I will be holding a zoom informational session on the PhD program in Music at the University of Pittsburgh on Saturday, November 1 at 1pm (Eastern). Please send me a private message for the link if you are interested in learning more about our fully-funded, five year PhD programs in Composition, Ethnomusicology, Musicology and Jazz Studies.
An intimate chamber concert featuring the music of John Cage, Lou Harrison, Arnold Schoenberg, and Amy Williams is happening at BMCM+AC on Tuesday, October 21st at 7PM!
The evening will begin with pianist and composer Amy Williams performing excerpts from John Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano.
Following Williams, the Asheville Symphony String Quartet, featuring Brian Allen, Karen Pommerich, Kara Poorbaugh, and Franklin Keel, will perform Arnold Schoenberg’s String Quartet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 7.
Finally, the program will conclude with the Asheville Symphony Percussion Quartet, featuring Todd Mueller, Matthew Richmond, Nathan Tingler, and Brian Tinkel, performing Amy Williams’s Dream Landscape alongside Double Music by John Cage and Lou Harrison.
Purchase your tickets and read more about the musicians on our website! Link in bio🔗
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Image 1: Marion Kalter, John Cage in Paris at the home of Dorothea Tanning, 1981. Courtesy of Marion Kalter. Special thanks to Laura Kun at @johncagetrust .
Image 2: Jonathan Williams, Lou Harrison, Music Hut, BMC, 1951. Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center collection
Image 3: Amy Williams by Rob Davidson
BMCM+AC and the Asheville Symphony Orchestra are excited to present THREE concerts in October! Read on to learn more...
First: On Tuesday, October 21st at 7PM, the Asheville Symphony Orchestra's String Quartet & Percussion Quartet will present a chamber concert featuring the music of John Cage, Lou Harrison, Arnold Schoenberg, and Amy Williams. Composer Amy Williams will join us as a guest, and will play excerpts from John Cage's "Sonatas and Interludes" for prepared piano. This program will highlight music that reshaped 20th-century sound and celebrates the experimental spirit of Black Mountain College, and will take place in the upstairs gallery of BMCM+AC in downtown Asheville.
The following Saturday, October 25th, the Symphony will perform "CONVERGENCE" in the sanctuary at First Baptist Church of Asheville as a part of their Masterworks Concert series. "CONVERGENCE" celebrates the history of BMC by tracing a journey from European romanticism to American avant-garde with Brahms’s mountain-inspired Second Symphony, Bartók’s ethereal Viola Concerto (written in part during his time in Asheville), and more alongside groundbreaking works by John Cage that emerged from BMC, a transformative haven for creatives in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Join us at First Baptist Church for the 2pm showtime or 8pm showtime!
You can purchase tickets for the Oct 21st Chamber Evening at BMCM+AC through the museum's website, and tickets for CONVERGENCE at FBC are sold through the Asheville Symphony Orchestra.
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Photograph of John Cage by Irving Penn, 1947.
It was a joy to play with my dear friend and collaborator @danielpescamusic on Monday! We premiered wonderful new pieces by @acwcomposer , @katiecomposes , and Anna-Louise Walton, and premiered @mantrumpet 's "Pilgrimage" (and found out at intermission that he was a finalist for the Pulitzer this year 🤩)!
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I want to give a big shoutout to @illinoisbassoons for another great year. It's always a good sign when there is a gaggle of bassoonists checking out the scores afterward :)
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Thank you to MillerCom and @illinoismusic for bringing Amy to campus! Now off to record later this month...!
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Photos 1-3 by @liyang.wan.14 !
Dear Composers: please consider applying to join Andreia Pinto Correia and me at the Bowdoin International Music Festival! It’s an awesome place to immerse yourself in music-making for the summer. We’ll have visits from guests Zhou Long and Amy Williams, as well as the Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music with performances readings of composer works by Hub New Music. The priority deadline is this Monday.
