Celebrate the festive spirit of the season with the return of Emory's traditional holiday concerts and performances by student ensembles.
The Emory Jazz Ensemble with director Gary Motley presents a free concert on Dec. 2, at 8 p.m., featuring jazz favorites such as “My Little Suede Shoes” by Charlie Parker, “Watermelon Man” by Herbie Hancock and “Milestones” by Miles Davis.
The Emory Symphony Orchestra welcomes Emory Coca-Cola Artist-in-Residence Katherine Wolfe, violin, performing a free concert on Dec. 4 at 8 p.m., including “Finlandia” by Jean Sibelius, Vaughan Williams’ “A Lark Ascending” and Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 1 in C Major.”
The Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta (ECMSA) presents on Dec. 5 in a free Noontime Series concert of solo works for violin by J.S. Bach.
On Dec. 7, at 4 p.m., the Vega String Quartet performs an ECMSA Family Series concert “Father Christmas’ Favorite Music,” where England’s Santa Claus will make a personal appearance to hand out holiday treats.
Emory’s University Chorus and Concert Choir with director Eric Nelson, organist Melissa Plamann, and pianists Lisa Leong and Deborah Thoreson present the “Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols,” on Dec. 5, at 8 p.m. and Dec. 6 at 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. Established in 1935, this candle-lit evening service of choral music and scripture includes readings by special guests from the community.
Scott Stewart directs the Emory Wind Ensemble in a free concert on Dec. 7, at 4 p.m. including James Newton Howard’s “Grand Canyon Fanfare” with organist Melissa Plamann and the Atlanta Trumpet Ensemble. The Atlanta Youth Wind Symphony performs works by John Williams and James Barnes on Dec. 15 at 8 p.m.
The Emory Guitar Ensemble directed by Brian Luckett performs a keyboard fugue by Bach arranged for three guitars, three waltzes by Spanish composer Enrique Granados and two period pieces by Neapolitan guitarist Ferdinando Carulli on Dec. 8, at 8 p.m. The Emory World Music Ensemble with director Tong Soon Lee performs Dec. 9, at 8 p.m.
James Flannery hosts the “Sixteenth Annual Atlanta Celtic Christmas Concert,” Dec. 12-14. This popular event highlights Celtic and Appalachian music, dance, and story with Grammy winning banjoist Alison Brown, Risin’ Appalachia and the Elders, The Buddy O’Reilly Band and clog dancers.
For tickets and venue information: www.arts.emory.edu, 404-727-5050.
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Thursday, November 27, 2008
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Berry Student Chosen for Georgia’s All-College Band
Three Berry College students are among the 80 college musicians selected to perform with the Georgia Music Educators Association All-College Band. The selected musicians represent a total of 19 colleges around the state including The University of Georgia and Emory University.
Students are nominated by college faculty across Georgia. The final selections are made by a statewide committee with representation from all institutions and instruments. This is the fifth consecutive year that Berry has participated in the event.
The All-College Band will perform at the conclusion of the Georgia Music Educators In-Service Conference, scheduled for Jan. 28-31, 2009, at the Savannah International Trade and Convention Center. Dr. Scott Teeple, director of the woodwind ensemble and associate professor of music at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will conduct. Call 912-651-6556 for ticket information.
The following students were nominated by the Berry College music faculty and selected to perform:
Elizabeth Callahan is a senior animal science major from Ringgold, Ga. Elizabeth plays the flute and is the daughter of Dobbin and Linda Callahan.
Thomas Ryan is a junior music education major from Silver Creek, Ga. Thomas plays the euphonium and is the son of David and Melinda Ryan.
Marc Johnson is a sophomore music education major from Rome, Ga. Marc plays the tenor saxophone and is the son of James and Araceli Satcher.
By Leah Ryan
Berry College
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Students are nominated by college faculty across Georgia. The final selections are made by a statewide committee with representation from all institutions and instruments. This is the fifth consecutive year that Berry has participated in the event.
The All-College Band will perform at the conclusion of the Georgia Music Educators In-Service Conference, scheduled for Jan. 28-31, 2009, at the Savannah International Trade and Convention Center. Dr. Scott Teeple, director of the woodwind ensemble and associate professor of music at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will conduct. Call 912-651-6556 for ticket information.
The following students were nominated by the Berry College music faculty and selected to perform:
Elizabeth Callahan is a senior animal science major from Ringgold, Ga. Elizabeth plays the flute and is the daughter of Dobbin and Linda Callahan.
Thomas Ryan is a junior music education major from Silver Creek, Ga. Thomas plays the euphonium and is the son of David and Melinda Ryan.
Marc Johnson is a sophomore music education major from Rome, Ga. Marc plays the tenor saxophone and is the son of James and Araceli Satcher.
By Leah Ryan
Berry College
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Monday, November 24, 2008
Yellow Jacket Marching Band Set to Play in Macy's Parade
Georgia will be well represented in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade as Georgia Tech’s Yellow Jacket Marching Band takes center stage. The group is one of two college bands selected to perform during the traditional kick-off to the holiday season.
The parade will be broadcast live Thursday, November 27, 2008, on NBC from 9:00AM until noon (EST). The Yellow Jacket Marching Band has been informed that they will be marching by the camera at approximately 10:07AM
“With 2008 representing the band’s 100th anniversary, we cannot think of a better way to celebrate than taking part in this traditional holiday event,” says Band Director Chris Moore.
Transporting 360 members plus their instruments is no small task. The group will be transported via eight buses along with one truck loaded with instruments ranging from 30 tubas to 31drums. The band is set leave on Sunday, November 23 for the 800-plus-mile trek.
Established in 1908, the Yellow Jacket Marching Band is one of the oldest such programs in the country. Members of the band are part of a group of more than 1,100 Georgia Tech students who sing, play or study music each semester at a university that offers no undergraduate degrees in music. Band members represent every major and many nations around the world.
The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade is not the first time the band has been in the limelight. Band members appeared at the Kenny Chesney and Sugarland concert during their 2007 summer tour in Atlanta. They also were asked to perform with Keith Urban during his spring concert at Gwinnett Arena earlier this year.
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The parade will be broadcast live Thursday, November 27, 2008, on NBC from 9:00AM until noon (EST). The Yellow Jacket Marching Band has been informed that they will be marching by the camera at approximately 10:07AM
“With 2008 representing the band’s 100th anniversary, we cannot think of a better way to celebrate than taking part in this traditional holiday event,” says Band Director Chris Moore.
Transporting 360 members plus their instruments is no small task. The group will be transported via eight buses along with one truck loaded with instruments ranging from 30 tubas to 31drums. The band is set leave on Sunday, November 23 for the 800-plus-mile trek.
Established in 1908, the Yellow Jacket Marching Band is one of the oldest such programs in the country. Members of the band are part of a group of more than 1,100 Georgia Tech students who sing, play or study music each semester at a university that offers no undergraduate degrees in music. Band members represent every major and many nations around the world.
The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade is not the first time the band has been in the limelight. Band members appeared at the Kenny Chesney and Sugarland concert during their 2007 summer tour in Atlanta. They also were asked to perform with Keith Urban during his spring concert at Gwinnett Arena earlier this year.
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Friday, November 21, 2008
Fayette County Whitewater Chorale Receives Highest State Honor
The Whitewater High School mixed choir has received the highest honor in Georgia. Whitewater High School is in Fayetteville.
The chorale has been invited to perform at the 2009 Georgia Music Educators Association conference in January 2009. A recording of the group was submitted to the association in the spring for consideration to perform at the event. Whitewater is one of only two high school mixed choirs that received an invitation.
“We are so proud of our singers and are happy to offer them this extraordinary musical experience,” says Hannah Beth Potter, assistant director of chorale activities at the school.
The chorale will perform at Christ Church in Savannah on January 30. The students have been preparing and practicing their music for the event since August.
Prior to leaving for the conference, the group will host a pre-concert at the school on January 13.
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The chorale has been invited to perform at the 2009 Georgia Music Educators Association conference in January 2009. A recording of the group was submitted to the association in the spring for consideration to perform at the event. Whitewater is one of only two high school mixed choirs that received an invitation.
“We are so proud of our singers and are happy to offer them this extraordinary musical experience,” says Hannah Beth Potter, assistant director of chorale activities at the school.
The chorale will perform at Christ Church in Savannah on January 30. The students have been preparing and practicing their music for the event since August.
Prior to leaving for the conference, the group will host a pre-concert at the school on January 13.
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Festival of Lessons and Carols November 30 at First Presbyterian Church in Peachtree City
The Sanctuary Choir of First Presbyterian Church will present A Festival of Lessons and Carols on November 30 at 11:15 am. The Festival of Lessons and Carols is a format of Christian worship service celebrating the birth of Jesus and traditionally followed at Christmas. The story of the fall of man, the promise of the Messiah, and the birth of Jesus is told in short Bible readings, interspersed with the singing of Christmas carols and hymns.
The service is based on the format of the traditional service held each Christmas in the Chapel of King’s College, Cambridge, England. First presented on Christmas Eve in 1918, the festival of Lessons and Carols format was created by Eric Milner-White, whose years as an army chaplain convinced him that the church needed different forms of worship. His original service was adapted from an order drawn up by E.W. Benson (later the Archbishop of Canterbury) who presented a similar service in 1880 in a wooden shed which served as his cathedral in Truro.
Almost immediately, other churches adapted the service for their own use.
The first broadcast of the service from King’s College took place in 1928. It has since been broadcast every year (with the exception of 1930), and there are millions of listeners world wide.
First Presbyterian Church in Peachtree City is located across from the City Library at 206 Willowbend Rd.
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The service is based on the format of the traditional service held each Christmas in the Chapel of King’s College, Cambridge, England. First presented on Christmas Eve in 1918, the festival of Lessons and Carols format was created by Eric Milner-White, whose years as an army chaplain convinced him that the church needed different forms of worship. His original service was adapted from an order drawn up by E.W. Benson (later the Archbishop of Canterbury) who presented a similar service in 1880 in a wooden shed which served as his cathedral in Truro.
Almost immediately, other churches adapted the service for their own use.
The first broadcast of the service from King’s College took place in 1928. It has since been broadcast every year (with the exception of 1930), and there are millions of listeners world wide.
First Presbyterian Church in Peachtree City is located across from the City Library at 206 Willowbend Rd.
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Monday, November 10, 2008
Students Selected for Top Chorale Group
Photo: Photo: (L-R back row) Carolyn Groover, Christopher Greco, David Brewer, Lucas Patelles, Drew Van de Motter, Jennifer Stadelmeyer (L-R front row) Jessica Bell, Abby Israel, Anna Hansen and Elizabeth Jowers. (Not pictured: Camila Cando).Some of the best young singers in the state represented Fayette County at the 25th Annual Georgia Music Educators Association Statewide Elementary Honors Chorus.
Nine students from Peachtree City Elementary and Peeples Elementary performed with other top singers from throughout the state on Saturday at the Clayton Performing Arts Center. The students were Christopher Greco, David Brewer, Lucas Patelles, Drew Van de Motter, Jessica Bell, Abby Israel, Anna Hansen, Elizabeth Jowers and Camila Cando. Music teachers Carolyn Groover, Peachtree City Elementary, and Jennifer Stadelmeyer, Peeples Elementary, accompanied the students.
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The students sang under the direction of Cheryl Dupont, director of the New Orleans Children’s Chorus and Youth Chorale and Dr. John E. Simmons, associate professor of choral and sacred music, director of graduate studies and director of the Townsend-McAfee Institute for Sacred Music Studies at Mercer University.
Friday, November 07, 2008
Georgia Tech Launches Center for Music Technology
PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Georgia Tech today launches the new Center for Music Technology with more than 20 researchers from the arts, sciences and engineering. Several interdisciplinary projects already in progress will be demonstrated today at an exclusive launch event for potential collaborators.
"Our goal is to build an international center for creative and technological research in music that will redefine the way we create, perform, listen to and consume music," says Dr. Gil Weinberg, co-founder and director of the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology. "To that end, we brought together top researchers from across campus who together can address current challenges in the field and develop new solutions that cannot be achieved in the framework of a single discipline."
Unlike much current research in music, the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology is committed to bringing new ideas to the market, with applied solutions for businesses and consumers. Researchers are already working on ways to improve existing acoustical instruments, as well as defining new approaches for music making. "One of our new projects, called ZooZ Beat, for example, allows anyone with a cell phone to use expressive gestures to create and share music in a group," explains Weinberg. "Other projects explore concepts like wearable devices for music therapy, audience participation in live performance, robotic musicianship, music as an assistive medium for the visually impaired and computational analysis of music at the signal level." Other research areas include composition, machine listening, materials science, music information retrieval, digital signal processing, design and manufacturing, networked music, music perception, music theory, multimedia development and acoustics.
"It is important to note that the students who work with our faculty members bring with them a wide range of skills and experiences, from the technical to the artistic," stresses Weinberg. "More than half of our students are pursuing a Master of Science in Music Technology degree in a relatively new program at Georgia Tech that encourages students to explore their creativity both technically and musically. We are currently in the process of proposing a PhD degree in Music Technology, which will allow our students to deepen their education in these areas and help develop a strong intellectual backbone for research activities in the Center."
The Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology is a unit of the College of Architecture at Georgia Tech, and jointly funded by the Office of the Provost and the Colleges of Architecture, Computing and Engineering.
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"Our goal is to build an international center for creative and technological research in music that will redefine the way we create, perform, listen to and consume music," says Dr. Gil Weinberg, co-founder and director of the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology. "To that end, we brought together top researchers from across campus who together can address current challenges in the field and develop new solutions that cannot be achieved in the framework of a single discipline."
Unlike much current research in music, the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology is committed to bringing new ideas to the market, with applied solutions for businesses and consumers. Researchers are already working on ways to improve existing acoustical instruments, as well as defining new approaches for music making. "One of our new projects, called ZooZ Beat, for example, allows anyone with a cell phone to use expressive gestures to create and share music in a group," explains Weinberg. "Other projects explore concepts like wearable devices for music therapy, audience participation in live performance, robotic musicianship, music as an assistive medium for the visually impaired and computational analysis of music at the signal level." Other research areas include composition, machine listening, materials science, music information retrieval, digital signal processing, design and manufacturing, networked music, music perception, music theory, multimedia development and acoustics.
"It is important to note that the students who work with our faculty members bring with them a wide range of skills and experiences, from the technical to the artistic," stresses Weinberg. "More than half of our students are pursuing a Master of Science in Music Technology degree in a relatively new program at Georgia Tech that encourages students to explore their creativity both technically and musically. We are currently in the process of proposing a PhD degree in Music Technology, which will allow our students to deepen their education in these areas and help develop a strong intellectual backbone for research activities in the Center."
The Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology is a unit of the College of Architecture at Georgia Tech, and jointly funded by the Office of the Provost and the Colleges of Architecture, Computing and Engineering.
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