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Edge of the Center: March 2015

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Friday, March 27, 2015. Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra: A City and Its Orchestra. About that music festival I've been thinking of—You know how they talk about April in Paris? Well, I think we should call it June in Buffalo. Yeah, why not? 8212; Morton Feldman*. June in Buffalo is an international festival that attracts some of the most widely-renowned artists from across the world. But it is first and foremost a festival in Buffalo. And there is perhaps no ensemble more firmly and proudly Buffalo. When L...

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Edge of the Center: Unexplored Regions: An Interview with David Felder

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Thursday, May 28, 2015. Unexplored Regions: An Interview with David Felder. This is a big year for June in Buffalo, marking both the 40th anniversary of the festival's founding and the 30th anniversary of David Felder's tenure as artistic director. Under Felder's direction, the festival changed significantly, placing a greater emphasis on student works, and bringing in a wide range of skilled composers, performers, and ensembles. Has called "an impressive ability to establish a sound universe, in which o...

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Edge of the Center: June 2015

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Wednesday, June 24, 2015. Null Point: Singing Silos, Decay/Reverberate. Silo City, site of Null Point's Decay/Reverberate. The grain silos in Buffalo's Old First Ward have been an attractive location for the city's experimental artists for many years. These vast, now empty structures are the site of several well-known events, including the Silo City Reading Series. The City of Night. Festival, and the Silo Sessions. And presented by Null Point. Labor exploitation. Event curator (and UB composer) Coli...

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Edge of the Center: February 2015

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Thursday, February 26, 2015. Talujon Percussion: A Rustle and a Bang along 25 years. Lots of contemporary music ensembles have a specialty. From some ensembles, you can expect a keen ear for the eclectic "Fourth Stream" of downtown minimalism; from others, an expertise in the complex inner workings of American serialism; while others still can summon the most otherworldly sounds from their instruments in service of the more abstract works of the European avant garde. Or Credo in US. You'd be hard-pressed...

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Edge of the Center: Null Point: Singing Silos, Decay/Reverberate

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Wednesday, June 24, 2015. Null Point: Singing Silos, Decay/Reverberate. Silo City, site of Null Point's Decay/Reverberate. The grain silos in Buffalo's Old First Ward have been an attractive location for the city's experimental artists for many years. These vast, now empty structures are the site of several well-known events, including the Silo City Reading Series. The City of Night. Festival, and the Silo Sessions. And presented by Null Point. Labor exploitation. Event curator (and UB composer) Coli...

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Edge of the Center: May 2015

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Thursday, May 28, 2015. Unexplored Regions: An Interview with David Felder. This is a big year for June in Buffalo, marking both the 40th anniversary of the festival's founding and the 30th anniversary of David Felder's tenure as artistic director. Under Felder's direction, the festival changed significantly, placing a greater emphasis on student works, and bringing in a wide range of skilled composers, performers, and ensembles. Has called "an impressive ability to establish a sound universe, in which o...

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Edge of the Center: Deviant Septet: reinvigorating a unique chamber ensemble

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Thursday, November 20, 2014. Deviant Septet: reinvigorating a unique chamber ensemble. Just over a hundred years ago, Arnold Schoenberg composed Pierrot Lunaire. And Peter Maxwell Davies' Eight Songs for a Mad King. And to this day a good number of contemporary chamber groups are centered on this particular quintet (e.g., Da Capo Chamber Players, Eighth Blackbird, New York New Music Ensemble, Piccola Accademia degli Specchi, etc.). Stravinsky, ca. 1918. The Soldier's Tale"). The piece was logically a...

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Edge of the Center: BMOP brings David Felder's Les Quatre Temps Cardinaux to Boston

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Thursday, October 9, 2014. BMOP brings David Felder's Les Quatre Temps Cardinaux to Boston. Gil Rose conducting the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. This Sunday, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. Will perform David Felder's massive song cycle, Les Quatre Temps Cardinaux,. As part of its season-opening "Surround Sound" event. Also featuring Ronald Bruce Smith's Constellation. And the premiere of Anthony Paul De Ritis's Riflessioni. BMOP Artistic Director and conductor, Gil Rose. Of Felder's Les Quatre.

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Edge of the Center: Buffalo's Third Wave: Thirty Years of June in Buffalo Under David Felder

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Monday, June 1, 2015. Buffalo's Third Wave: Thirty Years of June in Buffalo Under David Felder. Is a well-known song by Vladimir Dukelsky (aka Vernon Duke) and May in Miami refers to a month of cultural and community activities in its eponymous city. But June in Buffalo? I first met David on a 1983 trip to San Diego where I'd gone to collaborate with Roger Reynolds on a project that became his Transfigured Wind. If not in the flesh what I've come to call the Felder Style. Nils Vigeland, Harvey Sollberger,.

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Edge of the Center: Roger Reynolds: On Space and Collaboration

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Friday, May 22, 2015. Roger Reynolds: On Space and Collaboration. In Roger Reynolds' …the serpent-snapping eye. Series, and who, as a conductor, premiered several important works by the composer), percussionist Steven Schick (who worked closely with the composer on the Watershed. In 1978). Reynolds explains. In addition to collaborating with performers, Reynolds has worked with a wide variety of artists in other media. Many of his electronic pieces are the results of close work with musical assistant...