[Voxnovus] Streaming Tonight! Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame with Andrew White!

[Robert Voisey (Vox Novus)]

Andrew White be performing the Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame  on a recital tonight
that will be live-streamed. The program starts at 7:30 Central Time in the
United States. The Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame segment opens the second half of
the recital. 

Below is the link if you'd like to watch.
http://flash.unk.edu/cofh/live.html

Fifteen Minutes of Fame is 15 one-minute works by different composers. This
Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame will be performed by Andrew White.

Fifteen Minutes of Fame gives a variety of new music by living composers to
audiences hungry to hear what is being created in today's music scene.

"...the 15 Minutes of Fame project of Vox Novus is a godsend. It organizes
competitions whereby ensembles commission worldwide calls for submissions of
approximately one-minute pieces, and then select their 15 favorites for
premieres. The players, themselves emerging and without the funds for a
traditional commission fee, get original works to present, while the
likewise emerging composers get a chance for exposure and a premiere..." -
Seth Gilman, NY Music Culture Examiner
The presentation of fifteen works in a short amount of time allows for the
performance of composers works who would not normally get programmed on a
chamber concert.

" The obvious strength of that approach is that it allows many composers to
gain exposure in a short time span. But there is also an esthetic benefit...
Since the pieces are performed in quick succession and each has a character
of its own, the audience is treated to a kaleidoscope of styles; in turn
textural and tonal, avant-garde and neo-romantic... like the entire
smorgasbord of contemporary idioms was playing a game of musical chairs, so
to speak, and the effect was thrilling. " - Damjan Rakonjac, Artificialist

There have been over 60 performances of Fifteen Minutes of Fame. Besides
premiering the works which are selected, close to half of the performances
are encores of the sets of 15 performed by the original performers or by
other performers who are inspired to play the works. Most of the premieres
happen on the Composer's Voice concert series in New York City but Fifteen
Minutes of Fame has also premiered its sets of 15 in Los Angeles, Chicago,
Washington D.C., Rio de Janeiro, Bremen, Tel Aviv, Bucharest, and many other
cities across the globe.

There are usually multiple calls for works for several different ensembles
at any given time. A living composer has many opportunities to write a new
work to receive a world premiere. The Fifteen Minutes of Fame calls are
announced far in advance to allow for composers to germinate an idea and
well craft their score. A full list of current writing opportunities for
composers can be found on the Call for Works' Page

Dr. Andrew White currently serves on the voice faculty of the University of
Nebraska at Kearney. He holds a Bachelors and a Masters Degree, as well as
an Artist Diploma and Doctorate from The Cleveland Institute of Music/Case
Western Reserve University. Previous faculty positions include Indiana
University of Pennsylvania, The University of Akron, Hiram College, Lake
Erie College, Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music, and Ashland
University. In 1995 he made his New York debut in Weill Recital Hall at
Carnegie Hall in a program devoted to the songs of Frederick Koch with the
composer at the piano. Ken Smith of New York Concert Review hailed Andrew
White as "
a formidable interpreter
 Every song composer should be so lucky
with collaborators."

This Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame include:
L'adieu by Jean-Patrick Besingrand, 
Private Song by David Bohn, 
Brief Glimpses of Mystery, No. 4: Drunk All the Time by George Brandon, 
Desire by Doug Davis, 
Serenade by Arthur Gottschalk, 
Clamavi by Eric Knechtges, 
The Clock Strikes One The Just Struck Two by Amanda McCullough, 
Ceremony, by Mike McFerron, 
Oh Karma, Dharma, Pudding and Pie, Jonathan B. McNair, 
At Stratford-Upon-Avon by Casey Rule, 
Your check is in the mail by Juan María Solare, 
Symphony of the Sea by José Jesus de Azevedo Souza, 
Psalm 23 by Stephen Stanziano, 
For I am Persuaded by Christopher M. Wicks, and
Epoxy Margaret by David Wolfson