Music in the American Wild is a new music celebration our greatest American places and people. We love location-specific music!
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New *video premiere* featuring "Adaptation Variations" by @takumaitoh, a work about endangered Hawaiian honeycreepers, with beautiful footage by @JorgeArzac from our February tour.
Thanks to @icareifulisten for sharing!
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We LOVE @IngridStolzel’s beautiful music, and were so happy to share her new work “I Breathed a Song,” setting text by HW Longfellow for flute and cello as a part of our Wild Imagination program of family-friendly storytelling and music. youtu.be/BEbbG4j8msg
Arnold Lobel’s Owl at Home, with music and narration by John Liberatore, as a part of our Wild Imagination program of new family-friendly musical settings of classic children's books and poetry
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Thanks @roccitynews (and especially @mona_s and Daniel Kushner) for listing our album on @NewFocusLabel, Duos and Trios, in your TOP 10 Rochester Albums of 2022.
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Nice new review of our album on @NewFocusLabel, Duos and Trios, by Tom Haugen of Take Effect:
“they certainly illuminate the creativeness of these composers on this organic and harmonic, often animated affair.”
@dankettercello, @ellenrbg, Emlyn Johnson
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Thanks to Daniel Kushner from @roccitynews for reviewing our “Duos and Trios” album on @NewFocusLabel
“A winning combination of accessible and adventurous, “Duos and Trios” finds American Wild Ensemble operating with sensitivity and precision”
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Had a great time performing works by @griffincandey, Yotam Haber, Margaret Brouwer, Evan Williams, and Libby Meyer for our Great Lakes program at @WesternMichU, home of our clarinetist @ellenrbg. Thanks Griffin for being there and talking about your beautiful quartet, “Sugar”
Thanks to Chris Spector, Editor and Publisher of Midwest Record for their review of DUOS AND TRIOS on @NewFocusLabel:
"[T]hey know how to serve up a wild ride and find beauty in stuff hidden under rocks. [...] They make it sound a lot easier than it is."
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Out now on @NewFocusLabel, four extraordinary new works for flute clarinet and cello inspired by the natural world. Take a listen!
Out now — @AmWildEnsemble: Duos and Trios
The intrepid American Wild Ensemble was formed around a project to perform new works in national parks, and has continued to create exciting events outdoors in unconventional spaces, from caves to mountaintops
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*** Today's the day! ***
Our new album Duos and Trios is officially out on @NewFocusLabel, and we couldn't be more excited to share this fantastic music with you!
You can check it out today on Bandcamp, Spotify, or Apple Music. Happy listening!
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Our new album with @NewFocusLabel will be streamable this Friday, July 22!
Check out this preview of Aaron Travers' Stillwater Marsh for flute/cello, which reflects on his visits to a park near his Bloomington, Indiana home.
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Our new album of kaleidoscopic commissioned works for flute/cello and flute/clarinet/cello, DUOS AND TRIOS, on @NewFocusLabel will be available on July 22
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On July 22 our new Duos and Trios album will be available on @NewFocusLabel, collecting several of our recent commissions, wonderful new works for flute, clarinet, and cello by Aaron Travers, Clay Mettens, David Liptak, and Margaret Brouwer. Cover art by Hank Eddins. More soon!
Though Friday’s concert at Fort Tryon Park is cancelled for rain…
we are 100% on rain or shine Saturday at the Prospect Park Boathouse in the afternoon and at the Spitzer School of Architecture at CCNY in the evening!
Free concert Saturday 12pm at Prospect Park, eight new pieces reflecting on 200 years of Olmsted parks original.newsbreak.com/@mike…
Free concert Saturday 12pm at Prospect Park, eight new pieces reflecting on 200 years of Olmsted parks original.newsbreak.com/@mike…
1/3 Commissioning new music is an essential part of our work in American Wild Ensemble. In order to better showcase our fabulous composers’ work we have recently added a new page to our website with our growing list of chamber commissions. Check it out!
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Stefan Freund: Wild Revival
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Wild Revival was written for the American Wild Ensemble’s celebration of Missouri’s bicentennial. The piece is inspired by the music studied in fiddler and University of Missouri professor emeritus Howard Marshall’s two books
Thanks to Sascha Groschang and Laurel Morgan Parks for inviting us and @IngridStolzel to chat for "Sound Currents" on @ClassicalKC about @AmWildEnsemble's Missouri Music at 200 project! The episode airs October 3, featuring music by Ingrid Stölzel, Marcus Lewis, and Stefan Freund
August 12, 6:30pm Central check out our virtual show reflecting on the Missouri Bicentennial presented by Missouri History Museum, with new works by Stefan Freund, @IngridStolzel, and Marcus Lewis, and poetry by Glenn North.
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Our summer premiere shared for International Clarinet Association's ClarinetFest 2021 of Margaret Brouwer's Fear, Hiding, Play and performance of David Liptak's Two Nocturnes for Flute, Clarinet, and Cello. Love these pieces, check them out!
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