ACS Orpheus Alliance Workshop 2003

Overview

The four areas of concentration this year were:

Continued work on the building of online teaching modules for use in music theory and history classes. These modules are designed to be used in collaborative projects or in individual classes. Three modules are:
- George Crumb: Voice of the Whale
- Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire
- Schoenberg's Three Piano Pieces, Op. 11
The production of the second annual ACS New Music Festival featuring works by faculty, student, and guest composers. Among the works performed were the winning pieces from the 2003 Student Composition Contest. In addition to the new compositions were two works in the Classics of the 20th Century category. Featured this year were Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire and George Crumb's Voice of the Whale. There were a total of seven concerts resulting from collaborations between ACS faculty, students, and guests artists.
Presentation of student research projects with supporting multimedia
Sound and video recording and editing. These sessions were designed for those interested in recording concerts and making demos. Presenters discussed recording equipment, placement, and editing software. As part of the sessions participants made recordings of some of the Festival concerts.


Ted Gurch, Charles Mason, Adam Bowles, John Krebs, Diane Thornton

Workshop Leaders

Patricia Gray, workshop coordinator
David Asbury, sound/video editing sessions
Doug Rust, sound/video editing
James Romig, Luna Nova, conductor

FACULTY
Tim Cutler, Austin College
Carolyn True, Trinity University
Rachel Heard, Millsaps College
Lynn Raley, Millsaps College
Elizabeth Moak, Millsaps College
Shannon Gill, Southwestern University
Linda McNeil, Trinity University
Doug Rust, Centenary College
David Asbury, Southwestern University
Diane Thornton, Davidson College
Robert Patterson, guest composer
Susan Cohn Lackman, Rollins College
John Krebs, Hendrix College
Robert Tanner, Morehouse College
Eric McIntyre, Centenary College
Tim Kramer, Trinity College
Kimberlyn Montford, Trinity College
Charles Mason, Birmingham Southern
Dorothy Hindman, Birmingham Southern
Terry Vosbein, Washington and Lee
Karen Griebling, Hendrix College
David Stern, Hendrix College
Louise Watson, CET

Craig Hultgren, BSC, New Music Ensemble, cello
Adam Bowles, BSC, New Music Ensemble, piano
John McMurtery, New Music Ensemble, flute
Karol Bennett, New Music Ensemble, soprano
Ted Gurch, New Music Ensemble, clarinet
Helen Kim, New Music Ensemble, violin
James Romig, New Music Ensemble, conductor
Robert Patterson, composer
Anthony Brandt, Rice University, lecturer
Todd Gabriel, Centenary College

STUDENTS
Laura Daigle, Centenary College
Brian White, Centenary College
Andrew Ley, Centenary College
Jonathan Crosmer, Hendrix College
Matt Kennett, Hendrix College
Johnathan Kana, Southwestern University
Robbie Simpson, Birmingham Southern
Brandon Robertson, Birmingham Southern
Christopher Weiss, Rollins College

Performance Videos
Complete concert program (.pdf)
Quicktime Player required for movies.

Concert One
Schoenberg: Piano Pieces, Op. 11 (.mov)
(Raley)
Romig: Sonnet 2
(McMurtery)
Tanner: Romance
(Gurch, Krebs)
Hindman: drowningXnumbers
(Hultgren)
Kramer: Der Virtuos
(Krebs)

Concert Two
Zaimont: Impronta Digitale & Two Preludes
(Moak)
Cutler: Bathsheba's Lament
(Thornton, Krebs)
Mason: Senderos Que se Bifurcan
(Gurch, Bowles)
Romig: Sonnet 5
(Hultgren)
Wuorinen: The Blue Bamboula (.mov)
(Raley)

Concert Three
Arnold Schoenberg: Pierrto Lunaire
(Bennett, McMurtery, Kim, Gurch, Hultgren, Romig)

Concert Four
Weiss: Sonnet XXIX
(McNeil, Gill)
Summer: "The Quality of Mercy is not Strained"
(Thornton, Moak)
Kana: Fireside Meditations
(McNeil, Krebs)
Mason: Hradcanska
(McMurtery, Kim, Hultgren, Bowles)
Hindman: Setting Century
(McMurtery, Gurch, Kim, Hultgren, Bowles)

Concert Five
Daigle: Three Little Movements for Piano
(True)
Kana: Winter Rose
(Koppe)
Andrew Ley:Daydream
(Ley)
Brian White: Who Are My People?
(Kana, French)
Singleton: Changing Faces
Paulus: Dance
(Koppe)
Smith: Five Pieces for Piano
(French)

Concert Six
Simpson: Pandora Doesn't Live
Crosmer: Duet
(Kim, Crosmer)
Patterson: Night Vision
(Hultgren)
Ligeti: Musica Reservata
(True)
McIntyre: A Visit from the White Rabbit
(Thornton, McIntyre)

Concert Seven
George Crumb: Voice of the Whale
(Bowles, Hultgren, McMurtery)