by Aron Kallay | May 5, 2016 | Uncategorized
By Argenta Walther On May 7th, MicroFest will present the vocal music group Accordant Commons, performing a diverse array of microtonal vocal works by Daniel Corral, Nomi Epstein, Evan Johnson and Leah Reid. What Draws Us to Microtonality: We feel that the voice is...
by Aron Kallay | Apr 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
By BRETT CAMPBELL MicroFest’s April 26 concert will present premieres from the American musical pioneer Lou Harrison as well as another composer who considered him one of his most important mentors, this year’s Pulitzer Prize winner, John Luther Adams....
by Aron Kallay | Jun 6, 2013 | Uncategorized
by Chris Banta How the original Marimba Eroica began: Back in the 1950’s, composer, Harry Partch, a philosophic music man seduced into carpentry, designed and built musical instruments to fit his special micro-tonal scales. To accommodate the lower region of the...
by Aron Kallay | May 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
By Felix Salazar is a chamber group of eight electric guitarists dedicated to revitalizing chamber music for a new generation of listeners. The octet’s repertoire spans the late Renaissance to the present day, ranging from the polychoral music of Giovanni Gabrieli to...
by Aron Kallay | Mar 29, 2013 | Uncategorized
by Wolfgang von Schweinitz (MicroFest will feature soprano Rebecca Tomlinson giving the American premiere of Wolfgang von Schweinitz’s “O-Ton “Automne” – Linguistikherbst” on our April 11th concert at the Russian Hall. Click here for more information –...
by Aron Kallay | Mar 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
By Bill Alves Our next MicroFest event will feature my Visual Music Ensemble, so here’s a little bit about this possibly puzzling title. Artists have adopted the term visual music (VM) to refer to ways artists structure abstract images or video that are analogous to...