Tag: ACME

Contemporary Classical, Interviews, viola

Nadia Sirota: Interview

“I always describe the viola as something that is kind of the wrong size for its body. It sounds like a man singing very high or a woman singing very low. And there’s something about that in-between-ness that is very attractive to me and the challenge of overcoming the fact that, physics-wise, it’s actually proportioned incorrectly, in other words, for a viola to be the right size for the length of its strings to play very easily, it would be something like the size of a small cello…There’s something about reaching in and having to get around that imperfection that

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Chamber Music, Concerts, Contemporary Classical, File Under?, S21 Concert, Scores

Sequenza 21/MNMP Concert Announcement

  We’re pleased to announce details for the 2011 Sequenza 21/MNMP Concert featuring the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME). The following entries from the call for scores have been selected for inclusion in the program:   James Stephenson (UK) – Oracle Night Robert Thomas (NJ) — Sixteen Lines Jay Batzner (MI) – Slumber Music Rob Deemer (NY) – Grand Dragon Sam Nichols (CA) – Refuge David Smooke (MD) – Requests Dale Trumbore (CA) –How it Will Go Laurie San Martin (CA) – Linea Negra James Holt  (NY) – Nostos Algea   The concert will be on October 25 at Joe’s Pub at 7 PM. It will

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Concerts, Contemporary Classical, File Under?

Stay tuned

Yes, we’re still planning to have a Sequenza 21/MNMP concert in 2011 and it’s going to be excellent. We’re still finalizing the details, but should have an announcement soon. Thanks for your continued patience (which is code for “entrants: stop calling and emailing us”). Speaking of synthetists, how’s about Craig Wedren and ACME performing a song from On in Love (video below)? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SWCPDI4tKQ[/youtube]

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