Author: Leslie Hogan
Subject: Jacksonville University American Music Symposium and New Music Festival
I think that it's time to take the question, if it's to be discussed further, from the particular to the general. Before leaving Jacksonville University behind, here's what a broader reading of the announcement looks like:
I see is a festival/symposium lasting eight days. There are multiple events on each day, and every last one of them, even the evening concerts, are FREE. That's an impressive level of institutional support. I see a group of faculty members, performers, composers, and scholars, male and female alike, working collaboratively and, as if that weren't enough, bringing in students and faculty members from areas outside of music, for interesting spins on conventional concerts. I see the music of student composers featured with music by faculty and other local composers. I see tradition next to innovation. I would only hope that the festival is something that will be such a good, positive experience for all involved that it will be repeated in the future....there are so many different facets of music in America that it would be impossible to run out of material.
I have been a lead organizer on a campus based new music festival nearly every year of the last 11. It's a festival nowhere close to as dense as this one. Anyone on this list who has ever organized a local festival, a regional SCI conference, or a National SCI conference can only applaud Michael and his colleagues.
As a woman composer, I'm not interested in token programming. I find the issue that Clara raised far more serious--as anyone would--and it is those kinds of circumstances that deserve our close attention and our work to eradicate.
Leslie Hogan [...]
Santa Barbara, CA 93111 (805) 964-0308
Subject: Jacksonville University American Music Symposium and New Music Festival
I think that it's time to take the question, if it's to be discussed further, from the particular to the general. Before leaving Jacksonville University behind, here's what a broader reading of the announcement looks like:
I see is a festival/symposium lasting eight days. There are multiple events on each day, and every last one of them, even the evening concerts, are FREE. That's an impressive level of institutional support. I see a group of faculty members, performers, composers, and scholars, male and female alike, working collaboratively and, as if that weren't enough, bringing in students and faculty members from areas outside of music, for interesting spins on conventional concerts. I see the music of student composers featured with music by faculty and other local composers. I see tradition next to innovation. I would only hope that the festival is something that will be such a good, positive experience for all involved that it will be repeated in the future....there are so many different facets of music in America that it would be impossible to run out of material.
I have been a lead organizer on a campus based new music festival nearly every year of the last 11. It's a festival nowhere close to as dense as this one. Anyone on this list who has ever organized a local festival, a regional SCI conference, or a National SCI conference can only applaud Michael and his colleagues.
As a woman composer, I'm not interested in token programming. I find the issue that Clara raised far more serious--as anyone would--and it is those kinds of circumstances that deserve our close attention and our work to eradicate.
Leslie Hogan [...]
Santa Barbara, CA 93111 (805) 964-0308