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SYMPHONY Magazine
In its March/April issue, SYMPHONY magazine highlights how orchestras are utilizing multimedia—such as Westwater's recent piece, The Eternal Struggle—to expand their audience base. Click here to read the SYMPHONY article. For more information on The Eternal Struggle, see the description immediately to the right.
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New Photochoreography to Honor Local Heroes
The Boulder Philharmonic is doing something new for their season-opening concert. In addition to performing his most recent piece, The Eternal Struggle, the Boulder Phil engaged James Westwater to create a new photochoreography to salute Boulder's non-profit organizations.
Click here to view the concert promo video.
The Boulder Phil asked area non-profits to provide photography of their people and projects that help the community. Westwater will set a selection of these photos to a great piece of classical music. By honoring Boulder's "unsung heroes," this concert will also attract volunteers and supporters of these organizations, thus adding many new faces and ears to the concert audience.
The concert—called "Heroic Portraits"—
includes Bravo Colorado!, Fanfare for the Common Man, Lincoln Portrait and, Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, 'Eroica.'
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New Piece Helps Mark the 2011 Sesquicentennial of the Civil War
James Westwater was commissioned by the Akron Symphony and the Orlando Philharmonic—Christopher Wilkins, Music Director and Conductor—to create a new piece of giant-screen, multi-image photochoreography portraying Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War and the on-going struggle for freedom, justice and equality.
Westwater reviewed over 10,000 historical photographs before selecting the strongest images to illustrate the themes mentioned above and add a powerfully moving visual dimension to the dramatic score. Maestro Wilkins calls it "a knock-out."
The new piece is set to Aaron Copland's classic, Lincoln Portrait, and is especially suited for concerts in 2011—the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of the Civil War.
Click here to see photos of the premiere performance.
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Westwater Photochoreography
Celebrates Singapore
Westwater photochoreography was recently selected to celebrate the nation of Singapore.
Two concerts featuring Westwater photochoreography were performed in Singapore's national concert hall with the Singapore Chinese Orchestra, Tsung Yeh, Music Director and Conductor. For the piece, Dr. Westwater photochoreographed images provided by SPH (Singapore Press Holdings Ltd). Several photos from the piece appear at the top of this page.
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Westwater has
performed with the
principal orchestras of Cleveland, Pittsburgh,
Seattle, Washington DC, Minneapolis, Dallas, Saint Louis, Baltimore, Milwaukee,
Detroit, Cincinnati, Saint Paul, Indianapolis, Houston, Portland,
Denver, Columbus, Rochester, Buffalo, Salt Lake City, Vancouver
BC, Singapore and
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Experimental Collaboration: Photography+Dance+Bach+Utah
Exploring new dimensions of artistic creation, Westwater collaborated with the renown dancer Maida Withers and virtuoso violist/conductor Joel Rosenberg, integrating three art forms: classical music, multi-image photography and modern dance. As Westwater presented images of ancient Puebloan Indian sites in the southwest (from his piece, Reflections of the Spirit), Mr. Rosenberg performed two movements of Bach's Cello Suites (transcribed for viola) and Ms. Withers improvised her dance in response to the music and photography.
The multi-arts performance took place as a highlight of the Amazing EarthFest in Kanab, Utah's gateway city to the Grand Canyon.
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