Sound Of Music 151 Main St., 203594-5003 Ayako Yoshido, violin, and blair mcmillen, piano, selectionsby Philharmonia Virtuosi, with guest pianist Anton Nel, March 23, 3 pm http://www.acorn-online.com/s-sound.htm
Extractions: Sound of Music Sherry Winston and Her Jazz Band , featuring Nick Bariluk, Doc Gibbs, Lori Williams and Jimmy Maia; March 27, 7:30 p.m., Ives Concert Hall, 181 White St., Danbury; ticket sales ($35, $25, $15) 100% benefit local non-profit agencies: AIDS Project of Greater Danbury, 203-778-2437; Catholic Family Services, 203-743-4412; Concerned Black Men for Youth, 203-740-4490; Command Performance, 203-825-3131; Hispanic Ctr. of Greater Danbury, 203-798-2855; Minority business Assoc., 203-740-1660. Chorovaya Akademia , men's chorus from Moscow, March 27, 7:30 p.m., tickets $28, benefit the Masuk High School Choral Arts Program; Norwalk Concert Hall, 125 East Ave.; info., tickets, 203-452-5823 Brazilian Jazz with the Joe Carter Trio , March 28, 7:30 p.m.; tickets $8; Edgerton Center for the Performing Arts, Sacred Heart University, 5151 Park Ave., Fairfield; 203-374-2777. Mark O'Connor's Hot Swing Trio , tribute to Stephane Grappelli; March 28, 8 p.m.; tickets $30; Quick Center for the Arts, Fairfield University; 1-877-ARTS-396. The Murasaki Duo , benefit recital March 28, 8 p.m.; tickets $10; Marian Anderson Recital Hall, Danbury Music Centre, 256 Main St., 203-748-1716.
Alumni News pianist blair mcmillen (BM '92) recently performed as part of the New Canaan,Connecticut, library winter concert series, Notes in Midwinter. http://www.oberlin.edu/~consrv/connews/current/alumni.html
Untitled Document 11th, Mediterranean Celebration blair mcmillen, piano, 30th, TBA, August. 6th,Celebrating America American Songs Suzanne Rossini, soprano and pianist TBA, http://www.caramoor.org/musgar/museum/wednesday/wednesday.html
Extractions: Performer's Showcase - every Wednesday, at 11 am, April 30 to Oct. 15 A series of 45 minute recitals in the Music Room. Tickets $12; Friends $10 and includes a tour of the House Museum. Tickets are sold at the door. We offer a variety of programs in conjunction with Performer's Showcase. Listed below with titles above the performers name, these celebrations blend with the Performer's Showcase to create an entire day of culture at Caramoor. Samples include: Mediterranean Celebration Celebrating America **Performer's Showcase tickets are sold at the door. Reservations are necessary if you combine it with a luncheon. Please call 914.232.5035 ext. 221 to make your reservation.
AMERICAS SOCIETY Tuesday, October 29, 2002 Sonia Rubinsky, Brazilian pianist 730 PM Williams, HelenaBugallo, Nicolas Hodges, Cherryl Seltzer and blair mcmillen, and violist http://207.21.242.176/as/events/2002season.html
Extractions: Press Releases For Immediate Release Wednesday, August 21, 2002 Contact: Jesse M. Gutierrez Director, Communications Ph. 212.249.8950 THE AMERICAS SOCIETY ANNOUNCES 2002-2003 CONCERT SEASON: "MUSIC OF THE AMERICAS" New York, August 20, 2002 - The Americas Society is pleased to announce the schedule of its 2002 - 2003-concert season, "Music of the Americas." All performances will be held at the Americas Society located at 680 Park Avenue, New York City (corner of 68th street), concerts begin at 7:30 PM, and general admission is $15 and $10 for seniors and students, unless otherwise noted. "The main goal of 'Music of the Americas' is to present a balanced season of concerts and educational components that cover a wide range of styles, regions and time periods, to increase awareness of music by composers from Latin America, Canada, and the Caribbean," said Amb. Myles Frechette, President of The Americas Society. "In October, we will present a special pair of concerts focused on the 'Jewish Music of the Americas', which are designed to explore how musicians have taken and mixed Jewish music with folk music of Latin America and/or with different classical traditions," continued Frechette.
Jamesarts takes place on Tuesday October 29 with Brazilian pianist Sonia Rubinsky, in a HelenaBugallo, Nicolas Hodges, Cherryl Seltzer and blair mcmillen; with violist http://www.jamesarts.com/releases/jan03/AS_nws_010903.htm
Extractions: The Music Department of the Americas Society Announces Its 2002-2003 Concert Season The Americas Society is pleased to announce its Music of the Americas 2002-2003 Concert Season. Mark your calendar with these dates! "The main goal of Music of the Americas is to present a balanced season of concerts and educational components that cover a wide range of styles, regions and time periods and, to increase awareness of music by composers from Latin America, Canada, and the Caribbean," said Ambassador Myles Frechette, President of The Americas Society The guitar - an instrument that has transformed the history of music in the Americas - will be the focus of our season opener on T hursday, September 26, 2002 , with During the month of October, we present Jewish Music of the Americas , a special pair of concerts that explore how musicians have taken and mixed Jewish music with either folk music of Latin America and/or with different classical traditions. Sunday October 6, at 2:00 pm
Ought One Have Attended? Kitchen Table and Raw Silk (A Rag) show this pianists fascination Fingland (clar.),Gabriel Bolkosky (vn), HaYang Kim (cello), blair mcmillen (pno), and http://www.newmusicon.org/v9n4/v94ought1.htm
Forthcoming Events Society League/ISCM Stefanie Griffin, viola with blair mcmillen and Cheryl Seltzer,pianists Bugallo/Williams Piano Duo with Nicholas Hodges, pianist Wolpe http://www.newmusicon.org/events.html
Extractions: Season-Long Retrospective of The Music of Stefan Wolpe Dear Ladies and Gentlemen On February 23, Metzmacher will conduct the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall, after which the conductor and the orchestra will go to Spain for two more concerts together. The programme consists of works by Wagner, Shostakovitch and Beethoven. Metzmacher's other guest performances will be with the Nederlands Radio Filharmonisch Orkest at the Concertgebouw New York, NY, 7/18/02 - The Stefan Wolpe Society is pleased to announce an update of additional New York area concerts commemorating the centennial of the birth of composer Stefan Wolpe. As its American contribution to the world-wide celebration that includes Germany, England, Belgium, France, Russia, and Switzerland, Artistic Director Matthew Greenbaum has been developing this project with Fred Sherry, the noted cellist and creator of both the Great Day in New York Festival and the Schoenberg Celebration In addition to various panels and symposia, concert highlights will include three U.S. premiere's:
NYC-ARTS Events 82nd Street) Manhattan (212) 5357710 www.metmuseum.org Kate Dillingham, Cello Up-and-comingcellist Kate Dillingham is joined by pianist blair mcmillen for a http://www.nyc-arts.org/nyc-arts/events/events_feb2-8.htm
SoundStage! Elliott Schwartz - Equinox emotions are not. The performances of violinist Renee Jolles, cellistBrent Samuel and pianist blair mcmillen are precise and moving. http://www.soundstage.com/music/reviews/rev311.htm
Extractions: david@soundstage.com Musical Performance Recording Quality Overall Enjoyment Elliott Schwartz is one of America's most prolific composers in the broad compositional style known as post-modernism. While he has experimented with synthesizers, tape, jazz and other trappings of the avant-garde, he has remained committed to composing concert music using traditional instruments. Equinox collects chamber and orchestral works which require that a committed listener accept a musical vocabulary of jagged melodies and sometimes murky harmonies. Yet, Schwartz's stirring music is also full of emotion and personality that sweep the listener along with them. "Phoenix," written for bassoon and piano, is a good example of Schwartz's eclectic style of chamber music. The composer explains that the piece is about hope, rebirth and flight and, in an attempt to evoke the image of the phoenix rising from the ashes, he playfully paraphrases sources as diverse as Stravinsky's Firebird and Jerome Kern's "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes." However, despite Schwartz's whimsical use of sources, this is a serious chamber work. While the bassoon plods along in lengthy and deliberate phrases, the piano alternately whoops, clangs and grumbles. In fact, there are times during the piece when the instruments seem to be playing two different compositions. It is clear that the piano is supplying the color and emotion while the bassoon remains the slow and methodical voice of reason.
Augustus Augustus 2002 Index Oktober 2002oktober Dagprogrammering 11.05 De pianist Misha Fomin speelt werken van Liszt, Tsjaikovski, Prokofjef violin;HaYang Kim, cello; Nathan Davis, percussion; blair mcmillen, piano speelde http://www.omroep.nl/concertzender/200209/dag20020916.html
Extractions: Tim Josephson Have you ever wished that, just for once, you could really believe all the wonderful promises the cruise lines make in their brochures? Are you weary of having to decipher the exaggerations, do you expect there will be compromises, are you always holding back your enjoyment just a little, expecting the inevitable failure of some element of the experience that will snap you back to the impossible reality from which you had been sold escape? There is a place where all the promises are true, there are no exaggerations, no compromises, you may genuinely let yourself go, depend on being fully pampered, even lean on the boundaries of all the things that make a cruise pleasurable, and nothing about this place will let you down for one moment. This is Crystal Cruises. By the way, for the U.S. tourist, though there is some minor visible damage from hurricane Pauline, Acapulco is as beautiful as ever. Mexico never ceases to charm it is so human, so handcrafted, always warm and genuinely welcoming. Even "glamorous" Acapulco is friendly and unassuming, while still a dramatic and exciting city, and yet a completely peaceful place to begin or end a cruise.
Maand pianiste Tomoko Mukaiyama en de Amerikaans/Duitse pianist Carsten Schmidt zijn uitNed McGowan (fluit), Greg Oakes (klarinet), blair mcmillen (piano), Nathan http://www.gaudeamus.nl/oud/maand/maart02.htm
Extractions: Agenda Maart 2002 1 mrt 2002 20.30 uur Den Haag Korzo Slagwerkgroep Den Haag: Laboratorium 1 mrt 2002 20.30 uur Groningen Grand Theatre (Prime) Het Domme Paard 1/2 mrt 2002 20.30 uur Rotterdam Lantaren/Venster Ives Ensemble: Infinite Things 2 mrt 2002 15.00 uur Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum Portret van Hedwig 2 mrt 2002 16.00 uur Middelburg Kloveniersdoelen Ensemble Widosari: Alice over zee 2 mrt 2002 20.30 uur Utrecht Huis a/d Werf Slagwerkgroep Den Haag: Laboratorium 3 mrt 2002 20.30 uur Den Haag Korzo Het Domme Paard 5 mrt 2002 20.30 uur 's Hertogenbosch Het Muziekcentrum Brabantse Componisten Avond 6 mrt 2002 20.30 uur Rotterdam Lantaren/Venster Slagwerkgroep Den Haag: Laboratorium 8 mrt 2002 20.15 uur Maastricht Intropodium Jozefine 9 mrt 2002 15.00 uur Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum Cobla La Principal d'Amsterdam 11 mrt 2002 20.15 uur Rotterdam De Doelen (L/V op locatie) Nieuw Ensemble 12 mrt 2002 20.30 uur Groningen Grand Theatre (Prime) Nieuw Ensemble 13 mrt 2002 20.00 uur Enschede Muziekcentrum Conjunto Iberico 13 mrt 2002 20.30 uur
CD's Composer/pianist Hans Otte (*1926) well known for his piano cycle Schwartz EquinoxRenee Jolles, violin, Brent Samuel, cello, blair mcmillen, piano, Charles http://www.gaudeamus.nl/oud/bull0700/cd.htm
Kalvos And Damian Ought-One Festival: Ought One Have Attended? Kitchen Table and Raw Silk (A Rag) show this pianist's fascination with Fingland (clar.),Gabriel Bolkosky (vn), HaYang Kim (cello), blair mcmillen (pno), and http://ought-one.com/ought1-reviews06.html
Untitled Dr. blair is active as a recitalist and frequently Professor Metcalf has studied withHugh mcmillen, William Bell Schmidt is active as a pianist and organist as http://www.wcupa.edu/_ACADEMICS/sch_mus/facpro.htm
Extractions: West Chester University School of Music Faculty Instrumental Music Keyboard Music Music Music Education Music History ... TIMOTHY V. BLAIR Dean - School of Music B.M. Susquehanna University; M.M., New England Conservatory of Music; D.M.A., Catholic University of America. Dean Timothy Blair came to West Chester in 1990 as an Assistant Professor of Keyboard Music. His principal teachers were Anthony di Bonaventura, Thomas Mastroianni, Victor Rosenbaum and Galen Deibler. Dr. Blair has been active in PMTA, having served as State Chair for University Student Chapters. During his tenure as state chair, the WCU student chapter of PMTA won the MTNA award for outstanding student chapter of the year in 1994. Having been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor, he was subsequently appointed Coordinator of Graduate Studies for Music in 1995 and interim Dean of Music in 1997. Dr. Blair is a life member of Pi Kappa Lambda, the National Music Honor Society, and was recently inducted into the WCU Chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. Before joining the faculty at West Chester, Dean Blair was a faculty member of George Mason University, The Catholic University of America, Wilson College and Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Blair is active as a recitalist and frequently serves as an adjudicator and guest lecturer.
Ccm Composers-classical-music Com : Doolittle, Emily Doolittle Doolittle, Emily (fem) 1972 Canada Nova Scotia, Halifax pianist, oboist. Bolkoskyviolin, Ha-Yang Kim cello, Nathan Davis percussion, blair mcmillen piano, 1 http://composers-classical-music.com/d/DoolittleEmily.htm
Music Links - New Music Thomas Moore, pianist New Music Links, 14%. Gabriel Bolkosky-violin, Ned McGowen-flute,Gregory Oakes-clarinet, blair mcmillen-piano, Nathan davis-percussion. http://www.beatmode.com/music-links/newmusic.html
About Edmund Rubbra's Music Eric Schissel evaluates the overall style and importance of his compositions and provides brief summaries Category Arts Music Composers R Rubbra, Charles Edmund 87 (Kimberly Hughes, mezzosoprano, blair mcmillen, piano and Stephanie Griffin,viola at the Oboe sonata (Alison Teale, oboe - no mention of pianist?, in the http://www.geocities.com/eschiss1/rubbra.html
Extractions: Some thoughts about Rubbra's music I'm lately something of a fan of the music of Edmund Rubbra (1901-1986). He wrote 11 symphonies, 3 violin sonatas, 4 string quartets, 2 concerti for piano, a violin concerto, a viola concerto, several masses, 2 piano trios, a cello sonata, songs, and various other works. Note : Well, the week April 23-7 (2001) is over, and BBC Radio 3 has finished its Composer of the Week segments featuring Edmund Rubbra's music. I caught three of the five using Realplayer , and enjoyed them very much. Some thoughts on the music - especially that new to me - that was played in those three hours may show up on this site in the next while, to join other comments on other works by the composer that I've jotted on this site (and its original incarnation) over the last few years. (Comment April 27 2001.)
Verge Music Distribution May 2000 Melford has entered her prime as both pianist and composer bassoon; Elliott Schwartz,piano; Renee Jolles, violin; Brent Samuel, cello; blair mcmillen, piano http://www.vergemusic.com/old/0500.htm
Extractions: How to Order verge may 2000 New Labels: Black Box featuring: Gerald Barry. Earsay featuring: Indigo featuring: Lennie Tristano. Marshall featuring: Six Degrees featuring: Roy Nathanson. Our house label begins its spring releases with a new, young Canadian trio called Rake. Unless you live in Ottawa or London Ontario it is unlikely you have heard of them, but like the Toronto duet Wrist Error, they are part of burgeoning improvisation scene in Canada. Wrist Error will be featured on an upcoming Spool CD with Mats Gustafsson. Other exciting Spool releases slated for June or July are and second release in our FIELD sound art series, a double CD by Francois Houle. Also Canadian is the new label Earsay This Vancouver based label specializes in electroacoustic music. They already have 7 CDs released which feature both new and well known artists.
