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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Celebrating #AmeliaEarhart #courage with this amazing premiere performance of "Livid Loneliness of Fear" by the @AmWildEnsemble with a setting of the poem "Courage" by Amelia Earhart. Dreaming about a performance at the new @AEHangarMuseum :)
Full video: youtu.be/EaogUxUaOfo
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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This Sunday (4/16) join us at the Central Library for a musical retelling of the Arnold Lobel's classic picture book Owl At Home performed by @AmWildEnsemble. Learn more and RSVP here: bit.ly/411xjpb
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At 1pm on Connections from @WXXINews, chatting w/ @danieljkushner & @lifftwit about fave Rochester recordings fr 2022 including @danielleponder1 @AmWildEnsemble @CharlesEmanuel_ @dmstith @kingbuffaloband Bellwether Breaks, Wren cove, others I'm forgetting to tag I'm sure
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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American Wild Ensemble celebrate nature with experimental music that still has a melody, writes @danieljkushner.
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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”
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The “Missouri Music at 200” program was performed on an outdoor tour throughout the state in August 2021, and American Wild Ensemble collaborated with Christopher Andrews Studios to create video recordings of all of the pieces.
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New Unsolicited Recommendations out now! Feat. @AmWildEnsemble and @jhannau ✨✨ youtu.be/-STaYCSRmlA
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In Rochester, TONIGHT at 6pm in Highland Park, join @AmWildEnsemble for another gorgeous *free* *outdoors* concert of our #LandscapeMusic #Olmsted200 chamber music program, Lungs of the City: Olmsted's Parks in Music! @Olmsted200 eventbrite.com/e/celebrate-f…
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On their second recording, the ensemble presents four works that were written for them, an outgrowth of their varied activities connecting the experience of music making with an increased awareness of our natural world
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Out now — @AmWildEnsemble: Duos and Trios
Music inspired by the natural world for flute, clarinet and cello by Aaron Travers, David Liptak, Margaret Brouwer, and David Clay Mettens
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In Rochester, NY on Sun 8/7 at 6pm, join @AmWildEnsemble for another gorgeous *free* *outdoors* concert of our #LandscapeMusic #Olmsted200 chamber music program, Lungs of the City: Olmsted's Parks in Music! @Olmsted200 eventbrite.com/e/celebrate-f…
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From @AmWildEnsemble's new album Duos and Trios, here's a movement from David Clay Mettens' Avaloch Sketches for flute and cello
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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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Their recording, Duos and Trios, features four works for combinations of cello, clarinet, and flute by Aaron Travers, @LiptakD, Margaret Brouwer, and David Clay Mettens that reflect the ensembles penchant for deriving inspiration from the natural world
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