Larry Hill Taylor, a survivor of family abuse, gangs, prison, drugs, and the Chicago streets, spent 30 years on stage, drumming and singing and learning the blues from his musical elders. In her new book, Stepson of the Blues, Fractured Atlas member Bonni McKeown examines what happened when Taylor started to lead his own band.
NYC-based composers in all genres of music are invited to apply for one of six residencies available through the Con Edison Musicians’ Residency: Composition Program. Deadline: February 26, 2010.
In February 2009, The Momenta Quartet was one of only seven recipients of the prestigious Koussevitzky Music Fund Grant to commission a new work of classical music. Their commitment to pairing the music of contemporary composers — they have given over 40 world premieres in the last five years — with that of masters from the past sets this talented group apart.
Diverse, young (all are under age 30), and fresh from the top music academies in America, the 16-member Opus Nine Ensemble formed in late 2008, “to explore the infinite possibilities offered by chamber music’s diverse instrumentation, sizing, genres, and periods.” In this week’s Featured Member profile, Opus Nine members discuss their passion for classical music and how they bring its dynamism into the greater community.
Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts is offering an intensive new program about the legal and business issues that affect individual artists and individuals within arts cultural institutions who make and work in film, music and interactive media. Fractured Atlas members can receive a discount to this event by contacting our staff for a discount code.
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A native of Charleston, South Carolina, Fractured Atlas member Samuel Thompson began playing violin at a young age and made his debut at the age of eighteen with the Carolina Amadeus Players Chamber Orchestra. He earned a Master of Music degree from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University where he studied with Kenneth Goldsmith and Raphael Fliegel. Currently living in New York, Samuel recently took time out from his busy schedule of performing, editing recordings and writing about music and the arts to answer a few of my questions…
Just off its premiere concert, the newly-formed San Marco Chamber Music Society has no shortage of talent and enthusiasm for bringing world-class chamber music to the Jacksonville, Florida, area. In this week’s Featured Member profile, violist and society co-founder Ellen Olson describes the group’s early successes and challenges.
NYC Performing Arts Spaces, a program of Fractured Atlas, is sponsoring the newly-created Con Ed Musicians’ Residency: Composition Program.
Three composers at an early stage in their careers will receive a stipend and daytime, weekday use of suitable composition and rehearsal space at Flushing Town Hall in Flushing, Queens, for a three-month period. The composers will [...]
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