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...
“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...
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...
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...
Why I Wrote “All of Us” – French
Pourquoi ai-je écrit All of Us? Ce projet est né d’un désir de redonner à ma communauté, par la création de All of Us en collaboration avec des orchestres s’identifiant comme membres de la communauté LGBTQ+. Je suis extrêmement reconnaissante à chacun des ensembles qui ont adopté le projet. Cela témoigne de l’extraordinaire richesse, de...
Why I Wrote “All of Us” – German
Warum ich „All of Us“ geschrieben habe Dieses Projekt entstand aus dem Wunsch heraus, meiner Community etwas zurückzugeben, indem ich mit Orchestern, die sich als LGBTQ+ identifizieren, zusammenarbeitete, um „All of Us“ zu gestalten und zum Leben zu erwecken. Ich bin diesen Ensembles zutiefst dankbar dafür, dass sie diese Vision aufgegriffen haben, und bin froh...
Why I Wrote “All of Us”
This project grew from a desire to give back to my community by partnering with LGBTQ+ identified orchestras to shape and bring All of Us to life. I am deeply grateful to these ensembles for embracing this vision, and to the extraordinary richness, resilience, and diversity of the queer community that continues to inspire it....
Concert Review: The New Gallery Concert Series — For the Eye and the Ear
April 15, 2023 By Aaron Keebaugh The combined concert and gallery experience made one reconsider old clichés — E.M. Forster’s advice that art “only connect” took on an amplified resonance. The New Gallery Concert Series presents all the art that its name suggests. For twenty-three years, the organization has paired new music — much of...