July 25, 2014
More media mention MICF
Media attention for the 2014 Mizzou International Composers Festival continued into the week of the fest, with St. Louis magazine publishing a preview story, including quotes from guest composers Zhou Long and Nico Muhly, online on Wednesday. Then on Thursday, the Columbia Missourian ran their story about the festival, while a separate feature in the accompanying Vox Magazine focused on three of this year’s resident composers. On Friday, the festival was featured in a report on the morning newscast of local NBC affiliate KOMU. As for the photo accompanying this post,…
July 21, 2014
Columbia media previews 2014 MICF
With the 2014 Mizzou International Composers Festival starting today, the Columbia Daily Tribune had two stories in Sunday’s paper, plus another online, which together offer a thorough preview of the week’s events. The Tribune‘s Aarik Danielsen interviewed managing director Billy Lackey and resident composer José Martínez for an overview of the festival, and also wrote separate articles about guest composer Nico Muhly and resident composer Nicholas Omiccioli. Also last week, Mizzou professor, MICF co-artistic director and Alarm Will Sound cellist Stefan Freund appeared on KBIA’s “Radio Friends with Paul Pepper” to talk…
April 23, 2014
Oratorio premiere draws media attention
The impending premiere this week of Stefan Freund’s Civil War oratorio is drawing plenty of attention from Columbia media. Last week, Freund was interviewed by Trevor Harris of KBIA, and on Sunday, the Columbia Tribune published a feature story by Amy Wilder previewing the production. Mizzou’s news service also had a preview story about the premiere, as did the Columbia Missourian. Though the latter article now is available only to subscribers, the Missourian also produced a short video to go with it, which you can view in the embedded video window below. The world premiere…
Jan. 13, 2014
St. Louis Symphony performs Stephanie Berg’s “Ravish and Mayhem”
Mizzou alumna Stephanie Berg‘s composition “Ravish and Mayhem” was performed by the St. Louis Symphony on January 10 and 11 at Powell Hall in St. Louis to standing ovations from the audiences and rave reviews from local critics. Writing for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, classical music critic Sarah Bryan Miller found “Ravish and Mayhem” to be “a really delightful work…It’s a fun, creative piece, and (guest conductor Andrey) Boreyko and the orchestra rendered it with accuracy and elan.” Miller also called Berg “a promising new compositional voice,” concluding, “We can trust that this won’t be the last…
Aug. 2, 2013
Wrapping up the 2013 Mizzou International Composers Festival
The 2013 Mizzou International Composers Festival has come to a successful conclusion, but we’ve still got a few more Festival-related links to share with you: * The Festival’s Saturday night grand finale concert was named a “Best Bet” for the weekend by St. Louis Post-Dispatch classical music critic Sarah Bryan Miller. * Jeanne Sinquefield, whose Sinquefield Charitable Foundation provides funding for the Festival, was interviewed by KBIA, the NPR affiliate in Columbia, MO. Dr. Sinquefield’s interview with KBIA’s Trevor Harris is available online here. * Resident ensemble Alarm Will Sound has posted on…
July 22, 2013
Mizzou International Composers Festival in the news
In case you’ve missed out, here’s a recap of some of the press coverage so far of the 2013 Mizzou International Composers Festival. In the past week, there was an extensive feature story in the Sunday, July 21 edition of the Columbia Daily Tribune, as well as a preview of the Festival in the St. Louis Beacon. The Columbia Missourian also ran a feature story on the Festival (although it may have disappeared behind the paywall, and thus be inaccessible to non-subscribers, by the time you read this). Brief mentions of this year’s Mizzou International…
May 14, 2013
Mizzou New Music Initiative in the news
In addition to the outstanding feature article about the Mizzou New Music Initiative in the May issue of St. Louis magazine linked here a few days ago, the MNMI and affiliated composers and musicians also have been the subjects of various other recent items in the media. * Composer, clarinetist and Mizzou alumna Stephanie Berg was profiled in the Columbia Missourian after the announcement that the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra would play her work Ravish and Mayhem during their 2013-14 season. Patrick Harlin, who attends the University of Michigan and, like Berg, was a…
May 1, 2013
Mizzou New Music Initiative featured in St. Louis magazine
The May 2013 issue of St. Louis magazine includes a feature article by culture editor Stefene Russell about the Mizzou New Music Initiative. Russell’s piece offers a comprehensive look at MNMI, from the origins of the Creating Original Music Project (C.O.M.P.) eight years ago, right up until the present day. The print edition of the magazine is on sale now, or you can read the article online here.