Celebrate Chopin’s Birthday at BioTech Place
Pamela Howland, part-time instructor in music, will perform “Night Music, Part Two” on Feb. 28 to kick off the Chopin Birthday Festival: From Warsaw to Winston-Salem, which begins March 1.
The festival will be held in BioTech Place from 11 a.m.- 7 p.m.
Musicians from schools in the Winston-Salem area will perform Chopin’s piano music. There will also be dancing, a film screening and a birthday toast in honor of Chopin.
“My goal for the Chopin Festival is to present a unique, colorful, fun and engaging celebration for Winston-Salem,” said Howland.
For more information about Chopin’s Birthday Festival, read the Winston-Salem Monthly.
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Howland screens film, performs in Poland
Pianist Pamela Howland, a part-time assistant professor in the department of music, recently returned from a 10-day tour to Poland sponsored by the U.S. Department of State/American Embassy and Smolna Association.
Howland was invited to screen her new documentary film “REMEMBERING FREDERIC: The Genius of Chopin” in Warsaw, Radom and Warka. While there, she also performed Chopin’s music, gave master classes and presented her workshop called “MAKING OLD MUSIC NEW: Using a Multimedia Approach to Reach New Audiences” for Polish musicians and artists, along with her husband, Wendell Myers, who is an assistant professor of radiology at the School of Medicine and an artist.
Performance venues ranged from professional schools, such as the famous Frederic Chopin University of Music in Warsaw and the Oskar Kolberg School of Music in Radom, to community centers.
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RiverRun features professor's film Tuesday
Rosemary Harris (left) and Pamela Howland
Pamela Howland, a pianist and part-time assistant professor of music, has just completed her first film, a one-hour documentary called “Remembering Frederic — The Genius of Chopin.” It will be screened at the RiverRun International Film Festival on Tuesday, April 17, at 3 p.m. at the Hanesbrands Theatre.
Below is Ken Keuffel’s review for Best Bets in Relish (Winston-Salem Journal, April 12):
“Pamela Howland, a pianist who teaches at Wake Forest University, specializes in introducing Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) and his music to the masses. This is a worthwhile effort, and “Remembering Frederic” shows just how adept she has become at explaining Chopin’s music in accessible terms. The film, Howland’s first, gives us an often-vivid sense of the many forces that shaped Chopin’s genius. This derives from new footage of Chopin’s Polish and French worlds, all shot by an able team of local filmmakers that she assembled for the project. It also comes from European and American experts speaking knowledgeably on several subjects, from Chopin’s illnesses to his relationship with George Sand, the famed writer. “Remembering Frederic” makes spare-but-effective use of excerpts from “Notorious Woman,” a Masterpiece Theatre series that won Rosemary Harris of Winston-Salem an Emmy for her portrayal of Sand in 1976. Howland plays Chopin’s music beautifully throughout the film.”
Read the full story about Howland in the Journal »
On May 5 at 7:30 p.m., a screening will be held in Brendle Recital Hall (followed by a Q&A with Howland). Tickets are available to the public for $10, but are free for WFU faculty/staff/students with ID.
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