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Composer News

Posted by composer on Apr 28, 2009 in Composer News

Seth Bisen-Hersh sounds like a busy guy, penning six cabaret acts of original material – including The Gayest Straight Man Alive, Neurotic Tendencies, and Why Am I Not Famous Yet? – and composed the original musicals The Spickner Spin, Meaningless Sex, and Trivial Pursuits. He also works steadily as a musical accompanist and vocal coach (whose students, by the way, get their own weekly showcase at Don’t Tell Mama).
http://nytheatremike.wordpress.com/2009/04/27/seth-bisen-hersh-has-writers-block/

Turkish composer Koray Sazli truly knows what it means to overcome hardship and make dreams come true. Sazli, an accomplished composer of orchestral music, has been blind since the age of 9. He used a braille writer, a recorder and a piano for composition in college.http://unlvrebelyell.com/2009/04/27/blind-composer-strikes-a-chord/

Student musicians from Cockeysville Middle School gathered Sunday for a benefit concert to remember classmates Greg and Ben Browning, and their parents, lost last year in a spasm of family violence that horrified their suburban community.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/baltimore_county/bal-md.concert27apr27,0,2666682.story

Congratulations to these Shorter College Students and a hearty thanks for the Georgia Music Teachers Association for their support of music teaching and the art of music.

http://www.romenewswire.com/index.php/2009/04/27/shorter-students-win-top-honors-at-music-competition/

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Profile: Berlioz, Romantic Outsider

Posted by composer on Apr 28, 2009 in Historic Composers

Hector Berlioz - Composer of the 19th Centuryhttp://www.playbillarts.com/features/article/7978.html
Charles Dutoit and the Philadelphia Orchestra have been exploring the work of Hector Berlioz this spring, with performances of The Damnation of Faust through May 2 and his Requiem slated for June. Music journalist Peter G. Davis profiles the French composer.

Three composers of genius dominated mid-19th century Europe: Richard Wagner (1813–83) in Germany, Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901) in Italy, and Hector Berlioz (1803–69) in France, each embodying the ideals of high musical Romanticism in very different ways. Although audiences back then may not have viewed this mighty triumvirate with quite the same sense of awe and historical inevitability that we do today, few doubted their importance. In 1850 the 37-year-old Verdi was already a prolific and internationally successful opera composer, while his exact contemporary, Wagner, was stirring up heated controversy with his early operas and revolutionary theories about the “music of the future.”
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