Raymond Harvey
January 30, 2013
New music concert features student ensemble and baritone Carl Ratner
Who:
Birds on a Wire
David Colson, Conductor
Carl Ratner, Baritone
Raymond Harvey, Piano
WMU School of Music
What: Concert, Free Admission
When: Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013 at 7:30 p.m.
Where: Dalton Center Recital Hall, Western Michigan University
KALAMAZOO - Birds on a Wire, Western Michigan University's new music
ensemble, conducted by David Colson, director of the School of Music,
presents a concert with WMU professor of voice, Carl Ratner, and pianist
Raymond Harvey, music director for the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, at
7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 7 in the Dalton Center Recital Hall. Birds
on a Wire will premiere Biodiversity, by WMU assistant professor of
electronic composition, Christopher Biggs. Ratner and Harvey will
premiere American Pierrot: A Langston Hughes Songbook, by composer
Robert G. Patterson.
Biodiversity, a multimedia composition, was created with the generous
support of the A & D Issa Music and Dance Faculty Award, awarded to
Biggs by WMU's College of Fine Arts. The work, which abstractly
reflects on biodiversity and human interactions with the environment
that support or threaten biodiversity, features live and pre-recorded
electronics as well as videos created by four multimedia artist
collaborators, including WMU's Kevin Abbot, featuring choreography by
professor of dance, David Curwen.
American Pierrot: A Langston Hughes Songbook was written specifically
for Ratner, whom Patterson has known since junior high. The two then
attended the same high school and undergraduate institution, the
Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College. American Pierrot features
twelve poems by Langston Hughes arranged as a song cycle. Patterson will
be in attendance at the premiere.
Comment by email:
Hi William, Thanks so much for your post about our concert next week. We appreciate the extra attention it's received! Best, Meredith Meredith Bradford,
Comment by email:
Hi William, Thanks so much for your post about our concert next week. We appreciate the extra attention it's received! Best, Meredith Meredith Bradford,
Concerts Assistant & Seminar Registrar, School of Music, Western Michigan University
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