/tags/american-music American music en-US Copyright Tue, 12 Nov 2024 19:49:16 GMT /2024-11-12/disembodied-voices-linda-kernohans-concerto-for-theremin-and-chamber-orchestra Long a fixture of sci-fi film soundtracks, the theremin will sail through central Ohio this weekend when the Central Ohio Symphony and thereminist Caroline Scruggs perform the world premiere of the Concerto for Theremin and Chamber Orchestra by Linda Kernohan. Tue, 12 Nov 2024 19:49:16 GMT /2024-11-12/disembodied-voices-linda-kernohans-concerto-for-theremin-and-chamber-orchestra Jennifer Hambrick /2024-10-29/new-work-by-columbus-composer-offers-a-roadmap-to-a-better-world Columbus composer Mark Lomax, II’s new work Ubuntu musically embodies the tenets of radical humanity and offers a glimpse of a path to a better world. The Carpe Diem String Quartet performs Mark Lomax’s Ubuntu in ÐÇ¿ÕÎÞÏÞ´«Ã½'s Performance Studio. Tue, 29 Oct 2024 13:52:29 GMT /2024-10-29/new-work-by-columbus-composer-offers-a-roadmap-to-a-better-world Jennifer Hambrick /2024-07-15/new-recording-sends-home-the-meaning-of-home However we define it, home is something that lives in us as much as we live in it. In its most recent recording, the Austin-based Miró Quartet showcases beguiling American works that explore the meaning of home. Mon, 15 Jul 2024 17:01:30 GMT /2024-07-15/new-recording-sends-home-the-meaning-of-home Jennifer Hambrick /2024-06-07/new-recording-helps-bring-healing-after-gun-violence On July 4, 2022, a shooter opened fire at an Independence Day parade in Highland Park, Ill., killing seven and injuring 48 others. The incident inspired community leader Joanne Bernstein to commission Chicago-based composer Stacy Garrop to write a piece of music that could bring solace to the community. Fri, 07 Jun 2024 09:38:00 GMT /2024-06-07/new-recording-helps-bring-healing-after-gun-violence Jennifer Hambrick /2024-04-03/the-overlook-hotel-translates-architectural-forms-into-music Every building has a unique personality. The Overlook Hotel, the demonically possessed setting of Stephen King's novel The Shining, is now also the title character of the Boston Modern Orchestra Project's recording of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Paul Moravec’s musical works inspired by architectural forms. Wed, 03 Apr 2024 19:14:54 GMT /2024-04-03/the-overlook-hotel-translates-architectural-forms-into-music Jennifer Hambrick /2024-02-12/recording-offers-new-and-nuanced-readings-of-black-composers-works A new recording, American Counterpoints, sets two undercelebrated African American composers in counterpoint and brings to light a long-obscured musical masterpiece in its first commercial recording. Mon, 12 Feb 2024 18:06:38 GMT /2024-02-12/recording-offers-new-and-nuanced-readings-of-black-composers-works Jennifer Hambrick /2023-10-12/the-ohio-premiere-of-jennifer-higdons-cold-mountain-suite As part of a nationwide new music commissioning program, the Central Ohio Symphony will open its 2023-24 season with the Ohio premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Jennifer Higdon’s Cold Mountain Suite. Thu, 12 Oct 2023 11:00:00 GMT /2023-10-12/the-ohio-premiere-of-jennifer-higdons-cold-mountain-suite Jennifer Hambrick /2022-11-21/meet-central-ohio-composer-ben-shirley During the last 25 years, Shirley has gone from the rhythm section of a rising-star rock band to L.A.’s Skid Row and, most recently, to a new career as a classical composer in his current home of Newark, Ohio. The story of Shirley’s path to central Ohio is one of loneliness and addiction, of mountaintop highs and rock-bottom despair and, ultimately, recovery and redemption. And music was the friend that led him to a new life. Mon, 21 Nov 2022 15:34:47 GMT /2022-11-21/meet-central-ohio-composer-ben-shirley Jennifer Hambrick /2022-10-28/the-lost-birds-memorializes-extinct-species At one point in time, the skies over North America were full of birds. The ravages of overhunting, industrialization, pollution and trading have silenced many of those species forever. Now American composer Christopher Tin has memorialized extinct birds in The Lost Birds: An Extinction Elegy, recently available in a recording by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and VOCES8. Fri, 28 Oct 2022 17:52:54 GMT /2022-10-28/the-lost-birds-memorializes-extinct-species Jennifer Hambrick /2022-07-19/a-new-recording-by-the-crossing-choir-explores-relationships What knits us to the soul of another? It’s one of the central questions of life, and it is the central question of the Philadelphia-based The Crossing choir’s recording Born: The Music of Edie Hill and Michael Gilbertson, which invites us to consider how we walk with the creatures we encounter on our path. Tue, 19 Jul 2022 14:56:55 GMT /2022-07-19/a-new-recording-by-the-crossing-choir-explores-relationships Jennifer Hambrick