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My MBAW Story
Yvonne Freckmann goes down memory lane of her formative years growing up in the Musical Bridges Around the World community and studying with Anya Grokhovski.
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Radio play of “Karin’s Colors”
Radio news! The New Edge (WMBR 88.1FM Cambridge/Boston MA) has programmed “Karin’s Colors” from UNDA Cellotrónica by Clara Rivière and myself today at 2 – 4 p.m. EST! Tune in online for streaming on http://wmbr.org Thanks to Ken Field for programming us! The show also airs & streams on WOMR/WFMR 92.1FM/91.3FM Provincetown/Orleans, MA, USA (http://womr.org)…
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Virtual Concert: Composer’s Alliance San Antonio
Sharing music from our homes, schools, churches, or recording studios members of CASA (the Composers Alliance San Antonio) launched a virtual concert of a great variety of music streamed live on YouTube on November 15, 2020, called “Meditations, Prayers, Visions.” Particularly inspiring were the numer of composers playing their own music during this time of…
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Windmill concert @Gaudeamus Muziekweek
A windmill is one of the most characteristic and vital machines in the Dutch landscape and an unusual choice for contemporary music theater performances. Many are monuments and ‘turn for the prince’ aka for beauty, but so many remain busy pumping water, grinding grain or sawing wood. We are fortunate to be able to perform…
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CopyPaste/Remix
Cut, mix, or flip around a famous score to hear how it transforms. That was the approach I took to the intriguing art exposition CopyPaste/Remix in South Limburg. The gallery opening was on a sunny Sunday afternoon, and as part of Werkplaats K Artists in Residence, cellist Clara Rivière and yours truly on piano performed…
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Young pianists play new music – “Made in SA4” Concert
Made in SA4 Child pianists concert – Composers Alliance San Antonio (CASA) On Sunday afternoon, May 20, 2018, The Composers Alliance of San Antonio proudly presented “Made in SA IV,” the fourth in its series of concerts of new music written for young pianists. Free and open to the public, the concert featured solo and…
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Thompson Street Opera Company to move to Chicago
Since my master’s studies in Louisville, Kentucky, I became good friends with my colleague Claire DiVizio (opera singer, producer, great cook!). For her and Pat MacDevitt, tenor, I composed a comedic pocket opera “Close Encounter with the Hillbilly Kind”, which she included in Thompson Street Opera Company‘s 2012 season. In 2014, TSOC premiered my “Rootabaga Stories”…