I write experimental chamber works and picture notation a la George Crumb. Plus I invent instruments, and write music for dance, theater, film, choruses and electronics. As a mixed-blood Indian and classical pianist, I never imaged the two could come together.
Davids first heard about Ballard in , when he was an undergraduate student at Northern Illinois University. For my lessons, I had to write pieces in different styles. One day, something I wrote reminded him of Louis Ballard. I wrote a letter to Ballard, and he responded and encouraged me.
Mario Venzago conducted the Indianapolis Symphony in the premiere in January with Italian pianist Emanuele Arciuli for whom the concerto was commissioned. Over the past decade, a variety of programs have started across the country to specifically promote music by Native American composers.
Paul, Minnesota. Its outreach includes short-term residencies for American Indian artists intended to foster musical and artistic development within tribal and urban Indian communities. Since January , FNCI has offered Common Ground grants for commissions, residencies, performance, production, travel, study, and outreach. Through on-line forums, the FNCI considers itself a meeting ground, linking composers, performers, and audiences in cyberspace.
FNCI currently serves over Native American composers and performers and to date has awarded 36 grants to a total of 43 artists. After receiving a degree in piano performance from Northwestern University, he went on to study at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Patricia Tate, commissioned him to score a ballet, Winter Moons , in Since then, his music has been performed across the country by ensembles ranging from the National Symphony Orchestra to the Colorado Ballet.
Last year, Tate was the recipient of a Joyce Foundation Award in conjunction with the American Composers Forum, in which he taught composition to American Indian high school students in Minneapolis. Having decided to record his music on Thunderbird Records, a new label that specializes in Native American composers and performers, he cold-called the San Francisco Symphony with his proposal.
And they bit. Both Howard Bass, public programs producer, and Dr. Helen Maynor Scheirbeck, senior advisor for museum programs and scholarly research at the museum, had very strong interest in the topic.
Part of the mission at NMAI is to provide a venue for Native talent and to dispel common misconceptions and stereotypes of Native people. Classical Native, which presented its first series in October , fits that mission well. In that first year, the Classical Native brought together a score of Native American composers and performers to present 12 performances over four days. The opera, which will be performed at the NMAI on November 5, 6 and 7, , is based on a Zapotecas legend and is sung in an imaginary language.
Bass hopes to find ways to continue to highlight the work of Native composers and classical musicians next year and beyond, despite the challenges of diminished resources.
Recently Bise, an audio engineer who is classical music producer for the Cleveland-based Azica Records, was inspired to launch a record label of solely Native American composers and performers. In , he had produced a recording of compositions by David Yeagley Comanche with James Pellerite performing on cedar flute.
Their assignment was to create a work for string quartet of at least two minutes. I remembered my own struggles trying to compose a string quartet when I was a conservatory student.
How would this work? The music the students created that first year was a revelation: here were original, authentic voices. It was Native music, but it was also infused with reggae and heavy metal influences. What they lacked in knowledge of formal keys and chord structures they more than made up for in their authentic aesthetic sense.
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