COMPOSITION SEMINAR - SPRING 2017

COMPOSITION SEMINAR - SPRING 2017

Room 3302
Tuesdays 1:05 – 1:55

JANUARY
24: Introduction to activities / review of last term
31: Fuhong Shi

FEBRUARY
6: Ithaca New Music Collective showcase at Argos Inn at 7pm
7: Drew Schweppe
Deadline for Comp Premieres III. Please send to Dallas Howard
dallasjhoward@gmail.com
14: Daniel Pesca
21: Panayiotis Kokoras (via skype)
Ben Pawlak elective piano recital (9pm / Nab): Premiering Duncan Krummel’s new work
25 – 27: Augusta Read Thomas residency
27: Comp. Premieres III 7:00pm | Hockett Family Recital Hall
28: Students discuss works performed on Comp. Premieres III

MARCH
6: Lori Freedman residency (masterclasses)
7: Sharon Kanach / Lori Freedman
Lori Freedman Evening Concert
14: No Seminar (Spring Break)
21: Listening Quiz 1 / Deadline for Comp Premieres III. Please send to Dallas Howard
dallasjhoward@gmail.com
28: Watch and discuss “Imagine Utopia”

APRIL
4: Efstratios Minakakis
7: New Voices performance at 4pm in the Handwerker Gallery
9: Degree Recital Jakob Morton Black
10: Comp. Premieres IV / 7:00pm | Hockett Family Recital Hall
11: Students discuss works performed on Comp. Premieres IV
17: ICCE Concert
18: Peter Sheppard Skaerved Lecture
Deadline for the Louis Smadbeck and Richard K Joseph Composition
Competitions. Please send your pieces to Emmanuel Berrido at aberrido@ithaca.edu
19: Peter Sheppard Skaerved Concert
23: Degree recital Nathaniel Long
25: Ann M Warde

MAY
2: Listening Quiz 2
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The schedules for the residencies of Augusta Read Thomas, Peter Sheppard
Skaerved and Lori Freedman will be announced during term times.
LISTENING QUIZZES: (See Grossmann / Sammoutis list on Naxos)
http://ithaca.naxosmusiclibrary.com.ezproxy.ithaca.edu:2048/playlists/playlist.asp

LISTENING QUIZ 1
Choral works:
LIGETI: Lux Aeterna
XENAKIS: Nuits
APERGHIS: 14 Recitations
BERIO: a-ronne
BERIO: Cries of London
PÄRT: 7 Magnificat Antiphons
MACMILLAN: Miserere
THOMAS: 2 e.e. Cummings Songs

LISTENING QUIZ 2
Works for strings:
LIGETI: String Quartet No. 2
SCELSI: Anahit
PENDERECKI: Threnody, "To the Victims of Hiroshima"
COLEMAN: Lonely Woman (arr. M. Graves)
JOHNSTON: String Quartet No. 4, "Amazing Grace"
HARVEY: String Quartet No. 3
GUBAIDULINA: String Quartet No. 4
CRUMB: Black Angels: 13 Images from the Dark Land
SCULTHORPE: String Quartet No. 11
VOLANS: String Quartet No. 1, "White Man Sleeps"
THOMAS: Of Paradise and Light

COMPETITIONS

Louis Smadbeck Composition

Description: Recognizes the best new musical work written each year by a student.
The entries are judged by a faculty committee, and the prize is awarded at a special
concert each spring. This prize was established by the late Louis Smadbeck, parent of
Paul '78, M.M.'82.

Richard K Joseph Composition

Description: Awarded in alternating years to an Ithaca College student or outside
competitor judged to have written the best composition that year for the piano (even-
numbered years) or saxophone odd-numbered years). The prize was endowed in
2008 by the family of Richard K. Joseph '48 MUSB, M.S. '53.
Department/Area/Contact: Composition faculty & piano area/sax faculty depending
upon year.