W.a. Mozart - Finta Semplice - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

JENNIFER OLSON holds a Master's degree in voice from the University of Michigan and a Doctorate of Musical Arts in voice from the University of Minnesota. She is fluent in French and in addition to her education in the United States, has studied in Milan Italy and in Orford Québec. For the past eight years, Jennifer has been teaching voice at the collegiate and high-school levels. She joins the Bemidji State University Music Department as an assistant professor of voice. She, along with esteemed pianist Ana Maria Otamendi, presents this program of works by Jaime Leon Ferro, Alberto Ginastera, and Juan Bautista Plaza.

Elliott Carter is the one of America's most distinguished creative artist in any field. - Aaron Copland nominating Elliott Carter for the InchGold Medal of the National Institute of Arts and Letters for Eminence in MusicInch (1971). Two important pieces of the American composer - who won the Pulitzer Prize twice - are now available on CD (re- of WERGO LP WER 60124) InchIn Sleep, In ThunderInch and InchTriple DuoInch. InchIn Sleep, In ThunderInch is a setting of six poems by the late Robert Lowell and composed Inchin memory of the poet and friendInch. Black comic parodies and ice-cold irony determine the atmosphere of the six songs. For Carter the way out of the black world of the Lowell cycle was InchTriple DuoInch, a work whose comic mood appears in it's very opening where the players are caught in the act of warming up before beginning.

W.a. Mozart - Zauberfoltiana [COMPACT DISCS] date 12/12/1995