tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79697394052138132022024-03-19T03:29:26.409-07:00harttblogsMichael Menapacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10028090442487906681noreply@blogger.comBlogger129125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969739405213813202.post-70819445289293379652019-10-07T16:50:00.000-07:002019-10-07T16:50:09.323-07:002020 Alumni Award Nominations<div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
Do you know alumni of the University of Hartford's The Hartt School who have made significant accomplishments in the performing arts as artists, scholars, or educators? We are seeking nominations for The Hartt School Alumni Award. Since 1959, The Hartt School has acknowledged an outstanding alumna or alumnus annually with this prestigious award.</div>
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This fall, our committee will meet to select a recipient for 2020 who will be recognized at Commencement next May. The committee seeks to collect a diverse list of nominations representing the various performing arts disciplines of The Hartt School. Our past award recipients come from a wide variety of backgrounds, and we look forward to adding to the list.</div>
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Qualifying criteria for the award are:</div>
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Do you know someone who should be honored? <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://emclick.imodules.com/wf/click?upn%3DqA4pIFQZmvvXJbMopRNv3nJA59qiEMih-2BOZav5DD9xC1AaCzFgTQXBNA5-2FOwS6NdGDAy5mxfcXW3jtzyJ45j7m5e-2BemgbLzhZ1f8IJY8IU51oO9iTel1UIuBt8Issjjbl-2BbcMNpldkkk7KtJRK1t-2Bw-3D-3D_PPdloo93uLhUyJxWPLXKFk1oTop-2FGPo5N2741LIJjPr1LccGEpNukN06whyEsoKfYTVp-2BCkNAcyd8Oopd4co1RKOn4Xe-2BPOPRPtFpZC-2BcMl3uwayOxfuRS1kuv53m3kUakl-2Bvp-2BD6ckJSVs3wXHYWNMyY0EhF7N-2FZc0tc0j0TM8qd3woNZVfK-2F48nkoFh-2FUyTCcc2x3YtT5X8JS-2FupqBlvUCvKiSAV6tl4p0yEAwCjIzeZDin-2FlkKXe209HZVhdPGCWJ-2FsW02i8NDZpgvGXV7pMTIfkyfj1sJQf74ft7ElyhY-2BmhiF1fvQWyTTWpNQc-2FARR6swn2G3gexNmJbQ4oXB-2BoDsyc3k3fJaH47HZ5nkfGitmVpGg77Wx6n2mwmVHCNe1kN9-2BSgq19vucei2SiBnUW4shYflc3VB4fvXqHAA04kN6-2Bb1VEH2pDGKKB9cOI5TRzfflenx8zsdJyqDUYOaUtfI5Uipbn3lcentzZxhg-3D&source=gmail&ust=1570578260845000&usg=AFQjCNEfGalhHrIq825eN3UkLIj-eATqXw" href="https://securelb.imodules.com/s/1878/19/interior.aspx?sid=1878&gid=2&pgid=681&cid=1615&appealcode=E_20NIAE_HAAN" style="color: rgb(0, 151, 220) !important; text-decoration: none !important;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0097dc;">Submit your nomination</span></a> by Monday, Oct. 7, 2019.</div>
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Michael Menapacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10028090442487906681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969739405213813202.post-87889331545438699552019-09-06T12:33:00.000-07:002019-09-06T12:41:08.216-07:00David Macbride Festival<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On October 2-5, 2019, The Hartt School, University of Hartford, will celebrate the life and work of composer David Macbride in a series of concerts devoted to his music, and his creative influence on generations of composers. David was a faculty member at Hartt from 1984 until his untimely death in September 2018. He was an undergraduate at Hartt, and was awarded the School’s Distinguished Alumni Award. His body of work is prolific and wide-ranging, covering almost every medium of concert music. But undoubtedly his greatest impact on the field has been that of his percussion music, which are firmly entrenched in the repertoire, with continuing performances nationally and internationally.<br />
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Oct. 2 will be chamber music played by Hartt faculty.<br />
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Oct. 4 will be tribute works composed in David's memory by Hartt alumni and faculty. Oct. 5 will feature the Hartt Wind Ensemble in a concert of large ensemble works David composed. <br />
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The concerts will be live-streamed <a href="https://www.hartford.edu/academics/schools-colleges/hartt/calendar/default.aspx?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D370424834">HERE</a>.Michael Menapacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10028090442487906681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969739405213813202.post-66505813615811358312018-06-03T10:29:00.000-07:002018-06-03T10:29:03.922-07:00Nomination Call for Hartt Hall of Fame The nomination period of the second class of the Hartt Hall of Fame is now open. Please submit your nominations.<br />
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For all the information on the Hartt Hall of Fame, click <a href="http://www.hartford.edu/hartt/about-us/Board%20of%20Trustees/hartt_hall_of_fame.aspx" target="_blank">here</a>. Michael Menapacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10028090442487906681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969739405213813202.post-38582015026914590102018-06-03T10:23:00.000-07:002018-06-03T10:23:42.452-07:00Hartt Hall of Fame - Inaugural/Founder's Class PresentationsIn November 2017, the Founder's Class of the Hartt Hall of Fame was inducted during a ceremony in Millard Auditorium. <br />
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Members of the Founder's Class are <a href="https://youtu.be/8LNhv19pM0w" target="_blank" title="Hartt Hall of Fame Video Julius Hartt">Julius Hartt</a>, <a href="https://youtu.be/Y8vK5rkO0bU" target="_blank" title="Hartt Hall of Fame Video moshe Paranov">Moshe Paranov</a>, <a href="https://youtu.be/YbE2rlRW6xA" target="_blank" title="Hartt Hall of Fame Video Elizabeth Warner Paranov">Elizabeth Warner Paranov</a>, <a href="https://youtu.be/YbGtf3AlO_U" target="_blank" title="Hartt Hall of Fame Video Irene Kahn">Irene Kahn</a>, <a href="https://youtu.be/fge2AvSG-CY" target="_blank" title="Hartt Hall of Fame Video Samuel Berkman">Samuel Berkman</a>, <a href="https://youtu.be/2YIDdvpfv1M" target="_blank" title="Hartt Hall of Fame Video Elmer Nagy">Elmer Nagy</a>, <a href="https://youtu.be/IOou2TKJGFI" target="_blank" title="Hartt Hall of Fame Video Jackie McLean">Jackie McLean</a>, <a href="https://youtu.be/LXWqPE8ufEk" target="_blank" title="Hartt Hall of Fame Video Alfred C. Fuller">Alfred C. Fuller</a>, Primrose Fuller, <a href="https://youtu.be/VJ20jXej4T4" target="_blank" title="Hartt Hall of Fame Video Imanuel Willheim">Imanuel Willheim</a>, <a href="https://youtu.be/QtEEHHcO-7A" target="_blank" title="Hartt Hall of Fame Video Raymond Hanson">Raymond Hanson</a>, and <a href="https://youtu.be/yFgt5uDURPA" target="_blank" title="Hartt Hall of Fame Video Edward Diemente">Edward Diemente</a>.<br />
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Click on a name to view the inductee's 2-minute induction video presentation.Michael Menapacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10028090442487906681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969739405213813202.post-22825567177128333612018-06-03T10:08:00.000-07:002018-06-03T10:08:24.122-07:00Connecticut Summerfest: Contemporary Music Festival<strong>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;"><a href="http://aaronpricemusic.com/"><span style="color: blue;">Aaron N. Price</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;"> (MM in
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met as Composition students at The Hartt School. In discussing the festivals
they had experienced in the past, they recognized the potential for an
affordable, compact summer music program right in their own backyard for
emerging composers and ensembles. This lead to the creation of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Connecticut Summerfest</b>: </span><span style="color: #313131; font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">a weeklong contemporary music
festival that brings together talented emerging composers and some of the
country's most inventive chamber ensembles, culminating in nine world
premieres. The festival provides the Greater Hartford community with new music
concerts of the highest caliber through a free nightly concert series featuring
our three ensembles-in-residence and brand-new pieces written by festival
composition students.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">The structure of Connecticut
Summerfest was crafted from some of the most advantageous aspects of festivals
Aaron and Gala had each personally attended: a weeklong event with three
ensembles-in-residence, two composition faculty members, and a variety of guest
speakers. In addition to live premieres, festival composers benefit from a
professional recording session of their new works, commissioned by the festival
and the ensembles-in-residence. Resident ensembles are also invited to give a
recital of their own repertoire as part of the festival’s nightly concert
series. In an effort to serve a broader audience, not only are Connecticut
Summerfest’s concerts free and open to the public, they are also live-streamed
so that they may be enjoyed from anywhere in the world.</span></div>
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Composition): 2018 Composition Faculty Member</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Carrie Koffman (Assistant
Professor of Saxophone): 2018 Guest Lecturer</span></div>
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Allison Hughes (BMus in Flute Performance '16, MM in Flute Performance '18):
flutist of Duo Alterity</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Joseph Van Doran (BMus in Guitar
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Aaron Price (MM
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Will Jones (BMus in Composition and MPT '17): Recording Engineer<br />
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<b><span style="color: #313131; font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Please join us for our </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.ctsummerfest.org/#program"><span style="color: #1155cc; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">2018 Concert Series</span></a></span></b><b><span style="color: #313131; font-family: "Century Gothic",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">:<br />
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Michael Menapacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10028090442487906681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969739405213813202.post-2524691670224543792018-03-30T08:08:00.002-07:002018-03-30T08:08:41.319-07:00Doreen Ketchens Performing as Soloist with Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra <div id="eow-description">
Doreen Ketchens' Performance of "Just a Closer Walk With Thee" with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra in March 21, 2018</div>
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<br />Michael Menapacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10028090442487906681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969739405213813202.post-75683804775946324982018-03-30T07:41:00.002-07:002018-03-30T07:41:40.984-07:00Master of Music in Jazz Studies approved as a new degree programAmong the recent changes to Hartt's programs of study is a new degree in jazz studies. The Univeristy of Hartford recently approved the Master of Music in Jazz Studies.<br />
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<li>HLM 615*: Pro-seminar in Music History (3 cr.)</li>
<li>AXX 999: Instrumental/Vocal Lesson (2 cr.)</li>
<li>ENS 502: Jazz Ensemble (1 cr.)</li>
<li>AFR 602: Duke Ellington (3 cr.)</li>
<li>AFR 623: 20th Century Jazz Analysis and History (3 cr.)</li>
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<li>AXX 999: Instrumental/Vocal Lesson (2 cr.)</li>
<li>ENS 503: Jazz Ensemble (1 cr.)</li>
<li>AFR 603: Analysis of American Songbook (3 cr.)</li>
<li>TH 645**: Graduate Ear Training (3 cr.)</li>
<li>REC 671: Master's Recital (1 cr.)</li>
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Semester 3 (10 Credits)</h5>
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<li>AXX 999: Instrumental/Vocal Lesson (4 cr.)</li>
<li>ENS 502: Jazz Ensemble (1 cr.)</li>
<li>AFR 655: Graduate Jazz Arranging (2 cr.)</li>
<li>TH XXX: Graduate Theory elective (3 cr.)</li>
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<li>AXX 999: Instrumental/Vocal Lesson (4 cr.)</li>
<li>ENS 503: Jazz Ensemble (1 cr.)</li>
<li>AFR 657: Graduate Business Seminar (3 cr.)</li>
<li>REC 672: Master's Recital (1 cr.)</li>
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Michael Menapacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10028090442487906681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969739405213813202.post-5430793535381365952018-03-21T08:49:00.000-07:002018-03-21T08:49:03.876-07:002018 Hartt Alumni Award - Shane ShanahanThe Hartt School's Alumni Award Committee has selected Shane Shanahan as the 2018 award recipient. Shane will receive the award at this year's commencement ceremony for Hartt undergraduates. Congratulations, Shane! <br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Grammy Award winning
percussionist Shane Shanahan has cultivated his own unique and highly sought
after sound by combining his studies of drumming traditions from around the
world with his background in jazz, rock and Western art music.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His interest in other cultures has lead to
extended visits to Turkey, India, and Tajikistan, among others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shane’s rare set of diverse skills is what
attracted Yo-Yo Ma when he was forming the Silk Road Ensemble.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the summer of 2000, Shane was invited to
Tanglewood where he played an important role in the formation of the
group.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ever since, he has been touring
around the globe performing side-by-side with Mr. Ma as an original member of
the award-winning Silk Road Ensemble.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Shane's playing can be heard on all four of the ensemble's top-selling
recordings for the Sony/BMG label.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
most recent was nominated for a Grammy and two of them feature his arranging
skills. These arrangements have brought ecstatic audience to their feet in the
top concert halls of North America, Europe and Asia. Shane can also be seen and
heard on Mr. Ma's CD/DVD release "Songs of Joy."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">He is also a member of
frame drum master Glen Velez' TaKaDiMi Ensemble and cellist Maya Beiser's
Provenance Project.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has performed
and/or recorded with Bobby McFerrin, Aretha Frankin, Philip Glass, Alison
Krause, Sonny Fortune, Deep Purple, Jordi Savall, Fantasia, Chaka Khan, G. E.
Smith, Simon Shaheen, Jamey Haddad, Cyro Baptista, Anindo Chaterjee, Sandeep
Das, Shahram Nazeri, Alim Qasimov, Kayhan Kalhor, Howard Levy and Steve Gorn,
among others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">During the 2009-2010
season, Shane co-curated a 40 week concert series at The Museum of Natural
History for the Traveling the Silk Road Exhibit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was also highly involved in The Bridge
Project, a three-year trans-Atlantic partnership uniting The Brooklyn Academy
of Music, The Old Vic Theatre of London, and Neal Street Productions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shane was one of two featured musician in
Shakespeare's "As You Like It" and "The Tempest," directed
by Oscar winner Sam Mendes ("American Beauty"/"Skyfall.")<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After two months of performances in New York,
the production commenced an extensive tour of Asia and Europe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On Broadway, Shane has played for Caroline,
Or Change, The Color Purple, Shrek, and Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Shane has been seen/heard
on TV and radio throughout North America, <span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Europe, and Asia,
including appearances on David Letterman, Good Morning America, the National
Geographic Channel, NPR, PBS, NHK, and The Opening Ceremony of the Special
Olympics in Shanghai.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shane has
presented workshops and clinics in many of the world's top universities,
including Harvard, Princeton, Northwestern, New York University, UC Santa
Barbara and the Rhode Island School of Design.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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museums, such as the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Museums of Japan in
Kyushu and Nara, the British Library in London, the Rietberg Museum in Zurich
and the Ruben Museum of Himalayan Art in New York.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">In the spring of 2000,
Shane was the director of the percussion department at The Hartt School,
University of Hartford. In the fall of 2006, he was a Guest Artist in Residence
at the Hartt School, focusing on multi-cultural hand drumming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This residency culminated in a student
concert consisting entirely of Shane’s compositions and arrangements. He returned
to Hartt for both semesters of 2011. He has also taught at the Amherst Early
Music Festival, as one of Lincoln Center's Meet the Artist performers, and is
currently the Lead Teaching Artist for the Silk Road Projects education
initiative Silk Road Connect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
received his Bachelor's Degree and prestigious Performer's Certificate from the
Eastman School of Music and his Master's Degree from The Hartt School.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.shaneshanahan.com/">http://www.shaneshanahan.com/</a>Michael Menapacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10028090442487906681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969739405213813202.post-44460348415816484362018-01-21T09:31:00.003-08:002018-01-21T09:31:56.040-08:00Phillip Boykin starring in Broadway revival of Once on this IslandAfter appearing on Broadway in Sunday in the Park with George, On the Town, etc., Phillip Boykin is currently starring as TonTon in the revival of Once on this Island. I saw the performance and can say from firsthand experience that he is terrific and the cast is wonderful.<br />
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<br />Michael Menapacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10028090442487906681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969739405213813202.post-51340647857746757942018-01-04T13:03:00.000-08:002018-01-04T13:03:43.725-08:00Conversation with Peter Furlong on His New Recording<br />
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Thanks for taking the time to converse with me, again, Peter.
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Q. First question - it has
been a little while since you participated in the 5 Questions interview series.
What have you been doing professionally since then?</span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A. Really?
Only a little while? Well, it feels like 2015 was only a short while ago,
that’s for sure. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Back
to the question, what have I been doing... Most recently I recorded a CD of
Mahler’s piano version of <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/kJY0B5UAzaMguM"><span style="color: blue;">Das Lied von der Erde</span></a> (The
Song of the Earth) which was just released in August 2017 in the US and is
getting some nice reviews and I’m quite proud of this little CD. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
have been training for some heavy duty Wagner roles. There’s been quite a buzz
going around Berlin and Germany in general about me being a ‘real’ Heldentenor
(Heroic tenor), which is both exciting and utterly frightening. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’m
going to auditions in New York and Boston this winter to get some buzz
happening in the US as well. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’ve
sung quite a few concerts and Liederabends, the most recent being a <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/pV3XBqT87AMQFO"><span style="color: blue;">Liederabend</span></a> of
Beethoven’s ‘An die ferne Geliebte’ (To the distant beloved) which was quite
nicely received, and all of Copland’s 'Old American Songs' which I sang with my
wife, Julie Wyma (who also sang Debussy’s ‘Ariettes Oubliées). A <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/LL6JBOsRNkLlhN"><span style="color: blue;">hometown concert</span></a> I
did in Framingham, Mass in 2016 was great fun (especially as I hadn’t sung in
Framingham in 29 years). Seeing one’s High School Music teacher and realizing
he has somehow not aged at all is an amazing/humbling feeling. Doing concerts
in the US also allows me to return to being a grease monkey, repairing the old
cars and various motorbikes my family has accumulated and cared for.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Reaching
further back, I performed the roles of Max in ‘Der Freischütz’ and Adam in “Der
Vogelhändler’ at <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/GWJrBDI2pQXqiZ"><span style="color: blue;">Kloster
Chorin</span></a> here on the outskirts of Berlin. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Add
to that being a dad to an amazing little violinist (who attended River’s School
Conservatory Summer Camp this past summer) and all around smart cookie, and the
husband to my wonderfully amazing wife - life has been good. </span></div>
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This is all very exciting. I want to circle back to the performances in a
bit, but first a few questions about the recording. I recall studying Das
Lied von der Erde in 20th</span> Century L</a><span style="mso-bookmark: _MailEndCompose;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">it.
class with the late James Sellers – a terrific work. That was the version
with full orchestration. Tell me a little more about the piano version
and how you came to select that work in particular for this recording.<u1:p></u1:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A. Ah,
yes. It is so very sad to think that James is no longer with us. I often forget
that fact. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
piano version of the piece has a very interesting history. The piece was
written between 1908 and 1909 during which was probably one of the most
difficult times in Mahler’s life. </span></div>
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was removed as Director of the Vienna State Opera due to anti-semitism and
political jockeying, he was diagnosed with a congenital heart defect, and
(worst of all) his eldest daughter, Maria, died from scarlet fever and
diphtheria at the age of four (his other daughter, Anna (two years Maria’s
junior) also came down with scarlet fever and diphtheria, but survived). </span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mahler
had done a piano version of Das Lied von der Erde, not just a reduction, but a
somewhat different version. The piano version was only ‘discovered’ in the late
1980s. It is a difficult piece to sing normally and with piano even more so as,
instead of a full orchestra’s worth of sound supporting you, the soloist must
sing such demanding music accompanied by only a piano (I’m not trying to take
anything away from the piano, but a piano (no matter how big) is not the same
as an orchestra). That difference allows the soloists to be much more meaty and
in the foreground, but it also means that there is nowhere where the soloist
can fade into the orchestra. For the pianist, the piece is bordering on the
impossible. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There
are subtle differences also in the piano version that seem to have been smoothed
out in the version for orchestra we all know (an example is in the fifth Lied
for the tenor (Der Trinker im Frühling). In the piano version, the tenor is
asked to sing a leap of an 11th (D3 to G4). In the orchestral version, the 11th
leap is changed to a more manageable octave (D3-D4). </span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Another
example is in the first Lied for tenor (Das Trinklied von Jammer der Erde), the
refrain in both versions “Dunkel ist das Leben ist der Tod” (Dark is life, is
death) gets repeated three times. The first two times it appears it is raised a
half tone (first time in G minor, the second time in Ab minor (with a flattened
2nd)), but the third time it moves up the half step to A minor and then it
almost immediately shifts to A Major. However, in the piano version, in the
third repeated refrain in A minor/Major, the last word (“Tod" (death)) is
omitted as is the last note (A). And so, one gets neither a resolution of the
poem nor of the tonality from the singer that one does get in the orchestral
version (where there is no omission). </span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
selection of the piece is a rather easy question to answer. I did not select
it. I was asked to sing it by the producer (who was also the pianist),
Christian Kälberer. I had been recommended (unbeknownst to me) by the mezzo
(Alexandra von Roepke) and (loving Mahler as I do) I jumped at the chance. We
ended up recording it in Italy late 2016 and mastering it in Berlin at the
beginning of 2017 (such were the economics of the situation). Trying to record
this in four days proved challenging, to be sure (especially trying to keep
such a big Steinway tuned), but we made it through quite well, I think. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Q. Tell me about performing this live as compared to
preparing a recording – easier, harder, just different, etc.?</span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Performing
and recording have their moments both of terror and sublime beauty, but they
are very different creatures and it has mostly to do with the perception of the
audience. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In a
performance, the audience is there, with you, in a moment in time. The memory
of both the performer(s) and audience is dependent on a variety of things, but
(in general) the adrenalin of performing and the desire of the audience to have
a good time affects how a performance is remembered (you hear about this with
quite a few ‘live’ albums and how they’ve been ‘enhanced’ post
performance). </span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Why
does this happen? Mostly because small imperfections are glossed over by the
experience of a whole evening. On a recording, something that is repeatedly
listened to in the comfort of your home, or on headphones, that little mistake
that was a blip in an otherwise wonderful performance becomes an annoyance upon
those repeated listening experiences (such are the expectations of perfect
recordings). </span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
so, in recording, you can do a wonderful take, yet if there is one mistake,
then that take either has to be scrapped and redone (which can be wearing on
the performers) or an edit or splice needs to be made (which never has the same
feeling as that to which it is being spliced). </span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You
hear this in many classical recordings (although more often in the past as the
digital technology we now have has made splicing almost inaudible). In point of
fact, in the famous Solti Wagner Ring Cycle from the 50s, they only used about
15 minutes of that which they had recorded per day (I believe, I am still
checking this fact (I remember reading this in the liner notes of the remaster
but I do not own the recording. I am having people double check for me)). </span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
so, when you record, it has to be perfect. Any error (wrong word, wrong note,
extraneous noise, etc.) will be an annoyance upon repeated listening (e.g. I
once had a leather belt that creaked upon each inspiration of breath. It was
discarded quickly, but that meant that that particular take was useless).</span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">With
this recording, the demands on both the singer and pianist asked for by Mahler
are such that a mistake is quite easy to make (the amount of practice time
pianists need for this piece is exceptional). </span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For
the tenor, there are multiple moments that offer challenges. However, the first
song, "Das Trickled von Jammer der Erde” (The Drinking Song of the
Lamentation of the Earth), poses particular difficulties with its length,
tessitura, and the last two pages which are just hard as nails to get done. To
get more technical, Mahler has the tenor singing in the passaggio (in the case,
specifically between E and G# with chromatic intervals) repeatedly over a 5
measure phrase (“…hin aus gellt in den süßen Duft des Abends!”) which ends
(without a break) on a high Bb held for 4 measures. You have to be in great
shape to get it right on the first take. Fortunately for me, I was.
Unfortunately, due to a problem, we had to do the take twice. Somehow, I
managed to improve on the first take. I’m not sure if I could have done that a
third time, though. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
expectations of perfection on a recording are so high that it becomes an
obsession (an unhealthy one, in my opinion) of both musician and recording
engineer/producer. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To
add to all of the above, the different types of microphones and how they
capture sound (for my voice, the older Neumann mics seem to offer a better
representation than some of the newer mics) makes for a first day mostly made
up of experimenting with different microphones and different distances from
them (for example, because of the weight and power of both my voice and what I
was singing, I had to stand a few feet back from the mics so as not to blow
them out, whereas the Mezzo could stand closer and really milk the piano and
pianissimi of the piece). </span></div>
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Peter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Best of everything and I hope
this recording is a terrific success.</div>
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Here is a link to Peter’s website.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://peterfurlong.com/"><span style="color: blue;">http://peterfurlong.com/</span></a>
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Michael Menapacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10028090442487906681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969739405213813202.post-44297749002529109562017-12-03T07:29:00.000-08:002017-12-03T07:29:54.098-08:00Original School Brochure 1920-211920 - World War I had ended. Jazz was just emerging. Warren G. Harding was elected President of the United States. Prohibition began. Women attained the right to vote. Mass media was born with a license given to the first commercial radio station. America was about to start Roaring. <br />
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And, The Hartt School was officially formed. 1920 is the founding date of our school and, thanks to the University of Hartford archives and Prof. Dee Hansen (leading the committee planning Hartt's centennial celebrations), below is the original brochure for the school.<br />
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Contained in these several pages is the philosophy on which our founders built their legacy. The prose is elevated and contained within are a few surprises.<br />
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How many of us had heard of "Boris" Paranov? Most of know Morris Perlmutter changed his named for professional reasons to Moshe Paranov, but I had never know that Uncle Moshe once went by Boris. Ernest Bloch as a faculty member.<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Citation - Julius Hartt Musical Foundation,
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Michael Menapacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10028090442487906681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969739405213813202.post-27649408980149523272017-10-30T13:43:00.002-07:002017-10-30T13:44:15.630-07:00Obituary for Raymond D. Hanson<div>
Raymond D. Hanson, beloved father, devoted husband, concert pianist and teacher, died peacefully of natural causes in his home in Heath, Massachusetts on Thursday, October 26, 2017 at the age of 98. </div>
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Born October 5, 1919 to David and Martha Hanson of Evanston, Illinois, Raymond began studying piano at the age of 12. By the age of 15, he appeared as a featured soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Raymond attended Northwestern University until the beginning of WWII, and his commitment to non-violence and peaceful protest led him to become a Conscientious Objector. This eventually brought him to Middletown, Connecticut. </div>
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After the War, in 1945, Raymond met Moshe Paranov and was offered a teaching job at Hartt College of Music. While at Hartt, Raymond worked with the renowned pianist and pedagogue, Harold Bauer, who took him under his wing and mentored him. Raymond was promoted to full Professor of Piano and eventually served as Head of the Piano Department where he remained for over 40 years. Throughout this time, he performed as a soloist with Hartford Symphony, Boston Symphony and Boston Pops; performed concerts and world tours with noted artists such as Roman Totenberg , Pinchas Zukerman, and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf; and he appeared on his own weekly television program, Piano Pops, with Leonard Seeber. In addition, he created the piano series En Blanc et Noir, which featured young and upcoming pianists. </div>
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<a name='more'></a>In 1973, he married pianist Anne Koscielny. For generations thereafter, their home was a center of laughter and inspiration for family, friends and students. Raymond is survived by his children, Krystyn Kelley (from his first marriage to Cesidia DiPillo) and spouse, Dana (Maine); Cecile Audette and spouse, James (Maryland); his grandchildren, Heather LaCasse, David Veslocki, Michael Picard, Renee Audette and great grandchildren, Olivia and Drew LaCasse. He is pre-deceased by his wife, Anne Koscielny, and two daughters from his first marriage, Karen Hanson and Lisa Picard. <br /></div>
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Visiting hours will be held on Friday, November 3, 2017 from 4:00 – 7:00 p.m. at the Sheehan-Hilborn-Breen Funeral Home; 1084 New Britain Avenue; West Hartford, CT 06110, and funeral services will be held on Saturday, November 4, 2017, 10:30 a.m. at the Covenant Congregational Church; I Westminster Dr. West Hartford, CT 06107. </div>
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The Hanson family would like to express their gratitude for the loving Care Team, the members of the Emergency Firefighter Association, and Compassus Hospice Care. In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to the Heath Firefighter Association; 1 East Main Street; P.O. Box 45; Heath, MA 01346. Online condolences may be made at wwwSheehanHilbornBreen.com.</div>
Michael Menapacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10028090442487906681noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969739405213813202.post-31036140680253313512017-10-29T10:50:00.001-07:002017-10-29T10:50:53.522-07:00The Hartt Hall of Fame - Inaugural Class Induction<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">In 2016, the Board of Trustees of The Hartt School created The Hartt Hall of Fame. As created by the Board:</span><br />
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The Hartt Hall of
Fame recognizes and honors the accomplishments and contributions of individuals
associated with The Hartt School who have helped in significant ways to further
the mission of the School and showcase the best of the School to external
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<span style="font-family: Times;">The Inaugural Class consists of the following people:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">Samuel Berkman</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">Edward Diemente</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">Alfred C. and Primrose Fuller</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">Raymond Hanson</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">Julius Hartt</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">Irene Kahn</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">Jackie McLean</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">Elemer Nagy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">Elizabeth Warner Paranov</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">Moshe Paranov</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">Imanuel Willheim</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times;">The induction ceremony for the Class of 2017 will take place on November 30, 2017 at 12:15 p.m. in Millard Auditorium during Paranov Hour (previously known as Musicianship Class). The ceremony will be streamed live on the internet.</span><br />
<br />Michael Menapacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10028090442487906681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969739405213813202.post-19881305420673279992017-09-17T07:39:00.002-07:002017-09-17T07:52:53.320-07:00Remembering Brenda LewisBrenda Lewis passed away on Saturday in her home in Westport, CT. She was born on March 2, 1921. After a long and critically acclaimed career singing and acting on Broadway and, among others, at City Opera and the Metropolitan Opera, she was a professor of voice and acting at Hartt. <br />
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<br />Michael Menapacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10028090442487906681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969739405213813202.post-69083543722952025172017-08-30T13:59:00.002-07:002017-08-31T12:40:16.384-07:00March 1964 issue of International Musician, cover article re Moshe Paranov and Hartt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
The March 1964 edition of International Musician, published by the American Federal of Musicians, featured an article about Moshe Paranov and the new Hartt building - the Fuller Building. Moshe and a photo of the building appeared on the cover. There are lots of interesting things in this article, including the fact that the original building cost a total of $2.6m to build.</div>
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"I hope that I have demonstrated that it is possible for a student of music to become a musician by the unorthodox method which I selected. Less of glamour, yes; more of heartache, decidedly; but great satisfaction, definitely."</div>
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As we move toward the completion of the renovation of Millard Auditorium, it is amazing to think about the original dedication concert, with performances by Marian Anderson, Isaac Stern and Leonard Rose. I would have liked to be in attendance!</div>
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Special thanks to Seth Bogdanove, Uncle Moshe's nephew who used to vacation with the Paranov family in Maine. Seth saved this article and sent me the digital copy. </div>
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<br />Michael Menapacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10028090442487906681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969739405213813202.post-21777683250719655152017-07-03T12:46:00.002-07:002017-07-03T12:46:50.939-07:00Allen Memorial Library Moves Into New SpaceThe Allen Memorial Library, a/k/a the Hartt Music Library, has moved into a new space. What was formerly known as the main library on campus, the Mortensen Library, has been renamed the Walter Harrison Libraries, which now includes a section called Mortensen Library. The Harrison Libraries now houses the Allen Library in what used to be the lower level of Mortensen. The back wall of this space was blown out, new floor to ceiling windows were installed, and the space was reconfigured to serve Hartt's music, dance and theatre students and faculty. Although still a work in progress, here are some photos.<br />
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Did you know that Hartt alumni have use and borrowing privileges in the Allen Library? See the library website for details.<br />
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Here is your mini virtual tour.<br />
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As you walk down the stairs from the main level of Mortensen, here is the entrance signage to the new Allen Library.<br />
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Turn left and a staff workspace is visible through the window and you can see through the library space out the back windows.<br />
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In we go through the entrance and turn right to the circulation desk.<br />
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Looking past the work tables and the computer study stations. (Bonus if you can identify the Hartt alumnus just beyond the computers from the back of his head.)<a name='more'></a><br />
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Some things stay the same. Here are traditional stacks.<br />
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As the collection has grown, there is need for additional space. Instead of sending some materials to offsite storage, the new library space incorporates movable shelving that can be rolled to access materials and rolled up/collapsed for an efficient design.<br />
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There are several seminar rooms and the listening rooms have been expanded.<br />
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There are several comfortable sitting areas for the students and faculty to use - a comfy and stylish mid-century modern feel.<br />
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The library also has a full-size classroom. Wave to Dr. Nott teaching a summer class in the new space!<br />
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<br />Michael Menapacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10028090442487906681noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969739405213813202.post-8789333063873239222017-06-20T03:09:00.000-07:002017-06-20T03:09:26.096-07:00Two Hartt Alumni to Be Featured at TanglewoodA pair of Hartt alumni, Phillip Boykin and Ryan Speedo Green, will be among the featured soloists at this seasons' Tanglewood performances.<br />
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On July 8, Phillip will perform with the Boston Pops Orchestra in a program titled Sondheim on Sondheim. This follows Phillip's recent run on Broadway in Sunday in the Park with George. More information on this performance can be found here. <a href="https://www.bso.org/Performance/Detail/85533" target="_blank">Boykin Performance</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">PHILLIP BOYKIN (Bass-Baritone) is a 2012 Tony Award, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards Nominee for his work in THE GERSHWIN'S PORGY AND BESS. He is the 2012 Winner of a Theatre World Award as well as the International Reviewers of New England Awards and The Distinguished Alumni Award from The Hartt School. Phillip is a native of Greenville, SC who now resides in NJ. Other performances include; the Broadway Revivals of ON THE TOWN and SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE, the roles of Joe in the National Tour SHOW BOAT and at several Regional theaters including Sacramento Music Theater, The Pirate King/Samuel in PIRATES OF PENZANCE NY City Center and Barrington Stage, Ken in AIN'T MISBEHAVIN', Crown/Jake in the Opera PORGY AND BESS, Tarquinius in THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA, Caiaphas in JCS, and JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR GOSPEL, the HARLEM GOSPEL SINGERS, Fred in SMOKEY JOE'S CAFÉ, and Don Alfonso in COSI FAN TUTTI to name a few. Phillip performed as Booker T. Washington in the Anniversary Concert of RAGTIME at Lincoln Center. He also made is Carnegie Hall debut in BROADWAY CLASSICS. Mr. Boykin portrayed the role of Big Hand in the movie FREEDOM starring Cuba Gooding Jr., and Sharon Leal. Recently The Driver in TOP FIVE a movie starring, written and directed by Chris Rock, Caiaphas in John O'Boyle's EASTER MYSTERIES and was featured as the cover story of Classical Singer Magazine. He's a graduate of the University of Hartford's Hartt School of Music in CT; he also studied Jazz and Vocal Performance at SC State University, Howard University and the NC School of the Arts. Phillip has toured throughout Europe, Asia, Australia, Russia, Poland and North America. Mr. Boykin is the Founder, Director and Manager of the NYGOSPEL BROTHERS. For more information or to purchase his CD/DVD entitled "You Believed In Me" please visit www.PhillipBoykin.com.</span><br />
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<br />Michael Menapacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10028090442487906681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969739405213813202.post-14977974975598645852017-05-17T08:19:00.000-07:002017-05-17T08:19:00.467-07:00Dr. Macbride to Receive the Humphrey R. Tonkin Award for Scholarly and/or Artistic Creativity<br />
At the 2017 Undergraduate Commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 21, Professor David Macbride '73, Professor of Composition and Music Theory, will be presented with the Humphrey R. Tonkin Award for Scholarly and/or Artistic Creativity.<br />
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Composer and pianist David Macbride ’73, DMA, has written numerous works, ranging from solo, chamber, and orchestral music to music for film, TV, dance, and theatre, with an emphasis on percussion. During his more than 30 years teaching composition and music theory at The Hartt School, he has inspired and mentored hundreds of students, many of whom have gone on to become noted professional musicians.<br />
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An alumnus of The Hartt School, Macbride is universally recognized as one of the world’s most important composers of percussion music. The Humphrey R. Tonkin Award for Scholarly and/or Artist Creativity recognizes his works that challenge musicians technically, musically, and emotionally. His ability to embrace life’s issues and struggles is evident in pieces such as “Staying the Course,” a composition known to “shake the listeners to their core,” as it presents one note for every soldier who died in the Iraq war. <br />
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As a pianist, Macbride has toured much of the world performing recitals and is also known for his innovative audience-centered compositions. A recent work, “Percussion Park,” is a musical landscape where the audience is invited to freely roam the performance site in search of the music. The commissioned piece “Silent Hands” features an American Sign Language interpreter as part of the ensemble, and is intended to show connections between the expressiveness of sign language and musical gestures.<br />
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Macbride’s artistic endeavors have had a major influence on his teaching. He founded The Hartt School’s “Composers Ensemble,” providing an outlet for student composers to perform their own works, and initiated a course encouraging students to perform locally, having presented countless concerts himself throughout the Greater Hartford area and earning the University of Hartford’s Community Service Award in 2001.<br />
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Reflecting on his career at the University, Macbride acknowledges his mentor, Professor Emeritus Edward Diemente: “He provided me with positive experiences that set the stage for my composing to develop into a lifelong habit… I often remind my students that we are blessed to be in this world, the world of music, the world we live in.” Michael Menapacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10028090442487906681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969739405213813202.post-78654951404511461032017-04-27T18:50:00.000-07:002017-04-27T18:50:07.474-07:00Bert Lucarelli's MemiorsI had the pleasure to read Bert Lucarelli's memoirs. Styled as "conversations," anyone who had the pleasure of working with or spending time with the professor would really enjoy reading about his philosophy and approach to music and life. <br />
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There are lots of ways for young musicians to get their career going. Bert made the decision not to take non-music jobs. His view was that if he was going to be a musician, he was going to be a musician. That being said, he also was clear that performing is performing, regardless of whether that is as a soloist, ensemble member, chamber music, or playing Ice Capades (yup, look for that story in here). Even the title - We Can't Always Play Waltzes - is charming when you read that vignette. Enjoy!<br />
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<br />Michael Menapacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10028090442487906681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969739405213813202.post-16317644059870828432017-04-02T15:17:00.000-07:002017-04-02T15:17:50.083-07:00Great Performances to Feature Ellis Island: The Dream of America by Peter Boyer<div style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt;">
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will be recording <em>Ellis Island: The Dream of America</em> by Peter Boyer (MM, DMA in
Composition from Hartt) for an upcoming broadcast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This performance by the Pacific Symphony’s
American Composers Festival has been in the planning phase for two years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is definitely and exciting and
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This wonderful work is for orchestra, narrators and
projected images.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The case for this
performance includes:</div>
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Tony Award-winning Barry Bostwick (“Spin City,” “The Rocky Horror
Picture Show,” the original Broadway “Grease”)</div>
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</strong>Michael Nouri (“Flashdance,” “The Proposal,” “Finding Forrester,” “Damages”)</div>
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<strong></strong>Lesley Fera (“Pretty Little Liars,” “24,” “CSI Miami”)</div>
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<strong></strong>Samantha Sloyan (“Scandal,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Hush”)</div>
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<strong></strong>Lucas Near-Verbrugghe (“Our Idiot Brother,” “Lazy Eye”)</div>
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<strong></strong>Kira Sternbach (“Neighbors,” “My Normal”)</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span><a name='more'></a>In Peter’s words:<br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; display: none; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hide: all;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Each of these
actors will read the words from one of the real American immigrant stories
which I adapted from the Ellis Island Oral History Project, and set in my
orchestral work. All the actors will participate in the reading of "The
New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus ("Give me your tired, your
poor..."), the sonnet associated with the Statue of Liberty, which serves
as the work's Epilogue.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; display: none; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hide: all;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Barry Bostwick
must be considered the “Ellis Island veteran” of the cast, having performed on
my original Grammy-nominated recording, AND having performed the work live with
the Brooklyn Philharmonic, Brown University Symphony, and the Pacific Symphony,
all back in 2003-05. It will be terrific to welcome him back to this work.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; display: none; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hide: all;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">I’m deeply
honored that such a fine group of actors will lend their talents on stage with
Pacific Symphony and conductor Carl St. Clair to my “Ellis Island” — and that
the cameras will be capturing it all for PBS! I can hardly wait to work with
them and director Matthew Diamond next week.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Each
of these actors will read the words from one of the real American immigrant
stories which I adapted from the Ellis Island Oral History Project, and set in
my orchestral work. All the actors will participate in the reading of "The
New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus ("Give me your tired, your
poor..."), the sonnet associated with the Statue of Liberty, which serves
as the work's Epilogue.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Barry
Bostwick must be considered the “Ellis Island veteran” of the cast, having
performed on my original Grammy-nominated recording, AND having performed the
work live with the Brooklyn Philharmonic, Brown University Symphony, and the
Pacific Symphony, all back in 2003-05. It will be terrific to welcome him back
to this work.</span></span></div>
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deeply honored that such a fine group of actors will lend their talents on
stage with Pacific Symphony and conductor Carl St. Clair to my “Ellis Island” —
and that the cameras will be capturing it all for PBS! I can hardly wait to
work with them and director Matthew Diamond next week.</span></span></div>
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James Edward Sellars, the imaginative and original composer, outspoken commentator on music and art, and demanding but inspiring teacher of hundreds of students at The Hartt School, University of Hartford, died at his Hartford home on February 26, 2017. He was 76. In the last years of his life, he suffered from a degenerative nerve disease, which left him increasingly immobile and unable to read or listen to music, though he retained his incisive and sometimes cutting wit to the end. </div>
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Sellars was born at the Sparks Memorial Hospital in Fort Smith Arkansas on October 8, 1940 to Wayne Edward Sellars and Omah Dodson Sellars. Known as "Buddy" to his friends and family until he was in his thirties, he was drawn to music at an early age. He remembered Beethoven's Fur Elise as an early favorite. When his father took him as a boy to a record store to buy his first record of classical music, he asked the clerk for something sad - the clerk recommended the Pathetique Symphony by Tchaikovsky, who remained a favorite composer of his for the rest of his life. In Fort Smith he studied piano with Ester Graham who recognized his musical talent and recommended that he study music composition. </div>
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After high school, he moved to New York City. He first attended Julliard but quickly switched to the Manhattan School of Music where he studied with Ludmila Ulehla and David Diamond. During the 1960's he lived with his life partner Gary Knoble in Brooklyn Heights where, in addition to his musical studies, he was music critic for the Brooklyn Heights Press, choral director of the First Unitarian Congregation Society, and owner of a photographic studio on Montague Street. He took a Masters Degree in Music at Southern Methodist University and a PhD in Composition and Theory at the University of North Texas. <a name='more'></a><br /></div>
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In 1975 Sellars, Knoble, and their new partner Robert Black moved to Hartford, Connecticut. Sellars was music critic for the Hartford Courant in the late 1970's and early 1980's. In 1976, his First Piano Sonata won first prize at the Stroud Festival in Gloucestershire, England, where it was premiered by the British pianist Howard Shelley. Sellars began teaching composition and theory at the Hartt School in 1978 where he founded the Hartt Contemporary Players and eventually became the chair of the Composition Department. When Virgil Thomson won a Kennedy Center Award in 1983 he asked Sellars to conduct his Sonata da Chiesa at the awards ceremony. Openly gay from an early age, Sellars was an empathetic mentor to many of his gay students. His music was frequently presented in the early years of the experimental art space Real Art Ways, first located in Joseph Celli's loft in downtown Hartford. In 1984, at the closing outdoor gala concert of the New Music America festival on the grounds of the Old State House, the Hartford Symphony featured his Concertorama, a concerto for piano and orchestra with pianist Yvar Mikhashoff as soloist. </div>
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Sellars' home was an artistic salon for his students, colleagues and friends with guests that included the musicians John Cage, Virgil Thomson, Ross Lee Finney, Brian Ferneyhough, Charles Wuorinen, Morton Feldman, Michael Barrett, Eleazar de Caravalho, and Leonard Bernstein. The pianist Yvar Mikhashoff, the conductors James Bolle and Michael Barrett, the writer Charlie Scheips, and the poets Jonathan Williams and Thomas Meyer, all indefatigable proponents of Sellars' music, were also frequent quests. His music was eclectic and original, labeled by some as post modern. His opera The World is Round, 1993 (based on a text by Gertrude Stein) received several performances at the Avery Theater in Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum. His other major pieces include Return of the Comet, 1986 (first performed by the London ensemble Spectrum); Afterwards, 1995 (a "re-composition" of the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony first performed by the New Hampshire Symphony); For Love of the Double Bass, 1983 (first performed by Sellars and Black at Real Art Ways); Beulah in Chicago, 1981(first performed at the Monadnock Music Festival in New Hampshire); Chanson Dada, 1979 (first conducted by Bolle at the Monadnock Music Festival and later by Lucas Foss at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and by Eleazar de Carvalho at the Memorial de America Latina in Sao Paulo, Brazil); August Week, 1982 (first performed at Sellars' 75th birthday celebration in 2015 at Hartt); Don't Stop, 1996 (first performed by the Bang on a Can All-Stars at Lincoln Center in New York City); Go, 1997 (first performed by the California EAR Unit); String Quintet, 1996 (first performed at the Monadnock Music Festival); Six Piano Sonatas, 1973-1986; and Haplomatics 1983-2014 (with images by the painter David Hockney). </div>
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Thanks to Finn Byhard and a former student Thomas Schuttenhelm, his musical legacy is being well preserved. Sellars retired from The Hartt School in 2002. He is survived by his life partners Gary Knoble and Robert Black, as well as legions of devoted colleagues, students, and friends. At Sellars' request, no memorial service will be held but a concert in his honor is being planned for the fall. </div>
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<br />Michael Menapacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10028090442487906681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969739405213813202.post-85308991936496493852017-03-26T07:04:00.001-07:002017-03-27T05:03:00.853-07:00In memorial - Joan GlazierJoan Leopold Glazier was an icon to generations of The Hartt School family.<br />
She passed away peacefully at her home Saturday, March 25, 2017.<br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> The Daughter of Kurt A. and Henriette Leopold, Joan was born on November 4, 1935 in Brooklyn, New York and resided in West Hartford, CT. for much of her life.</span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> Joan was a graduate of Hall High School, class of 1953 and attended the University of Connecticut and The Hartt School (then Hartt College) receiving her Bachelor of Music Education in 1958.<br /> A noted performer for over 50 years, Joan was a soloist with the Hartford Symphony and had leading roles in opera productions with the Hartt Opera Theater and the Connecticut Opera Association. She also performed with the Chamber Song Ensemble, summer stock music theater and appeared in concerts on radio and television. She was church soloist for 23 years, and sang in the Emanuel Synagogue High Holiday choir.<br /> </span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show">In addition to her performing career, Joan was member of the voice faculty of the Hartt School at The University of Hartford from 1964 until 2000, and also served as their academic advisor/evaluator for undergraduate studies from 1980 until her retirement. Joan was a devoted and beloved teacher and mentor at Hartt for decades and is fondly remembered as "Mother Glazier". Her legacy and voice will live on in all of her students.<br /> </span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show">Joan was a long time member of The Emanuel Synagogue where she was a member of their Sisterhood, Minyonaires and countless other committees both in the Synagogue and in the community.<br /> </span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show">Joan married Leonard Glazier on June 9, 1957 and is survived by her son, Michael and his wife Jody Brown of Weston, CT. Daughter, Bonnie of New Windsor, NY. and 5 beloved grandchildren, Amy Glazier of Washington D.C., Tracy Glazier, Tyler Debussey and Kyle Debussey of New York City and Megan Debussey of Hartford, CT.<br /> </span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show">Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, March 28, 2017, 11:00 A.M at The Emanuel Synagogue, 160 Mohegan Dr. West Hartford CT. Interment will follow at the Emanuel Synagogue Cemetery. <strong> </strong>Donations can be made in Joan's memory to The Kurt and Henriette Leopold and Joan Leopold Glazier Endowed Scholarship at The Hartt School of the University of Hartford or The Emanuel Synagogue.</span>Michael Menapacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10028090442487906681noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969739405213813202.post-76059068527891461682017-02-19T12:16:00.001-08:002017-02-19T13:52:20.391-08:002017 Alumni Award - Martha Summa<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Martha Summa ('83) has been selected to receive the 2017 Hartt Alumni Award. Dr. Summa's career combines her passions for performance, education and music therapy. This honor will be awarded to Martha at the 2017 Commencement exercises in May. Congratulations to Martha!<br />
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For additional information on Martha, see her website. <a href="http://marthasumma.com/index.html">http://marthasumma.com/index.html</a><br />
Here is a Ted Talk that Martha gave. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCM4JPmPJcI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCM4JPmPJcI</a>Michael Menapacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10028090442487906681noreply@blogger.com2