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/