Concerts Ohio State Offers A Weekend of New Music

Music at Ohio State ONew Music Collective Presents Second Concert
 
The New Music Collective holds its second concert on Friday, November 20 at 8 p.m. in Weigel Auditorium, 1866 College Rd., on campus. The group was founded in spring 2009.
 
The 25-member New Music Collective,  an ensemble specializing in the performance of a wide spectrum of 20th and 21st century music, presents a varied program, from American master Charles Ives to a live performance arrangement of music by pop-electronica star Aphex Twin.
 
The concert also features two world premieres by OSU composers Anthony Vine and David Root.
 
Guest composer Per Bloland from Oberlin College will be present for a performance of his "Clouds of Oran," based on the novel The Plague by Albert Camus.
 
Giacinto Scelsi, the father of spectral music, will be represented by "Okanagon," a work for harp, contrabass, and tam-tam. 
 
In a pre-concert event from 7:35 - 8:05 pm., six percussionists and 50 singers will perform "Paragraph 2" from Cornelius Cardew's The Great Learning - perhaps the longest work in all music literature.
 
The concert is free and open to the public. For more information, call (614) 247-7036
 

OSU School of Music Presents Composers Workshop
 
The Ohio State University Composers Workshop presents a concert on Saturday, November 21 at 8 p.m. in Weigel Auditorium, 1866 College Rd., on campus.
 
The program showcases compositions by undergraduate or graduate students enrolled in a composer's workshop class. Students present compositions that are in process or previously finished compositions.
 
Performed in collaboration with student instrumentalists, this quarter's concert includes compositions by Matthew Davis, Matthew Evans, Abigail Hahn, Joseph Hansalik, Robert Lunn, David Root, David Tomasacci, and Edwin Waskiewicz.
 
The concert is free and open to the public.
 
For more information, (614) 247-7036.