Happy New Year 2021! A year of renewal!
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: drawings, IPad Angels
A Podcast with Carmen-Helena Téllez and The Princeton Festival
I had the privilege of being interviewed by The Princeton Festival on a variety of topics, ranging from women in music, the role of new modes of presentation during the current coronavirus crisis., and my work with the project for inter-artistic composition, Kosmologia. The podcast is available through the month of June at this link: The Princeton Festival Podcast
Categories: art and ritual, art and society, meta-composition, multimedia, new forms of presentation, new opera and music drama, social media, women in music, women in the arts • Tags: CARMEN HELENA TELLEZ, coronavirus, covid-19, new modes of presentation, podcast, The Princeton Festival
A conversation about the pandemic and innovations in choral music
II just enjoyed the privilege of a very rich conversation with Dominick DiOrio, the new president of the National Collegiate Choral Organization and Associate Professor of Music at the Jacobs School in Bloomington, moderated by Alain Barker for his series of webinars on future directions in the musical field, which he leads from his Office of Entrepreneurship and Career Development, also at the Jacobs School. The topic was “crossdisciplnay modes in choral music”, a point of entry to discuss […]
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Happy Holidays and a great 2020 to all!
Categories: art, art and religion • Tags: Christmas card
I found this fascinating read…as I get ready to create a new interdisciplinary work
This comes from AEON magazine, where one find many provocative new insights on how we and the world work, and could work… In fact, musical modernism exacerbated the idea that musical artists had to specialize–you were a composer, or a performer, or a historian, but rarely expected to be recognized professionally for credible expertise in all these –or other– disciplines. This is gradually changing. The most forward looking music departments and schools are considering interdisciplinarity, which does not eliminate the […]
Categories: art and paradox, art and society, Carmen's work, interdiscipline, postclassical music, Uncategorized • Tags: The Nine Muses by Carlos Dorrien
The trials and tribulations of art music for all
I include here two very interesting articles that have gone viral among classical musicians. They address the circumstances of classical musicians who are not born in environments where classical music is part of the family culture or profession, but still invest intense creative effort and monetary resources to achieve exalted proficiency in an art they love above all. They are not always rewarded for their devotion. It is a complex issue that does not deserve pandering answers of any kind, […]
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Women and the arts- when will we tell the whole story?
In spite of the ongoing and ever-so-gradually disappearing patriarchy, there have been some tentative developments in the recognition of women in the arts. We see more women conductors taking the helm of orchestras. The Art Institute of Chicago is hanging more art by women, next to their male contemporaries. And here, Artsy magazine gives us a summarized history of the influence of women in the arts as patronesses. Shall we look at the history of art, music included, as the […]
Categories: art, art and society, women in music, women in the arts
An artist who knew himself
I have been pretty much in shock after hearing of the departure of my colleague and teacher Sven-David Sandstrom, yesterday June 10. I have spent 24 hours reading and sharing all the tributes online without the will power to comment myself. I had spent all day yesterday saying farewell, one way or another, to colleagues and friends, and even to a doctoral student after a very successful defense. But I did not quite expect to receive the news at the […]
Categories: contemporary music, music composition, new choral music • Tags: Sven-David Sandstrom
Two oratorios sing the trials of our society and prayers of reflection
I am delighted to announce that Ensemble Concept/21 has invited the Euclid Quartet, Kosmologia, and the Notre Dame Children’s Choir to premiere the oratorios The Tower and the Garden by Gregory Spears and Beatitudes by Jorge Muñiz, under my direction, next Friday, May 10, at 7 pm, in the Campus Auditorium of Indiana University South Bend. This project joins together two important sponsors of creativity in this country– The New Frontiers Program at Indiana University, and the Ann Stookey Fund […]
Categories: art and religion, art and society, gesamtkünstwerk, intermedia, music composition, new choral music, new forms of presentation, new opera and music drama, postclassical music, sacred music • Tags: CARMEN HELENA TELLEZ, Denise Levertov, Gregory Spears, Jorge Muñiz, Notre Dame Vocale, Thomas Merton
