Luna Nova at Birmingham Southern College, June 2004

2004 ACS Music Technology Workshop and New Music Festival

Workshop Agenda
New Music Festival Program (.pdf)

This year the festival has expanded to include more than thirty works played on six concerts. Luna Nova has commissioned four new works by members of the ACS Composers Forum:

Charles Norman Mason, Birmingham Southern College: Fast Break! (violin, flute, clarinet, cello, piano, recorded sound)

Robert Patterson, guest composer: Riffs and Echoes (violin, flute, clarinet, cello, piano, percussion),

Robert Tanner, Morehouse College, Duo Momentum for clarinet and violin

Justin Merritt, Trinity University: Drum Break, percussion

The Classics of the 20th Century series will feature:

Arnold Schoenberg, Chamber Symphony, Op. 9 (Webern, trans.)
Olivier Messiaen, Quartet for the End of Time
Elliott Carter, Enchanted Preludes for flute and cello
Schoenberg, Fantasy for violin and piano

In addition, a new work, The Haroun Piano Book--Stage I by Charles Wuorinen will be performed by Prof. Lynn Raley, of Millsaps College. Robert Patterson's New World Landscapes will performed by Prof. Cynthia Lawing (Davidson) and Prof. Gloria Cook (Rollins). Jacob Mason, five-year-old son of Dorothy Hindman and Charles Mason, will make his ACS Festival debut playing the toy piano part for Landscapes.

The Sunday, July 25 concert will include student works by the winners of this year’s ACS student composition contest as well as by two former winners of the contest, J R Paredes of Trinity University and Christopher Weiss of Rollins College. The Monday, July 26 concert will feature the newly commissioned work by Charles Mason and Robert Patterson as well as the premiere of Sonnet 4 for marimba by James Romig. The Festival will end Tuesday, July 27 with a performance of a staged song cycle From Frankenstein by Stefan Weisman. See www.FromFrankenstein.com for complete details. Diane Thornton (Davidson), mezzo-soprano, will perform the work with Luna Nova.

STUDENT MUSIC ANALYSIS ANIMATIONS

The following Flash animations illustrate music analyses written by ACS music majors:

Laura Daigle Centenary Colleg '05 Steve Reich: Music for Pieces of Wood

Robby Simpson Birmingham Southern College '04 An Analysis of the "Dirge-Canons" from Stravinsky's In Memoriam Dylan Thomas

Johnathan Kana Southwestern University '04 An Analysis of Kana's Mysteriam Fidei