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For the past two years, the Mizzou New Music Summer Festival has brought visionary composers and musicians to Columbia in July for a week of concerts and workshops. Now the Mizzou New Music Initiative, which presents the Festival, will team up in March with the Columbia Civic Orchestra and Odyssey Chamber Music Series to present another week of performances focusing on the future of music.
“4C: Columbia Celebrates Contemporary Composers” will take place from Sunday, March 4 through Saturday, March 10 and will feature concerts by four different ensembles, including the Columbia debut of the Grammy Award winning new music group eighth blackbird.
“4C” also will include the debut of this year’s Sinquefield Composition prize commission, written by Mizzou student Michael E. Anderson and performed by the University Philharmonic Orchestra; and a special concert by the Columbia Civic Orchestra, playing four new works selected through the new Missouri Composers Orchestra Project.
New Music Ensemble
MU New Music Ensemble Concert
Sunday, March 4 - 8:00 PM
Whitmore Recital Hall
University of Missouri
$5 suggested donation, Students are freeThe Mizzou New Music Ensemble performs a program including music by Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Higdon and the world premiere of a new piece by MU professor W. Thomas McKenney.
Michael E. Anderson
2012 Sinquefield Composition Prize Winner
MU Chancellor's Concert
Monday, March 5 - 7:30 PM
Missouri Theatre,
203 South 9th Street
Tickets are $10.00 for general admission, $5 for Mizzou Students. BUY ONLINEThe University of Missouri Chancellor’s Concert features the University Philharmonic Orchestra with the premiere of this year’s Sinquefield Composition Prize commission by Michael E. Anderson.
eighth blackbird
eighth blackbird
eighth blackbird lives dangerously. The Chicago-based, Grammy Award-winning sextet combines the finesse of a string quartet with the energy of a rock band and the riskiness of a storefront theater company. Its musical aerobatics delight, provoke and entertain audiences around the world.
The lure of wet ink draws eighth blackbird into collaborations with a motley crew of composers, young and old, modernist and indie. Recent commissions include Steve Reich’s Double Sextet, Jennifer Higdon’s On a Wire and Steve Mackey’s Slide, and future collaborators include Amy Beth Kirsten, Brett Dean, Aaron Jay Kernis, John Luther Adams and Mayke Nas.
eighth blackbird Residency Activities
(on the MU campus, free and open to the public):
- Wednesday, March 7, 10:15-11:45 am: eighth blackbird coaches the MU New Music Ensemble (Loeb Hall 201)
- Wednesday, March 7, 4:00-5:30 pm: Convocation I: Panel Discussion with eighth blackbird (Whitmore Recital Hall, Fine Arts Building)
- Thursday, March 8, 11:00 am-12:00 pm: Student Composer Workshop (Loeb Hall 201)
- Thursday, March 8, 3:00-4:00 pm: Convocation II: Stage Presence (Whitmore Recital Hall, Fine Arts Building)
eighth blackbird concertPresented by the Mizzou New Music Initiative and the Odyssey Chamber Music Series
Concert: Friday, March 9, 7:00 pm, First Baptist Church
General Admission: $20, Students $10 with IDFor tickets and more information about the Odyssey Chamber Music Series, click here.
For more information about the Mizzou New Music Initiative, click here.Concert Program: Fractured Jams
Derek Bermel: Tied Shifts for sextet (2004)
Andy Akiho: ErAsE for sextet (2011)
Bruno Mantovani: Chamber Concerto No. 2 for sextet (2011)
Philip Glass: Music in Similar Motion for sextet (1969)
Stephen Hartke: Meanwhile for sextet (2007)Fractured Jams presents an absorbing, provocative and motley program. Philip Glass’s mesmerizing Music in Similar Motion contrasts with renowned French composer Bruno Mantovani's colorful new work for eighth blackbird, and Derek Bermel’s Tied Shifts is a wild Balkan romp.
Missouri Composers
Orchestra Project
Columbia Civic Orchestra
Saturday, March 10 - 7:00 PM
Launer Auditorium, Columbia College,
901 Rogers Street
Free and Open to the public.
Donations will be accepted.Columbia Civic Orchestra plays works selected through the Missouri Composers Orchestra Project, including Euphoria Overture by Michael Blackwood, This Is the Garden by Joseph Eidson, Menuet Macabre by Warren Gooch; and The Tragedy of the Hero by Edward Crouse.
The programs of the Mizzou New Music Initiative have been made possible
through the generous support of the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation.
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