Columbia hotels offering discounts during Mizzou New Music Summer Festival
Planning on visiting Columbia for the 2012 Mizzou New Music Summer Festival? If so, you should know that three local hotels are offering discounts for the nights of July 26, 27 and 28 to Festival attendees. They are: Hampton Inn & Suites Columbia (at the University of Missouri) 1225 Fellow’s Place (College Ave. & Stadium…
Summer Festival Spotlight: Stephanie Berg
Today, let's get acquainted with one of the resident composers for the 2012 Mizzou New Music Summer Festival, Stephanie Berg. She's one of eight individuals to earn that designation this year, chosen from nearly 150 applicants from countries around the world, including Israel, France, Ireland, Spain, South Africa, Russia, England, Thailand, Canada and China. As…
Summer Festival Spotlight: Alarm Will Sound
Continuing with our series of posts focusing on various participants in the 2012 Mizzou New Music Summer Festival, today we shine out spotlight on Alarm Will Sound. As the resident ensemble for the Festival, AWS plays an essential role in bringing to life the new works created by the resident composers. Not many groups would…
Patrick Clark – Day Eight: The Finish Line
The Finish Line: 9 July, 2012; Day Eight; Duhok, Iraq I am at the end of the eighth day of teaching composition, theory and music history with the American Voices YES Academy in Duhok, Iraq. I am most proud to report that seven of my ten composition students have crossed the finish line with completed…
Patrick Clark on Day Seven in Duhok, Iraq
Day Seven, American Voices YES Academy, Duhok, Iraq My composers have been moved by the spirit. Following yesterday’s reading of two student works by the String Orchestra, four of the remaining eight composers arrived in this morning’s class with beautifully finished scores and parts. I was caught off guard not expecting such a furious commitment…
Patrick Clark’s Observations & Fruit of Effort
Observations: 5 July, 2012; Day Five; Duhok, Iraq I'm in a mosaic of Turkish and Kurdish music, most of which I hear in the back of taxis. It would be terribly awful pop music to me if it didn't sound so exotic. Iraqi music videos are hysterically bad and remind me of American shampoo commercials.…
Summer Festival Spotlight: Steven Stucky
Guest composers play an important part at the Mizzou New Music Summer Festival, teaching and mentoring the resident composers, and we are most fortunate to have Steven Stucky as one of our guest composers for the 2012 MNMSF. Called by BMI "a towering figure in contemporary classical music," Stucky (pictured) perhaps is best known for…
Patrick Clark YES Academy Iraq Report
Day Three: Tuesday, July 3 - Duhok University, Iraq Today in composition class, my ten students and I listened to Claude Debussy’s Voiles from the first book of Préludes. “What is the scale that Debussy is using in…