Category - Performances

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HSO on the Radio!
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Third Coast Percussion’s “Currents”: Branding in Support of an Artistic Mission
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PRJ Grant Recipient Quince Contemporary Vocal Ensemble Reflects on May 2015 Concert
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Hidden Messages: New Vintage Baroque’s Second Season
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PRJ Grant Recipient Hotel Elefant Reflects On “speakOUT” Concert
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Kennedy Center Announces Lineup for “Shift: A Festival of American Orchestras”
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Pro-Am Orchestra Events: Trending Across the Country
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PRJ Center Grant Recipients The Weckmann Project and Musica Nuova Reflect on Their Collaboration
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What Should We Wear Onstage?
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Aaron Flagg on Breaking the Fourth Wall

HSO on the Radio!

Monday morning at 9 AM, three members of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra sat before microphones and tried to explain to their community why the HSO is in such trouble. I was one of those three. And none of us were truly able to explain why we are where we are. The radio program was courtesy of[…]

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Third Coast Percussion’s “Currents”: Branding in Support of an Artistic Mission

As a touring percussion quartet, devoting an entire concert to new works for our group sometimes seems like a luxury. The logistical pressures of unfamiliar venue layouts, small stage sizes, and traveling with instruments, combined with the musical demands of presenters and unfamiliar audiences, means that we often stick with what we know while we[…]

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PRJ Grant Recipient Quince Contemporary Vocal Ensemble Reflects on May 2015 Concert

Quince Contemporary Vocal Ensemble’s Season Closer Concert for the 2014-15 season: Spatial Palettes took place on Sunday, May 17, 2015 at 8:30pm at Constellation Chicago. We commissioned 3 new pieces with the generous support of The Paul R. Judy Center for Applied Research. One from Monte Weber, another from Levy Lorenzo, and another from Eliza[…]

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Hidden Messages: New Vintage Baroque’s Second Season

It seems counterintuitive: how is it that so many musicians dedicate their lives to the study and practice of repertoire written so long ago by composers who no longer walk the earth? Look deep into the music, however, and one will find within it a vitality that is ripe for the harvest. This vitality is[…]

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PRJ Grant Recipient Hotel Elefant Reflects On “speakOUT” Concert

Hotel Elefant’s “speakOUT” spring 2015 concert by was hosted by the downtown New York venue SubCulture on International Women’s Day, representing female artists who utilize music to reflect on issues both personal and political. The generous funding from the Paul R. Judy Center for Applied Research helped present cutting-edge works by women, with works specifically[…]

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Kennedy Center Announces Lineup for “Shift: A Festival of American Orchestras”

With the closing of the “Spring for Music” festival in NYC this past year, the Kennedy Center has announced that it will create a similar festival of American Orchestras. The new festival will take place during late March and early April 2016, and will feature the Boulder Philharmonic, the North Carolina Symphony, the Atlanta Symphony[…]

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Pro-Am Orchestra Events: Trending Across the Country

Michael Stugrin, writing in the spring 2015 issue of Symphony magazine (page 42), presents an interesting overview of a new trend among orchestras − performing with amateurs. Most orchestras have been doing “side by side” performances with their local youth orchestra for decades (I played such a concert with the Boston Symphony at Symphony Hall way back[…]

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PRJ Center Grant Recipients The Weckmann Project and Musica Nuova Reflect on Their Collaboration

The Weckmann Project and Musica Nuova were joint recipients of a 2014 Paul R. Judy Center for Applied Research grant, which supported our presentation of two staged productions of Heinrich Schutz’s Christmas Oratorio. Nearly 300 audience members joined us on December 6 and 7, 2014 at Zion German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Brooklyn Heights, where[…]

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What Should We Wear Onstage?

As it most likely true in all orchestras, mine has a decided rift amongst the women members in terms of what is appropriate to wear at a Masterworks concert. Being of a certain age, I always wear a floor-length skirt and a fancy top, usually velvet. It irks me to see 20-something women dressed as[…]

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Aaron Flagg on Breaking the Fourth Wall

In the Fall issue of Symphony magazine, Aaron Flagg describes a concert by the Seattle Symphony during the League’s annual Conference. The concert featured a performance of “Baby Got Back” by rapper Sir Mix-a-Lot; Aaron compares it to the chaos that erupted at the first performance of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. “The Seattle Symphony’s performance[…]

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