Joel Philip Friedman--composer/currator/colaborator

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Preconcert Conversations with the Philadelphia Orchestra (January 19-21, 2006)

I've been asked to give a series of preconcert talks for the upcoming concerts featuring Branford Marsalis (saxophone) and Thomas Wilkins (condusctor). The talk will focus on the nexus of the sax, jazz, and French music. For more info, click here>

T Tables (2005) - was given its New York premiere by Sally Hess and John Alston as part of the DancenOw/NYC Festival at Joe’s Pub (Public Theater NYC) on September 17, 2005.
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Wednesday, July 6, 2005--newmusicbox.org

Joel make's NMB's "Today's Pick - What the BOX is listening to" daily CD track selection for What The Living Do on the recent release Extraordinary Vistas.

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As NMB says about their "Today's Pick:"

"Whoever said the record industry is dying hasn't seen the stack of new music releases that continue to arrive in the NMB office. With so many discs to check out, we're going to let you in on the listening party. Hear a short track sample and read a bit about new releases as well as old favorites from our library every weekday."

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"The T Tables," a new dance piece, was premiered at the Annual Faculty Dance Concert at Swarthmore College on Saturday, February 5 at 8pm, Lang Center for the Performing Arts, Pearson-Hall Theatre. The work is an evocation of a list of terrible and terrific words - all beginning with the letter T - that was conceived by choreographer/dancer and colleague, Sally
Hess. "The T Tables" is scored for solo voice and sung by fellow faculty member John Alston. Thisfaculty collaboration is rounded out by James P. Murphy (Lighting) and Nick Kourtides (sound).

Twelfth Night (2004) - Incidental music
Director John Greenleaf has asked me to compose songs for his Cincinnati Playhouse in the Parks/NEA Shakespeare in American Communities production of the Twelfth Night. The show will visit 25 schools and over 9,000 students in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and West Virginia and runs from January through February 2005. With hey, ho, the wind and the rain!

What the Living Do, a song for soprano and piano (part of the song cycle One Into One) --The Extraordinary Vistas CD has finally been released! You can order your copy directly from Americus' website (item number AMR20031020) or at Amazon.com.

Elastic Band, a chamber work for clarinet, string quartet, and percussion -- The complete and newly revised work was recently premiered by the New York Chamber Ensemble under the direction of Alan R. Kay at the Cape May Music Festival (June 1, 2004) on a concert aptly titled "Elastic Band."

Performers: Michael Lowenstern, clarinet; Renée Jolles and Andrea Schultz, violin; Jessica Troy, viola; Eliot Bailen, cello; John Ferrari, Percussion; Alan R. Kay, conductor.

Alan Kay moderated a panel discussion with composers Robert Aldridge, Joel Phillip Friedman, and Bruce Wolosoff on the influences of jazz and popular styles on classical composers entitled "Why do they do it?"

Fallings, A chamber music theater work for soprano, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and pre-recorded sound -- with collaborator Seth Friedman recently in town from LA progress was made on the libretto.

Incontrovertible Counterpoint, for work for wind band - With the teaching year complete work will soon resume on this work for wind band.

Check back for future updates!

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