Pierce student shares her gift of song
Grosse Pointe Park resident Charlotte Van Arragon was named as a semifinalist in the middle school level of the Hammerstein International Youth Vocal Solo Competition. The Pierce Middle School eighth grader performed “Make Believe” from the Hammerstein and Jerome Kern musical “Show Boat.”
Photo provided by Melody Van Arragon
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GROSSE POINTE PARK The legacy of Oscar Hammerstein the librettist and lyricist of Broadway favorites “The Sound Of Music,” “Carousel,” “South Pacific” and more is living on through a new international contest.
The Hammerstein International Youth Vocal Solo Competition was recently held for vocalists age 23 and younger, and it tapped into the talents of Grosse Pointe Park resident Charlotte Van Arragon.
NATS names Jeffrey Ryan first place winner of 2021 Art Song Composition Award
posted on 8:00 AM, February 4, 2021
Drumroll, please… the 2021 winning composition is “Everything Already Lost”
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Jeffrey Ryan has won first prize in the National Association of Teachers of Singing 2021 Art Song Composition Award for his work,
“Everything Already Lost.” As first prize winner, Ryan will receive $2,000 and the work will be performed at the 57th NATS National Conference, which is slated for July 2022 in Chicago. Additionally, the Cincinnati Song Initiative also will program the work on a future concert as part of its Americana series.
Ryan’s “Everything Already Lost” is an art song cycle for baritone and piano featuring the poetry of Jan Zwicky. The cycle premiered November 19, 2020, in a virtual concert by Music on Main and recorded at Chan Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, with Tyler Duncan, baritone and Erika Switzer, piano. The work is a four-song set.
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ALEXANDRIA A contemporary jazz-pop artist in Alexandria is shooting for the moon with the release of her moody and ethereal new single.
With two already successful singles from her debut album, Katie Ditschun has released The Moon, described as artfully ominous and delicately foreboding, her confident step into winter’s evening glow.
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“This song came to me in a sudden rush,” Ditschun said in a news release from publicist Eric Alper. “I sat at the piano and was astonished at how quickly it flowed out of me. . . it was like it had been poured into me.”
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