Livewire 6 Festival: Young Composer’s Project
Free in the Music Box
Location
Performing Arts & Humanities Building : Music Box
Date & Time
October 24, 2015, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Description
Livewire 6: Poetry of Song, Music of Words
Thursday – Saturday, October 22 – 24
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall and other locations
Saturday, October 24
10 am – 12 pm, Music Box
Young Composer’s Project: flute and percussion works
Performers: Elizabeth Milligan, flute; Michelle Purdy, percussion
Instructors: Dr. Ian Power and Dr. Anna Rubin
In its sixth season, this year’s Livewire contemporary music festival at UMBC explores the connection between words and music. How have poetry and literature influenced the development and trajectory of contemporary music movement? What are some writings that have inspired individual composers? How does poetry exist in music that doesn’t have words?
Hailed for “warm creamy voice,” mezzo-soprano Patricia Green will be the resident artist, singing with Ruckus, UMBC’s faculty new music ensemble, on October 22nd, and as a featured soloist on October 24th. UMBC’s composition faculty — Linda Dusman, Anna Rubin, David Revill and Janice Macaulay — will be featured during the festival with world premieres along with regional composers Thomas DeLio, Ronald Pearl, Jessica Krash, and Will Redman.
