Extractions: Steve Ben Israel, speaker i think the combination of age and the greater coming together is responsible for the speed of the passing time. its six months now and i can tell you truthfully few periods in my life have passed so quickly. i am in excellent physical and emotional health. there are doubtless subtle surprises ahead but i feel secure and ready. (Excerpt from Frederic Rzewskis Coming Together , text by Sam Melville) To mix up their routine a bit, the venerable Da Capo Chamber Players gave up a gleeful program with some well-known talents, a few not so well-known, and ended with a moving performance of a classic. A definite plus was the venue, the Tap Room at the Knitting Factory, which is a cozy space and has been enlarged and renovated to improve the sight lines. I cant see why many people wouldnt enjoy hearing music here while sitting at a small pub table and enjoying a pint of Magic Hat No. 9 (a tasty beer from a small brewer in Vermont).
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Crystal Cruises - Entertainment & Onboard Programs Salima Wazir, Instrumentalist/Oboe. Â Â Â (London to Reykjavik). blair mcmillen,Classical pianist. Â Â Â (London to Reykjavik). Nicola Loud, Violinist. http://www.crystalcruises.com/cruise_information.aspx?CID=4223
Register At NYTimes.com The able players who make up counter)induction are blair mcmillen, pianist; AsmiraWoodwardPage, violinist; Jessica Meyer, violist; Sumire Kudo, cellist; and http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/14/arts/music/14MATA.html?pagewanted=print&positi
Mayu's Guestbook Bravo Mayu! I am a pianist who studied at Juilliard, and I wish you all the bestof luck. All best, blair mcmillen New York, NY http//www.blairmcmillen.com. http://www.mayumusic.com/sunbbs/index2.html
[ MINIMUM SECURITY COMPOSERS COLLECTIVE > EVENTS 2001-2002 ] Guest composer Lee Hyla, whose Dream Of Innocent III was presented by MinimumSecurity, performed by Odd Appetite with pianist blair mcmillen. http://www.minimumsecurity.org/events2001-2002.html
Kate Dillingham, Cellist: Press pianist blair mcmillen contributed greatly to the high quality of the performance;with the piano on the small stick, he was a strong, supportive partner, and http://kdlgm.home.mindspring.com/debut_review.htm
Extractions: April 16, 2002 American cellist Kate Dillingham has an interesting background, which seems to be divided between the United States and Russia. In this country, she was a scholarship student at Rutgers University, where she studied with Bernard Greenhouse; in Russia, she studied with Prof. Maria Tschaikovskaya of the Moscow Conservatory, and completed a master course with her in Germany, where she also performed the Haydn D major Concerto. She made her debut as orchestral soloist in Russia in 1998 with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic and the Moscow Chamber Orchestra "The Seasons," and went back in 1999 to perform and record the two Haydn concertos with the latter group; the recording was released in 2001 by Connoisseur Society Records. The Merkin Hall concert was Ms. Dillingham's New York recital debut, but she is clearly a seasoned performer; her stage presence is poised, natural and dignified, without fuss or show. She is also an excellent cellist: her technique is solid and reliable, though not overly brilliant, her tone is focused, warm and flexible, if not very powerful; her musical approach is serious, intelligent, respectful of the composer and sensitive to style and idiom. Her playing is concentrated and direct, but generally introverted and reticent; a stronger sense of emotional involvement and more unrestrained projection would make it even more compelling. Pianist Blair McMillen contributed greatly to the high quality of the performance; with the piano on the small stick, he was a strong, supportive partner, and the two artists' rapport was close and radiated mutual respect and affection.
Sequenza21/The Contemporary Classical Music Weekly Artist members of Music from Copland House include pianist and Copland House HelenaBugallo, Nicolas Hodges, Cherryl Seltzer and blair mcmillen; with violist http://www.sequenza21.com/copland.html
Extractions: "After Paris, Copland started to search for a way to connect his music to his environment; it was not until his first trip to Mexico (1932) that he found how. "Copland was in a position to help many of his colleagues. And he did. Many Latin American composers were published, had doors opened to them, and are on the map today, thanks to Copland. But I believe that an equal, if not greater legacy as a result of Copland's travels to Latin America was the voice Copland finally found within him. " The characteristic Copland sound that helped put the United States on major concert halls throughout the world is not the sound of Appalachia alone; it is the sound of the Americas. Artist members of Music from Copland House include pianist and Copland House Artistic Director Michael Boriskin, flutist Paul Lustig Dunkel, clarinetist Derek Bermel, and cellist Wilhelmina Smith. They were joined by several outstanding guest artists including soprano Susan Narucki, violinists Curtis Macomber and Deborah Buck, and violist Leslie Tomkins. Other Americas Society concerts scheduled
Sequenza21/The Contemporary Classical Music Weekly Their brilliant pianist blair mcmillen was featured in several pieces includinga witty Wilson s Ivorybill for baritone, piano and an old, scratchy field http://www.sequenza21.com/110402.html
Extractions: L ee Hyla, the American composer who lives now in Boston is as brilliant as he is unknown outside new music circles. At the age of fifty, he is going strong, utterly captivated with music and with his work as a composer and yet, it must also be noted, not yet the recipient of the resounding recognition as a truly great composer on the world scene that he deserves. Hyla is somewhat of an enigma in that he doesn't fall neatly into any category or school of the modern/new music movement and seems not to really need to do so. He lives in the eclectic American music landscape that encapulates everything from pure classical forms to punk rock and what sounds likebut isn'tfree form jazz. He seems to thrive on contemporary music scene's terrain, its liveliness, its expansiveness, its inexhaustiveness. Think Eliott Carter meets
Da Capo Chamber: Da Capo Celebrates Bard Guest artists include soprano Kimberly Kahan, violinists David Bowlinand Jane Chung, violist Lois Martin, and pianist blair mcmillen. http://www.musiciansnews.com/24/da_capo_chamber_da_capo_celebrates_bard.shtml
Extractions: Ear training courses just 9.95! more courses Search Music Gear/Products Manufacturers News and Articles Forums Artists and Bands CDs Log in Email Password Help? Free membership Enjoy weekly lessons from your home and start playing like the pros with MusicianUniversity.com online courses. for beginners to the pro players. The Da Capo Chamber Players will perform a special concert on Friday, April 11, at 8:00 p.m. in Olin Hall at Bard College. The performance, "Da Capo Celebrates Bard," features works by Bard professor Joan Tower, two Bard alumni, three Bard students, and George Crumb. Presented by The Bard Center, the program is free and open to the public.
Members pianist blair mcmillen has performed as soloist, collaborator, improviser,conductor, and jazz musician across the United States and abroad. http://www.nonseq.org/members/blair.html
Extractions: Pianist Blair McMillen has performed as soloist, collaborator, improviser, conductor, and jazz musician across the United States and abroad. Recipient of the Sony ES Career Grant, he is a past winner of the Juilliard Gina Bachauer Prize and the National Young Artists Competition. As a soloist, his performances have been broadcast on CBS's "Sunday Morning," WQXR, and National Public Radio. An active chamber musician, Mr. McMillen has appeared at festivals such as Aspen, Caramoor, Summergarden, the Cape and Islands, Taos, and Santa Barbara. He also frequently collaborates with tenor Anthony Dean Griffey. Dedicated to new and groundbreaking projects, Mr. McMillen is committed to the performance of the music of today. In addition to Non Sequitur, he is a founding member of the composer/performer collective counter)induction, which holds a residency at Columbia University and frequently performs lesser-known American and European works. A champion of the piano music of both emerging and established composers, Mr. McMillen recently commissioned and gave the New York premiere of Jon Magnussen's "Toccare" with the American Ballet Theater.
SoundStage! Elliott Schwartz - Equinox emotions are not. The performances of violinist Renee Jolles, cellistBrent Samuel and pianist blair mcmillen are precise and moving. http://www.soundstage.com/music/reviews/rev311.htm
Extractions: david@soundstage.com Musical Performance Recording Quality Overall Enjoyment Elliott Schwartz is one of America's most prolific composers in the broad compositional style known as post-modernism. While he has experimented with synthesizers, tape, jazz and other trappings of the avant-garde, he has remained committed to composing concert music using traditional instruments. Equinox collects chamber and orchestral works which require that a committed listener accept a musical vocabulary of jagged melodies and sometimes murky harmonies. Yet, Schwartz's stirring music is also full of emotion and personality that sweep the listener along with them. "Phoenix," written for bassoon and piano, is a good example of Schwartz's eclectic style of chamber music. The composer explains that the piece is about hope, rebirth and flight and, in an attempt to evoke the image of the phoenix rising from the ashes, he playfully paraphrases sources as diverse as Stravinsky's Firebird and Jerome Kern's "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes." However, despite Schwartz's whimsical use of sources, this is a serious chamber work. While the bassoon plods along in lengthy and deliberate phrases, the piano alternately whoops, clangs and grumbles. In fact, there are times during the piece when the instruments seem to be playing two different compositions. It is clear that the piano is supplying the color and emotion while the bassoon remains the slow and methodical voice of reason.
The Village Voice: Music: Pursued By Chords By Kyle Gann of the Italian and Russian Futurist traditions, and a pianist who s made ClaudioKnafo, Jenny Lin, Anthony de Mare, Greg McCallum, blair mcmillen, Beata Moon http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0342/gann.php
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Article Title Spencer, Meighan Stoops, David Bowlin, Lois Martin, Andre Emelianoff, blair mcmillen. WolfgangDavid (soprano and violin) from Austria, pianist Mikhail Doubov http://www.newmusicon.org/v11n3/dacapo_russia.html
Ought One Have Attended? Kitchen Table and Raw Silk (A Rag) show this pianists fascination Fingland (clar.),Gabriel Bolkosky (vn), HaYang Kim (cello), blair mcmillen (pno), and http://www.newmusicon.org/v9n4/v94ought1.htm
Extractions: Tim Josephson Have you ever wished that, just for once, you could really believe all the wonderful promises the cruise lines make in their brochures? Are you weary of having to decipher the exaggerations, do you expect there will be compromises, are you always holding back your enjoyment just a little, expecting the inevitable failure of some element of the experience that will snap you back to the impossible reality from which you had been sold escape? There is a place where all the promises are true, there are no exaggerations, no compromises, you may genuinely let yourself go, depend on being fully pampered, even lean on the boundaries of all the things that make a cruise pleasurable, and nothing about this place will let you down for one moment. This is Crystal Cruises. By the way, for the U.S. tourist, though there is some minor visible damage from hurricane Pauline, Acapulco is as beautiful as ever. Mexico never ceases to charm it is so human, so handcrafted, always warm and genuinely welcoming. Even "glamorous" Acapulco is friendly and unassuming, while still a dramatic and exciting city, and yet a completely peaceful place to begin or end a cruise.
Alumni News pianist blair mcmillen (BM 92) recently performed as part of the New Canaan,Connecticut, library winter concert series, Notes in Midwinter. http://www.oberlin.edu/consrv/connews/current/alumni.html
Extractions: Professor William Osbourne , University Organist at Denison University, Granville, Ohio, performed Eunice Kettering's (BM '29) Passacaglia for Organ in eight organ recitals during the 1996-97 season, including concerts at Oberlin College, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and at several American Guild of Organists chapters in Ohio Churches. John Kendall (BM '39), the first American string teacher to observe the Talent Education teaching program of Shinichi Suzuki and bring the Suzuki technique to the United States, is now professor emeritus of string development at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. He recently worked with young string students at a workshop sponsored by the Southern Illinois University School of Music at Carbondale. He also has published many articles on string teaching and was president of the Suzuki Association of the Americas from 1974-75. Hugh M. Stuart (BM '40) celebrated his eighty-first birthday with the release of his 173rd published composition. A complete set of his band compositions has been acquired by the Vandercook College of Music. Arthur John Reines (BM '44) is retiring as organist and choir director of Atonement Lutheran Church in Asbury Park, New Jersey after fifty-two years of service.
CDB: Caramoor Festival The Bostonbased pianist is by any measure, one of the truly extraordinary pianists June26), Qi Liu (July 28), Ellie Perone (July 7), blair mcmillen(July 14 http://cdbny.com/caramoor.htm
Extractions: A Two-Day Jazz Festival Includes a Centennial Tribute to Count Basie The opening weekend of the Festival continues on Sunday, June 27 with From the French Court to the Cajun Kitchen, a unique evening of narrative and performance that traces the path of classical French music from the Baroque period all the way to its Cajun progression in the New World. The Rebel Baroque Ensemble, along with narrator Paul Woodiel on fiddle, Christopher Layer, pipes, Tracy Schwarz, Cajun fiddle and accordion, and Pete Southerland, multi-instrumentalist, will examine this classic American story of immigration and transformation through words, song and instrumental music. This performance embodies a spirit of teaching and storytelling new to Caramoor this summer.
AMERICAS SOCIETY Tuesday, October 29, 2002 Sonia Rubinsky, Brazilian pianist 730 PM Williams, HelenaBugallo, Nicolas Hodges, Cherryl Seltzer and blair mcmillen, and violist http://207.21.242.176/as/events/2002season.html
Extractions: Press Releases For Immediate Release Wednesday, August 21, 2002 Contact: Jesse M. Gutierrez Director, Communications Ph. 212.249.8950 THE AMERICAS SOCIETY ANNOUNCES 2002-2003 CONCERT SEASON: "MUSIC OF THE AMERICAS" New York, August 20, 2002 - The Americas Society is pleased to announce the schedule of its 2002 - 2003-concert season, "Music of the Americas." All performances will be held at the Americas Society located at 680 Park Avenue, New York City (corner of 68th street), concerts begin at 7:30 PM, and general admission is $15 and $10 for seniors and students, unless otherwise noted. "The main goal of 'Music of the Americas' is to present a balanced season of concerts and educational components that cover a wide range of styles, regions and time periods, to increase awareness of music by composers from Latin America, Canada, and the Caribbean," said Amb. Myles Frechette, President of The Americas Society. "In October, we will present a special pair of concerts focused on the 'Jewish Music of the Americas', which are designed to explore how musicians have taken and mixed Jewish music with folk music of Latin America and/or with different classical traditions," continued Frechette.
92nd Street Y - New York, NY - 2004-2005 Concert Season Announcement The young pianist on the program is Shota Nakano, a student of Veda New York s mosttalented young classical musicians, including blair mcmillen, Trio Solisti http://www.92y.org/content/tisch_concert_season_2004_2005.asp
