[The following was provided by UMKC’s Conservatory of Music and Dance.]
The UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance’s students. faculty, and alumni will perform a concert titled Crossroads, in New York City’s renowned le poisson rouge, March 9, 2012.
The March 9 Crossroads concert is an eclectic mix of people, Conservatory students, and cultures, including composers Paul Rudy, winner of a 2010 Rome Prize fellowship; Guggenhiem Fellow James Mobberley; Chen Yi, winner of the Charles Ives Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC’s own John Corigliano, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and Barr Laureate Composer at UMKC 2012–14; the music of Kevin Oldham and John Kander as sung by internationally acclaimed tenor and UMKC Professor Vinson Cole, and the New York premiere of excerpts from Zhou Long’s brilliant opera Madame White Snake, winner of 2011 Pulitzer Prize in Music.
The performance is sponsored in part by the Conservatory Alumni Association, Marvin Gruenbaum, President.
niedtd // Jan 3, 2012 at 9:17 am
This is fantastic. What a great lineup!