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Ives Violin Sonata #4 and our Present Moment in US History

3 September 2024
Ives, a Greenwich Village composer in his younger days, will be represented in The Village Trip lineup with his Violin Sonata #4 performed by violinist David Fulmer and pianist Joan …
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The Provenance of Del Tredici's Herrick's Oratorio and Thanks to Father Graeme Napier

22 May 2023
Thanks, Liz Thomson, co-founder and Director of The Village Trip, together with Cliff Pearson, for helping me clarify the provenance of Herrick’s Oratorio. Fr. Graeme Napier, Rector of St. John’s in the Village, hoped to commission a mass …
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21st Century Perspectives -- Amram & Bernstein

1 July 2022
RSF commissioned David Amram to set two poems by his old friend Jack Kerouac, celebrating the Kerouac Centenary, scored for voice and two guitars. Hear them on September 10 at St. John’s in the Village, an opening event for The Village Trip. They …
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La Musique en Boucle

23 June 2021
La Musique en Boucle John Chang sur Seungmin Cha En 2010, j’ai rencontré Seungmin Cha pour la première fois, une joueuse de daegeum (flûte traversière en bambou d’origine coréenne) qui recevait une bourse gouvernementale d’échange culturel …
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Robert Pollock/Five Decades

6 November 2020
Iao Theater, Wailuku, Mauik Maui, Hawai’i multimedia performance presented by Ebb & Flow Arts Upcoming on Furious Artisans E n t e r t w i n e d Robert Pollock Five Decades Pollock’s music is unique, and uniquely American.His sound …
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The Western Uncanonical (tribute to Harold Bloom)

7 November 2019
Jotting some notes here that will have to be edited and focused in the fullness of time. Links to sound or video are in the works. I consulted with Harold Bloom when preparing for Cygnus’ RW Emerson bicentennial celebration. In the end, Bloom …
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