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New Music for Old Instruments Winners
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Posted Mar 23, 01:03 PM
Martin Connor and David Song are the winners of DUMIC’s first Rare Music Composition Competition: New Music for Old Instruments. Students of Professor Anthony Kelley, both showed creativity and unique approaches to writing new works old instruments.
Excerpts of Martin’s Scherzo for Crumhorns and David’s Variations on a Suona Folk Tune for recorders will be performed on this month’s Rare Music on April 23rd, at 4PM in the Rare Book Room.
The program will consist of an open rehearsal, discussion, and partial performance of both works. We have fabulous performers lined up for this event: Patricia Petersen, Douglas Young, Jacqueline Waeber, and Neil Jackson. Come participate in the discussion with the composers, performers, and composition professor, Anthony Kelley.
Congratulations to Martin, David, and their mentor, Professor Kelley!
In addition to our usual sponsors (to whom we are extremely grateful!) DUMIC and curator Brenda Neece would like to give special thanks to the following for going above and beyond to make this project possible: Anthony Kelley, Karen Cook, Pat and Doug Petersen, Jacqueline Waeber, Neil Jackson, and the amazing folks at High Strung Violins and Guitars, particularly Lee and Bud who have put in many hours on DUMIC instruments.
New Music for Old Instruments
April 23, 2010
4 PM
Rare Book Room
Perkins Library, Duke University West Campus
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This Rare Music program will feature the three winning compositions in the New Music for Old Instruments Competition. Every effort will be made to have the three winning works performed in the program, and the winning composers will be invited to discuss their work. Three winners will receive $100 each, and their works, if performed, will be recorded in the performance and broadcast on iTunesU.
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Here is some information about each of the families of instruments included in this competition:
Fanny Hensel, the Other Mendelssohn
March 19, 2010
4 PM
Rare Book Room
Perkins Library, Duke University West Campus
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Fanny Hensel (1805-1847)—child prodigy, virtuoso pianist, and prolific composer of well over four hundred works—was an extraordinary musician and astute observer of European culture. Granddaughter of the Enlightenment philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and sister of the legendary composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, she has, in recent decades, finally secured her place as the leading European woman composer of the nineteenth century. She excelled in exquisite songs of epigrammatic intensity and short, lyrical piano pieces, but the
expressive range of her art also accommodated virtuoso piano and chamber works, orchestral music, and cantatas that paid homage to J. S. Bach.
R. Larry Todd, author of the award-winning Mendelssohn: A Life in Music, will discuss and sign copies of his newly released biography, Fanny Hensel: The Other Mendelssohn. He will be joined by soprano Penelope Jensen to perform some of Hensel’s songs, which her brother recognized as among the finest examples of the genre.
Fencing Demonstration
February 16, 2010
10AM
Bone Hall
Mary Duke Biddle Music Building, Duke University East Campus
Tristan Jones & Jonathan Parker, epeeists
Reginald Patterson, speaker
Today fencers Tristan Jones and Jonathan Parker will give a fencing demonstration on the epee, the modern version of the traditional dueling weapon, the rapier.
The Chevalier de Saint-Georges fought famous duels and was an extraordinary swordsman. Like Duke’s head fencing coach, Maitre Alex Beguinet, the Chevalier studied fencing in Paris. This demonstration will show you how this ancient tradition mastered by the Chevalier in the 18th century is still going strong today at Duke University.
After the demonstration you will have chance to ask questions of the fencers and of Mr. Patterson, our scholar on the biography of the Chevalier, and there will be a Mardi Gras themed reception with King Cake and coffee in our new exhibition celebrating the life of this most famous master of the bow and foil, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges.
Violin Hero: The Music and Life of le Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799)
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Organized in Chordophones and Strings
February 19, 2010
4 PM
Rare Book Room
Perkins Library, Duke University West Campus
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Reginald Patterson
Reginald Patterson brings to light the story of the Afro-French historical figure Le Chevalier de Saint-George (1745-1799). Born Joseph Bologne in Guadeloupe, French West Indies, Saint-George was an innovator and the mediator at the crossroads of the music of French Enlightenment. Outstanding with a sword as well as a violin bow, he was an outstanding fencer and led a brigade of “colored soldiers” during the French Revolution. Reportedly the most popular figure in 18th century, why is his story lost to us today? This multimedia lecture/recital argues that investigating the life and accomplishments of Saint-George requires a radical re-positioning of thought on Western classical music as well as a critical debate on its future.