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Welcome to
Neely Bruce Music, home of the choral composition, the
Bill of Rights.
What's New
Saturday 16 May 2009 at 7:30 p.m.: The Nutmeg
Symphony Orchestra,
under the direction of
Marshall Brown, presents the Connecticut premiere of Neely's
Introduction and Grand March. (See
blogs no. 5 and 6.) Chippens Hill School,
Bristol, CT. Check out
www.nutmegsymphony.org
for information, including directions.
Sunday 21 June 2009 at 7:30 and
8:30 p.m.: Neely conducts the NYC premiere (and the third performance
in the entire USA!) of Henry Brant's monumental
Orbits for 80 trombones, soprano
soloist and organ. At the Guggenheim Museum—free and open to the public.
More information to follow in the blog.
Videos of some recent performances of other pieces are now available for viewing via this
website.
On Wednesday, May 14th,
St. Bartholomew’s Church presented the world premiere of The Portals of
Saint Bartholomew, a leading-edge spatial musical work composed and
conducted by Neely Bruce.
Read
press release and
background info and view
video.
Neely Bruce (b. 1944), Professor of Music and American Studies at Wesleyan
University, is a composer, conductor, pianist and scholar of American music.
His largest work is entitled CONVERGENCE. Commissioned by the American
Composers Forum, as part of its Continental Harmony project, it premiered
June 18, 2000 as part of the New Haven International Festival of Arts and
Ideas. Bruce’s opera Hansel and Gretel, commissioned by Connecticut Opera,
received its first performances as a chamber work for children in 1997.
A prolific
and eclectic composer, Neely Bruce is also an accomplished pianist and
conductor. [learn more...]
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