This document provides a catalog of works by composer Ana-Maria Avram listing over 60 compositions spanning from 1986 to 2008. The works are grouped into categories of music for soloists, chamber music, and include instrumentation and world premiere information. The catalog shows Avram has composed extensively for a wide variety of instruments and ensembles, with many works featuring premieres in Romania, Paris, and other international venues.
Chiaroscuro for bass clarinet and computer soundsAna-Maria Avram
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
"Endless Burning Fire" for ensemble and computer soundsAna-Maria Avram
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Astronomers have discovered a remote galaxy located 12.9 billion light years from Earth, making it the most distant galaxy ever observed. Called GN-z11, the galaxy is seen as it existed just 400 million years after the Big Bang. Studies of GN-z11 provide new insights into the first galaxies that formed in the early universe.
This document provides a catalog of works by composer Ana-Maria Avram listing over 60 compositions spanning from 1986 to 2008. The works are grouped into categories of music for soloists, chamber music, and include instrumentation and world premiere information. The catalog shows Avram has composed extensively for a wide variety of instruments and ensembles, with many works featuring premieres in Romania, Paris, and other international venues.
Chiaroscuro for bass clarinet and computer soundsAna-Maria Avram
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
"Endless Burning Fire" for ensemble and computer soundsAna-Maria Avram
This document does not contain any text to summarize. It appears to be blank or contain only formatting characters. A 3 sentence summary cannot be generated without substantive content in the source document.
Astronomers have discovered a remote galaxy located 12.9 billion light years from Earth, making it the most distant galaxy ever observed. Called GN-z11, the galaxy is seen as it existed just 400 million years after the Big Bang. Studies of GN-z11 provide new insights into the first galaxies that formed in the early universe.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise boosts blood flow, releases endorphins, and promotes changes in the brain which help regulate emotions and stress levels.
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Four Orphic Sketches for voice, percussion and electronicsAna-Maria Avram
This document provides instructions for playing back four fragments of audio on a tape, with fragments A and B playing for 55" and 3" respectively, and fragment C playing until the end of the tape with a 3" fade at the end.
"Septem Sermones Ad Mortuos" for ensemble and computer soundsAna-Maria Avram
Athanor is a company that provides AI assistants. They aim to build helpful, harmless, and honest assistants using a technique called Constitutional AI which aligns the model with what users want through conversation. Athanor's assistants like Claude are designed to be helpful for tasks, harmless by avoiding potential downsides of advanced AI, and honest about their abilities and limitations.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
"Winds of the Desert" for ensemble and computer soundsAna-Maria Avram
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
"Zodiaque" for prepared piano, percussion and electronic tapeAna-Maria Avram
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help boost feelings of calmness, happiness and focus.
This document provides instructions for playing "Galaxy-Reflection", a piece for percussion instruments composed of seven evolving sections. The piece moves from a fast, loud opening section to a slow, mysterious ending section representing the evolution of a galaxy from a hot core to distant, cold planets. The rhythmic structure is based on prime numbers, with bursts of rhythm followed by continuous sounds proportional in length to the preceding rhythm. Players are instructed to play irregularly within rhythmic groups and continuously transform timbre for sustained sounds.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
1. The document discusses heterophonic string formations that iterate from a central point of unity to maximum difference and back again in a circular evolution of order to chaos to order.
2. It provides notation for various string techniques involving density, harmonics, inharmonics, vibrato, glissando, and special effects like ricochet and trepidando verticale.
3. Formulas using these techniques are inserted into squares with numbers and connected by lines, and are meant to be played freely in an improvisatory manner to systematically explore timbre, texture, and sound effects.
"Lux Animae" for ensemble and computer soundsAna-Maria Avram
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help alleviate symptoms of mental illness and boost overall mental well-being.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help alleviate symptoms of mental illness and boost overall mental well-being.
25 Romanian Carols from Bartok's folk music collections for orchestraAna-Maria Avram
Hello friends !
I would like to share with you, a small part of the huge inheritance of folk music collection realized by Bela Bartok.
As you certainly know, this immense figure of the XX century’s music, Hungarian composer born on Romanian territory, was equally one of the greatest musical anthropologists of all times. He was not only an assiduous collector of folklore but he had changed the very paradigm itself, of the musical anthropology, as well by means of the the methodology he employed and the unattainable accuracy of his transcriptions.
The reason of this Sisyphean work can only be explained by the fact that Bartok saw in the folk music a genuine source of inspiration, renovation and originality for his own art, his « egoism » as a creator fully dedicated to his art explaining the energy and unique dedication he spent as a folk music collector.
From the huge Bartok’s folk music collections and transcriptions – completed by deep and extensive comments on the phenomenon - around three quarters have as subject the Romanian music from Transylvania : 50000 collected melodies . The 5000 published and reviewed until the last days of his short live, revealed to the public knowledge a fascinating musical universe, of an yet unsuspected melodic and rhythmic richness.
His collecting methods where revolutionary, always looking for the unalterableness of the source in his natural habitat. And the way he transcribed in European notation , with an impossible minutia, revealed infinitesimal and delicious details in rhythm and melody.
As you certainly know, Bartok himself harmonized some of those collected materials, though proportionally scarcely compared with the extension of the collections.
On the other hand, when traversing those collections, we can see that his entire musical universe is immersing in a sonorous world which is so often Transylvanian and Romanian.
Among the most brilliant examples for the promotion of this Bartokian endeavour I will only remember the subtle and virtuoso violinist Sherban Lupu. He dedicated his energies in a brilliant way , few years ago, and identified every collected melody among those Bartok used in the Second Rhapsody for violin and orchestra. Then, he exemplified on the classical violin, aside the very text of the Rhapsody, the sources from the respective collections, with the indications, tempo, and all the details as provided in Bartok’s transcriptions.
The task, Lupu confessed, was of a draconian technical difficulty , due to the complexity of scordaturas, the speed, the intonations, the rhythmical irregularities, all fully scored by Bartok with a phonographic precision. The mimicry of the peasant spontaneous art seemed, therefore, hard to be reproduced by a classical musician !
On my side, being fascinated since my studentship by Bartok’s folk music collections, I made the commitment – without any connection with my work as a composer – to bring to public light those collection which make the delight of the anthropologists and specialized scholars, but remained yet unknown to the music lovers.
I chose Batok’s own solution : I first operated a choice among melodies, then I organized the material into an instrumental suite. I harmonized and orchestrated it, reshaped it in a « composition », in a style appropriate with the given material, which I preserved as much unaltered as possible. The resulting style is sometimes near Bartok’s own language, sometimes, because of the material, more alike Enescu’s or Stravinsky’s depending on the circumstances and needs.
The result was therefore Two different suites, arranged for different ensembles :
A suite of 10 melodies arranged in 7 movements, for string soloist ( violin, viola or cello) and piano, and for piano soloist. The suite is also available for string soloist and orchestra ( chamber orchestra or string orchestra) . A version of this score equall
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise boosts blood flow, releases endorphins, and promotes changes in the brain which help regulate emotions and stress levels.
The document appears to contain random characters and symbols with no discernible meaning or message. It does not provide any information that can be summarized in 3 sentences or less.
Four Orphic Sketches for voice, percussion and electronicsAna-Maria Avram
This document provides instructions for playing back four fragments of audio on a tape, with fragments A and B playing for 55" and 3" respectively, and fragment C playing until the end of the tape with a 3" fade at the end.
"Septem Sermones Ad Mortuos" for ensemble and computer soundsAna-Maria Avram
Athanor is a company that provides AI assistants. They aim to build helpful, harmless, and honest assistants using a technique called Constitutional AI which aligns the model with what users want through conversation. Athanor's assistants like Claude are designed to be helpful for tasks, harmless by avoiding potential downsides of advanced AI, and honest about their abilities and limitations.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
"Winds of the Desert" for ensemble and computer soundsAna-Maria Avram
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
"Zodiaque" for prepared piano, percussion and electronic tapeAna-Maria Avram
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help boost feelings of calmness, happiness and focus.
This document provides instructions for playing "Galaxy-Reflection", a piece for percussion instruments composed of seven evolving sections. The piece moves from a fast, loud opening section to a slow, mysterious ending section representing the evolution of a galaxy from a hot core to distant, cold planets. The rhythmic structure is based on prime numbers, with bursts of rhythm followed by continuous sounds proportional in length to the preceding rhythm. Players are instructed to play irregularly within rhythmic groups and continuously transform timbre for sustained sounds.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
1. The document discusses heterophonic string formations that iterate from a central point of unity to maximum difference and back again in a circular evolution of order to chaos to order.
2. It provides notation for various string techniques involving density, harmonics, inharmonics, vibrato, glissando, and special effects like ricochet and trepidando verticale.
3. Formulas using these techniques are inserted into squares with numbers and connected by lines, and are meant to be played freely in an improvisatory manner to systematically explore timbre, texture, and sound effects.
"Lux Animae" for ensemble and computer soundsAna-Maria Avram
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help alleviate symptoms of mental illness and boost overall mental well-being.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help alleviate symptoms of mental illness and boost overall mental well-being.
25 Romanian Carols from Bartok's folk music collections for orchestraAna-Maria Avram
Hello friends !
I would like to share with you, a small part of the huge inheritance of folk music collection realized by Bela Bartok.
As you certainly know, this immense figure of the XX century’s music, Hungarian composer born on Romanian territory, was equally one of the greatest musical anthropologists of all times. He was not only an assiduous collector of folklore but he had changed the very paradigm itself, of the musical anthropology, as well by means of the the methodology he employed and the unattainable accuracy of his transcriptions.
The reason of this Sisyphean work can only be explained by the fact that Bartok saw in the folk music a genuine source of inspiration, renovation and originality for his own art, his « egoism » as a creator fully dedicated to his art explaining the energy and unique dedication he spent as a folk music collector.
From the huge Bartok’s folk music collections and transcriptions – completed by deep and extensive comments on the phenomenon - around three quarters have as subject the Romanian music from Transylvania : 50000 collected melodies . The 5000 published and reviewed until the last days of his short live, revealed to the public knowledge a fascinating musical universe, of an yet unsuspected melodic and rhythmic richness.
His collecting methods where revolutionary, always looking for the unalterableness of the source in his natural habitat. And the way he transcribed in European notation , with an impossible minutia, revealed infinitesimal and delicious details in rhythm and melody.
As you certainly know, Bartok himself harmonized some of those collected materials, though proportionally scarcely compared with the extension of the collections.
On the other hand, when traversing those collections, we can see that his entire musical universe is immersing in a sonorous world which is so often Transylvanian and Romanian.
Among the most brilliant examples for the promotion of this Bartokian endeavour I will only remember the subtle and virtuoso violinist Sherban Lupu. He dedicated his energies in a brilliant way , few years ago, and identified every collected melody among those Bartok used in the Second Rhapsody for violin and orchestra. Then, he exemplified on the classical violin, aside the very text of the Rhapsody, the sources from the respective collections, with the indications, tempo, and all the details as provided in Bartok’s transcriptions.
The task, Lupu confessed, was of a draconian technical difficulty , due to the complexity of scordaturas, the speed, the intonations, the rhythmical irregularities, all fully scored by Bartok with a phonographic precision. The mimicry of the peasant spontaneous art seemed, therefore, hard to be reproduced by a classical musician !
On my side, being fascinated since my studentship by Bartok’s folk music collections, I made the commitment – without any connection with my work as a composer – to bring to public light those collection which make the delight of the anthropologists and specialized scholars, but remained yet unknown to the music lovers.
I chose Batok’s own solution : I first operated a choice among melodies, then I organized the material into an instrumental suite. I harmonized and orchestrated it, reshaped it in a « composition », in a style appropriate with the given material, which I preserved as much unaltered as possible. The resulting style is sometimes near Bartok’s own language, sometimes, because of the material, more alike Enescu’s or Stravinsky’s depending on the circumstances and needs.
The result was therefore Two different suites, arranged for different ensembles :
A suite of 10 melodies arranged in 7 movements, for string soloist ( violin, viola or cello) and piano, and for piano soloist. The suite is also available for string soloist and orchestra ( chamber orchestra or string orchestra) . A version of this score equall
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A Gathering of Minds
We were thrilled to see a diverse group of attendees, including local certified PMI trainers and both new and experienced members eager to contribute their perspectives. The workshop was structured into three dynamic discussion sessions, each led by our dedicated membership advocates.
Key Takeaways and Future Directions
The insights and feedback gathered from these discussions were invaluable. Here are some of the key takeaways and the steps we are taking to address them:
• Enhanced Resource Accessibility: We are working on a new, user-friendly resource page that will make it easier for members to access training materials and real-world application guides.
• Structured Mentorship Program: Plans are underway to launch a mentorship program that will connect members with experienced professionals for guidance and support.
• Increased Networking Opportunities: Expect to see more frequent and varied networking events, both virtual and in-person, to help you build connections and foster a sense of community.
Moving Forward
We are committed to turning your feedback into actionable solutions that enhance your PMI journey. This workshop was just the beginning. By actively participating and sharing your experiences, you have helped shape the future of our Chapter’s offerings.
Thank you to everyone who attended and contributed to the success of the Community Skill Builders Workshop. Your engagement and enthusiasm are what make our Chapter strong and vibrant. Stay tuned for updates on the new initiatives and opportunities to get involved. Together, we are building a community that supports and empowers each other on our PMI journeys.
Stay connected, stay engaged, and let’s continue to grow together!
About PMI Silver Spring Chapter
We are a branch of the Project Management Institute. We offer a platform for project management professionals in Silver Spring, MD, and the DC/Baltimore metro area. Monthly meetings facilitate networking, knowledge sharing, and professional development. For more, visit pmissc.org.
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