Illinois ethnomusicologist Michael Silvers has been awarded a 2019 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship. He’ll use the fellowship to research a book that will examine the connections between aesthetic, cultural, environmental and political histories and instrument-making using Brazilian natural resources.
About 40 years after the premiere of “The People United Will Never Be Defeated!” — Frederic Rzewski’s piano composition based on a populist Chilean song — John Kramer ’95 is taking the 50-minute piece on the road in Massachusetts and Maine.
A pianist and member of the music faculty at the University of Albany, Duncan Cumming ’93 honors his Bates teacher and mentor, the late pianist and artist-in-residence Frank Glazer, with a tribute concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 9, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.
Andrew Cyr admits, it feels really good to be right. The Fort Kent native and Bates College graduate began the Manhattan-based Metropolis Ensemble seven years ago for the single purpose of giving young classical music composers a chance to be heard. So far, it’s worked out well.
Illinois ethnomusicologist Michael Silvers has been awarded a 2019 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship. He’ll use the fellowship to research a book that will examine the connections between aesthetic, cultural, environmental and political histories and instrument-making using Brazilian natural resources.
About 40 years after the premiere of “The People United Will Never Be Defeated!” — Frederic Rzewski’s piano composition based on a populist Chilean song — John Kramer ’95 is taking the 50-minute piece on the road in Massachusetts and Maine.
A pianist and member of the music faculty at the University of Albany, Duncan Cumming ’93 honors his Bates teacher and mentor, the late pianist and artist-in-residence Frank Glazer, with a tribute concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 9, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.
Andrew Cyr admits, it feels really good to be right. The Fort Kent native and Bates College graduate began the Manhattan-based Metropolis Ensemble seven years ago for the single purpose of giving young classical music composers a chance to be heard. So far, it’s worked out well.