May/June
100-day Challenge
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The 2017 Composition Contest winners are listed below.
Composer of the month
Igor Stravinsky
1882-1971
Stravinsky conducting The Firebird
The Rite of Spring with Leonard Bernstein conducting
Petrouchka ballet
Scherzo Fantastique (orchestral work)
Circus Polka (piano)
Stravinsky’s The Star Spangled Banner
Ballet
Here are a few famous ballets.
Romeo and Juliet by Prokofiev
Overture to Bizet’s Carmen
Listening Guide to Two Spring Ballets
Appalachian Spring by Copland and The Rite of Spring by Stravinsky
Appalachian Spring by Copland
(0:07) Very slowly (Introduction)
(2:51) Allegro (Tutti)
(5:24) Moderato (Pas de deux: bride and groom)
(8:36) Fast (Revivalist and His Flock: barn dance)
(12:06) Presto (Bride’s solo)
(14:31) Meno mosso (transition)
(16:30) Slow introduction to variations (cut from the Suite)
(16:56) Doppio movimento (Variations on a Shaker Hymn)
(19:11) Point at which the material cut from the Suite begins
(27:37) Point at which the Suite resumes (last Shaker variation)
(28:06) Moderato (Coda)
The 2017 Composition Contest winners are:
10 and younger
1st Place:
Lake Scene
by Annabelle Rudd, age 7, Japan
Teacher Yumiko Sato
2nd place:
The Rippling Lake
by Kylee Neil, age 7, Montana
Teacher Jessica Olson
3rd Place:
Lakeside Walks in Switzerland
by Anthony Yang, age 9, North Carolina
Teacher Diane W. Higgins
Honorable Mention:
Mysterious Waterfall
by Preston Beaty, age 10, Washington Teacher Vanessa Ellis
The Gulf of Mexico
by Nathan Rugheimer, age 10, Montana
Teacher Jessica Olson
11 and older
1st Place:
A Drive in the Rain
by Jed Dela Pena, age 13, California
Teacher Tammy Prenot
2nd Place:
Ripples
by Emma de la Cruz, age 11, Virginia
Teacher Pauline Pompei
3rd Place:
Forest Stream
by Alison Marseglia, age 14, Connecticut
Teacher Elizabeth Limkemann
Honorable Mention:
Distant Streams
by Timothy De Leon, age 15, Ohio
Teacher Jane Bell