New Music New College: 10th Anniversary
Experiment and experience—two words that at their root mean to try, to attempt, or to test. For the past ten years, New Music New College has been an evolving experiment, in which unconventional notions of music have been put to the test in the laboratory of performance. Together, we’ve challenged the boundaries that separate music and speech, music and theater, and performer and audience, and we’ve found new ways to experience music—in galleries, in outdoor spaces, and even in our very own improvised cabaret space, Club Sudakoff. All along the way, the Sarasota community has joined New College students, faculty, and staff to share the thrill of discovery—collectively auditioning new sounds, new music, and new forms of communication.
A vital extension of the New College Music Program, NMNC functions as a proving ground for compositional and performance projects that begin in the classroom with interdisciplinary investigations of music and theory. Through the years, our students have produced new experimental compositions, performed challenging works by Cornelius Cardew, Frederic Rzewski, Steve Reich, and John Cage, and have gone on to present the fruits of their research at conferences and colloquia. This season, New College students will be featured in two productions: Playspace, an evening of experimental compositions that function as games, and The Crossroads Project, a celebration of musical pluralism, undertaken in collaboration with the Florida West Coast Symphony.
Since 2006, NMNC has regularly invited outstanding artists from around the country to appear in our series, both to enrich our conception of contemporary music and to interact with our students in workshops and master classes. For this, our 10th anniversary season, we are excited to present some of the finest new music practitioners working today. NMNC favorite Kathleen Supové returns with Corey Dargel to perform Removable Parts, Dargel’s critically acclaimed theater piece dealing with voluntary amputation and, more deeply, with disconnection and empathy. Drawing on the past to frame the present, acclaimed cellist Scott Kluksdahl will present a recital that juxtaposes the music of Beethoven with that of contemporary composers Richard Wernick and Lowell Liebermann. And, for our season finale, the internationally renowned composer/performer Pamela Z will appear with full electronic support for an evening of original works that display the astonishing potential of the human voice.
As NMNC celebrates ten years of performances and projects, I want to thank everyone who has accompanied us on this journey. By attending our concerts, participating in experimental events, giving us feedback, and contributing financially, you have demonstrated an openness and receptivity to the unfamiliar and the unknown. On behalf of all of us at NMNC, I invite to join us again this year as the experiment and the experience continue.
A vital extension of the New College Music Program, NMNC functions as a proving ground for compositional and performance projects that begin in the classroom with interdisciplinary investigations of music and theory. Through the years, our students have produced new experimental compositions, performed challenging works by Cornelius Cardew, Frederic Rzewski, Steve Reich, and John Cage, and have gone on to present the fruits of their research at conferences and colloquia. This season, New College students will be featured in two productions: Playspace, an evening of experimental compositions that function as games, and The Crossroads Project, a celebration of musical pluralism, undertaken in collaboration with the Florida West Coast Symphony.
Since 2006, NMNC has regularly invited outstanding artists from around the country to appear in our series, both to enrich our conception of contemporary music and to interact with our students in workshops and master classes. For this, our 10th anniversary season, we are excited to present some of the finest new music practitioners working today. NMNC favorite Kathleen Supové returns with Corey Dargel to perform Removable Parts, Dargel’s critically acclaimed theater piece dealing with voluntary amputation and, more deeply, with disconnection and empathy. Drawing on the past to frame the present, acclaimed cellist Scott Kluksdahl will present a recital that juxtaposes the music of Beethoven with that of contemporary composers Richard Wernick and Lowell Liebermann. And, for our season finale, the internationally renowned composer/performer Pamela Z will appear with full electronic support for an evening of original works that display the astonishing potential of the human voice.
As NMNC celebrates ten years of performances and projects, I want to thank everyone who has accompanied us on this journey. By attending our concerts, participating in experimental events, giving us feedback, and contributing financially, you have demonstrated an openness and receptivity to the unfamiliar and the unknown. On behalf of all of us at NMNC, I invite to join us again this year as the experiment and the experience continue.
Professor Stephen Miles
Director
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