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These are the most recent articles mentioning "audience"
Posted 03/25/08, 11:08
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have no trouble selling out the larger venues. But I also know the other two halls would have compromised the experience for both the quartet and the audience. Chamber music is an intimate artistic expression, more poetry than spectacle. Rather than looking for the most income I could generate from ...
Posted 02/06/08, 11:37
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ask if any of my students had a five-minute piece that could be performed on the symphony’s educational programs. They needed something upbeat for an audience of fifth graders.I suggested they sponsor a competition. They liked the idea. It took us until November to work out all the details, then our...
Posted 01/25/08, 12:03
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always fully convincing. He is working with inner convictions, not surface gimmicks.In his seminar, Ruo played other pieces that similarly pushed the audience into unfamiliar territory. He also showed a video of a performance of Confluences in which the artist used water colors on glass – the colors...
Posted 11/13/07, 18:09
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aduate students here at UCF just performed Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps. They played the hell out of it, too. I choked up not once, but twice. The audience was full, which was nice to see. I gave my Theory 1 students 10 points of extra credit for attending. They may have come for the points but...
Posted 04/10/08, 10:28
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rcase of human development models ascending before me, whose teachings I think served me well. And as a composer it’s easy for me to imagine my ideal audience – people who are not professional musicians, but whose cultural interests, curiosity and intelligence overlap with mine.On the other hand, th...
Posted 06/30/05, 15:50
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op act. But they tolerate us. So, to keep their attention, our first half is usually programmed with "lighter" fare. But what sounds lighter from the audience is often gruelling for us. The conditions are far from ideal for playing. It's humid and hot. The shell we play in is a plastic dome, with li...
Posted 06/13/08, 19:05
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tedious rather than synergistic. I’ve had these experiences, but lately collaborating seems easy and produces work far more interesting to a broader audience than any work I could have done on my own. Because of this new found ease, I suggested to Line Bruntse, a visual artist working on an instal...
Posted 07/03/06, 02:57
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assical guitar with electronics affords us beauty beyond what either could accomplish alone. Now the guitar can crescendo. It can appear behind the audience. It can change the size and shape of the space it occupies. Classical guitar may be the “real” guitar, but classical guitar and electronics...
Posted 05/04/06, 16:00
I love it when an audience responds well to a work of mine. That’s because there is a lot of “me” in the work and hearty applause (with positive and meaningful comments afterwards) is a sort vindication that my technical skills supported this transaction.When I write music for commercials, I suspen...
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