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Congratulations to all three winners, especially Yalie Sean Chen, a student of Hung-Kuan Chen at the Yale School of Music.

The Cliburn Awards ceremony is replaying the webcast, if you missed it. Congrats again to all of the talented pianists who competed, and to the three medalists! www.cliburn.org

#sean chen #cliburn 2013 #cliburn competition #piano #pianist #competitions

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Ted Hearne '08MM, '09MMA arranged arranged six of Erykah Badu's songs for orchestra, rhythm section, and DJ, mixing in his own interludes and bookends partially inspired by the album.

[Badu] joined the Brooklyn Philharmonic this weekend for an orchestral arrangement of her most ambitious album. …If the weekend proved a coup for Badu, though, it was also a real triumph for Hearne, whose compositions and arrangements gave largeness and depth to what on record can sometimes sound thin (like "The Healer"); they could be jazzy, bordering on the Stravinskian. Taken all together, it was a masterpiece of performance—a singer, orchestra, and arranger not only at their bests but also perfectly fused. 

#ted hearne #erykah badu #brooklyn philharmonic #classical music #new music #brooklyn #music

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The Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, presented by the Yale School of Music, celebrates its seventy second season this year with performances and residencies by six internationally esteemed string quartets alongside students and young professionals from around the world.

#norfolk chamber music festival #yale summer school of music #litchfield #norfolk #connecticut

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We're a day late to reblog this, but we didn't want to miss this post about Sean Chen '14AD.

Sean Chen is being interviewed now at The Cliburn, after Luca Buratto’s performance - watch the webcast: www.thecliburn.org The preliminary rounds end this Thursday, and the semifinalists will be announced!

#sean chen #yale school of music students #pianists #cliburn competition #cliburn 2013

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…since this is a blog, I can write what I want to write. And what I want to write is a long piece on the May 26 Preliminary I recital by 24-year-old American Sean Chen.

Chen’s repertoire alone would have (almost) inspired me to walk from Dallas to Fort Worth: Bach, Bartók, Chopin, and Scriabin. But then I heard his performance! Oh, Sean. You’ve made me a fan.

By the time we were a few bars into the Allemande of the Bach French Suite No. 5, I knew we were in the hands of a mature and nuanced player… 

Chen always knows where each piece is going, and he makes the listener appreciate each note on the way… No small feat. I liked this guy.

#cliburn competition #cliburn 2013 #sean chen #pianists #reviews #yale school of music students

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TOKYO STRING QUARTET SPOTIFY PLAYLIST

The folk over at Musica Viva have done something really cool with Spotify’s playlist function. Instead of just creating a playlist featuring works from artists who are about to tour, in this case the Tokyo String Quartet, Musica Viva offer commentary on the works. It’s really cool, kind of like a podcast except it’s less annoying.

Here, Musica Viva’s Director of Artistic Planning, Katherine Kemp, talks about what we can expect from Tokyo String Quartet when they tour Australia in May/June for the final time.

For more infomation on the Tokyo String Quartet’s final Australian tour, please visit; www.musicaviva.com.au/tokyo

#tokyo string quartet #chamber music #string quartets #yale school of music faculty

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Review of a concert featuring music by Missy Mazzoli and performed by a host of YSM alumni (Mellissa Hughes, soprano; Caroline Shaw, mezzo-soprano; Eleonore Oppenheim, bass; Aaron Sorensen, bass) and others.

"Missy Mazzoli… [has] personal force, broad talent and sheer delight."

#missy mazzoli #mellissa hughes #caroline shaw #eleonore oppenheim #aaron sorensen #new music #composers #reviews #gotham chamber opera

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It wouldn't surprise anyone at SUNY Geneseo to see graduating senior Louis Lohraseb conducting a major symphony orchestra in the not-too-distant future. Lohraseb, a music major from Schenectady, N.Y., and one of 16 presidential scholars at Geneseo this year, will begin graduate studies this fall at the Yale School of Music, where he has been appointed assistant conductor of the Yale Philharmonia, one of the nation's foremost music school ensembles. He competed with 38 others for the position.  

#louis lohraseb #conducting #conductor #orchestral conducting #yale school of music students

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Reposting for the Yale connection.

Walking Music

This time of year, our home base of Avery Fisher Hall is, by day, a bustle of activity for college graduation ceremonies as students from the likes of NYU and Fordham march across the stage, sheepskin in hand. It recently led us to unearth this score copy of Elgar’s Military March No. 1, the trio of which is better known as Pomp and Circumstance, from our Digital Archives. But, as one of our Facebook fans asked: Why is this the graduation song to beat all graduation songs?

“Pomp and Circumstance” was first heard in its popular use at Yale University’s 1905 graduation, where Elgar was receiving an honorary doctorate of music. As a result, Yale music professor Samuel Sanford (a friend of Elgar’s) incorporated a few works by the composer into the proceedings, including the trio from March No. 1 as a recessional. It’s still used in that capacity at Yale, and quickly became a popular processional for other colleges and high schools. The work was first heard at the Philharmonic two years after Elgar received his honorary degree from Yale, in 1907 at a concert conducted by Walter Damrosch.

#elgar #edward elgar #nyphil #pomp and circumstance #yale #graduation #commencement #samuel simons sanford

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The piece is really an exploration of the way people play their instruments. Oftentimes it pushes into strange and new ways to play instruments or unusual ways to play the instruments. I also thought a lot about the orchestra as an instrument and how an orchestra is played and how it has all these interwoven parts that play with each other or against each other.

I’m also very interested in this physical act of playing an instrument and what it looks like physically and how when we go to an orchestra concert it’s not only an auditory medium, it’s something we look at.

Normally when we think of play it’s a very fun word and sort of whimsical but I was also thinking of these other more dark aspects of the word play. The idea of manipulation like someone played someone else, almost a kind of puppet and puppet master kind of way that someone is fooling someone else.

#andrew norman #new music #bmop #composer #composers #classical music #orchestra #yale school of music alumni

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A new recording of music by Michael Daugherty '82MMA, '87DMA, with Grammy Award-winning organist Paul Jacobs '02MM, '03AD among the featured performers.

Naxos Records presents the latest release from composer Michael Daugherty (b. 1954); a compilation of three world premieres for orchestra and choir. The works combine to form a fascinating look at several important centerpieces of what is referred to as, "The Greatest Generation," the period of American history between the Great Depression and World War II. …The three subjects featured on this recording make for an absorbing look at the current musical compositions from this University of Michigan professor's exploration of "The Greatest Generation."

#michael daugherty #paul jacobs #new music #recordings

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It is unorthodox music, and Shaw, though an accomplished violinist and singer, is an unorthodox choice for the Pulitzer. After all, she shapes her pieces in large group settings, a context that's contrary to the Pulitzer's aim of honoring a single individual's masterpiece. And she prefers not to call herself a composer, either. During our interview, she refers to herself once by the dreaded term, then immediately backtracks: "Ah, I didn't just use that word."

#caroline shaw #yale school of music alumni #composer #composers #classical music #new music

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World-renowned clarinetist Richard Stoltzman and virtuoso violinist Andrew Kohji Taylor will join the Essex Chamber Music Players May 19 at 2 p.m.… Stoltzman, McKinley, and Finegold were in the same Yale School of Music graduate class. Taylor is a Yale School of Music graduate as well.

#yale school of music alumni #richard stoltzman #andrew kohji taylor #classical music

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To revise Beecham on Wagner, a night of Hindemith music isn’t half as bad as it sounds… Yet students–from Germany to Turkey to Yale University, where he taught–revered him. And the Yale School of Music gave him all due honors last night in the beautiful Weill Concert Hall.

#hindemith #paul hindemith #music #classical music #review #yale in new york #boris berman #claudia rosenthal #ettore causa

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"Battle Hymns" has its share of magical moments, including a gorgeous and all-too-brief passage in which members of the children's chorus hum with their hands over their mouths to produce a Ligetiesque swirl of sound… "Battle Hymns" concludes on a transcendent note, with a surrealist and practically wordless setting based on Foster's "Beautiful Dreamer." Suddenly, all the regimentation of the staging is jettisoned, as the performers mill about the space singing suspended harmonies at the edge of audibility. The effect is intoxicating and powerful.

#david lang #composer #new music #reviews #war music

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Photos of Yvette Mattern’s night rainbow laser light sculpture beaming across New Haven, CT in celebration of the Elm City’s 375th birthday.

The display will run from dusk to 1am until April 27th. Learn more: nightrainbownewhaven.com.

Do you have a photo of the night rainbow? Share it with us at [email protected], or tag it with #NHV375!

#newhaven nhv375

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An April 28 concert devoted to Hindemith at Weill Recital Hall will recall his pranks and provocations. … On April 28 the Jasper String Quartet will cast aside its customary aesthetic standards when it performs Hindemith’s “Dutchman” at Weill Recital Hall as part of a Yale in New York concert devoted to “Hindemith: Master and Prankster.” Hindemith, who died 50 years ago this December, was a serious composer and one of the 20th century’s most influential. A prodigious writer who often dashed off a composition between stations on a train journey, he left a catalog cluttered with occasional pieces and musical jokes, among them the mock military string quartet “Minimax,” named after a brand of fire extinguisher, which will also be part of the concert.

#hindemith #paul hindemith #composers #twentieth century music #music history #yale in new york