Libby Larsen and Pauline Oliveros
Date: Friday December 03
Time: 10:00 - Noon
Place: Regis Center for Art - Influx Auditorium
See bio on: Libby Larsen or Pauline Oliveros
Introduction: Noel Zahler, Professor and Director of School of Music, University of Minnesota
Discussion Title: Oliveros, "Is the Future Listening to You?"
Oliveros Synopsis: "As a musician, I am interested
in the sensual nature of sound, its power of synchronization, coordination,
release and change. Hearing represents the primary sense organ - hearing
happens involuntarily. Listening is a voluntary process that through training
and experience produces culture. All cultures develop through ways of listening.
Deep Listening�� is listening in every possible way to everything possible
to hear no matterwhat you are doing. Such intense listening includes the
sounds of daily life, of nature, or one's own thoughts as well as musical
sounds. Deep Listening represents a heightened state of awareness and connects
to all that there is. As a composer I make my music through Deep Listening."
Biography on Libby Larsen
Born: Wilmington, Delaware
Lives: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Composer,
2003-2004 Harissios Papamarkou Chair of Education and Technology, United
States Library of Congress
"Music exists in an infinity of sound. I think of all music as existing
in the substance of the air itself. It is the composer���s task to order and
make sense of sound, in time and space, to communicate something about being
alive through music."
- Libby Larsen
Libby Larsen is one of America���s most prolific and most performed living composers. She has created a catalogue of over 220 works spanning virtually every genre from intimate vocal and chamber music to massive orchestral and choral scores. Her music has been praised for its dynamic, deeply inspired, and vigorous contemporary American spirit. Widely recorded, including over 50 CDs of her work, constantly sought after for commissions and premieres by major artists, ensembles and orchestras around the world, Libby Larsen has established a permanent place for her works in the concert repertory.
As a vigorous, articulate advocate for the music and musicians of our time, in 1973 Larsen co-founded the Minnesota Composers Forum, now the American Composers��� Forum, which has become an invaluable aid for composers in a difficult, transitional time for American arts. Currently the holder of the Papamarkou Chair at John W. Kluge Center of the Library of Congress, Larsen has held residencies with the Minnesota Orchestra, the Charlotte Symphony and the Colorado Symphony. She is currently completing a book, The Concert Hall That Fell Asleep and Woke Up as a Car Radio.
Selected recent career highlights:
Awards:
- American Academy of Arts and Letters, Life Achievement Award, 2000
- Honorary Doctorate, St. Mary���s College/Notre Dame, 1996
- Lila Wallace Readers Digest Consortium Commission, 1996, 1995
- Bush Artist Fellowship, 1989/90
Selected Recordings:
- Solo Symphony (Symphony No. 5), Marimba Concerto: After Hampton, Deep Summer Music; Koch International, Colorado Symphony, Marin Alsop conducting
- String Symphony (Symphony No. 4), Songs of Light and Love, Songs from Letters; Koch International
- Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Benita Valente, soprano, Joel Revzen conducting
- Symphony: Water Music, Symphony No. 3: Lyric, Parachute Dancing, Ring of Fire, Koch International
- "Water Music", London Symphony, Joel Revzen, conductor
- Dancing Solo, Corker, Blue Third Pieces, Black Birds, Red Hills, Three Pieces for Treble Wind and Guitar,
- Song Without Words, Innova "Dancing Solo", Caroline Hartig, clarinet, and friends
- Sonnets from the Portuguese, Koch International, Arleen Auger, soprano, Joel Revzen, conductor
- Eleanor Roosevelt, New World Records, "Roosevelt", Camerata Singers
Positions:
- 2003-2004 Harrisios Papamarkou Chair of Education and Technology, Library of Congress
- 1994-1995 Composer in Residence, Charlotte Symphony,
- 1997-2000 Composer in Residence, Colorado Symphony,
Education:
BA (1971), M.M (1975), PhD (1978), University of Minnesota
Bibliography (download .pdf)
Diskography (download .pdf)
http://www.libbylarsen.com/
Biography on Pauline Oliveros
Born: Huston, Texas USA
Lives: Kensington, New York, USA
Composer, accordionist, educator,
Distinguished Research Professor of Music, School of Humanities and Social
Sciences Rensselear Polytechnic Institute. Troy, N.Y.
Founding Director of The Deep Listening Foundation
"Through Pauline Oliveros and Deep Listening I finally know what harmony
is....It's about the pleasure of making music."
John Cage 1989
Pauline Oliveros' life as a composer, performer and humanitarian is about opening her own and others' sensibilities it the many facets of sound. Since the 1960's she has influenced American Music profoundly through her work with improvisation, meditation, electronic music, myth and ritual. Many credit her with being the founder of present day meditative music. All of Oliveros' work emphasizes musicianship, attention strategies, and improvisational skills.
She has been celebrated worldwide. During the 1960's John Rockwell named her work Bye Bye Butterfly as one of the most significant of that decade. In the 70's she represented the U.S. at the World's Fair in Osaka, Japan; during the 80's she was honored with a retrospective at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C.: the 1990's began with a letter of distinction from the American Music Center presented at Lincoln Center in New York: In 2000 the 50th anniversary of her work was celebrated with the commissioning and performance of her Lunar Opera:Deep Listening For_tunes. Oliveros work is available on numerous recordings produced by companies internationally. Sounding the Margins (as it was) - a forty year retrospective will be released soon in a six CD boxed set from Deep Listening.
Selected Recent Career Highlights:
- Pauline Oliveros Foundation Inc. - founder, president ��� 1985/2004
- Composer-in-Residence, Darius Milhaud Professor - Mills College ��� 1996- 2003
- Professor of Music, Summer MFA Program Bard College, Annendale-on-the-Hudson, NY 1999-2003
- Deep Listening Retreat, August 1991-2003
- Composer-in-Residence, Arts Institute, University of Wisconsin Madison, Spring 2001
- Composer-in-Residence - Agnes Scott College - Spring 2000
- Professor of Composition, Oberlin Conservatory of Music - Spring 1999
- Composer-in-Residence - Alfred University - 1998
- Composer-in-Residence - Northwestern University - 1996
- Composer-in-Residence - Alfred University - 1996
- Self employed composer/performer/consultant - 1981-96
- Senior Researcher Institute for the Study of American Music (ISAM) -Brooklyn College -1986
- Visiting Professor - Mills College -1985
- Professor - Theater School for New Dance - Amsterdam -1985
- Professor of Music - University of California at San Diego - 1967-81
- Center for Music Experiment at UCSD - Director - 1976-79
- Visiting Professor - Stanford University -1979
- Inaugural Director - Mills College Tape Music Center (Center for Contemporary Music)-1966-67
- Self employed composer/performer - 1952-66
Education:
University of Maryland Baltimore County - DM (honorary)
San Francisco State College - BA Music Composition Cum Laude 1957
University of Houston undergraduate in Music 1949-1952
Diskography (download .pdf)
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