AUG 5 JOIN Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Women in Music Edit-a-thon Please join us The Construction Company, the International Alliance for Women in Music, and Wikimedia NYC as we edit, correct, and add Wikipedia pages related to Women in Music! This event will be held at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts from 4:00-7:30PM on Monday, August 5th. We'll be in the Film Room on the 3rd Floor - the front desk will direct you. No experience editing Wikipedia is required but please bring a laptop! Experienced Wikipedians will be around to help out, and we’ll be starting the edit-a-thon with a brief tutorial to cover the basics. All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. MORE INFORMATION:    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Women_in_Music_Edit-a-thon Articles to Create/Edit [ edit ] Articles to Edit Peggy Stuart Coolidge Mara Helmuth Lori Laitman Sabrina Peña Young Emma Lou Diemer Doreen Carwithen Articles to Create...

EVENTS IN BUFFALO TODAY: Buffalo GirlChoir at Buffalo State University CHRISTMAS MUSIC SPECTACULAR! Holiday Choral Spectacular Performing Arts Center Rockwell Hall, SUNY Buffalo State Thursday, December 6, 2018 show time: 7:30 pm TICKETS $10 PER ADULT, FREE STUDENT TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR BUY TICKETS NOW Join us in the Performing Arts Center at Rockwell Hall as various Buffalo State choral groups celebrate the winter season in song, under the direction of Dr. Victoria Furby and Mr. John Fleischman.  With special guests Buffalo Girlchoir under the direction of Kathleen Bassett. Performing Arts Center EVENT INFORMATION: *Admission: $10 General; STUDENTS FREE •Doors open at 7:00pm •Performance starts at 7:30pm •The Buffalo State Performing Arts Center is located on FLOOR 2 of Rockwell Hall at Buffalo State College.  •Handicap accessible entrance with elevator to the hall located via the building entrance at parking lot I-30 (rear o...

NEW MUSIC Free Sheet Music From New York Composer Source: Category:Young, Sabrina Pena - IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library: Free Public Domain Sheet  Music    Sign up for SONGWRITING WORKSHOPS in WESTERN NEW YORK WITH AWARD-WINNING COMPOSER SABRINA PENA YOUNG Sabrina Peña Young, the daughter of Dominican and Cuban parents, grew up in South Florida during the 1980s. Starting her creative journey as a musician, Young spent her teen years and much of her college life performing in various orchestras, alternative bands, and avant-garde ensembles. While at University of South Florida in Tampa in 2000, Sabrina Peña Young became involved with SYCOM (Systems Complex for the Recording and Performing Arts), an experimental enclave of composers and media artists and abandoned the sticks for technology. She worked with Emmy-winning director  Charles Lyman  at Atlantic Productions before leaving Tampa to study music technology at Florida International University in Mia...

Hearing Secondary Dominants at Musical U Read the Full Article Here: Source: Hearing Secondary Dominants | Musical U     Chord progressions make up the backbone of most popular and classical compositions. Without a strong chord progression, tunes can seem lost and aimless. This constant pull between tension and release creates a delicate balance in songwriting. In a nutshell, chords constantly move back to the tonic chord of a song. But composers and songwriters can spice up their progressions and put a twist on this tendency with a handy technique known as “secondary dominants.”   Read full article here:  https://www.musical-u.com/learn/hearing-secondary-dominants/#

Classical Music Radio Broadcast Request Promotes Women Composers - Composer Amy Beach The I nternational Alliance for Women in Music and other musical advocacy groups encourage classical music lovers to request the music of notable women in music. Each month different composers are chosen.  More information below:  To participate in promoting the broadcast of women's compositions, please telephone or e-mail local and/or Internet radio stations during Aug. 5-11, 2018, requesting that they play music composed by AMY BEACH. As usual, the selection, which is different every week, has been made by Ursula Rempel. The selections, she explains, "are based on a combination of factors: availability of CDs, geography/nationality, accessibility/appeal of the music for general audiences, and a concern to feature both historical and contemporary women composers."  Feel free to copy and modify this to suit yourselves:  Ladies and Gentlemen:  Would you please...

New Music Album Release - Coro del Mundo CORO DEL MUNDO Compilation With its blend of religious and cultural influences, CORO DEL MUNDO is proof that different faiths and beliefs can sit together comfortably at the same musical table. Tracks range from sacred to secular, and from delicate to aggressive, while the surprising cohesiveness of the composers’ work is astonishingly beautiful. Recorded in Cuba, Schola Cantorum Coralina and Vocal Luna contribute exquisite vocals to these recordings. PARMA RECORDS

New Music Book on Composer Jennifer Higdon Now Available through McFarland Press "Composing in Color" Renowned composer Jennifer Higdon is best known for her symphonic pieces  blue cathedral, Concerto for Orchestra, City Scape, Concerto 4-3  and  Violin Concerto  (2010 Pulitzer Prize). These compositions illustrate her breadth of style and avant-garde technique. The author examines these works—with commentary by Higdon—as well as the music of her first opera, with a focus on compositional history, musical characteristics, formal analysis and critical reception. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Christina L. Reitz  is an associate professor of music at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina. Her research on Jennifer Higdon has been published in the  Grove Dictionary of American Music , the  International Alliance for Women in Music Journal , and the  North Carolina Literary Review . Christina L. Reitz Foreword by  Marin ...

Upcoming Classical Performances of Composer Nancy Bloomer Deussen June 19 "Refections on the Hudson" Florida Symphony Youth Orchestra conducted by Hanrich  Claassen Sotille Theater Charleston, SC June 24 "Reflections on the Hudson" Florida Symphony Youth Orchestra conducted by Hanrich  Claassen Carnegie Hall, NYC  July 21 "Regalos" performed by The Susquehanna Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sheldon Bair Elizabethtown Music Camp Elizabethtown, NJ WEBPAGE:  http://www. nancybloomerdeussen.com/ Nancy Bloomer Deussen 2nd Prize winner in Chamber Music Composition The American Prize 2013 Honored Artist-The American Prize 2014

After a few months of filmmaking and writing, I am happy to announce the release of four exciting and inspiring albums just in time for Mother's Day. Inspiring, classical, poignant Download today: https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/sabrina-pena-young/389263592#see-all/recent-albums The newest soundtrack released by Sabrina Peña Young from Grace McCalister's the Present and the Passed is an emotional piano journey through a mother's hope and sadness. Enjoy moments of relaxation in Relaxing Music of Earth , a classical compilation of soothing and gentle music to give you solace and quiet. A Mother's Heart is an inspiring classical collection of beautiful music inspired by the joys and struggles of motherhood. It is a perfect gift for any mother or grandmother in your life. Give the gift of inspiring classical music this Mother's Day. Yoga Dream Meditations takes a departure from classical music, instead enveloping the listener with slow-moving ambie...

Kendrick Lamar just won an award that no other rapper has ever won. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, the hosts of The Young Turks, tell you what he won. http://www.tytnetwork.com/join Tell us what you think in the comment section below. Read more here: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/... “Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for music on Monday, providing arguably the biggest surprise as the awards for arts and letters were announced Monday in New York. Lamar is the first hip-hop artist to win the Pulitzer's music category, which traditionally has honored classical works, even after the category was opened up to jazz and pop in 2005. Jazz master Ornette Coleman won in 2007, but the selection of Lamar is the Pulitzer's biggest swing toward popular music. Lamar won his Pulitzer for "Damn." — the follow-up album to 2015's searing examination of race in America, "To Pimp a Butterfly." Times pop music criticMikael Wood he...

Concert features program of music by women composers  Someday, perhaps, there won’t be a need to advocate and provide a platform for the work of women composers. Until that time, Women in Music Columbus, as it has done for almost 140 years, is on the case. The local organization also advocates for women performers, offering multiple opportunities each season for its performing members to participate in recitals and concerts. These concerts often include the music of women composers. Additionally, every other year WMC puts out a call for submissions from women composers, with all selected works to be performed in one program. The Women Composers program will be held on Sunday, April 15, in Capital University’s Huntington Recital Hall. “It’s part of our mission statement to promote women making music and women composers,” WMC President Cynthia Mahaney said, “and certainly providing performing opportunities is a big reason why many of our members join.” ... In all, works...

NMR Artist Spotlight Exclusive: Greek Classical Film Composer George Kalyvas What is your story? I was born and grew up in Athens Greece and musically I started with piano lessons at the age of 9 which lasted for four years as I didn’t like the environment where I had to study just for the annual exams. I thought at the time that music was more of a discovery from inside out rather than learning how to place your fingers at the keyboard and play what you see. Of course when I grew up and at the age of 19 I understood what is the meaning of a composition and I was intrigued, as I started guitar, music theory and music harmony lessons where I obtained my first degree in music, by the story of each composition and about the mechanics of it. I later decided to study on my own counterpoint, fugue and to start analysing scores from quartets to symphonies of the great classical composers. Now I am living in the UK and I am pursuing a career in th...

NMR Artist Spotlight: EXCLUSIVE Interview with Classical Composer David Warin Solomons David Warin Solomons is a lyrical neo-classical composer who uses various styles, including European (in various modes), Jewish, Chinese and Japanese. He has written chamber, solo, choral, vocal and orchestral music. WHAT INSPIRES YOUR MUSIC?  My music is inspired partly by the rhythms and feelings of poetry and religious texts and partly by my own improvisations. DOWNLOAD PSALM 23 TODAY AT CD BABY WHAT IS YOUR STORY?  I was born in 1953 to two poetic and artistic parents and soon found myself writing music, initially for classical guitar and then for various chamber music and choral ensembles, while singing with choirs in churches and cathedrals in England, Ireland and France. WHAT MAKES YOUR MUSIC EXTRAORDINARY/DIFFERENT?  I am self-taught as a composer, guitarist and singer, so, although I follow many of the dictates of tonal classical mu...