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DuPage Symphony Orchestra Hosts Composer-in-Residence Michael Udow
Michael Udow, Composer
The DSO hosted Dr. Michael Udow as composer-in-residence for our March 19, 2022 concert, “Reflections.” A tremendously versatile composer, Dr. Udow’s works include operas, symphonies, chamber music, and music for dance & theater. In addition to his assistance with the DSO’s performance of his compelling “The Shattered Mirror Suite,” during his residency Dr. Udow also presented masterclasses and workshops for several DuPage county and Chicago area high schools and universities. In recognition of his work as a performer, composer, educator, and author, Michael Udow has been selected as a 2022 inductee into the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame.
A first lesson with a young person (0:00)
A clinic with university students (2:14)
A lesson with a university student (3:04)
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Why Study Music?
- The ability to assimilate disparate pieces of information in the process of creating new ideas, interpretations, products, & solutions to problems.
- The capacity to synthesize rather than analyze.
- The imaginative skill to see relationships between seemingly unrelated fields, to detect broad patterns rather than specific answers, to create something by combining elements nobody else thought to combine; to be a boundary crosser.
- The ability to see (hear) the big picture.
- The ability to place facts, or in the case of musicians sounds, in a creatively memorable context & deliver them with emotional impact.
- The capacity of sharpening understanding of one thing by expressing it in the context of something else.
- A pathway to understanding that does not run through the left side of the brain.
- The capacity to recognize & appreciate the combination of function & beauty.
- The ability to think and create “artistically.”
- Aesthetics matter. Attractive things work better. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need, & beauty to produce something that the world did not know was missing.
