15 minutes of fame: Austin Mandolin Orchestra

[JoelHobbs]

Friends, are you ready for your fifteen minutes of fame?

Vox Novus is calling for one-minute pieces composed for Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame: Austin Mandolin Orchestra to be premiered March 2015 in Austin Texas for the Composer’s Voice Concert Series and a second performance in the October 2015 at the convention of the Classical Mandolin Society of America in Austin Texas.

The deadline for submissions is just over a week from now: September 26, 2014.

The complete details can be found here:
http://www.voxnovus.com/15_Minutes_of_Fame//calls/

We need more submissions! If you are a composer, please consider submitting a piece. We are really looking forward to presenting your music to our audience!

Joel Hobbs
Austin Mandolin Orchestra

[Jim Garber]

Thanks, Joel! I may give it a try... Yikes... only a week!!

[harper]

The results have been officially announced. The theme of the competition was Texas wildflowers. I am proud to say that my piece (Wild Onion Rag) was selected and also note that works by other members of the Cafe were selected. Happy!

Works selected for this Fifteen Minutes of Fame are:

Fantasia on “Yellow Rose” by John R. Akins
Texas Paintbrush by Johanna Asher
As Our Landscape Reawakens (from Angeltrumpets to Zephrylilies) by Rodrigo Baggio
Spotflower (Acmella Oppositifolia) by David Bohn
Canción de la Chamiza by Erik Branch
Spanish Dagger by Philip DeWalt
The Texas Three Step (Yellow Eyed Grass) by John Egenes
Galliardia Pulchella by Daniel Grantham
History of a Texas Wildflower by Owen Hartford
Persephonia by James J. Kellaris
Harp Dandelion-Khatutik by Aram Petrosyan
Wild Onion Rag by Evelyn Tiffany-Castiglioni
Palo Duro Blossoms by Barry Trott
When String Lily Meets Devil’s Shoestring by Jean-Pierre Vial
I Found My Rose In Austin by Blair Whittington

The premier will be March 8, 2015, in Austin, TX. The pieces will be performed again at the CMSA Conference in Austin in October 2015. Please see details on the AMO website: http://www.amandolinorchestra.com

[btrott]

Congratulations, Evelyn. I was also pleased and surprised to be one of the selected composers!

Barry

The results have been officially announced. The theme of the competition was Texas wildflowers. I am proud to say that my piece (Wild Onion Rag) was selected and also note that works by other members of the Cafe were selected. Happy!

Works selected for this Fifteen Minutes of Fame are:

Fantasia on “Yellow Rose” by John R. Akins
Texas Paintbrush by Johanna Asher
As Our Landscape Reawakens (from Angeltrumpets to Zephrylilies) by Rodrigo Baggio
Spotflower (Acmella Oppositifolia) by David Bohn
Canción de la Chamiza by Erik Branch
Spanish Dagger by Philip DeWalt
The Texas Three Step (Yellow Eyed Grass) by John Egenes
Galliardia Pulchella by Daniel Grantham
History of a Texas Wildflower by Owen Hartford
Persephonia by James J. Kellaris
Harp Dandelion-Khatutik by Aram Petrosyan
Wild Onion Rag by Evelyn Tiffany-Castiglioni
Palo Duro Blossoms by Barry Trott
When String Lily Meets Devil’s Shoestring by Jean-Pierre Vial
I Found My Rose In Austin by Blair Whittington

The premier will be March 8, 2015, in Austin, TX. The pieces will be performed again at the CMSA Conference in Austin in October 2015. Please see details on the AMO website: http://www.amandolinorchestra.com

[JeffD]

Congratulations to all. What a great idea.

[harper]

Congratulations to you, too, Barry. I hope to be at the premier in March, as Austin is only 100 miles from me. I look forward to hearing your piece on "Palo Duro Blossoms." Every year there is a musical extravaganza called "Texas" put on in the Palo Duro Canyon outdoor theater. Its been going for around 50 years. Unfortunately, I never had a chance to go, but I understand it's pretty spectacular.

[Jim Garber]

I would love to hear these pieces performed. I hope they will be recorded. Let us know.

[JoelHobbs]

We do plan to live stream the debut concert at:
www.ustream.tv/channel/blackerby-live

Also, I'm hoping that we can make a good archival audio recording for the composers.

We're really enjoying rehearsing these pieces, it's going to be a fun performance!

I would love to hear these pieces performed. I hope they will be recorded. Let us know.

[DavidKOS]

Too late to submit...maybe next year?

[btrott]

Just a reminder that you can hear the Austin Mandolin Orchestra concert live streamed this Sunday 3/9 7pm CT, at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/blackerby-live

Barry

[mlinkins]

Such a great competition theme/concept! Kudos Austin Mandolin Orchestra and to all of the winners. Looking forward to hearing these pieces at some point.

[Mike-D]

Giving this thread a bump, the concert is going on now http://www.ustream.tv/channel/blackerby-live

[Martin Jonas]

Giving this thread a bump, the concert is going on now http://www.ustream.tv/channel/blackerby-live

I've just listened to it -- the live performance is archived at the above link. Very nice recording, and great playing all around. I like this way of capturing concerts, it feels like being there.

Congratulations to everybody involved!

Martin

[Ed Goist]

Bravo! I concur with Martin - Congratulations to everyone involved!

[John Goodin]

Finally was able to watch the rest of the video stream. Great work Austin! Great work Joel! Wonderful pieces composers! I can't wait to hear them live in October at the Austin CMSA.

John G.

[Mike-D]

Yes, it was a very enjoyable concert! Fortunately I had the "cheat sheet" above that listed the composers as they didn't always announce them. Also nice to see a couple of familiar faces there and hear their work.

Mike

[JoelHobbs]

Hey thanks everyone for watching and the kind words!

If you missed it or want to watch again, an archive of the livestream video is now available and also we've posted the program notes and composer bios, available here:
http://www.amandolinorchestra.com/wh...w/15m-of-fame/

I was really pleased by the quality and diversity of the submissions. The composers really gave us some interesting material to work on. I'm also very excited that a few of our composers have been inspired to start work on a longer version of their miniature piece. So, this is just the beginning!

Learning such a diverse–and often challenging–set of music has been a real growth experience. I have to give kudos and thanks to the orchestra for pulling a lot of extra practice sessions to learn the music well enough to give a solid performance. Now we have seven months to polish it up and give a bigger and better showing Friday October 16th during the CMSA 2015 Convention in Austin.

[MLT]

Joel (and the Austin Orchestra Members),

Thank you for sharing your performance via the 'net. You all did a fabulous job. I, and I am sure many others, are looking forward to seeing you in October at the convention.