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Professor´s musical work to premiere at New York´s Guggenheim Museum
October 26, 2006
For immediate release - Oct. 24, 2006 Contact: Eric Cárdenas (860) 439-2508; eric.cardenas@conncoll.edu Connecticut College professor's musical work to premiere at New York's Guggenheim Museum NEW LONDON, Conn. - The world premiere of a musical work by Arthur Kreiger, the Sylvia Pasternack Marx Associate Professor of Music, will be performed at a "Works and Process at the Guggenheim" presentation at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City on Nov. 5 and 6 at 7:30 p.m.
Kreiger's piece will be one of several performed by members of The Group for Contemporary Music, and will accompany a reading by and discussion of the American poet James Tate. Kreiger's work is titled "Never Again the Same," which will accompany Tate's eponymous poem.
Kreiger's piece is composed for soprano and electronic sounds, and will feature soprano Elizabeth Farnum. Kreiger describes the piece as "a backdrop of electronic timbres and textures that virtually surround the soprano and bathe her in an alien soundscape of flamboyant, yet compelling, musical colors."
Kreiger has been composing for nearly four decades, and his compositions have been performed worldwide. His catalog of works contains pieces for orchestra, chorus, mixed chamber ensembles, solo instruments and the electronic medium. Kreiger's professional honors include the Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as commissions from the Fromm and Koussevitzky Foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Kreiger's most recent project is a compact disc titled "Meeting Places," which features highly acclaimed performances by the New York New Music Ensemble and the Juilliard Percussion Quartet.
"Works & Process at the Guggenheim" is an ongoing performing-arts series investigating the creative process by presenting new works with discussion among artistic collaborators.
For more information, visit the website at www.worksandprocess.org.
Ranked among the most selective private liberal arts colleges in the nation, Connecticut College enrolls 1,900 men and women from 43 states and 45 countries. The college is known for putting the liberal arts into action through interdisciplinary studies, international programs, funded internships, student-faculty research and service learning. Founded in 1911, the college operates under an 85-year-old honor code. The college is located at 270 Mohegan Ave, New London, about two hours by car from Boston and New York. The 750-acre campus is an arboretum overlooking Long Island Sound. For more information, visit www.connecticutcollege.edu. -CC-
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