Media Advisory: Monday, Nov. 5, noon – 1 p.m., open rehearsal
Openly preparing for the French Connection
Note to editors and news directors: On Saturday, Nov. 10, the Pacific Contemporary Music Center at Cal State L.A. will celebrate a melding of modern music from France and the United States. The event, Musical Alliances Musicales, is described in the previously distributed news release here: www.calstatela.edu/univ/ppa/newsrel/pcmc-bonnet.htm.
Reporters are welcome to attend an open rehearsal for the production on Monday, Nov. 5, from noon to 1 p.m. in the Cal State L.A. Music Hall. It will include opportunities to interview composer John M. Kennedy of Cal State L.A.’s music faculty and some of the evening’s performers.
Two world premieres will be presented Nov. 10, one composed by Kennedy and another by Antoine Bonnet, whose work, according to Kennedy, “is a style of music not done here a lot. It’s very much in the modern French school. Not so much melody, but more color and sound to evoke images.”
What:
Open rehearsal for “Musical Alliances Musicales”
When:
noon – 1 p.m., Monday, Nov. 5
Where:
Music Hall, Cal State L.A.
Who:
John M. Kennedy, composer and director of The Pacific Contemporary Music Center, and performers
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