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Currently, rustybanks.org is being reworked as a "warehouse" of
media needed for performances of Rusty Banks' works. For current
performance updates, check out the MySpace page.
Wow, I should update this more! Let's see:
DOWNLOADS! My old warhorse: Charles N. Mason's "Mirrors Stones and Cotton" EXCERPT.
More on the LINCOLN CONCERT: There is now a flyer and more excerpts from Hydrology.
DOWNLOADS! Feeling funky? Download "Zug Bug" here. Feeling more meditative? Download "Riffle" here.
JULY: GUITARIST/COMPOSER
RUSTY BANKS RETURNS TO LINCOLN IN CONCERT/MASTERCLASS JULY 23, 2006,
3pm.
The New Music Agency will host Rusty Banks in a concert of works for
classical guitar and electronics at the Lutheran Student Center on 16th
Street. Concert starts at 3pm and will be followed by a
masterclass for classical guitarists. Admission is $10 ($5
for
student, free for 12 and under) for the concert or $25 for the concert
and masterclass participation. Concert-goers may audit the
masterclass. For ticket info call (402) 429-4090.
Also see
http://newmusicagency.org for updates.
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More info:
This concert will feature the premiere of a work for guitar and
boomboxes called Zug Bug. “This work resulted from
several
needs I had. I wanted to write a piece that would make sense
on
an iPod and exist quite differently as a live piece. This is
a
model typical of pop music, if not classical. I also wanted
to
create the work in a more pop fashion, so rather than composing the
entire piece before realizing the electronics I wrote the entire guitar
part and recorded it. Then I
‘over-produced’ it if
you will. The sounds for live performance are taken from that
recording. I then move some of the tastier sounds out of the
main
speakers and put them in boomboxes that surround the
audience.
The result is something an mp3 player can’t
reproduce. I
like that this piece can exist in different
versions.” The
“iPod” version can be heard at
http://rustybanks.org.
STILL MARCH: Couldn't get to Nebraska for the New Music Agency's Performance of Urban Sprawl and Taxonomy? Come to Millersville, PA. As part of Millersville University's first ever annual Single Reed Symposium, visiting clinicians Ed Love, Jeff Pinkerton, will perform with Christy Banks, Joan Kucera, and Betsy Bobenhouse in what is being billed as a "Brown Bag" concert. Noon, March 22, 2006, Ford Atrium, Millersville University. Free food. Seriously. FREE FOOD! Anyone can drop in and watch, but woodwind players can register for the workshops here.
MARCH: "Urban Sprawl," a work for three saxes and piano will be performed in Lincoln, NE and Millersville, PA by the New Music Agency. Also, I will do a series of workshops for guitarists at the Omaha Conservatory of Music. Details coming soon...
FRESH AS A DAISY: Hear the mp3, see the pictures. Documentation of the Third Chair Chamber Players performance of LAMENT is here.
New Dates: Winter is here in PA. It's been very pretty, and not as brutal as it is in the other states you are seeing on the news. On the New Music Agency's Annual New Year's Eve Eve Concert I will perform "and it makes me wonder..." by W. Lorne Altman, friend and Canadian. Also, we're trying to get me up to his neck of the woods, and him down to mine. "and it makes me wonder..." is a post minimal resetting of several tunes by a certain British band given to big hair and the occult. Instrumentation is guitar and soundfile. This piece rocks.
News: "...kiss Nebraska..." [The Millions]. November's here and it's finally fall in PA. I'm told not to get used to it coming this late; it's unseasonable, apparently. The concerts in Nebraska were great! I have never had such a wonderful time making music. Local 463 was representin' hard. The Agency presented one of their most beautiful concerts to date, and the Third Chair Chamber Players made sure my Lament was well received. It was so nice to have such great players work so diligently on my composition. So many people worked to make my trip not only successful, but pleasurable: Becky Van de Bogart, Dick Shoemaker, Peter and Jurgita Vonk, Mike Pardee at Dietze South, Hugh and Katie Hansen, Kevin Palmer, Karen Sandene, Jessica Lindsey, Jamie Cox and probably many more, provided either food, gear, accommodations, after-show drinks, or access to outdoor activities. I'd be glad to come back, any old time. Sights and sounds are coming soon(?).
October 28 and 30, 2005: The Third Chair Chamber Players of Lincoln, NE will premiere Lament for guitar, alto flute, and string quartet. This is actually a reworking of my solo guitar composition, Jim Walter No. 5. I will play guitar. Check TCCP's site for info.
October 27, 2005: I'm playing with the New Music Agency in Lincoln, NE. True to their mission, the program will be in-progress until the week of the concert, though rumors persist that it will contain a Donald Ashworth (of Exploding Carousel fame) piece titled "3 voices." Also rumored are pieces by Lincolnite composer Rich Jones. Check NMA's site for info.
October 24, 2005: Becky Van de Bogart and I will perform Darleen Mitchell's IMAGES for flute and guitar as part of her faculty composition recital at University of Nebraska-Kearney. Info coming soon(?)
News: I'm accompanying the choir at Grace Lutheran Church in Lancaster, PA. They are directed by fellow Lincoln-expatriot, Murry Foreman. September 25, 2005
News: September 2005. We are now living in Mountville, PA (Lancaster area). I finally have the webpage redesigned, a new internet server, and a gig booked. I am teaching beginning recording techniques to freshmen music business and technology majors at Millersville University, and a fine group they are.