David Kirkland Garner's piece Forward / Still won First Prize in the OSSIA New Music competition and will be performed at Eastman in March. Forward / Still was developed during the 2011-13 WET INK residency, which was made possible through a Visiting Artists Grant from the Duke Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts. (For more of Garner's work, view the video of his piece I ain't broke but I sure am bent, performed by the Vega Quartet).
Yana Lowry will present her paper "Performing Solidarity: the Agitational Theater of Living Newspapers in the 1920s and 1930s in the USSR and Weimar Germany" at the MACSEM (Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Society of Ethnomusicology) meeting on March 23-24 at the University of Richmond.
Angela Mace appeared on American Public Media's "The Story" with Dick Gordon, telling the story of how she followed a trail of musical clues to discover that the Easter Sonata, long thought to have been composed by Felix Mendelssohn, was actually written by his sister, Fanny Hensel.
Excerpts from Amy Scurria's "Pearl," an opera based on Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, will be performed by soprano Elena DeAngelis on March 8, 2013 at the Greensboro Cultural Center, Greensboro, NC. Read more about Amy and "Pearl."
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