Category Archives: Music

Summer, 2012

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•Composer-in-Residence
Portland Chamber Music Festival
Performance of piano trio: Graces, Furies
August 16, 2012
More information here: http://pcmf.org/calendar.php
Preview performance by the Hikari Trio
June 30, 2012
Sanford-Springvale Historical Museum
Springvale, Maine 

•Boston Symphony Orchestra
Tanglewood Festival
Lenox, Massachusetts
Featured pre-concert presentation for One Day University: “The Beatles and Beethoven: Hearing the Connections”
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Ozawa Hall
More information here: http://www.bso.org/brands/tanglewood/features/one-day-university.aspx

Goings-on, Spring 2012

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•Featured article in Art Nashville Now:

New Song Cycle is a Modern Kvetch to God
re: Bucolics: Five Poems of Maurice Manning

•Recording session

for upcoming CD of Michael Alec Rose’s string music, recorded in the parish church of St. John the Baptist, Aldbury, Tring, Hertfordshire, England. Click here.

•BUCOLICS: the convergence of poet, performers, and composer

March 22, 2012
Blair School of Music
Poet Maurice Manning (author of BUCOLICS)
Tenor Tony Boutté
Pianist Alan Johnson
Composer Michael Alec Rose (composer of BUCOLICS: FIVE POEMS OF MAURICE MANNING)

•February 25-March 10:

I’m co-directing the Exchange Program between the Blair School and the Royal Academy of Music (composing up a storm while I’m at it!). Departure for the London leg of the program: March 3, 2012. Follow the program with daily updates at this link.

•Final recording session

for upcoming compact disc of string music: March 12, 2012 (in a beautiful church near London, England)