Pittsburgh New Music Net » local composer http://www.pittsburghnewmusicnet.com cutting-edge music in the ’burgh and beyond Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:29:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Carnegie Mellon Wind Ensemble http://www.pittsburghnewmusicnet.com/2010/01/21/carnegie-mellon-wind-ensemble/ http://www.pittsburghnewmusicnet.com/2010/01/21/carnegie-mellon-wind-ensemble/#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:15:49 +0000 cmumedia http://www.pittsburghnewmusicnet.com/?p=1820 Director Denis Colwell leads the Carnegie Mellon Wind Ensemble in a program that features Rorem’s Sinfornia (1957), Stravinsky’s Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920) and Gordon Jacob’s Old Wine in New Bottles (1960). The concert begins at 8 pm. Monday, February 8 on CMU’s campus in the College of Fine Arts’ Kresge Theatre. This event is free and open to the public.

A highlight on the program is the world premiere of a newly transcribed Snapshots of a Great City (2008) by Marilyn Taft Thomas, a professor of composition and music theory at Carnegie Mellon.

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