Fred Child talks with Andrea Clearfield, Music From Angel Fire’s composer in residence on Performance Today.
In 2008, composer Andrea Clearfield was commissioned by Philadelphia’s Network for New Music to write a chamber work in collaboration with painter Maureen Drdak. Over the next two years, Clearfield traveled to Nepal with Drdak and anthropologists Dr. Sienna Craig and Katey Blumenthal to conduct research on Tibetan music and art. This Tibetan music fieldwork inspired a number of Clearfield’s works, including the work performed at the 2018 Music from Angel Fire Music Festival.
Tse Go La (At the Threshold of this Life) (2012) was performed by Andrea Clearfield, Music from Angel Fire musicians and local gong artist Heidi Svoboda on Saturday, August 25, 2018, at the Taos Center for the Arts (an extended version).
Earth Door/Sky Door (2018) (15-minute work for octet), commissioned by Music from Angel Fire, was performed by: Music from Angel Fire musicians with Jonathan Coopersmith, conducting on Wednesday, August 22 at Angel Fire Community Center and Thursday, August 23 at the Taos Center for the Arts.
The composer would like to thank the Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts in Saratoga, Wyoming, where the work was completed the Bruce E. Howden American Composers Project and Ida Kavafian, Music from Angel Fire Artistic Director.
More on Andrea Clearfield and the music performed at MFAF 2018
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