Jazz Piano Concerto with Graphic Scores – Released on ENVOI RECORDINGS!
Order your copy today (email me: srush@umich.edu). YES!!! Jazz Piano Concerto 12 Page Booklet
Digital Music Ensemble presents music of Alvin Lucier
April 6, 7pm, 2020, University of Michigan Museum Of Art (UMMA) – FREE!! that’s right – music of Alvin Lucier (Vespers and Heavier than Air) plus a new work by Stephen Rush – Music for a Fish Line
Ulysses Grant: a Fluxkit Opera – In INDIANAPOLIS (2018)
Performing at the Indianapolis Fringe Festival: show is under an hour….Concert Dates: August 13 (6p), 15 (6p), 16 (1:30p), 17 (9p), 21 (9pm) 22 (10:30pm) GET TICKETS HERE: http://www.indyfringe.org/fringe15/ulysses-grant-fluxkit-opera Featuring Civil War songs, with texts by Grant and Gertrude Stein, this opera has action, design, and music, which are determined by playing a game designed by …
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“Gypsy” Pond XVI – 2017 – Tension!
Gypsy Pond Music XVI!? WHAT!!! YES!!!! those yellow bands are sending data (wirelessly) to a tent/computer on the shore…and modulating the music. At night? Poetry projected on the nearby woods (yep) and candles on the pond and lights inside the tetrahedron and LOVE. Yep.
Wednesday – Day 25 – August 13
Today marked the end of our lessons. Students dragged themselves sadly to their Guru’s homes. Okay, they were driven again in hair-raising, life-threatening rides through utter insanity! We then muscled through the copious additional material thrown at us by the Gurus. The voice students were given two additional Kritis (NOT baby pieces!!) just this week …
Tuesday – Day 24, August 12, 2014
Another incredible day – to say the least. Lessons in the morning for everyone but Mrdangam (they have a busy teacher, who holds an economics post at U-M, University of Mysore!). The afternoon held an incredibly gracious gathering of high tea at the home of wonderful Chandrakala, the eminently lovable staff worker who has accompanied …
Day 23- August 11, Monday
We are “back at it”, taking lessons, thinking hard, and getting our “coconuts crushed” (a reference to a temple practice of smashing coconuts – symbols of our utter submission – “bhakti” – to God, or the crushing of the ego). Lessons are coming fast and furious, 3 days in a row this week, then the …
Days 21/22 August 9/10
Saturday/Sunday – Some of us gone to the beach, but some of us….. All is well at the beach according to Tessa and Sunil – the owner of the hotel. Ya Gotta Believe! Meanwhile….back here in Mysore some tourism abounds. Sam/Noniko/Merilynne and I went to the Royal Orchid Metropol for lunch. Very very fancy. The favorites? Unbelievably …
Mysore 2014- Summer Program in India (Music, Dance, Yoga)-
Day 19- August 7 Thursday – The RAMAYANA PUPPET SHOW! The internet woes continue…alas…no pictures – which is truly sad, because today we saw the leather shadow puppet theater….a retelling of the Indrajit section of the Ramayana –LOTS OF FIGHTING and DEATH and RESSURECTION and MONKEYS!. Just think about the New Testament meets …
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