Composition

Each year the Composition Area invites nationally and internationally recognized composers to talk about their music during weekly composition seminars.

Fall 2008 Schedule:

Visiting Composers Series /Fall 2008/ Professor Asia
Composition Master Class (240,340,640) 696D
Thursdays, 5-6 (except for guest presentations, 4:30), Room 146

8/28 Introduction/Organization Messiaen/Crumb Overview

9/4 Messiaen/Et Expecto Resurrectionem (Asia)

9/11 Messiaen/Quartet For the End of Time (Asia)

9/18 Crumb/Nocturnes, Quest (Asia)

9/23 TSO Kernis- Musica Celestis TCC 8PM

9/25 Messiaen/Oiseaux Exotiques

9/27-8 Messiaen/Crumb Festival (Attendance at all concerts and symposia required)

10/1 Wed. AZFCM Concert/ Schoenfield- Café Music Leo Rich Theatre 8PM

10/2 Music of Kernis (Asia and grad students)

10/9 Grad Student Presentations

10/16 Grad Student Presentation on music of Stillman

10/18 Arizona Symphony- Bernstein Halil Crowder 7:30

10/23 Kurt Stillman Presentation

10/29 Prazak Quartet- Gemrot/world premiere
Wed. Leo Rich Theatre 8PM

10/30 Asia Presentation Symphony No .5

11/6 Craig Walsh Presentation on the Music of Scott Miller

11/7,8,9 Performances of Asia’s Symphony No. 5

11/13 Scott Miller Presentation

11/20

11/27 THANKSGIVING (no class)

12/4 Bartok- Concerto for Orchestra

12/11 Closing time
TSO Performance of Bartok Concerto for Orchestra

Resources: Gann, Kyle American music in the twentieth century
Messiaen- A guide to my musical language

Recent guests have included:
David Dzubay
Ross Edwards
John MacDonald
R. Murray Schaefer
Scott Lindroth
Stephen Paulus
Roshanne Esterzy
Jorge Grossmann
Robert Beaser
George Tsontakis
Mark Wingate
Anna Weesner
Jiri Gemrot
Jeffrey Cotton
Paul Richards

Past guests have included:
Earle Brown
Bernard Rands
Shulamit Ran
Yehudi Wyner
Stephen Hartke
Donald Erb
Chen Yi
George Walker
Sir Michael Tippet
Richard Felciano
Steven Stucky
Fred Rzewski
Chinary Ung
Joan Tower
Fred Lerdahl
Ollie Wilson
Anna Weesner
Robert Beaser
Barbara Kolb
Robert Dick
Benjamin Verdery
Tobias Picker
Donald Erb
Ronald Perera
Jiri Gemrot
Dan Welcher
Donald Crockett
Robert Kyr
Joan Tower
Kevin Putz
Gerard Shurman
Eric Chasalow
Libby Larsen
Nicholas Maw
Jonathan Berger
David Maslanka
Eric Ewazen
Daniel Coleman
Ian Krouse
George Tsontakis
David Crumb
Anthony Iannacone
Frank Proto
Robert Maggio
Jan Swafford
John Fitz Rogers
Ezra Sims
Stephen Gryc
Christopher Theofanidis
Jorge Grossmann
David Finko