04/03/2012

Ohio State University Hosts Joseph Schwantner Composer Residency

"Joseph Schwantner draws the listener into his world of stunningly attractive sounds and rhythms," comments Ohio State Contemporary Music Festival director Russel C. Mikkelson introducing this year’s featured composer.  The Pulitzer Prize-winning composer’s solo, chamber, and symphonic ...

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03/29/2012

Tobias Picker Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters

Many congratulations to Tobias Picker on his election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The composer joins an esteemed list of musicians in the Academy that includes John Adams, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Charles Wuorinen, Stephen Sondheim, Elliott Carter and Schott composers Bernard ...

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02/13/2012

Joseph Schwantner’s Percussion Concerto Wins A Grammy!

The Naxos recording of Joseph Schwantner’s Percussion Concerto took home the Grammy Award for Best Classical Instrumental Solo at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards on February 12. Featuring soloist Christopher Lamb playing alongside Giancarlo Guerrero and the Nashville Symphony, the performance ...

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02/09/2012

Joseph Schwantner In Residence at DePauw University

Indiana’s DePauw University hosts Joseph Schwantner as Composer-in-Residence at the school’s 10th annual Music of the 21st Century festival. From February 15 through 19, Schwantner leads chamber music coaching sessions, orchestra and band rehearsals and a wide range of master classes. The festival ...

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01/17/2012

Singleton and Schwantner Celebrate Martin Luther King

The music of Alvin Singleton and Joseph Schwantner plays a major role in the Martin Luther King, Jr. concert tributes this month in Atlanta and Alabama. Schwantner’s moving MLK text-setting New Morning for the World headlined the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s concert on January 12, under Robert ...

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12/23/2011

schott aktuell - the journal 1/2012 online

For Schott it is with particular pride that we look forward to the world’s celebrations of Wagner’s bicentenary in 2013. In anticipation of this event, we have been busy adding to our Richard Wagner Complete Edition: new urtext-vocal scores based to the Complete Edition of The Flying Dutchman in ...

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11/07/2011

Work of the Week - Joseph Schwantner: Concerto No. 2

Celebrating its 50th anniversary this month, the Percussive Arts Society International Convention honors Joseph Schwantner by hosting the premiere of Concerto No. 2 , for percussion section, timpani and orchestra , with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and Hans Graf on November 10. The ...

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10/24/2011

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CHAMBER ORCHESTRA As orchestras continue to focus on innovation in the concert hall, chamber orchestra repertoire is increasingly becoming a fixture in concert programming. Perhaps one reason for this is clear: a smaller, more nimble ensemble opens up endless possibilities for alternative ...

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10/07/2011

Complete Solo Percussion Part to Joseph Schwantner’s Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra Now Available in Edition Schott

The complete solo percussion part to Joseph Schwantner’s landmark virtuoso showpiece Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra is now available in a brand new revised Edition Schott publication, edited by the New York Philharmonic percussionist Christopher Lamb. The new, corrected edition of the solo ...

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07/06/2011

Naxos Releases Joseph Schwantner’s Chasing Light…

Naxos has just released a new disc devoted to the music of Joseph Schwantner, including the composer's Chasing Light…, Morning’s Embrace , and his landmark Percussion Concerto . All three works were performed by the Nashville Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Giancarlo Guerrero, with ...

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