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Playback Winter 2005

The ASCAP Foundation presented the latest installment of its highly popular Thru the Walls showcase series at The Cutting Room in Manhattan on December 6, 2004. Sponsored in part by Sibelius, the music notation software company, the series is designed to showcase the work of composers/ performers whose concert music defies boundaries and genres. ASCAP Composer and NewMusicBox.org Editor Frank J. Oteri emceed the event, and was joined by former Thru the Walls emcees Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth, who made a surprise appearance.
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| (l-r) Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum, Milica Paranosic, Nico Muhly, ASCAP's Cia Toscanini, Paola Prestini, ASCAP's Fran Richard, Dave Soldier, Martha Mooke and Frank J. Oteri |
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| Sponsored in part by Sibelius |
The featured composer/performers were Dave Soldier (with The Spinozas; Na'Ti, Lisa Maxwell, Richard Khuzami, and Nelly Tilado), Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum, Milica Paranosic, Paola Balsama Prestini & Nico Muhly of VisionIntoArt (with the VIA Ensemble: Erik Carlson, Nadia Sirota, Jeffrey Ziegler, Wendy Law, Richard Mannoia & Pablo Rieppi and Filmmaker/Animator Chase Palmer, Illustrator Emily Flake, Theater Director Sam Helfrich and Poets Roger Bonair-Agard & Lynne Procope).
Launched in January 2001, Thru the Walls was conceived and produced by ASCAP composer/performer Martha Mooke, who continues to co-produce the event with ASCAP Assistant Vice President of Concert Music Cia Toscanini. Previous composer/performers who have participated include Eve Beglarian, Gregg Bendian, Kitty Brazelton, Kenji Bunch, Tom Chiu, Jed Distler, Mark Dresser, Annie Gosfield, Susie Ibarra, Arthur Kampela, Lukas Ligeti, Denman Maroney, Martha Mooke, Ben Neill, Misha Piatigorsky, Bobby Previte, Todd Reynolds, Brandon Ross, Rob Schwimmer, Matt Shipp, Mark Stewart, Randy Woolf, Evan Ziporyn, and Pamela Z.
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