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 The RealNewMusic Festival is an annual event that is held each June at Whittier
College’s Ruth B. Shannon Center for the Performing Arts.
This festival
features local “art music” that has been created by
composer/performers within the past decade. The event includes new music
ensembles, as well as a song set of sorts.
Each year, three or four
composers set the same text to music and perform their songs as a set,
with each composer playing his/her own piece and soprano Melody
Versoza singing. For the first three years of the festival, a poem was
selected and then the composers were invited to participate.
Starting
with the 2008 event, a contest will be held to select the poem, and then
a contest will be held to select the compositions.
If you are interested in submitting a poem for the contest, click on the
Guidelines link above for more information. If you are interested
in learning more about the RealNewMusic Festival,
click on the RealNewMusic link above.
The 2008 winner has been
selected. Click on the "Winner" link above!
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