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	CCI Concert featuring pianist Jerome Reed Sunday, September 9 3 p.m. The Wood Memorial Library 783 Main Street, South Windsor, CT. Pianist Jerome Reed of Lipscomb University, Nashville, will perform an entire program of music by members of Connecticut Composers. Represented on the program will be Richard Corbett, Margaret Collins Stoop, Ken Steen, and Elizabeth Scheidel Austin. All of the composers will be present that afternoon and will talk briefly about their music. Directions to Wood Memorial Library: Driving north from Hartford on I-91 toward Springfield, merge onto I-291 south via exit 35A toward Manchester. Take the US-5 north exit (exit 4), turning left onto US-5 north (John Fitch Blvd.). After approximately one mile turn left again onto Pleasant Valley Road, then right onto Main Street, ending at 783 Main Street, South Windsor. ooooooooooooooooooooo MODERNWORKS Madeleine Shapiro, cello/director Airi Yoshioka, violin William Schimmel, accordion Saturday, May 5, 2007 2:30 p.m. Johnson Room, Smith Library Admission: Free Wild and wired, ModernWorks is cranking up the volume at Eastern Connecticut State University in Willimantic. The ensemble will present both acoustic and electronic works for violin, cello and accordion by the mystical Russian Sofia Gubaidulina, Cuban-American Tania Leon, Germany's Wolfgang Rihm, and Alabama's Charles Norman Mason, last year's Rome Prize winner. The concert will highlight the regional premiere of Spiral Jetty for violin, cello, accordion and live computer electronics (Meet the Composer Commission) by CT's own Anthony Cornicello. Driving Directions: Take Rt 84 to Rt 384; at the end of Rt. 384, bear right on to Rt. 6. After 12 miles, turn left to continue on Rt. 6, where it becomes a highway. Take the 2nd exit which mentions Eastern CT State University. Turn right at the end of the ramp, on to High Street. After passing the High School on the left, the campus will be on the right. Go in through the main entrance on the right. Once you're in the campus, you'll see the Smith Library, which is the large building slightly to the left. The Johnson Room is on the 2nd floor of the library. ooooooooooooooooooooo The New World Trio premiers new work by Ken Steen Memos to Mr. Palomar a work in response to the writings of Italo Calvino Thursday, April 12, 2007 @ 8pm The Warner Theatre Torrington, CT http://www.warnertheatre.org/eventdetail_nwt.htm Also on the program: J.N. Hummel: Trio Op.65 & Tchaikovsky: Trio Additional performances will take place at: Saturday, April 21 @ 8pm Christ Church Cathedral Hartford, CT http://www.cccathedral.org/directions.html Sunday, April 22 @ 2pm Westminster Presbyterian Church West Hartford, CT http://www.westpresby.org/Directions/Directions%20to%20WPC.htm The New World Trio is exciting audiences throughout the United States and Canada with their fresh and passionate approach to chamber music. Whether they are performing classics from the standard repertoire or exploring the horizons of contemporary music, these three young women breathe life and energy into all their performances! The completion of this work for the New World Trio was funded in part by a fellowship from The Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism. ooooooooooooooooooooo Reliquary of Labor A Multi-media Performance by Ken Steen, Gene Gort & Jeffrey Krieger featuring the Quey Percussion Duo Sunday, November 26, 2006 @ 2:00pm The New Britain Museum of American Art (NBMAA) is pleased to announce the performance of “Reliquary of Labor,” a multi-media performance experience commissioned to celebrate the opening of the NBMAA’s new Chase Family Building. The performance is a collaboration between media artist Gene Gort, composer Ken Steen, and electronic cellist Jeffrey Krieger featuring the Quey Percussion Duo. The premiere of “Reliquary of Labor” will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, November 26, 2006 in the Stanley Community Center of the NBMAA's Chase Family Building, 56 Lexington St., New Britain, CT. The performance is free with Museum admission. The project takes as its inspiration the creative process as a product of labor. The artists have developed a multi-media performance for video, electronic cello, percussion duo and pre-recorded sound using the images and sounds of the Museum’s building expansion as their source material. “Reliquary of Labor” explores the collaborative process among artists, observes and reveals beauty in the ordinary, and celebrates the idea of labor as integral to any art work or production; that architecture, music, writing, visual art, or any creative endeavor doesn’t merely appear out of the atmosphere. The artists seek to make their collaborative process transparent for the audience and have launched the website http://www.reliquaryoflabor.org. The site contains a daily podcast of audio and video materials, project updates and works-in-progress for viewing and downloading. The podcast can be subscribed to either from the site or from the ReliquaryPodcast at the iTunes Store - yes its free, though you will need iTunes. [If you don't have it - click here.]An electronic press kit is also available. Visitors to the site are encouraged to use sound, stills, and videos from the project for their own work through a "creative commons" license and to submit processed files for reintegration into the project. This project has received generous support from The New Britain Museum of American Art, The MacDowell Colony, a New Works Initiative Grant from the Edward C. and Ann T. Roberts Foundation, The Continental Harmony Encore Project of the American Composers Forum in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts with additional funds provided by the Rockefeller Foundation. HB Group of North Haven has provided generous technical support for the residencies and presentations. Sunday, November 19, 2006 @ 4:00pm CCI Composers Concert A concert of music by members of Connecticut Composers who have either once lived in the town of Wilton or are still living there will take place at 4 o’clock in the afternoon of Sunday, November 19, in the new Dave Brubeck Room of the Wilton Library. Featured on the program will be songs by Dave Brubeck himself performed by soprano Jennifer Foster and Allen Brings, both of whom will also perform songs by Allen Brings. First performances of Elizabeth Lauer’s Two Rags a la française will be given by the brilliant Italian-born pianist Sandro Russo together with settings both new and old of the poetry of Kabir by Howard Rovics sung by soprano Christina Rovics accompanied by the composer. Eugénie Rocherolle’s An American Rhapsodie, written for the Wilton Arts Council’s “A Biennial Celebration of Music” and given its first performance in Wilton in 2002, will be performed by Trio Esprit, an ensemble of outstanding students from high schools in Westport, Easton and Trumbull. The Wilton Library is easily reached from Route 7. If traveling south on 7, turn right at the intersection of 7 with route 33 (Ridgefield Road); turn left into Wilton Center after crossing the overpass and continue straight past the stop sign. The library will be on the right. If traveling north on 7, turn left at the intersection of 7 with 33. There is no admission charge. For more information contact Allen Brings by e-mail at miramusic@aol.com or by telephone at 203.762.5186. Sunday, May 21, 2006 @ 4:00pm CCI Composers Concert A concert of new music by members of Connecticut Composers, Inc. will be presented at the Unitarian Society of New Haven, 700 Hartford Turnpike in Hamden, Connecticut, at 4 pm on Sunday, May 21. Among the composers whose music will be heard are Elizabeth R. Austin, Allen Brings, Robert Carl, Richard Corbett, Stephen Gryc, John Mucci, Ken Steen and Margaret Collins Stoop. Admission to the concert is free. Featured on this unusual program will be music for piano, one-hand, two-hands, and four-hands, a song cycle setting the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, a song for soprano and double bass, a setting of a text by Connecticut poet Pat Vidal, a work for solo oboe, and a one-movement work for flute, cello and piano. Four of the participating composers will be heard performing their own music. For driving directions log onto the Society’s website, www.usnh.org. Thursday, March 23, 2006 @ 8:00pm Duo 46 The Guitar Plus International Concert Series will present Duo 46, violinist Beth Ilana Schneider and guitarist Matt Gould, together with pianist Nathanael May, in a program of Chamber Music for Guitar at 8 PM on Thursday, March 23, at Christ Presbyterian Church, 135 Whitney Avenue, in New Haven. Included on the program will be compositions by Paul Richards, Brian Hulse, Jorge Liderman and Connecticut composers Allen Brings and Paul Alan Levi. For more information consult Duo46's web-site, duo46.com. Beth and Matt, who moved recently to Connecticut, are eager to make the acquaintance of composers in the state who might be interested in composing for the duo. SAVE THE DATE: SAT. NOVEMBER 5, 2005 @ 3:00pm CCI members are all invited to attend a “salon” at which they will be able to play CDs or cassette tapes of their work, discuss their work, or just talk about music among themselves. The salon will take place at 3 pm on Saturday, November 5, at the home of Howard and Christina Rovics in Bethel. Food and beverages will be available, but they will be “potluck” so that each member should bring something edible and potable. Directions to the home of Howard and Christina Rovics, 26 Windaway Road in Bethel: From the north, take I-84 south to exit 9, CT-25. Turn left onto CT-25 (Hawleyville Road) toward Brookfield, right onto US-6 (Mt. Pleasant Road), left onto Old Hawleyville Road, right onto CT-302 (Dodgingtown Road), left onto Windaway Road. Just before the left turn onto Windaway Road watch for Kellogg Road and then Linda Lane on the right. From the southeast, take CT-58 (Black Rock Turnpike) from either the Connecticut Turnpike or the Merritt Parkway. Turn right onto CT-302, then right onto Windaway Road. Just before Windaway Road notice the mail box numbers. Windaway is right after #56 and across from Elmwood Cemetery. From the southwest, take I-95 to the US-7 extension going north to Danbury. At the end of the extension take US-7 north toward Danbury approximately 7-8 miles Turn right onto CT-107. Follow CT-107 (observe the signs carefully; you’re in Charles Ives’ territory) to CT-58 north. Turn right onto CT-302, then right onto Windaway Road, which is just after mailbox #56. The Rovics’ telephone number is 203.744.5841. o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o (Calendar archives...) April 2004 Annual Spring CCI President's Potluck Luncheon Party and Demonstration of the Electric Cello by Jeffrey Krieger. Saturday, April 24 from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Jeff may wish to collaborate with CCI composer-members for new works for the elctric cello; we need to hear him discuss and demonstrate this instrument. He can only be present in the morning of 4/24. Please bring a dish; drinks, etc. available from the Austins. Anyone needing directions should email Elizabeth at: musica123@earthlink.net ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° Allen Brings and Elizabeth Lauer will give a joint presentation about their music and how they went about composing it for The Friends of the Library at Fairfield University at Fairfield University at 4 pm on Friday, April 16. The presentation will take place in the multi-media room on the lower level of the library. There is no admission charge, and all are invited to attend. Fairfield University is at 1073 North Benson Road in Fairfield and is easily accessible from either I-95 or the Merritt Parkway. March 2004 Compositions for piano by Elizabeth Austin, Allen Brings, and Elizabeth Lauer will be performed by the composers themselves while Allen Brings will also perform works by Mary Margaret Clark and Harold Littledale. Stephen Gryc’s Acoustic Aquarium for toy piano and percussion will also be featured together with a lullaby by Albert Hurwitt and excerpts from John Mucci's opera Russel and the Crystal Ball. The concert, entitled “The Child in Music,” will take place at 4 pm on Sunday, March 28, at the West Hartford Library, 20 South Main Street in West Hartford; admission is free.