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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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Operatic Meditations on the Life of an Artist

April 12, 2011 by carmen helena tellez

(Photo credit: Alain Barker for the Jacobs School of Music) The Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University is celebrating its 100th anniversary the best possible way, by commissioning an opera.  That opera is VINCENT, by the formidable Pulitzer prize-winning composer Bernard Rands. With a libretto by J.C McClatchy, the work explores the mind of the iconic artist Vincent van Gogh, its creative goals, spiritual obsessions, and ultimate disintegration. A beautiful design by Barry Steele includes digital images and projections […]

Categories: contemporary music, gesamtkünstwerk, interdiscipline, multimedia, new opera and music drama • Tags: Barry Steele, Bernard Rands, J.C. McClatchy, jacobs school of music, Sequenza21.com, Vincent van Gogh

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An unlikely homage to Ludwig van Beethoven by Mauricio Kagel

March 20, 2011 by carmen helena tellez

I include here a fragment of the iconic film Ludwig van by Mauricio Kagel,  the avant-garde Argentinian composer based in Germany, who passed away in 2008. Created in 1969-70, we certainly can admire it even more in our ironic post-modern times. It is interesting that in spite of its ostensibly outrageous treatment of the great composer, this excerpt has been liked by virtually everyone who has seen it (or at least, by everyone who chose to document a reaction on […]

Categories: art music video, contemporary music • Tags: Argentinian composers, Beethoven, European musical avant-garde, films about music, Mauricio Kagel

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Is the new path for classical music the emergence of a new orchestra?

March 18, 2011 by carmen helena tellez

The future of classical music presentation and education occupies much of the discussions — online and elsewhere — enacted by art managers and college administrators in the USA today. Of course, there are many definitions of what “classical music” is, and diverse repertoires come along with said definitions. However, for the broad public, classical music is that repertoire performed with symphony orchestras. Could the orchestra itself undergo a radical transformation, not only in its modus operandi, but also in its […]

Categories: art and society, contemporary music, music • Tags: composition, conducting, orchestra, Paul Dresher

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Video: The Bells of Leopardi

January 17, 2011 by carmen helena tellez

 

Categories: contemporary music, interdiscipline, music, my work • Tags: Aguavá New Music Studio, Contemporary Vocal Ensemble, Giacomo Leopardi, Susanne Schwibs, Yehuda Yannay

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