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Classical Music Halloween - Morloke God of the Underworld - Sabrina Pena...

Classical Music Halloween : Morloke for Marimba from Destiny: Eondwyr. Originally written for percussionist Kurt Gartner at Kansas State University . This version is for marimba or malletkat. Full version is for Malletkat and Ableton Live . Both scores available at Petrucci Library and the artist website: Sabrinapenayoung.wordpress.com @dalatindiva Related articles What is MIDI? - History of Electronic Music - Sabrina Pena Young Top 5 Ways to Mix and Record in the Comfort of Your Own Home at a Fraction of the Cost Classic Halloween Movies for Kids Today Only! 30% off Halloween Candy, Costumes & Halloween Decor at Target! WATCH: Is Halloween Really The Gay Superbowl? Madea scares up another box office win ahead of 'Jack Reacher' and 'Ouija' sequels KGB on the FMR: When are you too old to wear a slutty Halloween costume? GTA Online's Halloween event will kick off this Friday Celebrating Halloween in the Chicago Suburbs: Boo at the Zoo! ...

NEW Music Book - From Kitchen to Carnegie Hall: Ethel Stark and the Montreal Women's Symphony Orchestra

NEW Music Book - From Kitchen to Carnegie Hall : Ethel Stark and the Montreal Women's Symphony Orchestra   Maria Noriega Rachwa, a teacher and musicologist, has written a remarkable new book,  From Kitchen to Carnegie Hall: Ethel Stark and the Montreal Women's Symphony Orchestra  (2015:Second Story Press, Toronto ) about the first Canadian orchestra ever to perform in Carnegie Hal, in 1947l.  And one of its members also became the first Canadian black women to play a symphony in Carnegie Hall.   Formed in 1940, the orchestra survived for almost thirty years. Book is well-documented with photographs and research.  Book Website ABOUT THE BOOK:  The all-women symphony orchestra that revolutionized music in Canada . In the 1940s it was unheard of for women to be members of a professional orchestra, let alone play “masculine” instruments like the bass or trombone. Yet despite these formidable challenges, the Montreal Women’s Symphony...

Running on Empty: Deep Listening Institute Personal Appeal from Compsoer Pauline Oliveros

Oliveros (right) playing in Mexico City in 2006 (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) This message was originally received as part of the International Alliance for Women in Music ListServe. The Deep Listening Institute has provided decades of excellent new music and arts programming, festivals, educational classes, and materials, and remains a bastion of contemporary music and the innovative Deep Listening process invented by founder legendary composer Pauline Oliveros .  ------ Running on Empty A Personal Appeal from Pauline Oliveros May 7, 2014   Dear Friends and Supporters of Deep Listening, As some of you may know, the Deep Listening Institute moved out of its Kingston, NY, office at the end of April.  We could no longer afford the rent.  The work of DLI continues, of course, and in fact this has been one of our most exciting years.  We held our first three-day academic conference, “Deep Listening: Art/Science,” last July at Ren...