphony Orchestra. An avid chamber music lover, John founded the Las Vegas Chamber Music Society in 2004.
John is a new music aficionado and Polish Music Scholar who is also a webmaster for ClassicallyHip.com and WalterMays.com. Currently Clare works at Texas Public Radio ands serves as a media consultant to New Music USA; he was the Executive Director of SOLI Chamber Ensemble, on the board of the American Music Center and the San Antonio Chamber Music Society. He plays with the Mid Texas Symphony.