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Michael Alec Rose

Composer of concert music • Scorhill Music, Publisher • Author

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Goings-on, 2010

March 2, 2010 by Michael Alec Rose

  • Pemiere of Five Bucolics: A Cycle of Songs on Poems by Maurice Manning, at University of Miami, November 21, 2010. Tony Boutté, tenor; Alan Johnson, piano. 
    Audio samples at “Have a Listen. . .”  below, right)
  • Speaker, The Carmel Authors & Ideas Festival, Sept. 24-26, 2010, Carmel-by-the-Sea.
    (Audible Signs: Essays from a Musical Ground). Please see Amazon link for copies of Audible Signs.
    Festival double bill:
    Saturday: Take a Sad Song and Make it Better: the Beatles and Beethoven.
    Sunday: Earning Your Song: Beethoven’s 7th and “Ticket to Ride.”
  • Book, Audible Signs:  Essays from a Musical Ground from Continuum Books (Aug. 26, 2010) “A vivid, expressive, and innovative study of how the great composers in classical and rock music deploy subtle musical signs in ingenious ways.” See tab above (Book: Audible Signs) for full description.
  • Audio samples (see “Have a Listen. . .” at below, right)
  • Recent performances featuring virtuoso violinist Peter Sheppard Skaerved:
    -  Inaugural Concert, British Museum Project, May 27, 2010: Palimpsest for Solo Violin
    -  Wege durch das Land / Literature and Music Festival in Westphalia, Germany, August, 2010: Everything Under the Sun: Four Seasons for Two Violins.
  • Upcoming premiere at the University of Miami, November 21, 2010:  Five Bucolics: A Cycle of Songs on Poems by Maurice Manning, composed for Tony Boutté, tenor.
  • Speaker, Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha of Tennessee Chapter, Vanderbilt University, Spring Initiation Meeting, May 13, 2010:  “Audible Signs: An Intimate Iconography of Music.”
  • Speaker, One Day University,  Sunday, Oct. 24, 2010, Constitution Center, Philadelphia, PA: “The Beatles and Beethoven: Hearing the Connections”
  • Air for Unaccompanied Violin (2010)   Recorded by Peter Sheppard Skærved for a forthcoming disc of solo works
  • New works in progress:
    Burlesques Before the Ark (Piano Quartet, 2010).
    The Lost Books of the Odyssey (Tableaux after Zachary Mason’s novel).
  • The Michael Alec Rose Composition Award has been newly endowed at the Blair School of Music by composer-violinist and former student Daniel Bernard Roumain.
  • 25th Annual ASCAPLUS Award (2010)
  • Entry on The Lied and Art Song Texts page
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Posted in Contemporary Concert Music | Tagged aesthetics of music, art and music, Audible Signs, beatles, Beethoven, British Museum, Bruce Springsteen, Carole King, classical music, cultural connections, Hey Jude, John Lennon, literature and music, Maurice Manning, music composition, music: philosophy and aesthetics, Paul McCartney, philosophy of music, popular music, Shakespeare sonnet, Stuart Davis, The Lost Books of the Odyssey, Tony Boutte, zachary mason | Leave a Comment

  • Michael Alec Rose

    composes a wide variety of chamber and symphonic music for many distinguished performers and venues.
  • audible signs

  • Audible Signs:
    Essays from a Musical Ground
    by Michael Alec Rose
    Continuum, Sept. 2010
    ISBN 9781441180506
    $24.95 paper

  • Michael Alec Rose (composer)

  • Have a listen (mp3s)

    • Everything Under the Sun: Four Seasons for Two Violins (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter): Peter Sheppard Skaerved and Benjamin Hart, violins

    • Spring
    • Summer
    • Fall
    • Winter

    • The Periodic Table: Concerto for Piano and Eight Players. Aaron Shorr, piano, and players at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama [1st movement only]

    • Arguing With God: Concerto for Klezmer and Chamber Orchestra. Brave Old World and the Nashville Chamber Orchestra [2nd movement only]
    • • Graces, Furies.
      Carolina Piano Trio

    • Two ballets for Nashville Ballet:

    • • The Night of the Iguana (Ballet in One Act), with the Vanderbilt Orchestra
    • • The Apparition (Ballet in One Act), with Christian Teal, piano and Craig Nies, piano
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  • Selected Works

    For Complete Works, see tab at top of page.

    • An arch never sleeps, for violin and double bass (2009)

    • The Periodic Table: Chamber Concerto for Piano and Eight players (2009)

    • Everything Under the Sun: Four Seasons for Two Violins (2009)

    • Hubbert Peak: Three Gas Stations for String Quartet (2008)

    • Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage Pantomime for violinist and cellist (2008) Premiered at Wilton’s Music Hall, London.

    • Arguing with God: Concerto for Klezmer and Chamber Orchestra (for Brave Old World and the Nashville Chamber Orchestra) Premiered March 2007, Schermerhorn Symphony Center

    • Graces, Furies for piano trio (for the Carolina Trio) Three city tour, 2007

    • Pastoral Concerto for violin and orchestra (for Peter Sheppard Skaerved) Royal Academy Music Festival, St. Ives, 2007

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    The header image is a Victorian-era, colored engraving of Scorhill Circle, a neolithic stone circle in Dartmoor National Park, England. My family and I have spent many happy hours stretched out on the grass here, alongside sheep and cows and meadowlarks. I love this place so much, it inspired my ASCAP publishing moniker, Scorhill Music.
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