https://www.richardfestinger.com/news/rss.xml News, Events and Highlights about composer Richard Festinger https://www.richardfestinger.com/news/richard-festinger-awarded-2018-fromm-commission/ <p>The Fromm Music Foundation announced that it has awarded a 2018 Fromm Commission to Richard Festinger to compose a work for chorus and orchestra for the Boston based Cantata Singers. The new work will be in multiple movements, using poetic texts centered around the theme - both ancient and modern - of the refugee, in exile, looking back, and will be scored for soprano and baritone soloists, SATB chorus, and an ensemble of 2 flutes, 2 oboes, bassoon, trumpet, two horns and strings. The texts will be drawn from the poetry of Czeslaw Milosz, Bertholt Brecht and Wendell Berry.</p> <p>Mr. Festinger has received two Fromm Commissions previously, the first in 1995, for <a href="https://www.richardfestinger.com/works/after-blue/">After Blue</a>, written for the New Millennium Ensemble, and in 2002, for <a href="https://www.richardfestinger.com/works/hidden-spring/">Hidden Spring</a>, written for Cygnus.</p> <p>Established in 1956 by the late great patron of contemporary music Paul Fromm, and currently located at Harvard University, the Fromm Music Foundation is a major funder of commissions for contemporary music in the United States.</p>