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).