Upcoming
Festival of Contemporary Music
Sixth Annual Festival of Contemporary Music will be held 8 pm August 15 and 16 at San Francisco Community Music Center. On one of these two concerts, Rollerchant
will be performed. Fields will attend.
Past
SummerTrios
At the final concert of SummerTrios Adult Chamber Music Camp's "Concerto Program", 2:30 PM 13 June 2008, at Bryn Mawr College's Erdman Hall,
under the direction of Yuval Waldman, Fireheart
received its world premiere performance. The performance was recorded. Fields will attended. Performers were: Frances Tate, flute; Joseph Smith, clarinet; Phillip O'Banion, marimba and vibraphone; Noam Sivan, piano; Igor Szwec, violin; and James Cooper III, cello.
Gloria Chuang on TV and radio in Hong Kong
Dr. Chuang
recorded The Winds of Springtime as part of an interview--concert combination for The Works, on RTHK, Hong Kong, 8 May 2008 7pm.
TwelveToneToyBox
Twelve-Tone Toy Box is a Java-based music-educational
web applet that Fields created in 1997. Java technology subsequently changed substantially,
so for almost ten years, Twelve-Tone Toy Box sat dormant. 2008 February 3, Fields re-visited
it, and with a bit of effort, got it working again, for your pleasure.
Gloria Chuang and Friends
Dr. Chuang and Friends
presented a concert 7 PM 21 January 2008 at the auditorium of Oakwood Village West,
Madison, WI. Arbor Nocturne anchored on the program, framed by
offerings of Schuman and Saint-Saens. Fields attended.
Terry Winter Owens
A small, private memorial service for Terry Winter Owens was held September 2007 in New York City.
You may read Fields's memorial essay for her by clicking this paragraph.
MAPTA
Madison Area Piano Teachers Association held its annual Young Composers Festival 11 September 2007. This
was the culmination of an August 2007 composition contest judged by Fields, and Fields
lectured on musical values from the unique perspective of a composer.
Miami Section, ISCM
Rollerchant was performed by
by violoncellist
Craig Hultgren
at the Wolfsonian Museum
of Florida
International University in Miami Beach, 3 pm, 14 April 2007, for
the annual festival of the
Miami
Chapter of the International Society of Contemporary Music.
Minnesota Orchestra Readings and Composer Institute
2006 May 5-12 was the Composers Institute
and Reading Sessions of
Minnesota Orchestra
in Minneapolis. As part of the festival, a reading of Hubble Space Telescope Views
was given with Fields in attendance.
SCI Region VII
2006 April 2-5 was the regional conference of
Society of Composers, Incorporated
at University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, in conjunction with the John Donald Robb
Composer's Conference.
Rollerchant was performed by Dana
Winograd, with Fields in attendance.
NUVOVOX 2006, March: A flier from the
Diana Barnhart American Song Forum announces that
Shakespeare's Eighteenth Sonnet was a
finalist in the 2006 Nuvovox Choral Award Competition.
SCI Region VI 2006 February 9-12, Fields
attended the regional conference of Society of
Composers, Incorporated at Shepherd School of Music at Rice University in
Houston, Texas.
Victoria Bass gave the
world premiere performance of
Rollerchant, and was met
with whooping applause.
CENNY
2005 August 22, Composers Ensemble of Northern New York picked Rollerchant
to be recorded by violoncellist Mathias Wexler at the Crane School of Music at State University of New York in Potsdam.
Newsletter, April 2005
Click this paragraph for
Fields's Newsletter, April 2005
(screen-format PDF document).
Kalvos and Damian's New Music Bazaar
2005 March 26, Fields was a guest on WGDR Radio in Plainfield, Vermont for one of
the last episodes of Kalvos and Damian's New Music Bazaar, which
had its final weekly broadcast 2005 September 21. Fields was interviewed, and his Sages
of Chelm was aired in its entirety.
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