MMNY has announced an open call for this year’s “musical handshake” – a brief, single melody that serves as the secret lingua franca for hundreds of Mass Appeal musicians.
This musical handshake will be used on June 21st by trombones to greet ukuleles, flutists to greet pianos, and french horns to greet harmonicas, with the hope that these greetings will turn into longer musical conversations.
MMNY is now accepting musical handshake submissions of up to 10 seconds, consisting of a short melody made up of two phrases, forming a call and response. Entries are due Friday May 1st, 2009. The winning “musical handshake” will be selected by a panel of distinguished judges, and announced in late May, giving one composer the honor of a Mass Appeal premiere of June 21st, 2009.
For complete guidelines, please download this PDF: http://www.makemusicny.org/mmny-musical-handshake.pdf
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