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Springs Composer Celebrates 30 Years of Bowed Piano
April 23, 2007 2:17 PM
For the past 30 years, Stephen Scott, a professor at Colorado College, has been composing and performing some of the most innovative contemporary classical music in the world. Tomorrow night in Packard Hall on the CC campus, Scott and his Bowed Piano Ensemble will perform a variety of pieces in celebration of the anniversary. Noel Black has more.
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Monday, April 23, 2007 at 7:00 p.m.
Film: Beyond the Keyboard: The Bowed Piano Ensemble in and on Film
Two visiting filmmakers, Peter Savage, from London, and Lane Hall '78, from Milwaukee, will discuss and screen their films involving the work of the Bowed Piano Ensemble and its director, composer and CC Music Professor Stephen Scott. Also shown will be clips from the ensemble’s film and television appearances. The Bowed Piano Ensemble at Thirty, a retrospective concert by the ensemble with soprano Victoria Hansen, will take place the following evening as part of the Bowed Piano Ensemble's 30th anniversary celebration. Sponsored by CC's music department.
Location: Packard Hall, Room 9
Tickets: free
This event is open to the general public.
Tuesday, April 24, 2007 at 7:30 p.m.
Concert: Retrospective 30th Anniversary Concert of the Bowed Piano Ensemble
Under the direction of CC Music Professor Stephen Scott, the ensemble will perform Scott’s "The Deep Spaces," premiered by Hansen and the ensemble in the medieval town hall in Tallinn, Estonia, in March 2005; excerpts from Scott’s Vikings of the Sunrise, premiered by the ensemble in Norway in 1995; and Crossover, a new composition by ensemble alumnus and manager Bernie Brink '06. The ensemble made its first public appearance as a sub-group of the CC New Music Ensemble on April 24, 1977; it has evolved to attain what John Kennedy of the Spoleto Festival USA calls "legendary" status. Sponsored by the CC music department.
Location: Packard Hall, 5 W. Cache La Poudre St. (map)
Tickets: free; tickets at Worner Campus Center, 902 N. Cascade Ave.
This event is open to the general public.
More infomation is at CC's Events Calendar --> Click here.
Posted by Eric Whitney on April 23, 2007 2:17 PM | Permalink
