Budapest, Hungary | Summer, 2024 Video and music recording with the Budapest Scoring Orchestra. Poelking remotely recorded (via Zoom) with this orchestra in a 1 hour recording session for a new piece for string orchestra with percussion. This music is now available on all streaming platforms. For When We Arrive demonstrates the beauty that can […]
American Lullaby – Still Singing was an evening-length dance theatre performance created by Judy Bejarano, artistic director of IMPACT Dance Company. This collaborative performance featured IMPACT company members as well as faculty and students of the Colorado State University (CSU) Dance Program. American Lullaby – Still Singing was part of CSU’s thematic “Year of Democracy” […]
Cayla Bellamy collaborated with CSU colleagues Jooyeon Chang and Kevin Poelking, current CSU composition student Jalen Thompson, and the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony Orchestra. The works on this album include solo, chamber, and concerto compositions by Thomas Dempster, Reena Esmail, Nancy Hill Cobb, Kevin Poelking, Jalen Thompson, Joan Tower, and damali willingham.
Navona Records released PAINTED MUSIC from Quatra Duo. This album of works for flute and guitar by four heralded contemporary composers unlocks the imaginative, expressive power of these beloved instruments. The first piece, commissioned as a Christmas gift by Quatra Duo’s Jeff LaQuatra for his then soon-to-be wife and duo partner Michelle Stanley, is James […]
This book analyzes two pieces by American composer George Crumb (1929-2022) as artifacts of American collective memory of war. *Black Angels* (1970) has long been associated with the Vietnam War, even though its relationship to the war specifically has changed over time. *Winds of Destiny* (2004) is specifically about the Civil War and shows how […]
Some of theater’s most powerful works in the past thirty years fall into the category of “verbatim theater,” socially engaged performances whose texts rely on word-for-word testimony. Performances such as Fires in the Mirror and The Laramie Project have at their best demonstrated how to hold hard conversations about explosive subjects in a liberal democracy. […]
