2015 Music as Muse Prize

COSA Youth Renaissance is now welcoming submissions for its third annual Music as Muse Prize. The contest welcomes works of poetry and visual art and is open to all high school juniors and seniors in the San Antonio and surrounding area. All work submitted must be based on the musical compositions listed below, which will be performed at this year’s spring concert:

Johann Strauss Jr./Arnold Schoenberg: Kaiser-Walzer

Richard Stöhr: Chamber Symphony

Emanno Wolf-Ferrari: Chamber Symphony

We encourage you to listen to each piece and let the music inspire you to create a new work of your own. Links are available above, with additional performances available on YouTube. We look forward to reading and viewing your submissions. Submission guidelines are as follows:

For poetry, please submit between 1-3 poems. Poems must not exceed 90 lines. For visual art submissions, art in any medium is acceptable, except video and film. Artists may submit between 1-3 works.

For all submissions, include a brief note indicating the musical composition that inspired your work. Poets, please submit your work as a doc or pdf file; artists, please submit quality images of your art piece as a jpeg file. Email your submission to: musicasmuse@chamberorchestrasa.org. Include your name and title of your work in the subject box of the email (e.g. Jane Doe: “Chamber Symphony Sonnet”). In the body of the email, please include your name, high school, phone number, email address, and title(s) of your work.

The deadline for all submissions is March 21, 2015. Please remember, all work submitted must be based on the musical compositions listed above. For additional questions, contact: musicasmuse@chamberorchestrasa.org.

Three finalists from each category will be contacted and chosen to present their work during the COSA spring performance. First place winners from each category will each receive a prize of $300. Two runners up from each category will each receive a $100 prize.

2014 Music as Muse Prize

COSA Youth Renaissance is now welcoming submissions for its third annual Music as Muse Prize. The contest welcomes works of poetry and visual art and is open to all high school juniors and seniors in the San Antonio and surrounding area. All work submitted must be based on the musical compositions listed below, which will be performed at this year’s fall concert:

Joaquin Turina: La Oracion del Torero (The Prayer of the Bullfighter)

Rodion Shchedrin: Carmen-Suite (Intro)

Rodion Shchedrin: Carmen-Suite (Finale)

We encourage you to listen to each piece and let the music inspire you to create a new work of your own. Links are available above, with additional performances available on YouTube. We look forward to reading and viewing your submissions. Submission guidelines are as follows:

For poetry, please submit between 1-3 poems. Poems must not exceed 90 lines. For visual art submissions, art in any medium is acceptable, except video and film. Artists may submit between 1-3 works.

For all submissions, include a brief note indicating the musical composition that inspired your work. Poets, please submit your work as a doc or pdf file; artists, please submit quality images of your art piece as a jpeg file. Email your submission to: musicasmuse@chamberorchestrasa.org. Include your name and title of your work in the subject box of the email (e.g. Jane Doe: “Carmen's Tears”). In the body of the email, please include your name, high school, phone number, email address, and title(s) of your work.

The deadline for all submissions is August 15, 2013. Please remember, all work submitted must be based on the musical compositions listed above. For additional questions, contact: musicasmuse@chamberorchestrasa.org.

Three finalists from each category will be contacted and chosen to present their work during the COSA fall performance on September 6th at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts. First place winners from each category will each receive a prize of $300. Two runners up from each category will each receive a $100 prize. 

Congratulations to our 2013 Music as Muse Winners and Finalists

Congratulations to our 2013 Music as Muse Winners and Finalists

This year's Music as Muse contest celebrated the works of Benjamin Britten and Henry Purcell, played at COSA's Centennial Benjamin concert. Inspired by their music, COSA received poetry and visual arts submissions by high school seniors in the San Antonio area. Thank you to all the students who submitted!

Congratulations to our two poetry finalists: Brandi Carnes, "I Am Music" and Marcus Martinez, "Regal Temperament: An Ode to Rondeau" . "Promises" by Taylor Wilcox (middle) was chosen by this year's poetry judge Tomas Morin. In our visual arts category, Madison Baber, "Melancholic Melody" (bottom center) won for her work "Melancholic Melody." Taylor Wilcox, "Dripping Sound"  and Emily Barbary, "Boisterous Bouree" placed as finalists for their works inspired by Britten and Purcell.

 

2013 Music as Muse Prize

COSA Youth Renaissance is now welcoming submissions for its second annual Music as Muse Prize. The contest welcomes works of poetry and visual art and is open to all high school seniors in the San Antonio and surrounding area. All work submitted must be based on the musical compositions listed below, which will be performed at this year’s fall concert:

Benjamin Britten–Simple Symphony: I. Boisterous Bouree

Benjamin Britten–Simple Symphony: II. Sentimental Sarabande

Henry Purcell–Abdelazar Suite: II. Rondeau

We encourage you to listen to each piece and let the music inspire you to create a new work of your own. We look forward to reading and viewing your submissions. Submission guidelines are as follows:

For poetry, please submit between 1-3 poems. Poems must not exceed 90 lines. For visual art submissions, art in any medium is acceptable, except video and film. Artists may submit between 1-3 works.

For all submissions, include a brief note indicating the musical composition that inspired your work. Poets, please submit your work as a doc or pdf file; artists, please submit quality images of your art piece as a jpeg file. Email your submission to: musicasmuse@chamberorchestrasa.org. Include your name and title of your work in the subject box of the email (e.g. Jane Doe: “Ode to Britten”). In the body of the email, please include your name, your high school, phone number, email address, and title of your work.

The deadline for all submissions is October 15, 2013. Please remember, all work submitted must be based on the musical compositions listed above. For additional questions, contact musicasmuse@chamberorchestrasa.org.

Three finalists from each category will be contacted and chosen to present their work during a COSA fall performance. Winners from each category will each receive a prize of $300. Two runners-up from each category will each receive a $100 prize. 

In Cateura, Paraguay, "the recycled orchestra" play musical instruments made from trash. Residents use garbage from a landfill to form violins, cellos, and more, giving local children the opportunity to learn an instrument and create beautiful music. Watch the Landfill Harmonic movie trailer below and find out more about the project through the Landfill Harmonic website.

Ode to Joy Flashmob

Watch this flashmob capture the crowd by playing Beethoven's Ode to Joy.

Bus Station Sonata

Music can be shared anywhere.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BvGbJhig1Q