Art Music

Art Music Ensemble: Look Both Ways

by C. Michael Bailey
December 1, 2000

Postmodern Musings. A couple of months ago, I reviewed Luciano Berio's complete Sequenzas on Deutsche Gramophone (part of DG's 21st Century Series). I noted there to be a valid comparison between certain Jazz genres (Free Jazz and Avant-garde) and Postmodern Classical Music. David Sherr and his Art Music Ensemble blur the line further with Look Both Ways, a survey of selected Berio Sequenzas coupled with Sherr compositions inspired by them.

Sherr opens this disc with Berio's Sequenza for Flute, composed ...

University of South Florida Opens State-of-the-Art Music Building

Source: Ashleigh Gallant
February 22, 2011

TAMPA, Fl—From oak tree practice fields to state-of-the-art practice rooms, the USF School of Music is excited to be moving from its current 45-year-old building into a new state-of the-art, 113,535 square foot dream. For decades, music students have practiced wherever space allowed, studied wherever they could sit, and even on occasion held classes in the courtyard. Not because they particularly enjoy the outdoors, but because it was the only space that was available. Having outgrown its current home some ...
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World Music Festival Highlights Art, Music

Source: All About Jazz
July 14, 2008

ON A RECENT hot July afternoon, artist Joseph Tiberino sat with friends at a table in the courtyard adjoining the several homes that make up the West Philly museum named for his late wife, Ellen Powell Tiberino. The old friends drank Argentinian cabernet out of water glasses, chatted about everything from recent art acquisitions to the first rock 'n' roll record, and casually planned a film shoot for later that evening. That blend of communal spirit and artistic endeavor is ...
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