15 Questions, Tina Davidson shares her creative process, 2023
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Videos
Science & Discovery Center – STEM Makes Music Highlight
In the STEM Makes Music Camp with composer Tina Davidson at Corning Community College, students built instruments and created their own compositions.
TEDx TALK: Blue Like an Orange: Composing Music with Everyone | Tina Davidson
TEDxLancaster: A classical music musician, composer and innovator in her field, Tina Davidson’s inspirational and moving talk encompasses her work in the last twenty years with inner city schools and community organizations. She is joined by musicians to illustrate her points first hand.
Tina Davidson, by Hilary Hahn, for “In 27 Pieces: the Hilary Hahn”
Hilary Hahn interviews composer Tina Davidson about her current projects and her creative process. Tina wrote The Blue Curve of the Earth for Hilary’s commissioned Encores project, which was released on Deutsch Grammaphone.
Summer of the Swans
Written for family audiences and based on the Newbery Award winning novel for young people by Betsy Byars, Summer of the Swans explores contemporary culture as it grapples with how to accept diversity and disabilities.
See Interactive Video of Summer of the Swans
Pearl
The opera explores the roles of art, politics, religion, and love in our daily lives. Based on the novel by acclaimed author Mary Gordon, Pearl takes us deep into the labyrinths of maternal love, religion, faith and Ireland’s tragic history.
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Blue Curve of the Earth
Blue Curve of the Earth, performed by Hilary Hahn and Corey Smythe, and recorded on Deutsche Grammophon. The work “grows into a lyrical world that literally seems capable of embracing the horizon. It is a shamelessly lovely piece.” (Communities Digital News)
Wēpan
Wēpan (2014) for string quartet and piano, was written at the request of the Open End Ensemble. From the old English, wēpan means to weep, bewail, mourn over, or deplore.
Render
Render was commissioned for the Cassatt String Quartet and premiered in NYC in March, 2017
Tu Autem, Domine
Tu Autem, Domine, for a cappella SATB chorus, was commissioned by the Foundation for Universal Sacred Music. The text, used both in Latin and in the English translation, was written by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, an ardent Christian, a scientist and prolific religious writer who died in the 1950s.
Blue Like an Orange
Blue Like an Orange, for violin, cello and piano, was created for the members of the Newstead Trio in 2009. The work, inspired by the poem by the French Surrealistic poet Paul Éluard, is a reverie about the earth – blue, rotating with fire and passion, throwing out sparks of energy until it finally breaks opens to a melodic rush of harmonies and colors.
A Bright Flash of Wings
Commissioned by the Concertante ensemble and scored of two violins, two violas and two cellos.
Pastel and colored pencil drawings are by the composer, Tina Davidson.
