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 Hi, I'm Ken DaviesI'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." MembershipsACF - American Composers ForumAMC - American Music Center ASCAP - American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers The Composers Site CFAMC - Christian Fellowship of Art Music Composers - CFAMC Yahoo Group NACUSA - National Assn of Composers in USA - NACUSA Members List SCI - Society of Composers, Inc. SCL - Southeastern Composers' League International Trombone Association (ITA) American Federation of Musicians (AFM) Southern Artistry - Davies KatrinaArtists.com Gulf Coast Symphony (trombone sub) Coast Big Band Linked In Internet New Music RadioContemporary Classical Internet RadioPostclassic Radio-Kyle Gann - playlist Iridian Radio Innova-mu.experimental Radio Counterstream Radio - player Foldover Radio top Yes, you can help your finances AND help bring those big bad banks under control. A financier and a film artist offers this practical and sensible grass roots volunteer MoveYourMoney.info plan that is worth checking out and telling your friends about. Be sure to read their story of how it came about. 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... |
News and Performances of Ken's WorksFeb. 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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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. Comments 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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