NM421 - Issue November 30th, 2024

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Composer's Voice is a 28 minute TV show airing on Manhattan's cable access channel MNN.org. Unfortunately, 28 minutes isn't always sufficient to present a whole work from a composer. This Thanksgiving Holiday season Vox Novus would like to present "The Lenape Creation Myth" from Alyssa Reit.

Alyssa Reit is a long time collaborator of Vox Novus and champion of new music. This month we are celebrating Alyssa's work with her full work we recorded at MNN. A Composer's Voice show which aired previously, a new endeavor called Sanctuary Music, and a brand new call for Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame.

"The Lenape Creation Myth" from Alyssa Reit.

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Jane Bradley narrates the story with composer Alyssa Reit performing on lever harp.

The Lenape Creation is a setting of the beautiful traditional Native American myth, based on the account as told by Hitakonanu’Laxk (Tree Beard), adapted by Alyssa Reit.

The composition of both The Lenape Creation was supported by generous grants from the American Harp Society.

Alyssa Reit, a multifaceted composer, arranger, performer, teacher, and storyteller. Her main body of work has been creating theatrical-musical settings of myths, classic stories, and fairy tales.

If you want to find out a little more about Alyssa Reit, Composer's Voice just featured her. You can see her show here: https://www.youtube.com/live/DbBu0EtfLyA

AND Vox Novus is collaborating with SOGA to create Sanctuary Sounds where we presented several of Alyssa's work which you can view here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75ZVN7IQZQQ

Call for Scores

Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame featuring CAMP – Contemporary Art Music Project

Vox Novus is calling for one-minute pieces composed ffor works for saxophone, viola, piano or/and suzuki andes recorder keyboard, and percussion.

Vox Novus is calling for one-minute pieces CAMP – Contemporary Art Music Project. Selected works will be premiered in March 2025 with Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame featuring CAMP – Contemporary Art Music Project. Composers are invited to write works for this quartet containing saxophone, viola, piano, and percussion. The group embraces any style, aesthetic, notation, and performance techniques.

Any subset of the instruments, including different solos and ensembles are also acceptable submissions.

Deadline for works is December 1st, 2024

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Call for Scores

Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame featuring violinist Orest Smovzh

Vox Novus is calling for one-minute pieces composed for solo violin.

The theme to this Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame is for anything relating to punk music. For Orest Smovzh, the possibility of short works resonates with the raw simplicity of earlier punk and no wave music (the late 70s early 80s), also some later noise music (specifically Japanese of the 90s). He often describes these pieces as works that "resist elaboration, compress dramaturgy, or freeze in a brief moment". Orest also usually calls them "condensed music"

Deadline for works is December 6th, 2024

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Composer's Voice

is a bi-weekly TV showing airing on Manhattan Neighborhoodd Network

Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame

is 15 one-minute works written for a specific musician/ensemble.

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60 one-minutes works by 60 different composers

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