MC Residency Schedule Winter 2019

MFA in Music Composition

Winter 2019 RESIDENCY SCHEDULE February 10-16, 2019

MFA in Music Composition – Winter 2019 Residency Schedule: Page 1 of 16 MFA Program Offices: Carol Beatty, Program Director, College Hall 401B; 802-828-8610; email: [email protected] Sarah Madru, Assistant Director, College Hall 401C; 802-828-8534; email: [email protected]

Winter 2019 Residency Site: https://sites.google.com/vcfa.edu/mcresidency/home

Title IX Coordinators: David Markow, Vice President for Student Services—College Hall 101, Office: 802-828-8535, Cell: 802-793-8245, [email protected] Jericho Parms, Director of Alumni Affairs & Diversity Initiatives—College Hall 302, Office: 802-828-8840, Cell: 917- 613-0962, [email protected]

Faculty Meeting Spaces: Rick Baitz—College Hall 418 Andy Jaffe—College Hall 205 John Mallia—Noble Lounge Don DiNicola—College Hall 416 Carla Kihlstedt—Noble Annex 2 Diane Moser—Noble Reading Room Michael Early—College Hall 402 Ravi Krishnaswami—Noble John Fitz Rogers—Noble Annex 1 Jonathan Bailey Holland—n/a Conference Room Roger Zahab—College Hall 413

IT: The network password is: SushiDog Live streamed events at: vcfa.edu/livestream

Rehearsals: See separate schedule of ensembles-in-residence rehearsals (pages 14-16). Rehearsals are open to observers.

VCFA Bookstore: The VCFA Store is located on the first floor of College Hall. Cash, personal checks, and credit cards are welcome. Hours are: Saturday, February 9 from 12:00pm to 4:30pm Sunday, February 10—Friday, February 15 from 8:30am to 4:30pm Saturday, February 16 from 8:30am to 7:00pm

VCFA Library: Staffed library hours are: Sunday, February 10—Friday, February 15 from 8:00am to 7:00pm Saturday, February 16 from 8:00am to 5:00pm You can also access the library during off-hours by calling Campus Relations at 802-828-8888.

NECI Dewey Café Hours: Please note that Dewey Café opens and closes precisely at the times listed, and you will not be able to enter if you arrive earlier or later, although you can still sit and finish your meal if you have been served before they close. Daily dining hours in Dewey Café are: Breakfast 7:30am-8:30am (continental breakfast 7:00am-7:30am) Lunch 11:30am-1:00pm Dinner 5:00pm-7:00pm

Café Anna Café Anna in the North Gallery of College Hall offers coffee, pastries, salads, soups, sandwiches, etc., as well as beer, wine, and drink service in the evenings. The café will be open daily during the week: Sunday, February 10 8:00am-5:00pm Thursday, February 14 8:00am-5:00pm, Monday, February 11 8:00am-5:00pm 9:00pm-12:00am Tuesday, February 12 8:00am-5:00pm, Friday, February 15 8:00am-1:30pm, 9:00pm-12:00am 5:00pm-12:00am Wednesday, February 13 8:00am-7:30pm, Saturday, February 16 8:00am-1:30pm, 9:00pm-12:00am 5:00pm-7:00pm

Songwriting Showcase The Songwriting Showcase set-up and sound check is scheduled to take place on Friday, February 15 starting at 5:15pm in the VCFA Gallery. You are encouraged to find time to rehearse with fellow students as needed during the week; room B06 in College Hall basement is available; coordinate with Reed Robins ([email protected]).

MFA in Music Composition – Winter 2019 Residency Schedule: Page 2 of 16 Saturday February 9

12:30pm Faculty Meeting College Hall 208 catered lunch

1:00pm-6:00pm Student Check-In Dewey Hall

DINNER NECI Dewey Café Hours listed on page 2 of the Residency Schedule

6:00pm Faculty & Musician Dinner Crowley House catered

Sunday February 10

BREAKFAST NECI Dewey Café Hours listed on page 2 of the Residency Schedule

9:00am-9:45am Welcome Meeting College Hall Gallery

10:00am-11:00am New Student Orientation College Hall Gallery

10:00am-11:00am Returning Group Meetings Faculty Meeting Spaces See Faculty Meeting spaces listed on page 2 of the Residency Schedule

10:00am-10:30am Graduate Assistant Meeting with Title IX Coordinators David Markow & College Hall 103 Jericho Parms An opportunity to meet VCFA's Title IX Coordinators, David Markow and Jericho Parms, and learn about VCFA's Title IX policies and procedures.

11:15am-12:15pm Master Class A Noble Lounge Please see separate Master Class schedule (page 13).

11:15am-12:15pm Master Class B Noble Conference Room Please see separate Master Class schedule (page 13).

LUNCH NECI Dewey Café Hours listed on page 2 of the Residency Schedule

1:30pm-2:45pm Faculty Presentation Noble Lounge Rick Baitz “What She Said”: A Film About Film With Music About Music For years, my approach to teaching film scoring has been to draw connections between the techniques of contemporary concert composers, and those of film composers – such as Stravinsky and Bernard Herrmann. This year, I was asked to score a feature documentary about the influential, iconoclastic film critic Pauline Kael, which includes clips of dozens of films she reviewed -- and I realized, with a joyful spark of recognition, that this was an opportunity to apply my teaching to my own creative practice. This presentation will detail the origins of my soundtrack to “What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael”, exploring its relationships to the music of Stravinsky, Herrmann, Glass, Copland, Bernstein, Leucoña, Giacchino and others.

MFA in Music Composition – Winter 2019 Residency Schedule: Page 3 of 16 3:00pm-4:00pm Faculty Workshop Noble Lounge Ravi Krishnaswami Quick Scoring Challenge: Rust-Oleum In this highly interactive workshop, you are invited to score a thirty second TV spot for Rust-Oleum and receive feedback in real time, along with your colleagues. I’ll provide a video file without music and a creative brief, which is verbatim from an agency music supervisor. Each composer will have a chance to briefly explain her strategy and process. This workshop is open to all, whether participating or not, as there is plenty to be learned about this medium by seeing multiple approaches to the same challenge.

3:00pm-4:00pm Faculty Workshop Noble Conference Room Diane Moser Deep Listening Deep Listening is a meditative practice, created by the composer Pauline Oliveros in 1971. She describes Deep Listening as “listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear no matter what one is doing.” Deep Listening explores the difference between the involuntary nature of hearing and the voluntary, selective nature – exclusive and inclusive -- of listening. The practice includes bodywork, sonic meditations, interactive performance, listening to the sounds of daily life, nature, one’s own thoughts, imagination and dreams, and listening to listening itself. It cultivates a heightened awareness of the sonic environment, both external and internal, and promotes experimentation, improvisation, collaboration, playfulness and other creative skills vital to personal and community growth. "Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening".-P.O.

4:15pm-5:15pm Master Class A Noble Lounge Please see separate Master Class schedule (page 13).

4:15pm-5:15pm Master Class B Noble Conference Room Please see separate Master Class schedule (page 13).

DINNER NECI Dewey Café Hours listed on page 2 of the Residency Schedule

6:30pm-7:45pm Study Exploration Noble Lounge, An opportunity for students to discuss their study ideas for the semester with faculty. Noble Reading Room, Students are encouraged to speak with as many faculty as possible and are required to Noble Conference Room list at least four faculty on the Study Preference Form (due Wednesday, Aug. 8 at 9am).

7:15pm-7:45pm Students Graduating on Saturday, February 16 meet with Carol and Sarah College Hall Gallery

8:00pm Film & Media Music Festival Noble Lounge In visual media, music is often the secret partner in story-telling, embodying the internal states of the characters in the narrative. This event will feature a variety of approaches to the marriage of music to picture, as offered by VCFA students, faculty and alumni — from fiction films, to animation, video art, webisodes, documentaries, game scores, and jingles. The intent is to explore and celebrate the diversity of music-to-picture relationships.

MFA in Music Composition – Winter 2019 Residency Schedule: Page 4 of 16 Monday February 11

BREAKFAST NECI Dewey Café Hours listed on page 2 of the Residency Schedule

9:00am-10:00am Master Class A Noble Lounge Please see separate Master Class schedule (page 13).

9:00am-10:00am Master Class B Noble Conference Room Please see separate Master Class schedule (page 13).

10:15am-11:30am Faculty Presentation Noble Lounge Roger Zahab Style and Interpretation …underneath this sunnily objective surface lies a shadowy terrain of brooding question and doubt…I would like to explore some interestingly uncomfortable questions about artistic identity, life-purpose, interpersonal communication skills and community…

11:30am-11:50am Photo ID’s College Hall 205 For new students

LUNCH NECI Dewey Café Hours listed on page 2 of the Residency Schedule

12:30pm-1:15pm Faculty Meeting with Tom Greene, President; Erica Metzger Hare, Chief Dewey Lounge Financial Officer/VP for Administration; & Matthew Monk, Academic Dean

12:45pm-2:15pm Chorus Workshop Rehearsal Alumni Hall All welcome as singers!

2:30pm-3:45pm Faculty Presentation Noble Lounge Jonathan Bailey Holland Translation, part 2: Confronting Beethoven My most recent artistic project was explicitly about creating a work to pair with perhaps the most well known works in the orchestral canon - Beethoven's 9th Symphony. I will talk about my journey through conceptualizing the work, and share a recording of the end result.

4:00pm-5:00pm Master Class A Noble Lounge Please see separate Master Class schedule (page 13).

4:00pm-5:00pm Master Class B Noble Conference Room Please see separate Master Class schedule (page 13).

5:15pm Students Graduating in August 2019 meet with Carol and Sarah Dewey Lounge Get take-out containers from NECI and bring your dinner upstairs to Dewey Lounge

DINNER NECI Dewey Café Hours listed on page 2 of the Residency Schedule

8:00pm Electronic Music Showcase Alumni Hall An evening of electronic sound and multimedia; VCFA students and faculty perform new work for instruments with live electronic sound and video.

10:00pm Devin Barone After Hours Concert Noble Lounge Devin requested an informal opportunity to share his electronic album [unity].

MFA in Music Composition – Winter 2019 Residency Schedule: Page 5 of 16 Tuesday February 12

BREAKFAST NECI Dewey Café Hours listed on page 2 of the Residency Schedule

8:15am New Student Check-In Café Anna Carol Beatty and Sarah Madru

8:15am Alumni Office Celebration for Winter 2019 Graduates College Hall Gallery Jericho Parms, Director of Alumni Affairs & Diversity Initiatives Residency Graduates: meet for a celebration of VCFA’s newest alumni with your Director of Alumni Affairs. Gifts and refreshments provided!

9:00am-10:15am Faculty Presentation Noble Lounge Carla Kihlstedt Say it plain. If you can't explain something to a 4-year-old, it's because you're not clear about it yourself. The clearer you are, the more you can communicate with anyone. We create music to communicate. And often the simplest choices are the most effecting. Let's listen to some of my favorite moments of utter simplicity and discuss.

10:30am-12:00pm Chorus Workshop Feedback Session Alumni Hall Observers encouraged to attend.

12:15pm-1:30pm Faculty Meeting College Hall 208 catered lunch

LUNCH NECI Dewey Café Hours listed on page 2 of the Residency Schedule

1:00pm-1:30pm Student Meeting with Title IX Coordinators David Markow & Jericho Parms Noble Lounge An opportunity to meet VCFA's Title IX Coordinators, David Markow and Jericho Parms, and learn about VCFA's Title IX policies and procedures. All students are strongly encouraged to attend.

1:15pm-3:00pm Faculty Presentation Noble Lounge Michael Early Music and Spirituality Explicit or implicit, there is an often powerful transformative experience that happens to us through music we love, sometimes identified with the religious or the spiritual. As listener, performer, and composer, I will share some personal examples from past and present that deal with this kind of transformation, and consider what it might mean for us as active practitioners creating new music.

3:15pm-4:45pm Composer/Performer Showcase College Hall Gallery Roger Zahab Organized and hosted by Roger Zahab, and open to all composer/performers, this time around Roger imagines this showcase “as a companion event to my talk (scheduled for later in the week) about Style and Interpretation, and he is particularly interested in presenting work which, though performable by anyone, is illuminated by being heard in the composer’s hand/voice/mind.

DINNER NECI Dewey Café Hours listed on page 2 of the Residency Schedule

MFA in Music Composition – Winter 2019 Residency Schedule: Page 6 of 16 8:00pm Ensemble Performance—The City of Tomorrow College Hall Chapel A concert of music written by MFA in Music Composition students and reflecting a widely versatile cross-section of approaches to new music. Featuring The City of Tomorrow: Elise Blatchford, flute; Rane Moore, clarinets; Stuart Breczinski, oboe and English horn; Nanci Belmont, bassoon; and Leander Star, French horn.

Wednesday February 13

BREAKFAST NECI Dewey Café Hours listed on page 2 of the Residency Schedule

9:00am Study Preference Forms due (electronically) Due no later than 9:00am. Submit electronically via the link provided by email. Students are required to list at least four faculty with whom they’ve discussed their study ideas. If a Study Preference Form does not include four faculty choices, the faculty will assign an advisor at their discretion.

9:00am-10:00am Master Class A Noble Lounge Please see separate Master Class schedule (page 13).

9:00am-10:00am Master Class B Noble Conference Room Please see separate Master Class schedule (page 13).

10:15am-11:30am Faculty Presentation Noble Lounge Andy Jaffe Reharmonization This lecture, and its related workshop later in the week, will focus on the topic of Reharmonization. Reharmonization may be defined as a change in the harmony of a given musical phrase. It is one of many devices in the jazz composer/arranger’s toolbox that may be used to change the sound and feeling of the music. Reharmonization may emphasize vertical or horizontal elements of harmony, and in tonal situations often does both. Pedal tones or ostinati may also be used to change the sound and function of the harmony. We will examine the use of various specific reharmonization techniques, in a variety of stylistic settings, in both compositional and arranging contexts. Compositionally, we will show how reharmonization can enrich and provide variety to melodic presentation, as well as discussing its role in enhancing motivic reiteration and development. In terms of arranging, we will focus mainly on its use in changing the sound of individual chords (verticalities) as well as the enhancement of horizontal harmonic movement (voice-leading) and associated tonal function. We will also discuss other related non-harmonic devices with which it frequently coexists, such as changes in meter, groove, orchestration and style. Composers and arrangers whose work we will be studying include Wayne Shorter, Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, Gil Evans, Mary Lou Williams, Take Six, Bill Evans, John Coltrane, Cedar Walton and others.

LUNCH NECI Dewey Café Hours listed on page 2 of the Residency Schedule

12:30pm-1:00pm Student Meeting with Tom Greene, President, and Matthew Monk, Noble Lounge Academic Dean

1:15pm-2:30pm Faculty Presentation Noble Lounge Ravi Krishnaswami Creative Arranging: When, How and Why We Cover Songs For Sync Everyone loves a creative cover of a well known song… especially music supervisors. Often when handed an assignment to cover a song, there’s a strategy behind using that song that is driven by the story being told and the goals of the creative team. Looking at a number of examples and thinking metaphorically about the song as story, we’ll discuss the compositional tools and techniques used when arranging and recording existing material. As always, we’ll try to move past the “how" and get to the “why." MFA in Music Composition – Winter 2019 Residency Schedule: Page 7 of 16 2:45pm Faculty Meeting College Hall 208 Who Works with Whom

2:45pm-4:00pm Library Orientation & Tech Orientation VCFA Library Jim Nolte, Library Director & Peter Timpone, Director of Information Technology

4:15pm-5:30pm Samba Workshop Noble Conference Room Julian Gerstin Let’s play together! Learn some basic Brazilian grooves on a variety of bells, shakers and drums, and spend a couple of hours in polyrhythmic heaven. If you’re familiar with the sound of Brazilian music here’s a chance to learn how it works. If you’re unfamiliar, come discover some of the world’s most joyful music. Instruments provided. Julian has been leading community samba groups for over 25 years and is eager to share this musical world.

6:00pm Dinner College Hall Gallery Catered Dinner

7:15pm-7:45pm New Group Meetings College Hall Gallery Meet with faculty advisor and fellow students over dessert. Make sure to schedule individual appointments and plan New Group time for later in the week.

8:00pm Ensemble Performance—The City of Tomorrow & Anna’s Ghost College Hall Chapel A concert of music written by MFA in Music Composition students and reflecting a widely versatile cross-section of approaches to new music. Featuring The City of Tomorrow: Elise Blatchford, flute; Rane Moore, clarinets; Stuart Breczinski, oboe and English horn; Nanci Belmont, bassoon; and Leander Star, French horn. Also featuring Anna’s Ghost: Brian Adler, percussion; Ken Thomson, saxophone and clarinet; Red Wierenga, piano, accordion, and rise; and Jim Whitney, bass.

Thursday ♥ February 14 ♥

BREAKFAST NECI Dewey Café Hours listed on page 2 of the Residency Schedule

9:00am-10:15am Faculty Presentation Noble Lounge Don DiNicola Gestures of Scoring A broad look at the basic gestures we use when scoring to picture. We will look at examples from the following Film categories: Documentary Reality (a sub-category of Documentary) Animation Commercial Industrial Gestural categories will include: Mickey Mousing Rhythm/Beats Textures/Pads Melodic/Motivic Song Based Geographic/Ethnic/Stereotype

10:30am-11:30am Master Class A Noble Lounge Please see separate Master Class schedule (page 13).

10:30am-11:30am Master Class B Noble Conference Room Please see separate Master Class schedule (page 13).

MFA in Music Composition – Winter 2019 Residency Schedule: Page 8 of 16 LUNCH NECI Dewey Café Hours listed on page 2 of the Residency Schedule

1:00pm-2:00pm Master Class A Noble Lounge Please see separate Master Class schedule (page 13).

1:00pm-2:00pm Master Class B Noble Conference Room Please see separate Master Class schedule (page 13).

2:15pm-3:30pm Guest Workshop Noble Lounge Jascha Narveson Talk title/description: Working with Dancers As a composer I’ve always prioritized the concert hall or people’s headphones as a home for my music but, over the past few years, and without quite meaning to, my musical life has become as much if not more about dance as it has about anything else. Dancers have always been in my life as friends and collaborators, and I’ve become increasingly thankful for that with every passing project. I would like to offer this talk as a pitch for the idea of working with dancers for those of you who haven’t thought about the possibility before. I’ll be sharing sketches, intermediate and finished versions of pieces to illustrate some of the strategies I’ve figured out for myself in this interdisciplinary space. Jascha Narveson was raised in a concert hall and put to sleep as a child with an old vinyl copy of the Bell Laboratories mainframe computer singing "Bicycle Built for Two." He now makes music for people, machines, and interesting combinations of people and machines. He is an active member of Sideband (a spinoff of the Princeton Laptop Orchestra) and and Hotel Elefant (a New York based chamber ensemble), and is a co- organizer of the New Music Gathering, an annual national conference by and for the new-music community. For more info, see www.jaschanarveson.com.

3:45pm-5:00pm New Group Activities Faculty Meeting Spaces Time devoted to study planning, either through individual meetings or as a group, for the semester project. See Faculty Meeting spaces listed on page 2 of the Residency Schedule

3:45pm-4:15pm Students Graduating on Saturday, February 16 meet with Carol & Sarah College Hall Gallery

DINNER NECI Dewey Café Hours listed on page 2 of the Residency Schedule

6:30pm-7:45pm Faculty Presentation Noble Lounge John Mallia Interstices This presentation will investigate what, in my mind, is one of the most basic principles of musical phrasing — alternation. To start, well-known examples of phrases from Classical/Romantic era repertoire will be analytically discussed. Then, the effectiveness of juxtaposition and oscillation in contemporary music will be examined. The space and connectivity between materials and spaces will be a central theme.

8:00pm Ensemble Performance—Anna’s Ghost & invoke College Hall Chapel A concert of music written by MFA in Music Composition students and reflecting a widely versatile cross-section of approaches to new music. Featuring Anna’s Ghost: Brian Adler, percussion; Ken Thomson, saxophone and clarinet; Red Wierenga, piano, accordion, and rise; and Jim Whitney, bass. Also featuring invoke: Nick Montopoli, violin and mandolin; Zachariah Matteson, violin; Karl Mitze, viola and mandolin; and Geoff Manyin, cello.

MFA in Music Composition – Winter 2019 Residency Schedule: Page 9 of 16 Friday February 15

BREAKFAST NECI Dewey Café Hours listed on page 2 of the Residency Schedule

9:00am Ensemble Preference Forms Due (electronically) Due no later than 9:00am. Be sure to discuss multiple preferences with your faculty advisor. First choice is not guaranteed. Submit online via link provided by email.

9:00am-10:15am Faculty Presentation Noble Lounge Diane Moser The Global Composition: Sound, Ecology and Media An overview of a conference that I attended in Dieburg, Germany this past October. The term "Global Composition" refers to R. Murray Schafer's pioneering work in creating the field of acoustic ecology and his world soundscape project, where he treats the entire world as a macrocosmic musical composition. We will take a look at the myriad of artists, architects, urban planners, sound designers, sociologists, and others who employ sound and music composition in their work.

10:30am-11:45am Guest Presentation Noble Lounge Lainie Fefferman The Documentary Voice in Chamber Composition I'm going to talk about my use of interview and scholarly text as sound and narrative elements in my recent chamber music. Balancing audience attention between abstract structures and linear storytelling can be tricky, but how can the composer wield words and voices beyond traditional text setting? I answer that question newly in every piece, but a few pitfalls and strategies have emerged. I'll talk about my Portrait Pieces Project (highlighting commissions from pianist Kathleen Supové, string quartet ETHEL, and bassist Eleonore Oppenheim) and a piece for piano trio called "Impostor Phenomenon" to offer a few different ways I've tackled this challenge. Exploring the personal and idiosyncratic aspects of music-making, composer Lainie Fefferman’s most recent commissions have been from So Percussion, Make Music NY, Experiments in Opera, string quartet ETHEL, Kathleen Supové, TILT Brass, James Moore, Eleonore Oppenheim, JACK Quartet, and Dither. Her one-woman electro-acoustic feminist-torah-commentary performance project "White Fire" has been touring internationally since 2016 and had an extended show, incorporating her recent live- streaming multichannel audio research in collaboration with Bell Labs, at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn in December of 2018. Fefferman is the founder and co-director of Exapno, a New Music Community Center in Downtown Brooklyn and is co-founder of the New Music Gathering, a national new music annual event. She received her doctorate in composition from Princeton University and continues to be a programming/performing member of Princeton-based laptop ensemble Sideband. She is currently a professor of music and technology at Stevens Institute of Technology. For more information, visit: lainiefefferman.com

12:00pm-1:45pm Faculty Lunch Meeting College Hall 208 catered Who’s Writing for Whom

LUNCH NECI Dewey Café Hours listed on page 2 of the Residency Schedule

2:00pm Ensemble Performance—Anna’s Ghost & invoke College Hall Chapel A concert of music written by MFA in Music Composition students and reflecting a widely versatile cross-section of approaches to new music. Featuring Anna’s Ghost: Brian Adler, percussion; Ken Thomson, saxophone and clarinet; Red Wierenga, piano, accordion, and rise; and Jim Whitney, bass. Also featuring invoke: Nick Montopoli, violin and mandolin; Zachariah Matteson, violin; Karl Mitze, viola and mandolin; and Geoff Manyin, cello.

MFA in Music Composition – Winter 2019 Residency Schedule: Page 10 of 16 4:00pm-5:00pm Master Class A Noble Lounge Please see separate Master Class schedule (page 13).

4:00pm-5:00pm Master Class B Noble Conference Room Please see separate Master Class schedule (page 13).

5:15pm-7:45pm New Group Activities Faculty Meeting Spaces Time devoted to study planning, either through individual meetings or as a group, for the semester project. See Faculty Meeting spaces listed on page 2 of the Residency Schedule

5:15pm-7:45pm Songwri ting Showcase Set-Up followed by Sound Check College Hall Gallery Details will be emailed throughout the week.

DINNER NECI Dewey Café Hours listed on page 2 of the Residency Schedule Students involved in the Songwriting Showcase should get take-out containers from NECI and bring your dinner to the Gallery. Café Anna will also be open.

8:00pm Songwriting Showcase College Hall Gallery The Songwriting Showcase highlights the diverse songwriting and performing talents of the students and faculty of VCFA's MFA in Music Composition. From intimate solo pop performances to intricate arrangements for a full band; from rock to R&B to fingerpicking guitar to jazz; the evening promises to be an exciting romp through the current musical landscape. Café Anna will serve beer, wine, and other beverages (cash bar).

Saturday February 16

BREAKFAST NECI Dewey Café Hours listed on page 2 of the Residency Schedule

9:00am-10:00am Faculty Workshop Noble Lounge Andy Jaffe Reharmonization Interested students are invited to bring examples of their own creation or from the repertoire to present to their colleagues in a related workshop. Students should come prepared with notated examples (hard copies or for projection) and be prepared to play them at the keyboard or with an audio file (limit of 16 bars).

9:00am-10:00am Faculty Workshop Noble Conference Room Don DiNicola Digital Orchestration and Mixing The emphasis will be on Logic Pro X although the principals are applicable to any DAW. We will take a look at how very basic techniques can radically alter how your cues work. Areas we will cover include, dynamics, how compression works, the difference between delay and reverb, bussing effects, the value of sub-group bussing and (in a very broad overview) mastering your final mix. I am open to discussing any student's mix project. Just bring in a mix for a quick review (I can only review 2 effectively so please contact me early in the residency if you’re interested. I will also touch on how to best organize your sessions with an eye towards collaboration and swapping files.

MFA in Music Composition – Winter 2019 Residency Schedule: Page 11 of 16 10:15am-11:30am Faculty Presentation Noble Lounge John Fitz Rogers Compositional Models, Constraints, and the Use of Ambiguity As composers, our first question when writing a new piece is often "What will I do?" In this presentation, we'll consider the idea of limiting choices, and why that can help free our creativity. We'll also discuss the importance of observation and use of "ambiguity" as a compositional strategy: that is, standing back to exam and "re-hear" our ideas from various perspectives. As an example, we'll look closely at the first movement of Stravinsky's Symphony in C.

LUNCH NECI Dewey Café Hours listed on page 2 of the Residency Schedule

12:45pm-1:45pm Master Class A Noble Lounge Please see separate Master Class schedule (page 13).

12:45pm-1:45pm Master Class B Noble Lounge Please see separate Master Class schedule (page 13).

2:00pm Ensemble Performance—invoke College Hall Chapel A concert of music written by MFA in Music Composition students and reflecting a widely versatile cross-section of approaches to new music. Featuring invoke: Nick Montopoli, violin and mandolin; Zachariah Matteson, violin; Karl Mitze, viola and mandolin; and Geoff Manyin, cello.

4:15pm STUDY PLANS DUE!! If submitting a draft Study Plan, the final version will be due 2 weeks after residency. Due no later than 4:15pm. Submit online via link provided by email.

4:30pm GRADUATION College Hall Chapel

5:30pm Graduation Reception College Hall Gallery Café Anna will be open until 7:00pm (cash bar).

If you are checking out of the dorms tonight, please refer to check-out instructions listed on Sunday, February 16.

Sunday February 16

BREAKFAST NECI Dewey Café Hours listed on page 2 of the Residency Schedule

By 10:00am Check-Out Instructions: Turn down thermostat and close windows. Leave your mattress pad and all blankets on your bed on your bed. Please do not put these items in the linen bin. Place your sheets and towels INSIDE your pillowcase and deposit used linens (inside your pillowcase) to the laundry bin in the building you are staying: 1st floor of Dewey, lower levels of Martin House and Crowley House, or 2nd floor Noble Landing. Leave your door propped open with your chair when you leave. Clean out any items you have in the refrigerator and dispose. Take down any posters and signage that was put up during residency, including any tape left on windows, doors and walls. Return your keys to the Key Drop Box in the Dorm Building you are staying in: 1st floor Dewey, 2nd floor Noble, dining rooms tables of Martin, Frail, and Crowley Houses. A $25 lost key fee will be applied to any student who does not return a key on the day of departure, with an additional $75 fine applied if the key is not returned within 7 days. Summer 2019 Residency Dates SUNDAY, August 4 – SATURDAY, August 10 MFA in Music Composition – Winter 2019 Residency Schedule: Page 12 of 16 Master Class Schedule

A = Noble Lounge B = Noble Conference Room

Sunday, February 10 Student Reviewers 11:15am-11:45am A Sarah LeMieux John Fitz Rogers Ravi Krishnaswami B Nick Creed Carla Kihlstedt Don DiNicola 11:45am-12:15pm A Rikki Bell Ravi Krishnaswami Roger Zahab B Tiffany Pfeiffer Diane Moser Andy Jaffe 4:15pm-4:45pm A Joy Yascone Mike Early Ravi Krishnaswami B Frederick Rawski John Mallia Rick Baitz 4:45pm-5:15pm A TJ McGlinchey Don DiNicola Carla Kihlstedt B Prakash Wright Mike Early Andy Jaffe

Monday, February 11 Student Reviewers 9:00am-9:30am A David Boney Diane Moser Rick Baitz B DJ Tetreault Roger Zahab Ravi Krishnaswami 9:30am-10:00am A Gautier Abadie Ravi Krishnaswami Don DiNicola B Bridget Carson Mike Early Andy Jaffe 4:00pm-4:30pm A Tracey Bidne Roger Zahab Carla Kihlstedt B Paul Smith-Stewart Jonathan Bailey Holland John Mallia 4:30pm-5:00pm A Adam Kale Jonathan Bailey Holland Ravi Krishnaswami B Tamara Cashour Rick Baitz John Fitz Rogers 5:00pm-5:30pm A Julian Gerstin Jonathan Bailey Holland Don DiNicola B David Pennise John Mallia Andy Jaffe

Wednesday, February 13 Student Reviewers 9:00am-9:30am A Carl LaMark Mike Early Andy Jaffe B Paul Gilliland John Mallia Diane Moser 9:30am-10:00am A Jan McBride Mike Early Rick Baitz B Leslie Frost Diane Moser John Fitz Rogers

Thursday, February 14 Student Reviewers 10:30am-11:00am A Brian Mejia Carla Kihlstedt Mike Early B Vanessa Littrell Rick Baitz Diane Moser 11:00am-11:30am A Ben Lieberman Lainie Fefferman Mike Early B Paul Lorenz Jascha Narveson Diane Moser 11:30am-12:00pm A Lauren McCall Lainie Fefferman Rick Baitz B Devin Barone Jascha Narveson John Mallia 1:00pm-1:30pm A Ethan Foote Lainie Fefferman John Mallia B Megan DiGeorgio Jascha Narveson Roger Zahab 1:30pm-2:00pm A Quincy Davis Lainie Fefferman John Fitz Rogers B David Blonstein Roger Zahab Carla Kihlstedt

Friday, February 15 Student Reviewers 4:00pm-4:30pm A Robert Monroe Andy Jaffe John Mallia B Jackson Mann Roger Zahab John Fitz Rogers

Saturday, February 16 Student Reviewers 12:45pm-1:15pm A Laura Young John Fitz Rogers Carla Kihlstedt B Tyler Sherman Don DiNicola Rick Baitz 1:15pm-1:45pm A Barrett Tuttobene Ravi Krishnaswami Don DiNicola B

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Rehearsals in College Hall Vault Concerts in College Hall Chapel

Saturday, February 9 Open Rehearsal

Sunday, February 10 Student Faculty 11:15am-12:15pm Quincy Davis Mike Early

1:20pm-2:15pm Vanessa Littrell Don DiNicola

2:20pm-3:15pm Bridget Carson John Fitz Rogers

3:25pm-4:15pm Tiffany Pfeiffer Carla Kihlstedt

4:25pm-5:10pm Laura Young Diane Moser

Monday, February 11 Student Faculty 9:00am-9:55am Lauren McCall John Mallia

10:00am-10:55am Devin Barone Carla Kihlstedt

11:00am-11:50am David Blonstein Mike Early

1:25pm-2:25pm Ben Lieberman John Fitz Rogers

2:30pm-3:15pm Tiffany Pfeiffer Carla Kihlstedt

Tuesday, February 12 Student Faculty 9:00am-9:45am Bridget Carson John Fitz Rogers

9:50am-10:40am Vanessa Littrell Don DiNicola

10:45am-11:40am Quincy Davis Mike Early

1:45pm-2:30pm Laura Young Diane Moser

5:15pm Sound check in Chapel for Tuesday night concert composers

8:00pm Concert: Bridget Carson, Quincy Davis, Vanessa Littrell, Tiffany Pfeiffer, Laura Young

Wednesday, February 13 Student Faculty 9:00am-9:55am Devin Barone Carla Kihlstedt

10:00am-10:50am Lauren McCall John Mallia

10:55am-11:45am David Blonstein Mike Early

1:15pm-2:15pm Ben Lieberman John Fitz Rogers

5:30pm Sound check in Chapel for Wednesday night concert composers

8:00pm Concert (with Anna’s Ghost): Devin Barone, David Blonstein, Ben Lieberman, Lauren McCall

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Rehearsals in College Hall Chapel Concerts in College Hall Chapel

Monday, February 11 Student Faculty Open Rehearsal 3:20pm-4:10pm TJ McGlinchey Ravi Krishnaswami

4:15pm-5:05pm Andy Gagnon Andy Jaffe

Tuesday, February 12 Student Faculty 9:00am-9:50am Adam Kale (solo clarinet) John Mallia

10:00am-11:00am Tyler Sherman Andy Jaffe

11:05am-11:50am Barrett Tuttobene Andy Jaffe

1:35pm-2:35pm Sarah LeMieux Roger Zahab

2:40pm-3:25pm Paul Lorenz Rick Baitz

Wednesday, February 13 Student Faculty 9:00am-9:50am Brian Mejia (solo piano) Don DiNicola

9:55am-10:40am TJ McGlinchey Ravi Krishnaswami

10:45am-11:45am Julian Gerstin Diane Moser

1:00pm-1:45pm Robert Monroe Carla Kihlstedt

1:50pm-2:40pm Andy Gagnon Andy Jaffe

8:00pm Concert (with The City of Tomorrow): Andy Gagnon, TJ McGlinchey

Thursday, February 14 Student Faculty 9:00am-9:50am David Pennise Rick Baitz

9:55am-10:45am Barrett Tuttobene Andy Jaffe

10:50am-11:45am Tyler Sherman Andy Jaffe

1:00pm-1:50pm Julian Gerstin Diane Moser

1:55pm-2:45pm Paul Lorenz Rick Baitz

2:50pm-3:40pm Robert Monroe Carla Kihlstedt

8:00pm Concert (with invoke): Julian Gerstin, Robert Monroe, Tyler Sherman, Barrett Tuttobene

Friday, February 15 Student Faculty 9:15am-9:50am Adam Kale (clarinet solo) John Mallia

10:05am-11:00am Sarah LeMieux Roger Zahab

11:05am-11:55am David Pennise Rick Baitz

2:00pm Concert (with invoke): Adam Kale, Sarah LeMieux, Paul Lorenz, David Pennise

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Rehearsals Tuesday-Friday in College Hall 103; Saturday in College Hall Chapel Concerts in College Hall Chapel

Tuesday, February 12 Student Faculty Open Rehearsal 11:20am-12:10pm Prakash Wright Ravi Krishnaswami

1:35pm-2:30pm Megan DiGeorgio Jonathan Bailey Holland

2:35pm-3:25pm DJ Tetreault Jonathan Bailey Holland

Wednesday, February 13 Student Faculty 9:00am-9:50am Paul Smith-Stewart Ravi Krishnaswami

9:55am-10:50am Ethan Foote Roger Zahab

10:55am-11:45am Leslie Frost Roger Zahab

1:50pm-2:40pm Jan McBride Don DiNicola

Thursday, February 14 Student Faculty 9:00am-10:00am Megan DiGeorgio Faculty TBA

10:05am-11:00am Leslie Frost Roger Zahab

11:05am-12:05pm Frederick Rawski Roger Zahab

1:55pm-2:45pm Jan McBride Don DiNicola

2:50pm-3:40pm Paul Gilliland Rick Baitz

5:00pm Sound check in Chapel for Thursday and Friday concert composers

8:00pm Concert (with Anna’s Ghost): Megan DiGeorgio, Leslie Frost

Friday, February 15 Student Faculty 9:00am-9:55am Ethan Foote Roger Zahab

10:00am-10:50am Paul Gilliland Rick Baitz

10:55am-11:45am DJ Tetreault Faculty TBA

2:00pm Concert (with Anna’s Ghost): Paul Gilliland, Jan McBride

Saturday, February 16 Student Faculty 9:00am-10:00am Frederick Rawski Roger Zahab

10:10am-11:00am Prakash Wright Ravi Krishnaswami

11:05am-11:55am Paul Smith-Stewart Ravi Krishnaswami

2:00pm Concert: Ethan Foote, Frederick Rawski, Paul Smith-Stewart, DJ Tetreault, Prakash Wright

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