Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Composer Michael Anderson interview by Jill Renae Hicks

The first blooms of Michael Anderson’s chamber music piece “At the Mercy of the Forest” unfold with twinkling piano, a dissonant, pizzicato cello chiming in and a flute chirping birdlike above the thickening carpet of woodland-esque sounds. This piece, which the University of Missouri composition student created for Peter Raven’s retirement tribute at the Missouri Botanical Garden, earned even greater accolades from judges who recently awarded him perhaps the most coveted annual honor at the MU School of Music: the Sinquefield Composition Prize.

more at the Columbia Daily Tribune

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