brown daily herald: march 2, 2007"Sax and the City" links students with professional musicians, by Lydia Gidwitz "Sax in the City," a music festival co-hosted this weekend by the Department of Music and the student group Brown New Music, will encourage collaboration between music students and established professional musicians through a series of events centering on new music. (...more) brown daily herald: march 13, 2006Music Department draws more applicants , by Josh Tobias ...Students have also been expanding their musical horizons by exploring more unconventional forms of music. One recent addition is Brown New Music, a group that performs "contemporary classical music." The group's most recent concert, which students say packed Grant Recital Hall, featured a John Cage work called "Telephones and Birds" featuring telephone recordings of bird calls... (...more) brown daily squeal: november 12, 2005installation music?, by christina kim Yes, you can certainly blame it on my training as a classical musician. You can say I'm just a pithy and sad attempt at hipster chic. You can also say that I'm a bastardized knockoff of a New York Times critic. You can even chalk it up to me living up to the stereotype of a Modern Culture and Media concentrator. Fine. However, over the course of this past week my understanding of what music is (and has potential to be) changed fundamentally. (...more) brown daily herald: november 11, 2005"brown newd music" concert goes minimal, by christina kim Brown New Music will present its first concert of the year, "Brown Newd Music," today at 8 p.m. in Grant Recital Hall. The title refers to the minimalist theme that ties together the concert's pieces. Featuring avant-garde and contemporary pieces from 20th century composers, the concert will foster a forum "geared toward the energy of contemporary concert music," said co-chair Whit Bernard '06.5. The group will perform pieces by John Cage, Olivier Messiaen, Luciano Berio, Arvo Pärt, Iannis Xenakis, Eric Satie and Steve Reich. (... more) |
