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Festival features students from Hugh Hodgson performing original work.
Music festival blurs genre lines
By ADAM CARLSON
The Red & Black
It’s about to get loud.
The New Music Festival,
sponsored by the Student
Composers’ Association, is
bringing pop-rock to the
student world and experi
mentation to the masses.
“The main idea behind
this festival is Athens obvi-.
ously has a very rich musi
cal tradition,” said Ashley
Floyd, a graduate student
in music education and
one of the organizers of
the event. “And we are
obviously trying to stake
our claim to that tradi
tion.”
Begun just months ago
as another in the continu
ing line of concerts orga
nized by SCA, the event
grew larger —and noisier
after a little self-evalua
tion.
“Our main purpose, just
from a .composer’s point
of-view, is to just reach out
to an audience we know is
out there but just doesn’t
know where this stuff is,”
Floyd said.
Realizing that self-pro
motion had become an
issue, SCA decided to
branch —and hopefully
reach out.
“The idea for this small
concert then became, ‘Well
let’s bridge this gap,”’
Floyd said.
Spearheading the move
ment was student Adrian
Foster, a composition
major.
Now the group will be
integrating two opposites:
venue rock and concert
abstraction wildly differ
ent, but essentially similar
in their desire to attract
and engage an audience.
“There’s a lot of that
happening in a university
setting as well,” Floyd said,
adding that many people
may not realize the level of
interesting musicality
among University music
students.
Throughout the day,
both will play at Hugh
Hodgson, which will pro
vide its own specific atmo
sphere to the music.
“There’s something to
be said for when an audi
ence has to sit down in a
concert hall,” Floyd said.
“They take on a different
persona.”
At night, the remaining
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performers will take to
Caledonia, whose own past
embrace of more edgy
music has made them very
welcoming to the Festival,
Floyd said.
“They were really open
to it right away,” he said.
Among the student
composers, three bands
Groove Tangent, Geister
Katzen and The
Instrumentals will play,
with their melodic accessi
bility providing variety and
counter-weight.
Indeed, each band was
chosen not just for its con
nection to SCA, but also
for its “aesthetically pleas
ing” sensibilities, Floyd
said.
“They’re showing a dif
ferent side of ‘composing,’”
he said.
And among the pop
rock stylings, more experi
mental, individualist work
will be performed like
Floyd’s own, all-improvised
piece.
“We really are ranging
the gamut,” he said.
That variety and inclu
sion has become the cen
tral, connecting theme of
the Festival; indeed, it’s
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MUSIC FESTIVAL
When: Today at 3:30 p.m. and
9 p.m.
Where: Hugh Hodgson (The
Dancz Center for New Music),
Caledonia Lounge
Price: Free
one of the main reasons
SCA hopes the event will
continue on in the future
—and continue growing
and evolving.
“We don’t necessarily
have our big vision yet,”
Floyd said.
Now, at group
hopes there is sufficient
difference between each
performance not only to
allow student composers
to reach out to interested,
but unaware, music-lovers
downtown, or to help dis
pel stereotypes about the
cloistered music student,
but also just to show those
in attendance: it’s always
been about the work.
“We’re not necessarily
about genre,” Floyd said.
“Instead, we’re just about
writing music.”
MAN ON THE STREET:
No More Disney Princesses?
Since releasing Snow White more than 70 years ago, the Walt Disney Company
has made almost every little girl want to become a princess.
But on Nov. 23, the Los Angeles Times reported the company has recently stat
ed Tangled —a movie about Rapunzel released Nov. 24 will be its last film about
a princess for the foreseeable future. However, according to Disney’s Facebook
page, the company has no plans to' discontinue the golden crowns and pink dresses
that made it famous.
The Red & Black took to the streets to find out what students thought about
Disney’s princess movies possibly disappearing. Will there be a crown shaped hole
in the hearts of students? Or will students celebrate the banishment of the fair
maidens?
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JESSIE POWELL
freshman psychology major
from Lawrenceville
“Every little girl wants to be a
princess. Boys say they don’t
want to watch them, but they
know what we’re talking about,
so it’s for everyone.”
THOMAS BAUER
junior English major from
Atlanta
“I’m going to miss the princess
elements of movies. I think
they added an element of
magical realism to children's
stories. I’m kind of sad that
political correctness in the
movie industry in general is
taking away from that kind of
magical element.”
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MEGANNE
BUTLER
senior Spanish major from
Cumming
“It kind of makes me sad
because the Disney princess
movies are the classic ones
and some of my favorites and
I feel like everyone's favorites,
and I think they can apply to
both boys and girls."
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RYAN DUNCAN
public administration
graduate student from
Dewitt, Ark.
“Why not continue to make
them? I also feel like they can
in turn by making princess
movies, maybe make movies
that are more conducive to
boys.”
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