Oberlin College and Conservatory

Guest Recital: Conrad Cummings, guest composer

Sunday, September 29, 2013 at 8:00pm to 10:00pm

Warner Concert Hall
77 West College Street, Oberlin, OH 44074

A performance sponsored by the Contemporary Music Division of the conservatory featuring the music of Conrad Cummings.

Admission is free. 

Program will include:

Northern Circles by Peter Swendsen ’99

ElectroSonata: Spontaneous Combustion by Peter Flint ’92

Dénouement by Conrad Cummings

The Piper's Son by Tom Lopez ’89

I Wish They All Could Be (1986) by Cummings and performed by the Oberlin Sinfonietta.

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San Francisco native Conrad Cummings composes opera, symphonic music, chamber music, and music for his ensemble of amplified instruments and voices. After receiving bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees—from Yale, SUNY-Stony Brook, and Columbia respectively—he did post-doctoral research at IRCAM in Paris and then served on the faculty of the Oberlin Conservatory, where he directed the music and media program. After several years running the interactive media company Hyperspace Cowgirls, Cummings joined the Juilliard Evening Division faculty in 2003. In September, UrbanArias in Arlington, Va., produced his 1989 opera "Photo-Op," a presidential campaign opera in which two singers—a soprano and a baritone—deliver, he says, “slightly surrealistic versions of stump speeches while they gradually, and unknowingly, reveal their most private thoughts.”

 

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