[Newspoetry] Newspoetry Digest

[William Gillespie]

Today's Topics:

1. New Music in Urbana
2. How to Unsubscribe
3. A Line a Day Oct. 2005
4. Scott Rettberg's 20 Consonant Birthday Newspoem
5. Newspoetry Job

1.

New Music in Urbana

The ninth annual Salvatore Martirano Award Concert
  7:30 p.m. Wednesday, November 2nd
Foellinger Great Hall at Krannert Center.

The U. of I New Music Ensemble conducted by Eduardo
Diazmunoz and Zack Browning will perform the winning works.

Virtuoso Cleveland saxophonist Howie Smith will perform
Martirano’s “LON/Dons” for saxophone and chamber orchestra.

The Boneyard Jazz Quintet will feature Howie Smith at a
post-concert reception in the lobby.

Tickets for the concert are $ 5 for the general public, $ 4
for senior citizens and $ 2 for students.

see complete announcement below:

PRESS RELEASE:  2005 Martirano Award Concert
Contact: Zack Browning
9th Annual Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award
Concert
Wednesday Night, November 2, 2005 at 7:30 PM in the
Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center for the Performing
Arts

The ninth annual Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition
Award Concert will take place at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday,
November 2nd in the Foellinger Great Hall at the Krannert
Center for the Performing Arts.  During the concert, the
University of Illinois New Music Ensemble, Eduardo
Diazmunoz, conductor/artistic director and Zack Browning,
associate conductor, will perform the winning works of the
2005 competition. A reception for the winning composers will
immediately follow the concert.

The Martirano Composition Award competition and concert are
held each year in memory of Salvatore Martirano, a UI
professor of composition from 1963 to 1995.  The 2005
competition received 241 entries.  Since it started, the
competition has drawn more than 1,400 entries from more than
30 countries.

The winner this year is Steven Rice, 26 of Baltimore,
Maryland. He will receive a $1,000 award and be present at
the concert to hear the performance of his piece “Murmurs
from Limbo,” performed by the New Music Ensemble.

Browning, who coordinates the annual composition
competition, quotes Rice as saying his piece is  “like
Finnegans Wake, in that it is a piece of the night, of the
dark, of the unknown, of death, but where there is perhaps
the twinkle of a hope of resurrection.” The piece is scored
for chamber ensemble with two vocalists who sing and speak
Middle English texts that come from anonymous poets of the
13th and 15th centuries.

The second-place award of $250 went to Italian composer
Paulo Longo for his composition “Albertson-Variations” for
quintet and honorable mention went to Andrew McBirnie of
London for his “Ritornel” for chamber ensemble.  McBirnie
will be in attendance for the performance of his work.

Rice received his Baccalaureate of Music from the University
of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, and a Master of Music from
Bowling Green State University, where he studied acoustic
music with Marilyn Shrude and Burton Beerman, and
electroacoustic music with Mikel Kuehn and Elainie Lillios.
His composition “Three Frescos” was a finalist in the 2004
Music Teachers National Association National Young Artist
Composition Competition.

The award concert will also feature guest artist Howie Smith
from Cleveland State University performing Salvatore
Martirano’s composition “LON/Dons” (1989) for saxophone and
chamber orchestra. Tickets are $5 for the general public, $4
for senior citizens and $2 for students.  For more
information, call 333-2620 or visit www.music.uiuc.edu.

2.

How to Unsubscribe

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3.

A Line a Day October 2005
(redux, including responses sent to this email list)

20051001|       Robbing hood steals from the poor to give to the poor; 
halliburton wants in

20051002|       the ribbons that blossomed on bumpers during the 
springtime of our concern have faded

20051003|       the Post reported earlier in the week that the White 
House had contacted the Heritage Foundation, the American Enterprise 
Institute and similar right-wing think tanks, seeking policy proposals 
that could be introduced using the Katrina disaster as a pretext

20051004|       flaming towers, flooded city: punishing father maps any 
vivid source domain onto tax relief or suspended anti-pollution laws in 
the opportunity zone

20051005|       in today's delta tolls: 1193 dead, 3000 fired, 40,000 
homeless

20051006|       walk on the water or purify yourself; trickle-down 
economics, a rising tide lifts all yachts

20051007|       this news a symphony through a cellular, bursts of pure 
amplitude surrounded by continuous silence

20051008|       policy echoes in response pure noise in which the ear 
can pick out the most beautiful imaginable melodies

20051009|       a new label, a larger bottle of the same depleted 
uranium snakeoil

20051010|       revoke the posse whose sweating helmeted teenaged 
soldiers loaded with weaponry slump in the lifeguard chairs

20051011|       while the narrative slumps, another actor has crept 
onstage, as magicians must eventually repeat a trick

20051012|       --we've got no plot, so we'll click with conflict, and 
everyone will eat at Rick's Cafe Americain...

20051013|       according to this recursive metonymy, if the government 
is our father who art in Washington, the president is syphilis, and we 
are a trick baby

20051014|           who was lost in the desert holding an upside-down 
roadmap, but now am getting treatment 

20051015|       in Katrina's wake, fraud and scams soar, say 
authorities, rumors of euthanasia at hospital are probed, evacuees 
struggle to find housing, a newt might run for president, Bush predicts 
more fighting in Iraq, to cure terrorism, outbreaks of citrus cancer, 
yellow dragon disease, H5N1 virus bird flu, four Amish children with 
polio

20051016|       (meanwhile in today's Pakistan tolls, 30,000 dead, 
2,000,000 homeless)

20051017|       and the federal deficit overextended as any metaphor: 
woman cut pregnant neighbor to steal baby, police say

20051018|           for example, ignorance is not really strength, but 
if you just repeat the word "strength"

20051019|           but the accountability office said on Friday: "The 
prepackaged news stories are purposefully designed to be 
indistinguishable from news segments broadcast to the public. When the 
television viewing public does not know that the stories they watched 
on television news programs about the government were in fact prepared 
by the government, the stories are, in this sense, no longer purely 
factual. The essential fact of attribution is missing."

20051020|           I am opposed to murder, rape, torture, but

20051021|           I got the red state blues, breeders not readers 
whose newspapers are encrypted in a foreign policy language, whose life 
ends at birth, will someone unsubscribe me please?, framing what’s 
unsaid:

20051022|           “As of Oct. 20, the Second Amendment is probably in 
the best shape in this country that it's been in decades.”

20051023|           if we force democracy on them, they’re going to 
want overtime, but

20051024|        “That is what justice is, to give without question to 
the miserables, the victims of life, ignoring merits in causes.”

20051025|           the president as conductor, viola players gaze up 
piteously awaiting deportation

20051026|           “What we have done is taken this little ball of 
quicksilver and hit it with a hammer.”

20051027|           in today's Iraq tolls: one U.S. military casualty 
for every year since the birth of Christ, but Iraqi civilian casualties 
move on to the year 30,000

20051028|           Ben Franklinstein's monster, the new Supreme Court 
raises the minimum rage

20051029|           patreasonism

20051030|           “What nurturing parents want to create are 
competent individuals who know how to choose for themselves and who are 
not hide-bound to the demands of others. This is an opposing model of 
freedom--under the strict father, freedom is more like what Kant 
reduced it to, ‘you are free to do your duty.’”

20051031| “A photo on the White House Web site shows Bush in Crawford, 
Texas, watching [National Hurricane Center Director Max] Mayfield give 
a briefing on Aug. 28, a day before [twisted homewrecker] Katrina 
smashed ashore with 145-mph winds.”

4.

Scott Rettberg's 20 Consonant Birthday Newspoem

35 Scooter

You oxen, whet, spark hole
of magic, jived. Boo! Quiz:
You see politician who care?
Vex me: joke, quag, zip!
Feed bag of lies to
Our media; quick jab hope.
Ax view of yon zoo.

My 35th birthday conincided with "Fitzmas," the indictment of Scooter 
Libby and the confirmation of a deeply troubling culture of corruption 
in the White House.--Scott

5.

Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor of Newspoetry   [1097]

The University of Newspoetry seeks an Assistant, Associate, or Full 
Professor of Newspoetry, tenure-track or tenured, with specialities in 
later-nineteenth or twentieth-century Newspoetry and in creative 
writing (Newspoetry); supporting strengths in film or media studies 
welcome. The successful candidate will present a balanced and 
clearly-documented commitment to both Newspoetry scholarship and 
creative Newspoetry endeavor. Teaching, divided between creative 
Newpoetry and literature, may include courses in the undergraduate 
major, the humanities-based general curriculum, the Newspoetry program, 
and the honors Newspoetry program, as well as graduate seminars and 
service on dissertation committees. Send letter of application, vita, 
and dossier or letters of recommendation to Professor Lars Engle, 
Chair, Faculty of Newspoetry, University of Newspoetry, 600 S. College 
Avenue, Tulsa, OK  74104. Review of applications will begin 1 October 
2005 and will continue until the position is filled. Deadline 7 
November for NYT interview.

Onwerd,
William

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