ACS Orpheus Alliance News
November 16, 2004
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ACS Presentations at College Music Society and Association for Technology in Music Instruction Among the ACS presenters at this year's conferences in San Francisco Nov. 4-7 were: Courtenay Harter (Rhodes): “Teaching Cadences: A Study of Prokofiev’s Piano Sonatas” Timothy Kramer (Trinity): Performance of "Mosaics" Timothy Cutler (Austin College): An Internet Music Theory Database Laura Daigle (Centenary '05) and Patricia Gray (ACSTC): "Using Flash Animation to Enhance Structural Analysis of Contemporary Compositions" A slideshow of music program photographs accompanied by Laura's Dances in a Song performed by Luna Nova is available at: www.colleges.org/~music/LDProject/NITLE/daigleflash.html

Opportunity for ACS Student Composers Composers of Internet2 (CI2): A Technology-Enabled Composition Contest Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and the National Institute for Technology & Liberal Education invite young composers to participate in an exciting new competition. This inaugural "call for compositions" seeks works for unaccompanied cello in celebration of Dr. Ronald Crutcher, Wheaton's new president and cellist. Craig Hultgren, Birmingham-Southern cellist and activist for new music, will perform and record all the winning works. The deadline for entry is January 3, 2005. For complete information see: http://www.wheatoncollege.edu/IT_S/internet2/CI2/

Birmingham-Southern to Host 2005 Festival The fourth annual ACS New Music Festival and Workshop will be held at Birmingham-Southern College in July 2005. Details about exact dates will be announced shortly.

2005 Student Composition Contest Guidelines ACS student composers are invited to submit scores for the fourth annual ACS Student Composition Contest. Students must be enrolled in music composition studies at an Associated Colleges of the South or NITLE Southern Region institution during the 2004-2005 academic year. Complete guidelines for entry are available on the ACS website at: www.colleges.org/~music/ACScontest.html

Collaboration Suggestions Faculty and students are invited to send suggestions for possible institutional collaborations in music involving multiple ACS institutions to gray@colleges.org.