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Welcome to my web site!
Right now I'm promoting this Greater Tri Cities Area Composers' Consortium (GTCACC) concert.
Artistic Reflections II, sponsored by the First Presbyterian Church's Arts Series, is
a reprise of the popular 2004 Artistic Reflections which was featured in a front page article in the May/June issue
of American Composers Forum's Sounding Board. Members of GTCACC have
written more original musical interpretations for visual art. (Commissioned and sponsored by First Presbyterian
Church and King College; and funded by a Tennessee Arts Build Communities grant.) This time the art was from
the Neal and Alice Caldwell Art Collection at King College. To download a PDF file for a brochure
of the First Presbyterian Church's Arts Series go to this link: http://www.fpcbristol.org/growing/music/
| Evelyn "reflects" the art with her music. |
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| Photo by Tony Duncan, Johnson City Press. (Click on picture to read Tempo Article.) |
| Click here to go to A! Magazine article. |
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| Marimba music in REFLECTIONS was written especially for Alan Fey. |
My contribution to this concert (click on Archive, Jan, 2008, Artistic Reflections II, Evelyn Pursley-Kopitzke) is a choral work titled "Reflections"
featuring marimba soloist Alan Fey. The architecture and acoustics of the First Presbyterian
Church (FPC) sanctuary created musical reflections, reverberations, echoes; which added to the musical interpretation
of visual art that features reflection. (Seven Landscapes) Water reflections appear upside-down, and often
are broken or obliterated by waves on the surface. The music itself is built on mirror images, echoes,
and altered echoes. The concert-goers were surrounded by antiphonal sound, and visually immersed in the projected art
which was projected during the performance and then was on display at FPC during a reception after the concert.
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Previous Music by
Evelyn Pursley-Kopitzke
Will the REAL African American
Composer please stand up! Or perhaps it should be "American African."
"I was born in Tanzania, Africa, and spent most of
my first decade in African countries--where I had a usually delightful childhood.
My playmates were my animals, my brother, and the local African children.
"Vignettes from an African Childhood
is an attempt to answer the inevitable questions that arise from my answer to the question, 'Where are you from.' The music
of the Vignettes is highly visual and the Paramount Players
and others who have heard the preliminary readings of the music are encouraging me to expand it into a full-scale interpretive dance production. Even non-musicians have commented, "I'm so glad you wrote music I could 'see.' "
"If you are active in the world of dance, and would like to help create a new ballet, please contact me after the concert."
Listen to Recordings of the performance.
TGFM,
Evelyn
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For more information about the Paramount
Players,
click on their picture
or go to:
Paramount Center for the Arts
(Click: main calendar, May 24)
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for all aspects of
Recordings of the performance are now available from the composer.
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