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2008-2009 New Music Festival, Joseph Turrin, Lisa Leonard Apr 2009

2008-2009 New Music Festival, Joseph Turrin, Lisa Leonard

New Music Festival

Third Annual New Music Festival

  • Joseph Turrin, Composer-in-Residence
  • Lisa Leonard, Director

Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 7:30 pm

  • Opening Night Faculty Concert
  • Venue: Amarnick-Goldstein Concert Hall

Friday, April 24, 2009 at 7:30 pm

  • Forum (Panel: Kenneth Amis, Thomas McKinley, Joseph Turrin ; Mediator: Lisa Leonard)
  • Venue: Amarnick-Goldstein Concert Hall

Sunday, April 26, 2009 at 4:00 pm

  • Young Composers
  • Venue: Amarnick-Goldstein Concert Hall

Monday, April 27, 2009 at 7:30 pm

  • Joseph Turrin Spotlight
  • Venue: Louis and Anne Green Center for the Expressive Arts

Commissioned Work

Joseph Turrin, the composer-in-residence, composed a musical work called, Chamber Symphony, for this festival. In …


Much More Than Ragtime: The Musical Life Of George Hamilton Green (1893-1970), Ryan C. Lewis Jan 2009

Much More Than Ragtime: The Musical Life Of George Hamilton Green (1893-1970), Ryan C. Lewis

Books and Monographs

This document preserves and synthesizes the unpublished information within the Green Family scrapbooks and miscellaneous archival materials with existing source materials to construct an accurate and documented account of the musical life of George Hamilton Green (1893-1970) hitherto deficient. The stereotype of Green as a novelty ragtime xylophonist diminishes as the many facets of Green’s diverse musical career are revealed: talented musician, versatile performer, recording and radio artist, pedagogue and author, composer-arranger, and influential instrument designer, as well as formidable athlete, talented artist-cartoonist, and devoted family man. George Hamilton Green is a significant twentieth-century American musician who lived an extraordinarily …