Inaugural Concerts from the Landscape Music Composers Network
Cadillac Moon Ensemble. Photo by Karjaka Studios.
Our upcoming event Landscape Music Presents Cadillac Moon Ensemble at the Parrish Art Museum celebrates the National Park Service’s century of conservation with a concert of new music evoking landscape, ecology, wildlife, and adventure.
This concert, which takes place on September 9 in Water Mill, NY, is an exciting collaboration between the Landscape Music Composers Network, the Parrish Art Museum (the Hamptons’ premier fine art museum), and NYC’s fantastic Cadillac Moon Ensemble. We’ll hear music by five Landscape Music composers—Nell Shaw Cohen, Stephen Lias, Justin Ralls, Alex Shapiro, and Stephen Wood—including World Premieres composed by Cohen and Ralls for this occasion.
Check out the press release, purchase tickets, and watch this space for detailed coverage!
Last month saw the first-ever concert affiliated with Landscape Music Composers Network, New Music of Our National Parks, created by Rachel Panitch and presented by the Advent Library Concert Series in Boston, MA. It was an evening of beautiful performances and we were fortunate to attract an appreciative audience, which included members of the National Park Service. In case you missed it, here’s the press release with an overview of the event and a concert preview with samples of each of the pieces that were featured on the program.
Michael Futreal Joins the Composers Network
We recently welcomed a new addition to the Landscape Music Composers Network: Michael Futreal, a composer, improvising performer, instrument builder, and multimedia artist based in Shreveport, LA. Recently an Artist-in-Residence at Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, Michael creates unique works that “articulate impressions of places as powerful catalysts to imagination and memory.”
Recent Articles on Landscape Music
Intersections: Duets with Nature — The first in Nell Shaw Cohen’s series highlighting large-scale, interdisciplinary, multimedia, and/or collaborative projects at the intersection of music, nature, and environmental advocacy.
Stephen Wood: Wilderness Advocacy Through Music and Education — In this in-depth interview, Stephen Wood shares ideas and experiences behind his concerts and educational programs, elucidating his vision of how music acts as a catalyst for reconnecting us to our environment.
Sketches of Nature: Landscape Music in the Central Asian Steppe — Justin Ralls explores the musical culture of the central Asian steppe and reflects on parallels between the Tuvan approach to “sketches of nature” and western music composition.