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Dina Koston
Established by composer/pianist Dina Koston, who named the fund after her husband, psychiatrist Roger Shapiro, the Roger Shapiro Fund is a new fund for commissioning, performance and recording of New Music. Ms. Koston intended the fund to promote music in the Western modernist tradition.
The Roger Shapiro Fund is concerned with:
–new music, not limited by geographical region
–education in music, composition, and international outreach
–promoting further knowledge and appreciation of the music of founder Dina Koston.
Connecting Composers
The Roger Shapiro Fund aims to arrange for composers to collaborate with organizations, particularly presenting organizations and performing ensembles that have built a sizeable audience or are implementing creative strategies to gain an audience for new music.
Education
It is very important to us at the Roger Shapiro Fund that music education and the creation of new music be a priority for each new generation! We foster opportunities for young people to study and perform new music, study composition and present their own compositions. We are particularly interested in promoting international musical studies and exchanges in the hope that broader, deeper musical and cultural connections will lead young people to a greater understanding of what unifies us as inhabitants of the globe.
Reaching New Audiences
In addition to traditional concert venues, the Roger Shapiro Fund is interested in developing new ways for new music to reach people, including radio, television & internet, recording projects, new music in public spaces, real or virtual and innovative collaborations with other arts disciplines.
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Bowers Fader Duo with composer Paul Salerni
This Friday–first performances of two RSF commissions
by Rodney Sharman and Stephen Chatman
N e w Y o r k, New York
– 10/18/19 – National Opera Center – Scorca Hall –
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RSF supported Bridge Records’ *George Crumb Vol. 16*
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7 November 2019
Jotting some notes here that will have to be edited and focused in the fullness of time.
Links to sound or video are in the works.
I consulted with Harold Bloom
when preparing for Cygnus’ RW Emerson bicentennial celebration.
In the end, Bloom …
13 October 2019
The well deserved fuss about our favorite modernists left other interesting music unexamined, at least by that prideful modernist faction.
We do not have to go so far as to say Schoenberg should be deposed and Sibelius or Tchaikovsky ensconced. …