Music & Conversation with Matthew GreenbaumMusic & Conversation with Matthew Greenbaumhttp://www.haverford.edu/calendar/details/97502Union Maccrate2009-11-06T16:15:002009-11-06T18:00:00
November 6, 4:15PM
Union Maccrate
On Friday, November 6th at 4:15 PM the Department of Music presents Music & Conversation with composer, Matthew Greenbaum. His chamber opera "AMERICA, THIS IS QUITE SERIOUS" will be performed in MacCrate Recital Hall - Union Bldg. Admission is free.
Matthew Greenbaum
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On Friday, November 6th at 4:15 PM the Department of Music presents Music & Conversation with composer, Matthew Greenbaum. His chamber opera "AMERICA, THIS IS QUITE SERIOUS" is a 25-minute opera based on 3 poems of Allen Ginsberg: "America" "A Supermarket in California" and "The weight of the world is love". It will be performed by Cyndie Bellen-Berthézène and video in MacCrate Recital Hall, Union Building, and is free and open to the public.
Matthew Greenbaum was born in New York City in 1950. He studied composition with Stefan Wolpe and Mario Davidovsky and holds a Ph.D. from the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the Serge Koussevitzky Music Funds/Library of Congress Commission for a new work for the Freiburg Ensemble SurPlus, and awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Fromm Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund and the New York Foundation of the Arts. His works have been presented/performed/commissioned by the Darmstadt Summer Festival, the Leningrad Spring Festival, the Jakart Festival (Indonesia), the Hallische Musiktage, the Fromm Foundation, the Meet the Composer/ Readers Digest Commissioning Fund, Ensemble SurPlus (Freiburg), Nuova Consonanza (Rome), Ensemble 21 (Odense), the Da Capo Chamber Players, Cygnus, Parnassus, Fred Sherry, Marc-André Hamelin, David Holzman, Stephanie Griffin, the Momenta String Quartet, Network for New Music/Penn Council on the Arts, the New York New Music Ensemble, the Group for Contemporary Music, Orchestra 2001, Christopher Taylor and the Riverside Symphony, and the Houston Symphony.
Greenbaum is also a video artist, as well as being a professor of composition at Temple University. He is currently at work on a book, Musical Dialectic, a study of the interrelationship of musical and philosophical structure.
Native New Yorker Cyndie Bellen-Berthézène brings a host of diverse artistic gifts and academic accomplishments to her work as a children’s book author. After dancing professionally in New York and Paris, Cyndie combined a career in opera performance with doctoral studies in Russian Literature at Penn and Columbia and received numerous awards and fellowships in both fields; in addition to her work in Russian, Cyndie also holds a diplôme de langue from the Alliance française-Paris. Critical praise for her singing has been unhesitating, and her recording of the lead role in Matthew Greenbaum’s opera, A Floating Island, will be released on Centaur in 2006.
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