New Classic Banjo Project - Classic-Banjo2024-03-29T06:19:25Zhttps://classic-banjo.ning.com/forum/topics/new-classic-banjo-project?commentId=2667446%3AComment%3A140449&x=1&feed=yes&xn_auth=noSeptember 1, 2019.
Jim Dalton…tag:classic-banjo.ning.com,2019-11-25:2667446:Comment:1404492019-11-25T01:54:39.383ZMichael Nixhttps://classic-banjo.ning.com/profile/MichaelNix
<p>September 1, 2019.</p>
<p>Jim Dalton delivered a two movement piece based on the inscription on Pete Seeger's banjo head "This Machine Surrounds Hate and Forces it to Surrender":</p>
<p>Overcome</p>
<p> 1. Surrounding Hate</p>
<p>2. Forcing it to Surrender</p>
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<p>Thomas Schuttenhelm has completed and delivered:</p>
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<div><span><em>Keningale's Mystery Serenade </em></span></div>
<div><span>Julian Hawthorne (1846-1934) was an American writer and journalist and the son of…</span></div>
<p>September 1, 2019.</p>
<p>Jim Dalton delivered a two movement piece based on the inscription on Pete Seeger's banjo head "This Machine Surrounds Hate and Forces it to Surrender":</p>
<p>Overcome</p>
<p> 1. Surrounding Hate</p>
<p>2. Forcing it to Surrender</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Thomas Schuttenhelm has completed and delivered:</p>
<p> </p>
<div><span><em>Keningale's Mystery Serenade </em></span></div>
<div><span>Julian Hawthorne (1846-1934) was an American writer and journalist and the son of novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne. In his story “Ken’s Mystery” (1883) the protagonist Keningale describes his encounter with a two-hundred year old woman, Ethelind, who was “awakened from her centuries of sleep” by a song he played on his banjo. Shortly after Keningale’s serenade to Ethelind he discovered that the banjo appeared to age two-hundred years. This song-serenade is a reimagining of the mystery, music, and mutations, that were enacted upon Keningale’s strange banjo.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span> </span></div>
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<p> <img src="http://michaelnixmusic.com/img/JimDalton_small.jpg" alt="Jim Dalton" width="216" height="198"/></p>
<p>American composer Jim Dalton is a professor of music theory at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. His works are performed by soloists and ensembles throughout the US, Canada, and in Europe, including venues such as Musique Nouvelles, Lunel, France; the Kansas Symposium of New Music; Sound: Scotland’s Festival of New Music; and Akademie der Tonkunst (Darmstadt, Germany). He has enjoyed recent premieres by Aaron Larget-Caplan, Carson Cooman, Sharan Leventhal, Stephen Altoft, Transient Canvas, and Scottish Voices.</p>
<p>Dalton is an active performer (solo, chamber, orchestra) on guitar, mandolin, and both tenor and 5-string banjos. He has recently played banjo with orchestras in the U.S., Mexico, and China. He and his wife, soprano Maggi Smith-Dalton, perform frequently throughout the US, specializing in historically-informed performance of 19th and early 20th century American music.</p>
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<p><img src="http://michaelnixmusic.com/img/Tom_Schuttenhelm-108_small.jpeg" alt="Thomas Schuttenhelm" width="132" height="198"/></p>
<p>Thomas Schuttenhelm is a composer and guitarist whose compositions have a strong conceptual component. His music uses embodied programs and celebrates in allusions to the musical, literary, poetic, visual, and theatrical influences that resonate throughout his compositions. Much of his music is the result of collaborations with musicians, poets, actors and artists. The music he writes is often as much ‘about’ the people he collaborates as it is for them to perform. He is the Artistic Director at Network for New Music in Philadelphia. For more information: <a href="https://trschuttenhelm.wixsite.com/mysite" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://trschuttenhelm.wixsite.com/mysite</a></p>