There’s always an air of mystery surrounding the program for the Telluride Film Festival. Organizers don’t reveal what’s on the program until visitors reach the mountain. And filmmakers are sworn…
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Minimalist Music Primer: CalArts Alum Presents “Phasing and Form” at International Conference
The Second International Conference on Minimalist Music is taking place now through Sunday at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Presenting a paper on “Phasing and Form” is composer Ryan Tanaka…
Continue reading »REDCAT Announces Upcoming Season
[nggallery id=11] REDCAT, CalArts’ performance and exhibit space in downtown Los Angeles, announced its Fall 09 season last week with an ambitious program that blurs the boundaries between visual and…
Continue reading »A Glimpse of The Wild Beast
[nggallery id=10] I am interested in how the wild beast lives in the jungle, not in the zoo. – Composer Morton Feldman (1926-87) The Wild Beast, CalArts’ new variable-use, indoor-outdoor…
Continue reading »AH! Opera Launches Participatory, Multimedia Site
AH! Keening Parasites from CalArts Music on Vimeo. One of the most anticipated works in REDCAT’s new season is the world premiere of AH! opera no-opera (Sept. 16-18). Presented by…
Continue reading »From Dawn to Dawn: Erik Satie’s Vexations
Erik Satie’s Vexations (1893) for solo piano starts with the middle “C.” Sounds simple enough, right? But give it a minute, and then the 52-beat (104 eighth notes) piece gets…
Continue reading »Fellowships for Music Alums, on Each Coast
New York-based composer, bandleader and double bassist Yunior Terry (Music BFA 02) has won one of the two Van Lier Fellowships awarded each year by Meet the Composer. Terry is…
Continue reading »CalArts Student on America’s Got Talent
Tonight CalArts student Charles Dorsey (Music 10) made his national television debut on the NBC show America’s Got Talent at 9 p.m. The young singer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalist, taped his audition, but unfortunately…
Continue reading »20 Years of Jazz with Capitol/EMI
[nggallery id=2] Since 1990, students from CalArts‘ Herb Alpert School of Music have had the opportunity to create a CD of original jazz and eclectic compositions at the historic Capitol…
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