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It seems all of my projects this semester have culminated at the same time. Five grad school applications are due in a week; a twelve-page paper on the music of Alfred Schnittke is due Friday morning (yes, the day after thanksgiving); I finished recording Particulates for Clarinet and Dans les Nuages; Musique 21 is performing another work of mine next Tuesday night; I have present my research topic next Wednesday; and that night is the debut performance of our new music group, the sixth species ensemble, which I co-founded with Victor Marquez and Tim Patterson.
I’m very excited about all of these things, well, maybe not the paper-writing part. I’m particularly proud of the first concert of the sixth species ensemble; it has been a great semester-long collaboration with some fine MSU musicians. We set up this group as a performer/composer collective devoted to performing only new works by living composers. The group is performing my song cycle, Dans les Nuages for baritone, harp, vibraphone, and bass clarinet in its entirety! The song cycle began as a collaboration between Tim Lane, the curator of (SCENE) Metrospace and myself. The first two songs have been performed, but I am looking forward to presenting the entire set.
Below is a preview: Song 1 “When We Were Young” recorded by the sixth species ensemble.
Come check out the rest:
the sixth species ensemble
presents works by: Victor Marquez, Tim Patterson, Mark O’Connor, Phillip Sink, and Louis Andriessen.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
7:30PM
(SCENE) Metrospace, 110 Charles St., East Lansing, MI
$3 students/ $5 adults
