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A Podcast with Carmen-Helena Téllez and The Princeton Festival

June 3, 2020 by carmen helena tellez

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

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The reviews of PASSION with Tropes are as variegated as the work itself

May 30, 2011 by carmen helena tellez

Composer Jeremy Podgursky has just published his review of Don Freund’s PASSION with Tropes in the excellent online journal Sequenza21.com. His full account and considered opinion teach us how an interdisciplinary presentation of a musical work originally conceived for concert oratorio format may provoke surprising revelations about the work itself.  The layers multiply beyond the performance through the reception and critique of viewers. Podgursky’s impression of PASSION was affected by his experience of important films by Fellini and Godard. This […]

Categories: art, art and religion, art and ritual, art music video, contemporary music, gesamtkünstwerk, interdiscipline, meta-composition, multimedia, music composition, my work, new choral music, new conductor, new opera and music drama, postclassical music, sacred music

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The tech rehearsals continue…

May 19, 2011 by carmen helena tellez

…an interview with the composer and some scenes here Working in the round poses some unique challenges. Clearly, conventional proscenium presentation offers acoustic advantages, and in particular, more control by the conductor of the overall perception by the audience. When working in the round for an immersive concept, especially if the work is staged,  balances and emphases are constantly shifting, but the sense of “belonging” is greater…

Categories: contemporary music, context and perception, gesamtkünstwerk, interdiscipline, meta-composition, multimedia, new choral music, new conductor, new opera and music drama, Uncategorized • Tags: DON FREUND, MARGARET DOLINSKY, PASSION WITH TROPES, ROBERT A. SHAKESPEARE, Susanne Schwibs

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The work on PASSION with Tropes continues…

May 14, 2011 by carmen helena tellez

Assistant Conductor Greg Geehern testing images for Passion with Tropes by Margaret Dolinsky and Susanne Schwibs …and Don Freund has left these notes in the Event’s Site.  For him, it is about the friction of several scriptural and poetic texts as well as musical styles. For me it has been to find an unexpected message that the audience takes away from the conflict of ideas. My assistant, the brilliant young conductor and interdisciplinary artist Mark Doerries expresses it as this: […]

Categories: contemporary music, gesamtkünstwerk, interdiscipline, meta-composition, multimedia, new choral music, new conductor, new opera and music drama, sacred music, Uncategorized • Tags: CARMEN HELENA TELLEZ, DON FREUND, Greg Geehern, MARGARET DOLINSKY, MARK DOERRIES, PASSION WITH TROPES, ROBERT A. SHAKESPEARE, Susanne Schwibs

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PASSION with Tropes: Conceptualizing the Interdisciplinary Presentation

May 7, 2011 by carmen helena tellez

Digital Art by Margaret Dolinsky, Copyright 2011 I am in the middle of production for a new interdisciplinary version of Don Freund’s PASSION with Tropes that I will conduct on May 20 and 21, 2011, in Bloomington, Indiana.  Originally composed in 1983 as a sprawling oratorio with staged components, PASSION with Tropes has been reborn in a second version suitable for interdisciplinary treatment. Composer Don Freund agreed to revisit this magnum opus of his, after I came to him with […]

Categories: gesamtkünstwerk, interdiscipline, meta-composition

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