This season, I will be continuing my interests in humanistic music and theatrical genres. Each of my threads of interest – opera, silent film, Greco-Roman antiquity, and folk music – grows a little longer in the coming months.
More events will be added as they are confirmed.
January 2013
January 13
3:30 PM
Premiere of Vistas of Rome, for cello and piano
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
University Of Maryland, College Park
Jason Love, cello, Li-Ly Chang, piano
This piece, commissioned by the Music Teachers National Association and the Maryland State Music Teachers Association, was completed this fall during my semester teaching in Rome for Catholic University
January 19
4:00 PM
New music for silent film: Maldone (Jean Gremillon, 1927) and Chartres (Jean Gremillon, 1923)
National Gallery of Art East Wing Auditorium
This program about French director Jean Gremillon's films features Maldone, the adventures of a field hand drawn into the snares of respectable marriage and the love of a gypsy woman. The short, Chartres, is an actuality showing the French cathedral and city as it looked in 1923.
I am excited to return to my position as Resident Film Accompanist at the National Gallery of Art after my semester in Rome.
New music for silent film: Mary Pickford short subjects
Mt. Pony Theater, Library of Congress Packard Campus, Culpeper, VA
I am pleased to return to my position as House Accompanist at Mt. Pony Theater after my semester in Rome, inaugurating the spring with a two-day event.
New music for silent film: Mary Pickford stars in Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall (Marshall Neilan, 1924)
Mt. Pony Theater, Library of Congress Packard Campus, Culpeper, VA
Premiere of Orpheus and the Secret Road,
a myth in theater and music for soprano saxophone, harp, and electronics
ATLAS Performing Arts Center, Washington, DC
My interest in the linking of theater and music - as well as Greco-Roman antiquity - continues with this new 45-minute work based on the Greek myth of Orpheus, featuring text, movement, singing, and some virtuosic playing by Pictures on Silence (Noah Getz, saxophone, Jacqueline Pollauf, harp)
16 New music for silent film: Thomas Ince films One a Minute (Jack Nelson, 1919), a comedy about the 1920s version of the big chain stores competing with Mom-and-Pops stors, preceded by O Mimi San (Charles Miller, 1914)
National Gallery of Art East Wing Auditorium
New music for silent film: AU BONHEUR DES DAMES (Julien Duvivier, 1930)
Tawes Recital Hall, University of Maryland
Organized by the Graduate Committee for Film Studies
Cantate Chamber Singers: "Lessons Learned"
St. John's Norwood Episcopal Church, Bethesda, MD
Tawes Recital Hall, University of Maryland
A diverse, fascinating program of music by compositional mentors and students: Monteverdi, Schutz; (Arnold Mendelssohn), Hindemith; Bruckner, Mahler, and more
Cantate Chamber Singers: "Of Saints and Royals"
St. John's Norwood Episcopal Church, Bethesda, MD
Music of Purcell and Britten (the beginning of Cantate's year-long celebration of the centenary of Benjamin Britten's birth)
New music for silent film: The Wind (Victor Seastrom, 1928)
McEvoy Auditorium, Smithsonian American Art Museum
(Jointly presented with the National Portrait Gallery)
I will present the piano version of my 2012 choral/instrumental score for this powerful drama starring Lillian Gish. The score premiered at AFI Silver Theater in summer 2012 with Cantate Chamber Singers, to critical acclaim (URL of Post review)
Mostly Lost, Library of Congress symposium featuring screenings of unidentified films and public screenings of featured silents with live accompaniment
Library of Congress Packard Campus and the State Theatre, Culpeper, VA
June 27-30
Slapsticon 2013
This important four-day film festival returns after a years' hiatus at my alma mater, Indiana University Bloomington
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