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Jack Straw Productions and Washington Composers Forum present
Composer Spotlight Series
Jack Straw Productions
4261 Roosevelt Way NE
Seattle, WA 98105
FREE
Jack Straw Productions and Washington Composers Forum present Composer Spotlight, a series of talks and performances by composers, musicians, and scholars of new and innovative music every second Wednesday of each month. For more information about Composer Spotlight artists and the series, click here.
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Jack Straw Productions and Washington Composer Forum present
Composer Spotlight:
Emily Doolittle
Animal Songs
Wed, January 14, 7:30pm
Emily Doolittle is assistant professor of composition at Cornish College of the Arts. She has written for Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, the Albany Symphony, Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal, the Motion Ensemble and Meduse, and soloists including sopranos Janice Jackson, Patricia Green and Helen Pridmore, pianists Rachel Iwaasa and Ruth Rose, viola d'amorist Thomas Georgi and viola da gambist Karin Preslmayr. Her doctoral research was on the relationship between bird and other animal songs and human music, a field in which she continues to be active.
For the past 10 years, Doolittle has explored the relationship between bird and other animal songs both through scholarly research and her own compositions. Doolittle will discuss her research, as well as present several compositions inspired by animal songs and other sounds from the natural world.
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Coming in February: Randal Bays
Respecting the Envelope: Composing New Music in the Irish Tradition
Wed, February 11, 7:30pm
Although the Irish musical tradition is a very ancient one, it's also a living tradition and new music is being created and added to it all the time. 2007 Artist Support Program participant Randal Bays is the composer of a number of noted recent tunes that have been absorbed into the communal repertoire shared by Irish trad musicians around the world. He'll discuss how that process works for him and will perform examples of recent (the last 50 years) compositions as well as older ones.
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| About Composer Spotlight |
The Composer Spoltight series is presented by Jack Straw Productions and Washington Composers Forum (WCF). This series of talks and performances of new music highlights an innovative composer or performer every second Wednesday of each month at Jack Straw Productions. If you are a composer and would like to present at a Composer Spotlight event, please contact Christopher Shainin.
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| About Washington Composers Forum |
The Washington Composers Forum is a non-profit arts organization that nurtures the creation, performance, and dissemination of new music by composers living in Washington State. Since its founding in 1984, WCF has produced concerts, readings, and lectures in the U.S. and Canada, representing many composers in the region. Visit their website for more information. |
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