Explosive Viola Music! Find it, play it, Help make it.
Presenters: Michael Delfin Michael Hall There is a myth among both musicians and audiences that the viola can only play elegies. Too often it seems like composers bring their troubles...
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Room 142/Choir Room (Music)
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Underrepresented Twice: Spotlighting Unknown Soviet Repertoire by Female Composers and Ethnic Minorities
Room 204 (Music)Presenter: Nathan Pollak In recent years the American viola community shared an increased interest in viola music by composers of underrepresented backgrounds, from the present and from the past. In...
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Gamifying the practice room
Room 142/Choir Room (Music)Presenter: Nick Revel What if learning etudes felt like casting spells in epic boss battles? DragonScales: The Hero Levels – 25 Fantasy Etudes to Slay Evil invites violists into a...
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Adapting Cello Repertoire: Sacrifices and Advantages, Examined Through Francis Poulenc’s Cello Sonata
Room 142/Choir Room (Music)Presenters: Anna-Sofia Botti Nicholas Lindell Francis Poulenc’s 1940s Sonata for Cello and Piano carries a notorious reputation for its diabolical difficulty. After dreaming of stepping up to the challenge, I...
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Rediscovering Maurice Vieux: Forgotten Voices of the French Viola School
Room 204 (Music)Presenter: Douglas Temples This lecture recital draws from my doctoral research into the legacy of Maurice Vieux (1878–1951), the Paris conservatory professor who shaped the modern French viola school. While...
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Rock & Reel: Monticello’s Black Fiddlers
Room 142/Choir Room (Music)Presenters: Danielle Wiebe Burke Ayn Balija David McCormick Johanna Beaver Sam Suggs What sounds might a visitor to Monticello have heard? Music was often in the air - Thomas Jefferson...
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The Voice of the Viola: Betsy Jolas’s Works for Viola
Room 204 (Music)Presenter: Andrew Braddock French composer Betsy Jolas (b. 1926) has written a body of captivating and beguiling works for the viola. While she once joked that she belonged to the...
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The AI and I
Room 142/Choir Room (Music)Presenters: Clara Qiyun Zhao Christopher Raphael What can AI do in music? No, not to generate, not to steal and copy, nor taking away the fundamentals and essences of human...
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Contemporary Feminine Declarations- Auerbach and Higdon
Room 204 (Music)Presenters: Sheila Browne Lisa Leonard This lecture recital with violist Sheila Browne and pianist Lisa Leonard will explore these two works- Lera Auerbach’s Arcanum and Jennifer Higdon’s Viola Sonata, for...
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A Rediscovered Voice: Oppel Viola Solo Suite from the WWII
Room 204 (Music)Presenter: Penny Tong This lecture-recital introduces a remarkable rediscovery in the viola repertoire: the Suite for Solo Viola (1940) by German composer Reinhard Oppel (1878–1941). Written in the final year...
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Peggy Glanville-Hicks’ Concerto Romantico: increasing access to study and performance through the creation of an engraved edition
Room 142/Choir Room (Music)Presenter; Roselyn Hobbs Peggy Glanville-Hicks' Concerto Romantico for Viola and Chamber Orchestra is a powerful gem of viola writing that most violists have never heard. Premiered in 1957 by Walter...
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Amy Beach’s Violin Sonata Transcribed for the Viola: An Exploration of Her Letters and Synesthesia
Room 204 (Music)Presenter: Angela Rubin Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867–1944) stands as a monumental figure in the history of American classical music, renowned for her achievements as the first American woman to...