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Author Archives: Sam L. Richards
Trees, Glorious Trees—Arbor Week Is Upon Us In Oregon
“Well, in Oregon we like to be different, so we set aside an entire week to honor trees. The Oregon State Legislature has decreed that the first full week of April shall be designated as Arbor Week.” Click repeatedly in the box below to generate some random arbor beauty.
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“Tangential” Performance at Conduit
I have finally edited and posted the video from a performance of my collaborative work Tangential with choreographer Valerie Ifill. The original work was premiered at Dance For a Reason in late January, but Val and I proceeded to create an extended and final version for Instrinsic Environment, a concert featured at Conduit Dance, Inc. [...]
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“with bated breath” Performance, This Friday @ 8pm
This Friday in the Dougherty Dance Theatre on the University of Oregon campus my work “with bated breath” will be featured along with choreography by Tiffany Alexandra Taylor. The work has been a collaborative process and has been a long time in the making, resulting in a 12-minute production—my longest collaborative choreographic work yet.
Winter Loft [...]
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“My Own” Performance at Conduit
Last weekend, on February 27th, two of my works were featured in Portland, one a premiere, at Intrinsic Environment: A dance and music collaboration. A video of My Own, with choreography by Valerie Ifill and Emily Baumann, can be found here.
A video of the other work, Tangential, which was an extended version of the piece [...]
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Intrinsic Environment, Tonight in Portland!!!
Tonight at Instrinsic Envirnonment: A dance and music collaboration two of my works will be performed along with choreography by Valerie Ifill: My Own, and Tangential. Choreography and music by my colleagues David C. Horton, Jeremy Schropp, and A.T. Moffett will also be on the program. Rehearsals last night looked great! Featured at Conduit Dance, [...]
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Richard Taruskin’s Wisdom
To composers imbued with a 19th-century world view, artistic traditions are transmitted ”vertically.” Nineteenth-century music historiography is an epic narrative of texts arranged in single file. It assumes that artists are primarily concerned—whether to emulate or to rebel—with the texts of their immediate precursors. These assumptions have led to an obsession with lines of stylistic [...]
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Music Theory Pedagogy 101
This is in follow up to my previous post titled Music Composition Pedagogy 101. Comments, criticism, corrections, suggestions, and overall beefs are more than welcome in the comments below.
1. There are no rules, only conventions. The language that you use in order to communicate the subject to your students essentially defines the students’ relationship to [...]
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Beware of Illegitimization Disguised as Categorization
Beware of those who seem seem obsessed with categorization, as their clandestine project (frequently unbeknownst to them!) is often illegitimization, or devaluing something by stripping from it the very categories which empower it.
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ECCE: New Website
Although it has been in use for over a month now, I have failed to mention it here on my own blog:
ECCE (the Eugene Contemporary Chamber Ensemble), the new music ensemble which I currently direct and conduct, has a newly refurbished website that is so hot I think my own servers will fry if I [...]
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