WCFSO principal flutist Claudia Anderson electrified the crowd in Cedar Falls last night with her performance of Lowell Liebermann's 1992 Flute Concerto. A truly exciting and rewarding stride in programming an ever wider array of contemporary musical voices for audiences in northern Iowa. [Yes, that was composer-in-residence Philip Wharton leading the violins.]
If you are among those aforementioned audiences, consider checking out Claudia's upcoming Espírito Português program with New Prairie Camerata on February 14 at the UNI Gallery of Art. The concert is part of the gallery's New Polyphonies: Contemporary Art from Portugal exhibit.
As if on cue this morning, NPR covers another midwestern new music story that first drew attention last spring in NYC.