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Music Web International reviews Elena Ruehr: O'Keeffe Images
February 23, 2015 — This is one of two recordings from the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) of which I received an mp3 preview. I regret that the other was well removed from my comfort zone. I’m not aware that I have encountered the music of Elena Ruehr before, though there are two recordings of her music on Avie, one of which, also recently released, with the generic title Lift, contains chamber music (AV2319). The earlier CD, of music for soprano, baritone, chorus and orchestra was well received, though we seem to have missed it here at MusicWeb International (AV2263).
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Irving Fine’s Complete Orchestral Music, a vital addition to his discography
February 15, 2015 — Irving Gifford Fine (1914-1962) was an American composer. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Fine studied with Walter Piston at Harvard earning Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees. He studied conducting with Serge Koussevitsky and composition with Nadia Boulanger. At the time of his death at age 47 he completed only a handful of works for orchestra, chorus and various chamber ensemble and solo works. But what he lacked in quantity did not lack in quality. The Irving Fine Society maintains a very useful web page which can be found here.
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William Thomas McKinley, 1938-2015
February 12, 2015 — The composer and New Kensington native William Thomas ("Tom") McKinley died on Feb. 3 at the age of 76. Born on Dec. 9, 1938, Mr. McKinley is best known for concert music composed in the jazz idiom but had forays into neo-classicism, atonality and electronic music. He attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) in 1956, where he met his longtime friend and colleague David Stock, a local composer and the founder of the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, who describes him as "one of our most important Pittsburgh artists of any kind."
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Gramophone reviews Scott Wheeler: Crazy Weather
February 1, 2015 — A wonderful tensile energy operates on a subliminal aural screen behind the main episodes in Boston-based Scott Wheeler's music; perhaps they are musical particle traces of the dancers' and singers' bodies 'that are the medium for the stage composer's work', as Wheeler modestly describes himself in the booklet-notes. In fact, Wheeler turns out to be a highly effective composer of classical music by virtue of a vivid aural imagination whose ingenious, garrulous products he crafts into absorbing symphonic soundscapes that make the hip Boston Modern Orchestra Project sound great.
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BMOP/NEC Concerto Competition
Boston, MA (December 12, 2014) — The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), affiliate orchestra for new music at New England Conservatory, will join NEC in sponsoring a concerto competition for works written after 1964. Provisions: The competition will be held in late January in Jordan Hall. The competition will consist of one round. Eligibility: The competition is open to any full-time NEC student, instrumental or vocal, who will be returning in the 2014/2015 academic year. Full Release
The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) in Association With The Fine Family & The Irving Fine Society, and Brandeis University Celebrate Irving Fine’s Centennial and his Fellow Boston School Composers Harold Shapero and Arthur Berger
Boston, MA (April 16, 2014) — Download PDF When: Friday, May 16 @ 8:00 p.m. (free pre-concert talk @ 7:00 p.m.) Where: Jordan Hall (30 Gainsborough Street), Boston, T: Symphony/Mass Ave. Tickets: General $20 - $50/Students $10. To reserve seats now, contact BMOP at bmop.org or 781.324.0396. Starting April 18, tickets are also available through the Jordan Hall Box Office at 617.585.1260, in person, or at tix.com. Full Release
BMOP announces BMOP/NEC concerto competition 2014
Boston, MA (November 22, 2013) — The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), affiliate orchestra for new music at New England Conservatory, will join NEC in sponsoring the 2014 Concerto Competition for works written after 1963. Provisions: The competition will be held on January 21, 2014, from 11am to 1pm in room 124 of the Jordan Hall building. The competition will consist of one round. Eligibility: The competition is open to any full-time NEC student, instrumental or vocal, who is enrolled for the 2013/2014 academic year. Full Release
NEC Celebrates British Composer Oliver Knussen with Honorary Doctorate, Performance, Lecture, Masterclasses in April 2013
Boston, MA (April 2, 2013) — For immediate release: March 29, 2013 • Degree Bestowed at Boston Modern Orchestra Project Concert, April 14 • Performances by [nec] shivaree, BMOP • Knussen Will Give Lecture, Work with NEC composition Students in Two Masterclasses Full Release

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