This week I have been writing to presenters about NEXUS’ wind ensemble/chamber orchestra repertoire. On Saturday night NEXUS is performing with the Eastman Philharmonia conducted by Neil Varon, and it struck me that perhaps you don’t know about this area of NEXUS performances. A couple weeks ago I blogged about Zwilich’s “blockbuster piece”commissioned for NEXUS… Read more »
Looking for something in particular? Click on the links below. (If the links are not working for you, click on the title above, or on “Read more” below, and you will see them highlighted in yellow and ready to go!) Most Recent PRESS QUOTES AND REVIEWS Most RECENT EVENTS Season HIGHLIGHTS Most Recent PRESS RELEASES… Read more »
NEXUS is performing Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s concerto Rituals at Percussion Rochester on May 5th. She shares her thought on writing this work for NEXUS, in an interview with Frank Oteri at New Music Box called Goose Bumps In The Candy Shop. She has some intriguing comments about percussion instruments and their intrinsic nature: FJO: My… Read more »
NEXUS is preparing for Percussion Rochester, a new festival debuting on May 4 & 5. Bill Cahn says, “The idea behind Percussion Rochester is to showcase an eclectic mix of music that features percussion
Today’s post is fun. Toronto’s Whole Note Magazine runs a monthly feature and in Spring 2009 our own Russell Hartenberger was their choice for Musical Child. Click here (and scroll down a short way) to see Russell’s rosy-cheeked baby picture and read mJBuell’s entertaining interview of Russell that will take you down a Memory Lane… Read more »
Tomorrow night, NEXUS is appearing at the Wittenberg’s innovative music department. Well, here is another of their innovations: Check out the university’s “Composer of the Day” iPhone App –
It is wonderful to get feedback from students who experience NEXUS. We have a guest blogger today, Jordan Stepka of Episcopal Collegiate School in Little Rock, Arkansas where NEXUS was in residence last week. Here is what Jordan has to say:
This week, instruments and NEXUS musicians are heading from all directions to LaGrange College in Georgia, for their performance on March 23rd at 7:30 pm in the popular Callaway Concert Series at Callaway Auditorium. Check out the College’s fun video promo by clicking here. Percussionist Ken Passmore will join NEXUS onstage for Steve Reich’s Music… Read more »
NEXUS is heading into Little Rock, Arkansas on Monday for a busy residency at Episcopal Collegiate School. If you missed it, you can click here to read all about the full programme.
It has been a very mild winter in western New York so far in the 2011/2012 season. The temperatures have been in the 40s for extended periods. February had the highest number of days (25) ever recorded in which there was a temperature above freezing at some point during the day. Snowfall totals have been… Read more »
Eastman School of Music – January 17 to February 28, 2012 This was the second year in which I facilitated a Creative Music Making (CMM) course as part of the Eastman School’s Arts Leadership Program. As in the first year (2011) the course consisted of seven weekly 2-hour-long sessions focused on freeform improvisation based on my… Read more »
Click HERE to read the review of the NEXUS solo concert on March 2, 2012 at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, California.
Sequenza 21 website has published a great review of NEXUS at California Lutheran University. Read it in full here. It is written by “PaulM”, who notes that Samuelson Chapel was “noticeably full” for NEXUS who has “a presence worldwide”. He mentions NEXUS’ “good groove”, and describes each piece that NEXUS played in detail. He appreciated… Read more »
California’s Ventura County Star ran a great little article about NEXUS a few days ago. Have a look by clicking here. The article points out that, rather than “having a midlife career crisis about now”, NEXUS has mastered the art of “meshing together as a group (‘nexus,’ after all, means ‘connection’).” The article also talks… Read more »
NEXUS had a great time at California Lutheran U. where they performed and presented a workshop. They are pictured here during the bows following Steve Reich’s Music for Pieces of Wood. David Johnson (centre) performed the piece with them. David is a composer and percussionist who is a faculty member at the nearby California Institute… Read more »
