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MU SOM & Community Events - Related Resources

• A selection of resources to explore and learn more about the musicians and music performed at some SOM and community events.

2024: FEBRUARY       MARCH        APRIL       JULY

July 2024

• Mizzou International Composers Festival 2024

July 22nd - 27th
Festival Program with program notes (pdf)

Learn more about this year’s Distinguished Guest Composers: Mary Kouyoumdjian and George Lewis

George Lewis's articles and books (selected)

• Lewis, George. ‘New Music Decolonization in Eight Difficult Steps’. Van Outernational, 2020
• Lewis, George. "The Situation of a Creole" in the forum:
  • Clarke, David. ‘Defining Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Music’. Twentieth-Century Music 14, no. 3 (October 2017): 411–62. 
• Lewis, George E. ‘Improvised Music after 1950: Afrological and Eurological Perspectives’. Black Music Research Journal 16, no. 1 (1996): 91–122.
• Linson, Adam, Chris Dobbyn, George E. Lewis, and Robin Laney. ‘A Subsumption Agent for Collaborative Free Improvisation’. Computer Music Journal 39, no. 4 (2015): 96–115

Articles and radio programs covering Mary Kouyoumdjian (selected)

• Phillips-Hutton, Ariana. ‘Sonic Witnesses: Music, Testimony, and Truth’. Ethnomusicology Forum 30, no. 2 (4 May 2021): 266–82,
• ---------. ‘Destroying the Imagined City’. Twentieth-Century Music 19, no. 2 (June 2022): 227–34. (Combirdge Core is experiencing technical issues, so this article may not be currently viewable).
• Gordon, Ted. ‘PSNY: Spotlight on Mary Kouyoumdjian’. European American Music Distributors Company, 17 September 2019.
• ASCAP. ‘Mary Kouyoumdjian Selected to Receive Inaugural ASCAP Foundation Harold Adamson Prize for a Mid-Career Concert Music Composer and Performer’, 5 January 2024.
• ‘An Arab American Singer Reframes Music about the Crusades’. All Things Considered. NPR, 20 June 2022.

April 19th

Misner has included two Korean art songs as one part of a varied program. Here is some information and resources about these songs:

교목 (Gyo Mok / Tall Evergreen Tree) by Chong Jong Yeoul (정종열); poem by Yi Yuksa 이육사 (1904–1944).

• Read the composer’s bio on Classical Network, an online platform for Korean classical musicians:
• Learn more about the poem and poet: Yi Yuksa, a poet and independence activist, was actively engaged in the Korean resistance movement during Japanese colonial occupation.¹ The poem Gyo Mok “…is a text of resistance in which a natural object (Mok, or the tree) reflects both the speaker’s inner world and the situation of Korea under colonial rule.”²

• Deep dive into the composer's setting of the poem Gyo Mok, and his other choral music:  The choral music of Chong Jong Yeoul: A review and guide to Korean pronunciation, a recent PhD dissertation by Sinhaeng Lee.

동심초 (Dongshimcho) by Kim Seongtae (김성태); poem by Xue Tao 薛濤 (A.D. 770-832)

• Use the Korean Art Song Resource online database to look up songs by this composer.

• This song was recorded by the popular singer Gwon Hye-gyeong in the 1950s and became a hit for her. It was used in the film of the same name, Dongshimcho (동심초) in 1959.³

• Watch a presentation on and performance of the song by soprano Park So Eun (박소은) on her educational YouTube channel. The performance starts at 4:11 and includes English subtitles for the lyrics, but the presentation is in Korean only. Tip: enable transcript, and copy to Google translate.

1.  McCann, David, ‘Yi Yuksa (1904-1944)’, in The Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Poetry (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004), 37–40.
2. Sinhaeng Lee, ‘The Choral Music of Chong Jong Yeoul: A Review and Guide to Korean Pronunciation’ (PhD diss., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2022), 54, https://hdl.handle.net/2142/116169.
3. 이정식, ‘권혜경의 “동심초” (1) Gweon Hyegyeong’s Dongshimcho’, CCDN 충청매일, 10 February 2011, https://www.ccdn.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=222660

April 26th
Program with program notes (pdf)

Katahj Copley - composer

Interviews with Copley - Podcasts:

• Anthony Morris, Lorin Green, and Michael Shannon Brown, ‘A Conversation with Katahj Copley’, October 27, 2021, in Relative Pitch, podcast, 41:53.

• Ashley Killam and Carrie Blosser, ‘Katahj Copley,’ February 2, 2022, in Diversify the Stand, podcast, 38:09.

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Anthony Plog's Three Miniatures for Tuba (1990)

• Read about the trumpeter, trumpet pedagogue, and composer Anthony Plog.
• Listen to different recordings of Three Miniatures for Tuba on Naxos Music Library:

• Read the different ways writers of liner notes have introduced listeners to Plog's Three Miniatures for Tuba:
  • Roger Boba (Tuba Libera, Roger Boba, 1994)
  • Joseph Skillen (Blue Plate Special, Tuba Recital, Joseph Skillen and Jan Grimes, 2001)
  • Jean-Pascal Vachon –(Danzas, Øystein Baadsvik and Niklas Sivelöv, 2006)

Symphonic dances from West Side story by Leonard Bernstein

Resources on directing Wind Ensembles and Bands 

Gary Gilroy - composer, arranger, band director, music professor

• listen to an interview with Gilroy where he talks about composing and arranging music for band. 
• look up information on Gilroy and his compositions on the Wind Repertory Project.

Randall Standridge - composer, arranger, marching arts designer, educator

• look up information on Standridge and the composition Choose Joy, as well as his other works for winds, on the Wind Repertory Project.
• listen to the podcast Composer Disclosure's episode on Standridge.

On a hymnsong of Philip Bliss by David R. Holsinger

March 2024

• Mike Zito Gulf Coast Records Album Release   
• Christina Ray, mezzo-soprano and Dr. Rachel AuBuchon, piano

March 30th

Zito, Mike. “Forever My Love.” On Life is Hard. Gulf Coast Records, 2024, streaming audio. YouTube.

Learn more about some songs Zito covers on Life is Hard and the musicians who wrote and performed them:

‘I'm A Lonely Man’ by Little Milton and Robert Lyons:

• ‘I'm A Lonely Man’ was recorded by Little Milton, and released in 1958 in 45 RPM format on Bobbin Records, which was based in St. Louis. Get more information on this recording on Discogs.

Milton, Little and Robert Lyons. “I’m a Lonely Man.” On That Will Never Do / I'm A Lonely Man. Bobbin Records, 1958, streaming audio. YouTube.

‘Death Don't Have No Mercy’ by Gary Davis:

• Read on overview of Reverend “Blind” Gary Davis (1896-1872) in the South Carolina Encyclopedia.

Davis, Gary. “Death Don't Have No Mercy.” On Let Us Get Together. Sunset Blvd Records, 2022, streaming audio. YouTube.

Mike Zeto - Awards and Discography:

• AllMusic. ‘Mike Zito Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More’, 2024.
• Blues Foundation. ‘2022 Blues Music Awards Winners’, 6 May 2022.

Reviews, interviews, and other coverage of Mike Zeto:

• Apice, John. ‘Review: Mike Zito “Life Is Hard”’. Americana Highways, 22 February 2024.
• Johnson, Kevin C. ‘Mike Zito Is Living a “First Class Life,” but It Didn’t Come Easily’. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 10 May 2018. Newspaper Source.
• Jordan, Joseph. ‘Mike Zito Feature - Blues Music Magazine’. Joseph Jordan Blues Writer, August 2021.
• Richards, Tom. ‘Guitarist Mike Zito Reflects on Love and Loss with His New Album Life Is Hard’. Houston Press, 22 February 2024.

March 18th

Rossini, Gioacchino. Stabat Mater (1832 version) / Giovanna d'Arco (arr. M. Taralli). Cullagh, Pizzolato, Sola, Palazzi, Württemberg Philharmonic, Fogliani. Naxos, 2016, streaming audio. Naxos Music Library.

McCready, Anna. “Gilding the Lily: Music and Monarchy in Paris (1814-1833).” Ph.D., University of London, King’s College, 2003.

• Chapter Five proposes a symbolic interpretations of Rossini's Giovanna d'Arco as the sacrificial victim of her king.

Rossini Opera Festival. “Gioachino Rossini: Biographical Sketch and Opera Chronology,” 2020. →  "1832 Meanwhile the first symptoms have appeared of the serious nervous breakdown that will affect the composer, who by this time has formed a union with Olympe Pélissier. He dedicates his cantata for soprano and piano Giovanna d'Arco to her" (Rossini Opera Festival 2020).