“Do you have a musically inclined youngster? They just might be eligible to win some money for their talents. Brian Kelly and Maria Keena get the details from Jeanne Sinquefield, creator of the COMP Program.”
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Rockwood School District Newsletter
Rockwood Student Wins State Music Composition Award
Nick Funke, an eighth-grade student at Rockwood South Middle School in Fenton, was honored for his musical composition in the fifth annual Creating Original Music Project (COMP) Awards. Funke’s musical competitive piece titled, The Escape by Night, gained him a first-place win in the Middle School Fine Arts category.
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Suburban Journal Jefferson – Print & Online
Fenton Student Among Competition Winners
COMP’s purpose is to encourage K-12 students in Missouri to write original musical works and have their music performed. More than 100 entrants submitted compositions, with first-place, second-place and third-place winners named in eight different categories.
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Suburban Journal West – Print & Online
Students Win in Original Music Contest
Local winners include Jonathan Padgett and Jack Roth of Reed Elementary in Ladue, who took a second place in Elementary Instrumental for “JJ Jam;” Alexander Blank of Webster Groves High School, who took first place in High School Fine Art for “Clarinet Quid Libet;” Christopher John Poetz, a home school student from Eureka, who took first place in High School Other for “Journey of the Leaves;” and Kenneth Baker of Kirkwood High School, who took second in High School Other for “Highlands.”
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Suburban Journal North – Print & Online
Students Win in Original Music Contest
Three local students recently won awards in the fifth annual Creating Original Music Project (COMP) contest, sponsored by the University of Missouri School of Music and the Sinquefield Chartiable Foundation.
Nichole Bryan, an elementary school student from North County Christian School, won an award for her instrumental piece “When the Rain Comes Down.”
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Suburban Journal South – Print & Online
Students Win in Original Music Contest
Nick Funke, a student at Rockwood South Middle School in Fenton, was among 31 Missouri students who earned prizes in the fifth annual Creating Original Music Project, a joint venture of the University of Missouri School of Music and the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation. The project encourages students to write original musical works and have their music performed.
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Independence School District Newsletter
Truman Student Declared Winner At Music Composition Competition
Truman High School Student Mitchell Kilpatrick was among 31 students across Missouri awarded prizes in the fifth annual Creating Original Music Project (C.O.M.P.), a joint venture of the University of Missouri School of Music and the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation.
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The C.O.M.P. program is part of the University of Missouri’s New Music Initiative, a diverse array of programs intended to position the school as a leading center for music composition and new music. The initiative is a direct result of a $1 million donation by the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation.
Dr. Sinquefield and the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation, which is headquartered in Osage County, Missouri, have a long history of supporting organizations that enhance music, art and education. Dr. Sinquefield greatly values the lifelong benefits of exposure to music. Her passion for music comes alive each season as a bassist in the Columbia Civic Symphony Orchestra, the 9th Street Symphony in Columbia and the Jefferson City Symphony.
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Philanthropist and string base player Jeanne Sinquefield could be heard discussing her dream of making Missouri a mecca for new music composition during the 6:00 p.m. Shaw Spotlight on Saint Louis Radio Station KTRS. The Sinquefield Charitable Foundation-sponsored Mizzzou New Music Initiative offers young composers countless opportunities.
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Find more information on any of the programs referenced in the audio by visiting the New Music Initiative section of the University of Missouri: School of Music website.
To learn more about Jeanne Sinquefield and her passion for making Missouri a mecca for new music composition, read her full bio on the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation website.
Excursions for the ears and heart
Bruce Gordon is a soft-spoken, unassuming gentleman. Consequently, when a steady stream of superlatives rolls off his tongue — in the service of saying he’s more excited about the Columbia Civic Orchestra’s upcoming concerts than he’s been in his entire 15-year station with the group — it’s worth finding out why.
For the orchestra’s manager and a member of its French horn section, joy springs from the one-two programming punch CCO is poised to deliver. Starting with Saturday’s set of “Modern Excursions,” Gordon said the cumulative creative effect of this season’s final two gigs will potentially be greater and more electrifying than any pairing he can remember.
A CCO-guided jaunt through works from the past 100 years, the concert begins with an incredibly recent offering — Alex Blanton’s “Boulevard of Broken Dreams.” Commissioned for the CCO by the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation, the MU graduate’s piece “alternates between languid, slow sections and driving, fast passages” in “schizophrenic” fashion, a CCO news release said.
German master Paul Hindemith’s “Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Weber” follows; based on themes from 19th-century predecessor Carl Maria Von Weber, Hindemith’s piece “has the distinction of being as loved by musicians that play it as by audiences,” Gordon said. The evening concludes with MU faculty member Natalia Bolshakova at the piano for Prokofiev’s “Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major.”
“This is the kind of piece where audiences generally stand up and shout,” Gordon said. “Unconventional” harmonies resolve in the “glowing” finale of a piece that’s “so exciting … beautiful … strange in its own way,” he said.
CCO’s final performance of the season — slated for April 23 — includes a work whose magnitude is unparalleled. In tandem with the MU Choral Union and with Paul Crabb on the conductor’s podium, the orchestra will present Bach’s “Mass in B Minor.” Gordon said he unequivocally believes the masterwork, written between 1724 and 1749, to be the single most important piece of sacred music ever composed. NPR’s Ted Libbey seemed to agree when he wrote last year, “The Mass in B minor is as lofty in design, scope and expression as anything written by the hand of man.”
Pulling off the piece Gordon called “a pillar of light” will require a collaboration between hundreds of musicians and the procurement of at least one very rare instrument — Bach’s score calls for two oboes d’amore, which Gordon described as something of an ancient hybrid of the oboe and English horn. The piece also employs three piccolo trumpets, also atypical. “It’s a tremendous undertaking — the scope of this has not been attempted in the volunteer musical segment in this town ever, as far as I can tell,” he said.
“Modern Excursions” begins at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts, 203 S. Ninth St. For more information on this program and the rest of the CCO season, visit cco.missouri.org or call 442-1042.
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