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Composer and installation artist
- piano
- electronic music
- United States of America
- composer, radio playwright, performance artist, installation artist
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2019-06-21 01:05:00
CapRadio.org: Lara Downes Celebrates The Power And Artistic Legacy Of Women
Holes in the Sky Lara Downes & Friends Sony Capital Public Radio Sacramento, CA June 19, 2019 Julie Amacher | Classical MPR Lara Downes — Holes in the Sky (Sony) "The title of this album, the concept, the idea came to me when I read a quote from Georgia O'Keeffe. She wrote these words in a letter: 'I want real things. Live people to take hold of, to see and talk to. Music that makes holes in the sky. I want to love as hard as I can.'" That's pianist Lara Downes. Her new recording is called Holes in the Sky. "Those words just really struck me and made me start thinking about the potential of music to make holes in the sky. I think especially the power and the potential of female creativity and the way that we envision […]
2018-10-19 23:01:00
Dr. Megan E. Hill: Music by Black Composers Landmark Publications!
[…] of African descent, released by Cedille Records. In celebration, please feel free to share these three printable coloring book pages of composers Chiquinha Gonzaga, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, and Joseph Bologne Chevalier de Saint-Georges. The news stories about MBC Violin Volume I, The RBP Foundation Coloring Book, the timeline poster, and Blues Dialogues have started to break! Pine's interview on MPR’s syndicated show "Classical Tracks with Julie Amacher" aired on Wednesday. The show broadcast on 45 stations that serve Minnesota. Strings November feature - Pine goes in depth about Music by Black Composers in a four-page feature. “Performance Today” airs its segment with Pine today, Friday, October 19. “Performance Today,” is the most listened-to daily classical music radio program in the United States, with 1.2 million listeners on 237 stations. Pine and her daughter Sylvia perform a selection […]
2018-06-11 00:13:00
YourClassical.org: Kazem Abdullah evokes conflict, love in new Ravel recording
Maurice Ravel - Daphnis & Chloe Sinfonieorchester Aachen Kazem Abdullah Coviello Classics New Classical Tracks® Top picks for new hits Julie Amacher - June 6, 2018 Kazem Abdullah/Sinfonieorchester Aachen: Ravel: Daphnis & Chloe (Coviello Classics) Kazem Abdullah was growing up in the Midwest when he chose not one, but two instruments, piano and clarinet. He studied at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, and eventually landed a fellowship with Michael Tilson Thomas and the New World Symphony in Miami. That's when Michael Tilson Thomas challenged him, encouraging him to […]
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2017-05-21 15:30:24
Striving To Revive The Ghostly Sounds Of Electronic Music Composer Maryanne Amacher
The composer created experiences that are hard to recreate: "A student of Karlheinz Stockhausen and a collaborator with John Cage and Merce Cunningham, Amacher had some of her greatest successes with huge sound-design installations tailored for specific spaces. These 'linked room' works exploited psychoacoustic effects that she pioneered: A foyer might hit the spectator with high-pitched tones meant to excite strange inner-ear responses. An adjoining space could feature quiet, slowly fading bass frequencies, lingering at the edge of auditory perception."
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