“When we first envisioned the MCC’s 40 Years of Fellowships video project, we wanted a title sequence that captured the excellence and innovative spirit of Massachusetts artists. Once we heard Laura Andel‘s (MCC Music Composition Fellow ’99) song Sao Dao, we knew it was the song we wanted: vivid, textured, and brilliantly alive.”
A section of Khartes, a 50-minute composition, is featured on The NYFA Collection, celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Artist’s Fellowship Program of the New York Foundation for the Arts. The follow-up to 2010’s critically acclaimed NYFA Collection, The NYFA Collection: Volume Two collects works by the 2013 Music and Sound Fellows and presents a staggeringly broad swath of sonic territory.
Khartes, a composition for four musicians and conductor, is among the ten tracks be featured on an upcoming CD collection at Innova Recordings. Khartes will be the opening piece of the CD!
The Massachussets Cultural Council (MCC) is celebrating the 40 Years of Fellowships. In 1975, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts awarded its first Artist Fellowships for excellence, and this year marks the 40th anniversary of those initial state-funded grants to artists. As a 1999 MCC Artist Fellow, I am excited that Sao Dao has been selected for the opening title for […]
