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 ...

The Women Composer YouTube Database is a project designed to make the works of prominent women in music known to a broader base by creating long playlists of works by select female composers and songwritings in classical music, electronica, and film. This is a project begun by award-winning composer Sabrina Pena Young. The hope is that as more and more of these Youtube Playlists of women composers are made available, the playlists will be shared and other musicians will take the time to create more female composer playlists. This project was begun in August 2017. The goal is to eventually have 100 + separate playlists highlighting the works of 100+ female composers. If you are interested in having a playlist made of your work or a prominent female composer as part of this project, please contact Sabrina Pena Young directly through her facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/newmusiccomposer/ I hope you enjoy these works. @dalatindiva --- Jennifer Higdon J...

A Playlist of Women Composers for International Women's Day! Women Composers, Performers, Conductors in Classical Music , Electroacoustic Music , World Music , and more. The International Alliane for Women in Music - Playing a Vital Role in the 21st CenturyThe IAWM is proud of its historical contributions towards the progress for women in music and continues to press for equality for performers, composers, researchers, and educators.

Jennifer Higdon , Blue Cathedral San Francisco Symphony Orchestra , Stephane Deneve (Conductor) PROGRAM NOTES : “ blue cathedral” Blue…like the sky. Where all possibilities soar. Cathedrals…a place of thought, growth,  spiritual expression…serving as a symbolic doorway in to and out of this world. Blue  represents all potential and the progression of journeys. Cathedrals represent a place of  beginnings, endings, solitude, fellowship, contemplation, knowledge and growth. As I  was writing this piece, I found myself imagining a journey through a glass cathedral in  the sky. Because the walls would be transparent, I saw the image of clouds and blueness  permeating from the outside of this church. In my mind's eye the listener would enter from the back of the sanctuary, floating along the corridor amongst giant crystal pillars,  moving in a contemplative stance. The stained glass windows ' figures would start moving with song, singing...

The Internet Allows Global Music to Influence Western Classical Music The Pendulum Swings: Classical Music Today In classical music of today and definitely in pop music , the pendulum has definitely begun to swing back towards normalcy. I would venture to say that the beginning of the 20th century until the 1970s saw the most experimental music . Since then, most of the experimentation has been made in technology, not strict acoustic classical composition. Movements like aleatoric music and even minimalism are already decades, if not half a century old, while newer movements like postminimalism (composer John Adams , for one) and neoromanticism (composer Jennifer Higdon ) have reverted back to more traditional uses of new composition techniques. Popular music, for all its insanity in personality, really has done little in the way of musicality. That is not to say that there are not any talented musicians in pop music, because there are many, but that American popular musi...