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| News from NEC |
Vol. 3, No. 3, October 2, 2006 |
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MacArthur honors Regina Carter |
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Violinist Regina Carter '82 was announced as a 2006 MacArthur Fellow on September 19. She will receive a $500,000 award from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, which called her a "master of the improvisational jazz violin." Carter made history a few years ago as the first nonclassical violinist invited to perform on "The Cannon," Paganini's violin.
Carter is one of 25 Fellows chosen this year from from among a broad array of disciplines. Another musician honored this year, John Zorn, has a long association with NEC through residencies and performances of his music by NEC musicians on our campus, at Zorn's New York music club Tonic, and on recordings.
NEC jazz musicians chosen as MacArthur Fellows now number six: former president Gunther Schuller; teachers Ran Blake, George Russell, and the late Steve Lacy; and alumni Cecil Taylor '51 DP and Regina Carter '82. |
Read more about Carter's MacArthur nod at NEC Today.
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NEC announces opera season |
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New England Conservatory's opera productions for 2006/2007 have now been selected, and include an eclectic array of double bills, a beloved but too-seldom-performed Offenbach hit, and several nods to mythology. French repertoire brings verve to all three productions.
The season opens December 8 at the Cutler Majestic Theatre with Puccini's Gianni Schicchi and Poulenc's The Breasts of Tiresias, last seen at NEC in a production that included current New York City Opera star Keith Phares '00 M.M.
A February double bill pairs Purcell's Dido and Aeneas with Milhaud's rarely heard Les Malheurs d'Orphee (The Woes of Orpheus). NEC brings Orpheus back to the Cutler Majestic in April, but in a different incarnation: Offenbach's frothy Orpheus in the Underworld, the opera that gave the world the Can-Can.
If you can't wait till December, join us for Perkin Opera Scenes, October 10 and 17. And be one of those opera lovers who can say, "I heard them back when..."
In photo: Tonya King '98 M.M., '00 M.M. in NEC's 1998 production of The Breasts of Tiresias.
The December 2006 production of Gianni Schicchi and The Breasts of Tiresias has received generous support from the Mattina R. Proctor Foundation. |
Explore NEC's opera season, beginning with opening night.
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Susie Park joins Eroica |
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photo by Nina Choi
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Violinist Susie Park '06 A.D. has been named to replace founding violinist Adela Pena in the Naumburg Award-winning Eroica Trio. In addition to her work as a soloist, Park's chamber music credentials are impeccable: she has toured with the Musicians from Marlboro and is currently a member of Chamber Music II of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. |
Read more about Susie Park at NEC Today.
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Shostakovich quartets: all of them |
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This year the centennial of composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) is being celebrated around the world. Here at NEC, the celebration takes an unusual form. We have decided to capitalize on the explosion of talented string players at NEC to program Shostakovich's entire cycle of 15 quartets--all of them--each performed by a different group.
The performers include NEC's Quartet-in-Residence, the Borromeo String Quartet; groups coached by Borromeo members and other distinguished NEC chamber music faculty; and students enrolled in an intensive quartet seminar taught by Paul Katz, founding cellist of the Cleveland Quartet.
The quartets will be performed in two marathon concerts, October 28 and December 14, and in the Borromeo String Quartet's "Early Evenings" series beginning October 14. |
Listen to a Shostakovich string quartet.
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Lecture series brings great minds to NEC |
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Physicist Lisa Randall (October 25), essayist Roger Rosenblatt (January 24), and memoirist Jill Ker Conway (in photo, March 13)--three stars of the current intellectual firmament--bring their light to NEC this year in the Presidential Lecture Series, initiated four years ago by NEC's late president Daniel Steiner. The lectures take place at 4:30pm in Williams Hall at NEC, and are free and open to the public. |
Read details of NEC's Presidential Lecture Series.
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NEC hosts final gubernatorial debate |
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NPR's Cokie Roberts comes to NEC's Jordan Hall on November 1 to moderate the final debate between the Massachusetts gubernatorial candidates prior to the November 7 general election. The debate will be broadcast live by most of the local television stations. |
Explore NEC concerts and programs day by day.
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Prep string rehearsal schedules now online |
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The NEC Web site now publishes the Preparatory School rehearsal schedules for weekly string department workshops and recitals. Schedules are posted by Thursday of each week.
Students will no longer receive phone calls from the Preparatory School office, but should check the Web site each week they are playing a workshop or recital. Rehearsal locations will continue to be posted Saturday morning on the bulletin boards in each building.
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Check your rehearsal schedule online.
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Cogan, Escot meet alums in SF |
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Longtime NEC faculty members Robert Cogan and Pozzi Escot will meet with San Francisco alumni and friends during a lecture/concert visit, October 13 and 14. Cogan's music will be performed at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music's new concert hall by alumnae Joan Heller '70 M.M. and Patrice Pastore '82 M.M.
In photo: Cogan and Escot, as alumni from the 1970s will remember them.
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Check upcoming alumni events.
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Just booked: Korsantia in January |
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Alexander Korsantia of the piano faculty will be performing in NEC's Jordan Hall January 28. His program pairs music Beethoven wrote in his teens with one of Prokofiev's later sonatas.
Korsantia was already on the books for the December 4 "First Monday at Jordan Hall" concert, where he will join the Borromeo String Quartet in Shostakovich's Piano Quintet.
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This NEC calendar listing was recently posted.
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