BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:iCalendar-Ruby BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts and Entertainment,Music DESCRIPTION:A festival of contemporary music written by composers either fr om or who have lived in the Upper Peninsula featuring MIT Composer and UP N ative Elena Ruehr.\n\nView the program here. \n\nMichigan Tech’s Rozsa Cent er for the Performing Arts\, Department of Visual and Performing Arts\, and Libby Meyer\, Lecturer\, Visual and Performing Arts and Director\, Music C omposition Program\, are pleased to present a festival series of three conc erts of contemporary music written by composers either from or who have liv ed in the Upper Peninsula\, featuring Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Composer and UP Native Elena Ruehr. There will be a Master Class pre sented by Dr. Ruehr on Saturday\, January 19\, at 3:00 PM in the McArdle Th eatre\, featuring a recital of music by student composers. The festival con tinues that evening with an intimate evening “Backstage” performance in the Rozsa Center at 7:30 PM\, featuring the music of Evan Premo\, Libby Meyer\ , Thomas LaVoy\, Abbie Burt Betinis\, Carrie Biolo\, Patrick Booth\, Christ opher Plummer and featuring Elena Ruehr's Third String Quartet. The final c oncert of the festival will take place on Sunday\, January 20\, at 3:00 PM in the McArdle Theatre\, and will present music by Griffin Candey\, Josh Lo ar\, Sarah Rimkus\, Milton Olsson\, Stephen Rush\, and featuring the piece Lucy by Elena Ruehr. \n\nMichigan’s Upper Peninsula has produced and inspir ed many talented composers and performers. New Music for a New Year will fe ature a number of these composers whose work is as diverse and beautiful as the landscape that inspired them. Music from the North Woods is a celebrat ion of these composers and will include works by 13 composers: Abbie Burt B etinis\, Carrie Biolo\, Patrick Booth\, Griffin Candey\, Thomas LaVoy\, Jos h Loar\, Libby Meyer\, Milton Olsson\, Christopher Plummer\, Evan Premo\, S arah Rimkus and Stephen Rush\, and featuring Houghton native and MIT facult y member Elena Ruehr\, whose recent 2-CD release has been was selected as G ramaphone Critic’s Choice in December. Gramaphone\, the world’s leading cla ssical music publication\, describes her release:\n\n \n\n“Rarely nowadays does one encounter a new\, living master of the quartet medium\, but Elena Ruehr is just that. Her six fluently written quartets are exquisitely perfo rmed on this\, Avie's third release of Ruehr’s music\, by the Cypress and i n (No 2) Borromeo Quartets\, and the sound is beautifully clear…” \n\n–Guy Rickards\, Gramaphone\n\n \n\nThe concert will feature the Superior String Alliance String Quartet\, ConScience Chamber Singers\, and two works by Dr. Ruehr performed by her Third String Quartet (Saturday) and Lucy (Sunday) a work which will feature ConcertCue\, a web application developed at the Ma ssachusetts Institute of Technology for streaming synchronized program note s during a live musical performance. These program notes include text\, ima ges\, and other rich media\, precisely timed to important events in the mus ic. ConcertCue has been used in concerts around the Boston Area and with th e Boston Symphony Orchestra. Our hope is the ConcertCue will help you bette r appreciate and understand the music you hear.\n\nLibby Meyer’s interest i n natural soundscapes\, conservation of special places and curiosity about the relationship between the arts and the natural world fuel her work. She is a co-founder of the Keweenaw Soundscape Project established to aurally d ocument the Keweenaw region and surrounding lands for ecological\, social a nd artistic value has served as an Artist in Residence at Isle Royale Natio nal Park and has written a number of compositions inspired by the landscape . In 2016\, Libby and colleagues from Michigan Technological University wer e awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and National Par k Service’s Imagine Your Parks program. The project team recorded soundscap es in the five National Parks on Lake Superior. The results: A visual and s ound installation Listening to Parks\, which has been on display in various locations around the region\, most recently in the Rozsa Gallery A-Space. Please visit the Listening to Parks website for more details. Libby’s recor dings can be found on her website libbymeyermusic.com.\n\nPlease note the S aturday matinee concert is free. Tickets for the Saturday evening and Sunda y New Music for a New Year festival concerts are on sale now. Tickets are $ 15 General Admission\, $5 for youth tickets\, and no charge for Michigan Te ch students with the Experience Tech fee\, and are available by phone at (9 06) 487-2073\, online at mtu.edu/rozsa\, in person at the Central Ticketing Office\, or at the McArdle Theatre or Rozsa Center doors before the perfor mance. Please note the box office doors only open approx. one hour prior t o performances. \n\nThis event sponsored in part by the Visiting Professor Lecturer/Scholar Series (VPLSS) which is funded by a grant to the Office o f Institutional Equity and Inclusion from the State of Michigan's King-Chav ez-Parks Initiative DTEND:20190120T013000Z DTSTAMP:20260422T140623Z DTSTART:20190120T003000Z GEO:47.1175;-88.541695 LOCATION:Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts\, Rozsa Backstage SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:New Music For a New Year: Music of the UP UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_3519680 URL:https://events.mtu.edu/event/new_music_for_a_new_year_music_of_the_up END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR