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Thanks to our Mississippi leaders who supportfunding for the arts:
   Sen. Thad Cochran 
   Rep. Bennie Thompson 

See which senators and congress people supported the arts in your state in these reports
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Hi, I'm Ken Davies

I'm a composer and arranger working in classical, pop and electronic music including orchestral, chamber ensembles, solo voice, chorus, piano and organ.

I have worked in the commercial music field performing, arranging for and producing records and music for national television.

I presently live in south Mississippi on the part of the Gulf Coast made famous in 2005 by Hurricane Katrina.

My concert works have won some awards along the way and have been performed across America at major new music festivals like Society of Composers, Southeastern  Composers League, Christian Fellowship of Art Music Composers and International Trombone Festival. I've  received awards from Mississippi Arts Commission, ASCAP, Southern Arts Federation and Eastern Trombone Workshop. Most of my works are published by me through Kenvad Music.

In addition to composing, I still remain  active as a trombonist, conductor and private music teacher. I write occasional articles and design websites. I sometimes write my own lyrics, but my wife Judy (a published poet) does better, in addition to managing our publishing activities. Our two cats, Little Fluff and Darius Meow often supervise the creation of new works. As Albert Schweitzer once stated, "There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats."

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AMC - American Music Center
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CFAMC - Christian Fellowship of Art Music Composers - CFAMC Yahoo Group
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SCI - Society of Composers, Inc.
SCL - Southeastern Composers' League
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Pope Supports Value of Arts and Artists
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict met artists from around the world in the Sistine Chapel on Saturday and urged them to inject spirituality into their work...
The Pope told them that in a world lacking in hope, with increasing signs of aggression and despair, there was an ever greater need for a return to spirituality in art.  more...

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News and Performances of Ken's  Works

Feb. 18-20, 2010. Soufriere for flute and digital media performed by Nancy Gamso at the Ohio Wesleyan New Music Festival in Delaware, OH.

Jan. 9, 2010. Ken presents a "Music For Writers" workshop for the Mississippi Poetry Society South Branch. Topics: art song, pop song, poems, lyrics, rights, biz deals.

Jan 4, 2010. I just had the pleasure of having my new art song A Psalm of Life (excerpt), on a text by H.W. Longfellow, recorded by South Mississippi Heldentenor J.T. Anglin. What a voice! Give a listen here.

Dec. 12, 2009. Sapphire Kaleidoscope for solo piano  performed by Laurie Middaugh at the NACUSA new music concert at the University of Montevallo, Montevallo, Alabama.

Dec. 4-5, 2009.  Mississippi Drama Festival. Pearl River Central HS drama coach, Debbie Craig, in Picayune has licensed the use of Notasonata for trombone and CD as background music for their presentation of the play "The Winner" featured in the festival at Hattiesburg. 

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GCCMS Gulf Coast Chamber Music Society
 

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Artists, Writers, musicians, dancers, creative professionals of all types. Does your congressman try to legislate against your arts, vocation and way of life? Find out here and learn what to do about it.

Arts and Humanities Endowments to Get $167.5-Million Each in 2010
A compromise spending bill approved by Congressional negotiators on Tuesday sets the 2010 fiscal-year budgets for the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts at $167.5-million each, a $25-million total increase over the appropriations for the two endowments in 2009. The National Endowment for the Arts appropriation is a 3.8-percent increase over the $161.3-million President Obama proposed in his budget, but the money for the National Endowment for the Humanities falls short of the $171.3-million the president proposed for the agency.
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1. rrjohnso - October 28, 2009 at 04:07 pm
To paraphrase the old bumper sticker about school funding, "I will love it when the sciences have to have bake sales to do research." NSF got 10 billion this year. NIH got 30 billion. NEH and NEA get a total of about 375 million. Is there a problem here?

In the original proposal* for NSF in 1952, the document had a "Note of Warning." The warning was that the proposers for scientific research (Vannevar Bush was the main author) said it would be "folly" if the sciences received a disproportionate share of federal funding in relation to funding given to the arts and humanities. Folly, indeed, has been the result.

*The original proposal is right on the NSF web site, titled "The Endless Frontier."


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ARTS QUOTES

A nation's arts rise or sink to the level of that nation's capacity to value the arts. - Ken Davies, composer

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The purpose of commercial [media] is to induce mass sales. For mass sales there must be a mass norm...
By suppressing the individual, the unique, the industry ... assures itself a standard product for mass consumption."
 - John Whiting, writer, commenting on the homogenization of corporate media program content

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To me, the quote-unquote utilitarian value of the arts of any discipline really is about expanding and
deepening human feeling, the human soul, and the human imagination." - Fred Ho, composer

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"The only proof I needed of the existence of God was music." - Kurt Vonnegut

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"I haven't forgotten the lessons I learned when I was young...that we will be judged by
how we treat the least among us and that the first shall be last and the last shall be first.
I try to live my life by these lessons and I hope it comes through in my filmmaking." - Michael Moore

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"I wish we were not appropriating money for the arts, period.
It is not the responsibility of the government todetermine what is and what is not art."
 -  Tom Tancrudo, R-CO ex-congressman and 2008 presidential contestant

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"Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land,
but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God.
Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration;
it is the Church's greatest ornament." - Igor Stravinsky

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"Real composers get ideas from heaven but they never came to me that way." - Paul Hindemith

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"In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug
and we shall want to live more musically." - Vincent van Gogh

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"...never before have I been more respected for being a classical musician."
 - Middle Tennessee State University flutist Sarah Schneider on the response
from audience members during her South Korea Tour.

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"The life of the arts is very close to the center of a nation's purpose and is
a test of the quality of a nation's civilization." - President John F. Kennedy

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"All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music."
 -Walter Pater (1839-94), English essayist, critic

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