CD Reviews – Beth Denisch: Images of Eve

JOURNAL of the IAWM, CD: Images of Eve  “Flowing effortlessly through a kaleidoscope of styles, textures, and timbres, this wonderful CD is an important contribution to the growing oeuvre of flute music by women.” -Nanette Kaplan Solomon      This beautifully performed and mastered CD presents a rich trove of both original flute compositions and transcriptions from

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“Images of Eve”

American composer Beth Denisch adapted “Three Women” from her song cycle “One Blazing Glance,” which describes a woman’s life journey. Dr. Denisch, a Berklee College of Music colleague of flutist Rolfe, drew inspiration for “Three Women” from poems by Rosie Rosenzweig, Kim Nam-Jo, and Allison Joseph. The opening movement, the haunting “Miriam’s Ballad” (suggested by Rosenzweig’s “Miriam’s Dance”), is crisp choreography between

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Feminist Theory and Music Conference UNC Greensboro

Concert 2 Music Review The final piece on the concert, One Blazing Glance by Beth Denisch demonstrated the compositional prowess of one who truly knows her craft. A song cycle written for soprano, flute, harp, viola, and marimba, One Blazing Glance, used the poetry of seventeen poems from women throughout the world. Texts were borrowed from as far

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CD Reviews – Beth Denisch: Jordan and the Dog Woman

JOURNAL of the IAWM , vol. 17, no. 1 (2011) Equinox Chamber Players. Juxtab Music JTM5827 (2004) ..  For anyone seeking an enlightening, entertaining, eclectic mixture, this is a CD not to be missed. RONALD HORNER  Let’s accept as a given that program music is instrumental music that tells a story, sets a scene, or implies

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Berklee Today

Associate Professor of Composition Beth Denisch attended the premiere of her string orchestra piece Fire Mountain Intermezzo at Carnegie Hall on November 20 in a performance by the Chamber Orchestra Kremlin. The piece was a finalist in the Chamber Orchestra Kremlin’s International Blitz-Competition for Composers “Homage to Mozzart.”

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Leroy Southers Memorial Concert

Monday, September 27, 2004, 7:30 P.M. David Friend Recital Hall, Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA Concert Review by David Cleary This concert of music by the Berklee College composition faculty was a pleasing, respectful tribute to a recently fallen comrade. Leroy Southers, who died suddenly of a heart attack in December 2003 at age

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Equinox Chamber Players In Concert for Impact

Thursday, March 27, 2003, 7:30 PM St. John’s United Methodist Church, Watertown, MA Concert Review by David Cleary The estimable Equinox Chamber Players, a wind quintet based out in St. Louis, came to the Boston area to give a series of presentations. This benefit concert for IMPACT, an organization devoted to providing safety training for

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Maxfield Parrish Composer’s Competition Concert

Music of Wright, Fairlee-Kennedy, Bauer, Hsu and Denisch Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA. Sept. 15 by Peter Burwasser On the face of it, commissioning new music in honor of an art exhibition carries an intrinsic risk that the work produced will be overtly programmatic, imitation Pictures at an Exhibition. None of the five

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Mixed bag from Composers String Quartet

Boston Globe by Anthony Tommasini Hearing works by many of today’s American baby-booer composers, you’d think they’d all been raised in Arnold Schoenberg’s Austria rather than Steven Spielberg’s suburbia. Jeffrey Stadelman’s “Steps,” which received its premiere by the Boston Composers String Quartet at Jordan Hall on Monday, is a case in point. This is music

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Red Sneakers trip through performance

The Boston Globe by Susan Larson CAMBRIDGE  – The Composers in Red Sneakers and their guests,  the ZUArts players, presented a concert in which the Sneaks’ time-honored tradition of whimsy and spontaneity tipped ever into plain carelessness. Programming was not adventurous, the performances were not quite ready for public consumption and ZUArts’ frat-house caperings were

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