August 2008
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LA for two pianos (first half)
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LA for two pianos (second half)
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Excerpt from Tshuvah for Bassoon and String...
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email
marc [at] marclowenstein [dot com]
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Nietzsche Aria from The Fisher King.
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Conducting the Vinny Golia Large Ensemble performing at REDCAT.
© CalArts 2006. Photos by Steven A Gunther. 3/31/2006
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http://ensemblegreen.com →
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Marc's Amazon Reviews →
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http://www.calarts.edu/faculty_bios →
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Introducing Marc Lowenstein
Marc Lowenstein is an active conductor, singer, composer, and teacher. He has conducted for the last two years on New York City Opera’s VOX showcase festival leading workshops of his own The Fisher King, Anne LeBaron’s Cresecnt City, and Jenny Johnson’s The Endings.
He conducted the premiere of Anne LeBaron’s WET and was music director for the US premiere of Georges Aperghis’...
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There's No Such Thing as Music Theory
Why do I believe there is no such thing? I am dissatisfied with most theory books on the market, and I think it almost impossible to write a good and complete one. And I depsair of finding a good comprehensive one to use in class. To help illustrate why I think there is no such thing as Music Theory, I went to a university music library, did a search for relatively recent articles with the key...
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http://www.reggaepassover.com →
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http://www.vox-nyco.com/html/2007/fisherking.html →
New York City Opera’s Vox Performs “The Fisher King”.
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“terrific singer”
– Los Angeles Times
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“…assured conductor…”
– New York Times
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“…Marc Lowenstein is an excellent conductor…”
– LA Times
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Some Courses Taught At CalArts
Chamber Orchestra
Contemporary Music Ensemble
Opera Performance
Orchestration
Beginning Counterpoint and Harmony
Tonal Counterpoint and Intermediate Harmony
Advanced Chromatic Harmony
Graduate Theory Review
Advanced Analysis
Introduction to Musical Languages, Literature and Forms
Composition Workshop
Advanced Musicianship
Twentieth-Century History
Survey...
July 2008
9 posts
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Sonata Style in 'Classical' music
Some Things that are allegedly Common in Sonata style
And why they allegedly are allegedly Important allegedly
(remember: it’s-a-not-a any one form)
WARNING THIS PRODUCT CONTAINS GROSS GENERALIZATIONS WHICH MAY BE SOMEWHAT WILDLY INACCURATE.
•“first theme”
this is just as accurately called a “a first thing”, a “first area” a “first key” or “the first thingummy”. It is important in that...
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Excerpt from Shiva for oboe and electronics
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Excerpt from Starry Skies, for Flute, Bassoon and...
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“Central figure Madeline X is played by two sopranos, an alto and a tenor (the...”
– VARIETY
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remember you can always Ask the Theory Weasel →
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ASK THE THEORY WEASEL!
email a question to marc (at) marclowenstein (dot) com
and the question will be forwarded to the Theory Weasel, who will post a response with wet, matted fur and uneven teeth….
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Hey Weasel, how you doing?
Hey Weasel, how you doing? things are going ok with me, got a chord progression question. I have a small piece I am working with and here is the part I am messing with key C major. I am in 6/8 and each chord gets a full bar I - iii - IV - V now the next chord is what I am looking for. it needs to be something that inticapates fear something not stable. like something is about to happen. got any...
June 2008
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http://www.kadimaconservatory.com →
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August 2007
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star wars →
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Papir iz doch Vays
Live at the Skirball Center
July 2007
5 posts
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Create yourself at the Academy of Creative... →
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Raisin Brahms →
June 2007
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The Vinny Golia Large Ensemble →
October 2006
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whistling #1