2008 Visiting Scholar
March 10th
Music and Discourse 2008
Visiting Scholar
Composer Joan Tower
The Belmont University School of Music will honor renowned American Composer Joan Tower on Monday, March 10th with two events, a lecture and concert, featuring her music.
The day will begin with Tower presenting a lecture, Choreographing Sound, in Massey Concert Hall at 10:00 a.m. for students and the community. Tower will cover her life as a composer and her approach and process in creating music. She will present samples of her music.
In celebration of Towers upcoming 70th birthday, Belmont Camerata Musicale will present a program of some of her most important works for a chamber ensemble. Tower will join the resident chamber ensemble for a performance of Tres Lent for cello and piano. Also included in the performance will be the popular work Petroushkates for piano, stings and winds, Wings for solo saxophone, and a new piano trio, For Daniel . The performance will take place at 7:30 p.m. at a location to be determined on the Belmont University Campus.
Hailed as “one of the most successful woman composers of all time”, in The New Yorker, Tower was the first woman to ever receive the Grawemeyer Award in Composition in 1990. She was inducted in 1998 into the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters, and into the Academy of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University in the fall of 2004.
Tower was the first composer chosen for Made in America, am ambitious and groundbreaking commissioning program that is a collaboration of the American Symphony Orchestra League and Meet the Composer. The commissioned work was performed by orchestras in every state during the 2005-2006 season.
Nashville audiences are familiar with Tower through the Nashville Symphony’s recordings and performances of her work.
The lecture and concert are free and open to the public.
For more information, call (615) 460-6408.
The College of Visual and Performing Arts strives to be an active community that encourages imagination, nurtures creativity and promotes intellectual and professional growth in the arts through the School of Music,
the Department of Visual Arts and the Department of Theatre and Drama.
For more information:
Belmont University Department of Visual and Performing Arts (615) 460-6408
www.belmont.edu/cvpa
