The Music of Stephen Scott: A Retrospective
A Celebration of the Career of Stephen Scott at Colorado College: March 29-30, 2014.
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Thursday, April 3, 2014
Friday, March 28, 2014
The Retrospecitve Weekend Has Arrived
Hello All,
The Retrospective weekend has arrived!
A huge thank you to everyone that has contributed memories and photos as well as to those traveling to be with us this for the festivities.
For those of you unable to attend, please remember that you can leave messages for Steve via the submission box to the right of this post. Or, if you want to leave a public message, you can do so by adding a comment to this or previous blog posts.
Also: The concerts on Saturday (7:30pm) and Sunday (2:00pm) will be live-streamed so I hope you can join us virtually: http://www.coloradocollege.edu/live/
The Retrospective weekend has arrived!
A huge thank you to everyone that has contributed memories and photos as well as to those traveling to be with us this for the festivities.
For those of you unable to attend, please remember that you can leave messages for Steve via the submission box to the right of this post. Or, if you want to leave a public message, you can do so by adding a comment to this or previous blog posts.
Also: The concerts on Saturday (7:30pm) and Sunday (2:00pm) will be live-streamed so I hope you can join us virtually: http://www.coloradocollege.edu/live/
Thursday, March 20, 2014
A Brief History of the Bowed Piano Ensemble - By Stephen Scott, March 2014
Stephen
Scott founded the Bowed Piano Ensemble in 1977.
Eight Colorado College students and two faculty members (Scott and
Curtis F. Smith) were assembled from the larger New Music Ensemble (founded
1972) to rehearse and perform on tour the first piece ever composed for bowed
piano ensemble, Scott’s Music for Bowed
Strings (later renamed Music One for
Bowed Strings). There were two devices used, the “soft
bow,” modeled on an invention by Curtis Otto von Bismarck Curtis-Smith (no
relation to Curtis F. Smith), a Michigan composer who was the first person we
know of to sound the strings of a piano with nylon filament, and the rigid bow,
invented by Scott with a bit of kibitzing from the other players. The piece was one of several new-music
compositions performed by the New Music Ensemble in Colorado, New Mexico and
Texas that spring.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Messages for Stephen
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Party like its 1979...
This photograph was sent in by alumnus Bruce Lemmon. It comes from the eve of the New Music Ensemble's tour to California in 1979. Fast forward 35 years and you'll note that the Packard lounge still looks the same! Come to think of it, so do the students...
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