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July 2011 Newsletter (HTML) (PDF)

2011 Concerts and Events

The Mastersingers of Lexington

Sunday, December 11, 2011 4pm
First Parish Unitarian, Harrington Road, Lexington, MA
Masssachusetts premiere of Shepherds and Angels, American Christmas songs for chorus, violin, harp, tamborine, directed by Adam Grossman
Info: http://www.themastersingers.org/

Vortex Series for New and Improvised Music

Friday December 9, 8:00pm at the Nave Gallery
Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church, 155 Powderhouse Blvd, Somerville, MA
$10 suggested donation

Featuring
Part 1 Classical - Paul Carlson, piano, plays Ruth Crawford Seeger.
Trio of Paul Carlson, violist Eve Boltax, clarinetist Todd Brunel plays Paul Walter Furst and Bertold Hummel.
Todd Brunel plays solo clarinet and bass clarinet works, including Turbulient by Pamela Marshall and Claudio Gabriele.

Part 2 - Improv - percussionist Gary Fieldman, saxophonist Rick Stone, pianist Peter Cassino

Read more about Vortex at http://improvortex.blogspot.com

Geneva College

December 2 & 3, 2011
Pennsylvania premiere of Shepherds and Angels by the Genevans of Geneva College, directed by Dr. Robert Copeland, at First Presbyterian Church in Beaver Falls, PA

Vortex Series for New and Improvised Music

Friday November 18, 8:00pm at the Nave Gallery
Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church, 155 Powderhouse Blvd, Somerville, MA
$10 suggested donation, wheel chair accessible

Featuring
Garrison Fewell, guitar and electronics; Forbes Graham, trumpet and electronics

Manyone Flying - Pam's improv design interpreting poetry of May Swenson
Jodi Hitzhusen, classical soprano
Melissa Kassell, jazz vocalist
Todd Brunel, clarinets
Pamela Marshall, French horn
Forbes Graham, trumpet and electronics
David Brown, digiridoo
John McLellan, drums

Sonic Sandbox - Forrest Larson, analog electronics; David Brown, digiridoo; Todd Brunel, clarinets
with Tom Casale, double bass

Read more about Vortex at http://improvortex.blogspot.com

South Beach Chamber Ensemble

November 3, 2011 7:30PM Coral Gables Museum, 285 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables, FL 33134

November 15, 2011 7:30 PM Miami Beach Botanical Garden, 2000 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach, FL

Program includes Truth Becoming for string quartet by Pamela Marshall, plus Heitor Villa-Lobos and Gilbert Kong. More information at http://sobechamberensemble.org

Autumn Music Harvest

Sunday October 16, 2011 2pm
Memorial Hall Library, 2 N. Main Street, Andover, MA 01810

Contact: Reference Desk 978-623-8401 x31 rdesk@mhl.org

Pianist Joe Reid, mezzo soprano Sara Bielanski, and clarinetist Todd Brunel take you on a musical journey through some of the most beautiful places in the classical and jazz repertoire.

Todd will play Summer Into Winter for clarinet solo by Pamela Marshall

The three musicians will boldly cross the threshhold from classical music with a program featuring the works of Ives and Copland and into the world of Benny Goodman and Duke Ellington.
Sponsored by the Friends of Memorial Hall Library.

Composer's Voice, NYC

September 25, 2011 1pm
Soprano Beth Griffith performed 15 one-minute works at the Jan Hus Church, 351 East 74th Street, NYC, including Double by Pamela Marshall, which features whistling, singing, clicking and tapping.

Advent Library Concert Series

September 23, 2011 8pm
“2″ - Peter H. Bloom
, flute & Mary Jane Rupert, harp
Premiere of Zoa by Pamela Marshall
Advent Church, Boston, MA Concert info

Swallowing the Sun

Monday August 8, 2011 at sunset (7:55p), Church of the Advent, Beacon Hill, Boston.  The performance will commemorate the estimated 150,000- 250,000 lives of those killed in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which happened on August 6 & 9, 1945 respectively. I will be part of the large number of musicians performing.

Improv Workshop

June 21 7:30-9:30pm in Lincoln. Call 781-862-0884 to register and get directions. Cost $15.

Composers' Concert at the Nave

Thursday, May 26th, 2011 8pm, $10 suggested donation
Nave Gallery, Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church, 155 Powderhouse Blvd, Somerville, MA    Directions

Rachel Arnold performed Soliloquy for cello solo by Pamela Marshall

Program also included music by Elizabeth Vercoe, Matt Samolis, Livia Lin, Michael Colquhoun. Performers: Ashley Addington, flute Rachel Arnold, cello Peter H. Bloom, flute Mary Jane Rupert, harp  Noel Dorsey, voice Lindsay Albert, piano

Vortex Concert Series for New Experimental and Improvisational Music

First Fridays at the Democracy Center, 45 Mt Auburn St, Cambridge, MA, January-April 8pm
Also at Zumix in East Boston on
        February 25, March 18, April 15, May 20, June 17
June 26 VORTEX LIVE CD release party at the Somerville Armory
improvortex.blogspot.com

 

Concerts in past years

Projects

 

Art-Poem-Music: Body & Soul Vol.1&2

About the project    concert photo gallery

June 2009:
IAWM contest gives Honorable Mention to Body and Soul Vol.2
Press release

Feb 2008: Concert press release

March 2007: Concert program

Feb 2007: Premiere of Vol. 1, press release

Poetry-Inspired Solos & Duos

About the project

Jan 2008: Concert press release

Feb 2008: More poetry-inspired solos on Art-Poem-Music concert

Triptoe Suite

for the Green Mountain Youth Symphony

About the project

April-May 2007: Triptoe Suite premieres in Vermont

Weaving the World

for SATB chorus, oboe, piano, percussion

About the project

Mar 2006: Weaving the World premiere

Spindrift Commissioning Guild

About the Guild

2012: Chamber Music with flute - two new pieces: for the Addington-Arnold Duo (flute and cello) and the Tomasek-Lindsay-Yost trio (flute, piano, percussion)

    Completed projects

2010: Shepherds and Angels, American Christmas songs for SATB, violin, harp, tamborine

2010: Concert of Quinteto sobre los Poemas de Carlos Pintado in Lexington, MA

2007: Triptoe Suite for orchestra for the Green Mountain Youth Symphony

2007: Art-Poem-Music: Body and Soul, concert of the first set of 6 songs

2006: Enchanted for oboe & chamber ensemble

2006: Black Bear Dance for horns & drums   concert photo gallery
          update 2011: Black Bear Dance for the Indian Hill Clarinet Choir

2005: Meditations for organ

Newsletters & Photos

July 2011 (HTML) (PDF)

November 2009 (HTML) (PDF)

Spring 2008 (HTML) (PDF)

Fall 2006 (HTML) (PDF)

Photo galleries

 

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More News Items

 

September-December 2011

RocketHub fundraiser to support composing and recording of my Duo and Trio project.

Two performances of Shepherds and Angels this December.

Premiere of Turbulient for clarinet, played by Todd Brunel, on the Vortex Series.

My improv design for Manyone Flying (poem by May Swenson) on the Vortex Series in November.

Premiere of Zoa for flute and harp by "2" on the Advent Library Concert Series in September.

Summer 2011

Premiere performances of Shepherds and Angels scheduled for December 2011

Parma Licensing is handling several of my recordings. Put that music behind some nature TV!

Finished my first season as part of the Planning Group for the Vortex Series for New and Improvised Music, and my first season as coordinator for the IAWM Search for New Music Composition Contest.

And there's another Newsletter!

Summer 2010

Black Bear Dance published in 2versions: horns with drums and clarinet choir

Shepherds and Angels finished and available for perusal. You can still sponsor this Guild project.

Winter-Spring 2010

New England premiere of Quinteto March 12 - Concert info - Tickets

Women Composers Spotlight concert series starts this spring

December 2009 - Beauport Classical releases Ghosts, which includes Summer Into Winter for clarinet    item Buy the CD item

November 2009

I finally published a Fall Newsletter!
Spindrift Commissioning Guild now has a fiscal sponsor. Contributions are tax-deductible (read about Spring 2010 projects...)

Pamela gets a Composer Assistance Grant from American Music Center for Quinteto

Music downloads are discounted by 15% until the end of 2009

Listen to more music at SoundClick and YouLicense

September 2009 - Pamela offers composition and improv classes at Lexington Music School. Open session, free of cost, September 24 (more...)

May 2009 - IAWM Search for New Music, Miriam Gideon Prize, awards Honorable Mention for Body and Soul Vol.2. Download the IAWM press release.

See the latest photo galleries: FTM10, South Beach Chamber Ensemble

Spring 2009 - Spindrift Music has a Facebook Page.
Become a Fan!

January 2009 - New CD Just In Time Now and Then includes Elusive Sleep

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