Sewanee Summer Music Festival

Maestros Más-Arocas & Kilburn have officially announced the repertoire for the Cumberland Orchestra! 

HAVE YOU APPLIED YET? APPLY HERE FOR A CHANCE TO HEAR THIS REPERTOIRE AND BE ON THE MOUNTAIN THIS SUMMER!

Week 1: Maestro Octavio Más-Arocas

Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, Mlada, Act II

1. Procession of the Nobles

Georges Bizet, L’arlesienne Suite No. 2

Week 2: Maestro Octavio Más-Arocas

Alan Hovhaness, And God Created Great Whales, Op. 229, No. 1

Sidney King, Entre Dos Luces (Soleá por Bulerías)

Howard Hanson, Merry Mount Suite

1. Overture
2. Children’s Dance
3. Love Duet
4. Prelude to Act II and Maypole Dance

Week 3: Maestro Katherine Kilburn

Ottorino Respighi, Belkis, Queen of Sheba Suite, P. 177

1. The Dream of Solomon
2. The Dance of Belkis at Dawn
3. War Dance
4. Orgiasric Dance

Week 4: Maestro Octavio Más-Arocas

Jonathan Newman, Blow it Up, Start Again

Zoltán Kodály, Harry János Suite

1. Vorspeil
2. Weiner Glockenspiel
3. Lied
4. Schlacht und Niederlage Napoleons
5. Intermezzo
6. Einzug des Kaiserlichen Hofes

Lin He, SSMF Violin professor recently did an interview with KPLC regarding the Lake Charles Symphony.

Apply here to work with this amazing professor!

http://www.sewaneemusicfestival.org/summer-study/admissions/application

The prestigious guest conductors for the Sewanee Summer Music Festival have now released their full program for the upcoming 2013 season!

Have you applied yet? Apply here for a chance to hear this repertoire and be on the Mountain this summer!

Week 1: Maestro Cristian Macelaru

Thomas Sleeper, Symphony No. 1

1. Andante moso-agitato
2. Misterioso
3. Allegro energico

Dmitry Shostakovich, Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47

1. Moderato
2. Allegretto
3. Largo
4. Allegro non troppo

Week 2: Maestro Carl St.Clair

Hector Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14

1. Reveries: Largo- Passions: Allegro agitato e appassionato assai
2. Un Bal (Valse): Allegro non troppo
3. Scene aux Champs: Adagio
4. Marche au Supplice: Allegretto non troppo
5. Songe d’une Nuit du Sabbat: Larghetto-Allegro

Week 3: Maestro Octavio Más-Arocas

Benjamin Britten, Sinfonia da Requiem, Op. 20

1. Lacrymosa
2. Dies Irae
3. Requiem aeternam

T.J. Cole, Conuenienter

Ottorino Respighi, Vetrate di chiesa

1. La Fuga in Egitto (The Flight into Egypt)
2. San Michele Arcangelo (St. Michael Archangel)
3. Il Mattutino di Santa Chiara (The Matins of St. Clare)
4. San Gregorio Magno (St. Gregory the Great)

Week 4: Maestro Christopher Warren-Green

Arvo Part, Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten

Igor Stravinsky, Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring)

Repertoire Announcement for Week 4

 The Sewanee Summer Music Festival is proud to announce that during week 4, the Sewanee Symphony, under the baton of Maestro Christopher Warren-Green will be performing:

The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky

Read the program notes!

http://cso.org/uploadedFiles/1_Tickets_and_Events/Program_Notes/011410_ProgramNotes_Stravinsky_Rite.pdf

SSMF Conductor in Residence Octavio Más-Arocas will be hosting a live audition on Wednesday March 6, 2013 by appointment only. 

Location:

Lawrence Conservatory of Music 
711 E. Boldt Way SPC 11,
Appleton, WI 54911
CON WEST Building Room 104
e-mail: octavio.masarocas@lawrence.edu

This live audition fulfills the audition requirement needed for students applying to the SSMF & for students seeking financial aid. If you would like to participate and save a lot of time as well as meet this fabulous conductor, please e mail the SSMF at ssmf@sewanee.edu to reserve a time. The application to the SSMF must be completed before the student can audition. In order to fulfill the audio upload requirement through the Musiccas system, please upload a file of your recorded voice saying what you are most looking forward to about the Sewanee Summer Music Festival. The most creative answer will win a prize. If you have any questions or concerns about this process, please do not hesitate to contact the SSMF office at any time (931-598-1225).

For more information about the admissions process, go to this link:

http://www.sewaneemusicfestival.org/summer-study/admissions/application

SSMF Conductor in Residence Octavio Más-Arocas begins his residency in Brazil at the Unicamp Castro Mendez School

Under Spanish baton of conductor Octavio Más-Arocas with two Brazilian soloists and a repertoire that combines classical to contemporary, from Unicamp Symphonic Orchestra (USO) debuts its 2013 season today at the Municipal Theater José de Castro Mendes. The OSU started the year by announcing a set of actions that aims to provide the interactivity of the public inside and outside the university. In the program, the contemporary pieces Igor Maia (graduate student at Unicamp) and classics Domenico Cimarosa and Ludwig van Beethoven.

Más-Arocas, who served as assistant conductor Kurt Masur, has conducted the OSU back in 2012 and now integrating the Artist in Residence program, a partnership between the Center for Integration, Documentation and Cultural Diffusion (Ciddic) Unicamp and the Department of Music Institute of Arts. ”Last year I was here for a few days. Now I was invited to return as Artist in Residence with the proposed rule ten concerts in five different programs, “he says. Programs, starting with this first concert, always have a contemporary piece, a soloist and with a work of the classical repertoire. ”In this concert we will present the work De Profundis, Igor Maia, a young Brazilian composer I met last year and that is very good, with the advanced language for their age. In the future, it will certainly be the best Brazilian composers, “he says. A second piece of the program is the Concerto for 2 Flutes, Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801), with solos and Roger Lucas Martinelli Peruchi of Lira. ”Both are flutists Symphony, a very young and one older,” says the maestro. Closing the program, the Symphony No. 7 in A major, Beethoven (1770-1827).”This is one of the composer’s most famous symphonies, a very energetic piece, considered the apotheosis of the dance, because calls to dance. It is a bold and iconic work for the first concert of the season, “he says. Inside the Artist in Residence program, the Spanish maestro will also act in the Music Department at Unicamp, in the field of orchestral conducting and orchestral practice in the discipline of the undergraduate Music. Under the new conductor of the OSU Cínthia Alireti, the Artist in Residence program is part of the set of actions for the restructuring of OSU, which aims to give visibility to the newest crop of best of contemporary production, and interact with students from schools and public networks individuals by means of open rehearsals. Guided acting, the conductor promises an attractive schedule this season, with popular classics.

http://correio.rac.com.br/_conteudo/2013/02/entretenimento/33778-orquestra-da-unicamp-abre-temporada-no-castro-mendes.html

SSMF Program for Classical Saxophone Players

P.S. Our new SSMF Hike to a Concert & Overview videos have been released. A link to these are attached below.

Applications due March 15, 2013. Apply today! http://www.sewaneemusicfestival.org/summer-study/admissions/choral-application

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Live Auditions for the SSMF

On Saturday, March 3, 2013 at 1:00 p.m., the Sewanee Summer Music Festival will be hosting live auditions at the University of the South: Sewanee. Auditions will be held in Guerry Auditorium.

Address: 735 University Ave, Sewanee, TN 37383
Time: 1:00 p.m.
Place: Guerry Auditorium in Guerry Hall

This live audition fulfills the audition requirement needed for students applying to the SSMF & for students seeking financial aid. If you would like to participate and save a lot of time as well as meet these fabulous musicians, please e mail the SSMF at ssmf@sewanee.edu to reserve a time.

For more information about the admissions process, go to this link: http://www.sewaneemusicfestival.org/summer-study/admissions/application