2009-2010 Performance Forum - November 3, 2009

2015

This chapter presents Pace's extensive chamber works, with special emphasis made on String Quartet No. 7 (1936).

2011

Prokofiev Montagues and Capulets from Romeo and Juliet, Holst Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Uranus from The Planets, Tchaikovsky Marche Slave. Carolyn Watson, Conductor, Interlochen Arts Academy Orchestra, May 28, 2015 .

2007

The thesis for the Master of Music degree in Piano consists of one solo recital and one full-length ensemble recital. My full-length ensemble recital was performed on April 24th 2005 and the solo recital was performed on March 14, 2007.

2016

Chamber Music, if we accept the designation in its widest sense, must rightly include all music especially suitable for performance in a private room, and exclude all music designed for large masses of singers or players, all ecclesiastical, and all dramatic music. Even the most comprehensive generic terms are apt, however, in common and constant use to become narrowed in their application. Thus, while we cannot deny that songs and pianoforte solo-pieces, vocal duets, trios or quartets, and the like, may be quite suitably included under the title Chamber Music, yet, if we use the term in its more customary modern sense, works in such categories are not generally indicated. A pianoforte recital or a concert of vocal works is seldom spoken of as a Chamber Concert, the word Chamber nowadays being understood to apply particularly to ins^umental compositions of a serious type for solo instruments in combination. Were it not that the name Sonata has, in turn, also become narrowed in its application, a better title for this volume would have been "Concerted Sonata Music." But, here again, while instrumental trios, quartets, quintets, and works for larger combinations are veritable sonatas in every sense, present day custom compels us to restrict our use of that name to works written either for pianoforte alone, organ alone, or for pianoforte and one solo instrument in the form of a duet, and to use, instead, the words Chamber Music for a large class of composition for which there would otherwise be no definite or distinctive epithet available. A INTRODUCTORY 9 especial cultivation of this delightful branch of art. This being so, the would-be composer of such music may be urged to seize every opportunity of hearing the best works of all periods as frequently as possible, for by attending well rehearsed and ably rendered performances, with, wherever possible, the scores of the works to be played in his hand, he may learn more than any book can possibly claim to teach. He will find many opportunities of hearing such music under good conditions, and, even if some superior persons declare to him that Chamber Music " is not what it used to be," he may recall with a smile the classical retort of one of Mr. Punch's young men, who, on hearing his favourite journal criticised in similar fashion, replied, " It never was ! " With evidences on every hand of a healthy and genuine interest in listening to such music, it is natural that our own composers should continue to exercise their skill in the composition of ensemble works of an intimate character. It may be doubted if any country in Europe could furnish a more imposing array of earnest and ardent young musicians than is 'Cello. Allegretto.

2017

The Collaborative Contrabass project is a multi-faceted exploration of double bass chamber music encompassing musicological research, performance and reflexive practice. The intention of this research is to provide a deeper understanding of the role that the double bass has played in chamber music since the eighteenth century and the challenges this repertoire presents for the performer. Its wider aim is to promote the double bass as a collaborative instrument and encourage the double bass community to embrace a wider range of chamber music repertoire. The research holds particular relevance to double bassists but should also be pertinent to all chamber music practitioners and enthusiasts. An examination of creative practice has been at the centre of the research, in the form of four public recitals of chamber music. The repertoire for each recital programme was informed by musicological research, drawing from the diverse core of existing literature for the instrument. The rehearsal...

These are the suggestive questions asked by a White North American colleague in preparation of his article in "Religion Dispatches" (https://religiondispatches.org/flagship-biblical-studies-group-faces-bitter-divide-over-statements-on-israel-palestine/) which were answered in my letter: „Dear Prof. Kratz, I'm writing a piece for Religion Dispatches on the divide in the SBL over its statements about the Gaza conflict and I want to be sure to get your perspective as an important participant in this discussion. I was wondering: What specific language in the SBL statements motivated you to sign the "Anti-Terror Group Statement" and write your own statement? The letter condemns the SBL members who created the Oct 20 statement and/or agree with both statements as not admitting the distinction between good and evil and refusing to stand unequivocally with good. Of course there has been strong language from important scholars like Vered Noam, in a front-page story in Israel's most widely distributed newspaper, describing such members as standing for "barbarism", and your letter which described SBL as disqualified "for civilized human beings in general and Biblical scholars in particular". Given these statements, might such members be intimidated into not expressing their own views? With the current scarcity of jobs and the importance of recommendations and support from senior colleagues, how would you deal with a perceived threat to the intellectual freedom of students and colleagues who do not see the current political situation in precisely the same way? Finally, Netanyahu has described the Gaza conflict in terms drawn from both the Dead Sea Scrolls and the book of Joshua. What (if any) relevance does biblical studies have to modern political statements such as these? Sincerely, NN“

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