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Maria Schneider's 'Winter Morning Walks' - A brand new recording!
About Maria Schneider's new album, 'Winter Morning Walks'

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03/01/2014 - Frank Arts Center / Shepherdstown, WV
03/13/2014 - The Allen Room / New York, NY
03/14/2014 - The Allen Room / New York, NY
04/26/2014 - Berklee Performance Center / Boston, MA
1 Perfectly Still This Solstice Morning
2 When I Switched On a Light
3 Walking By Flashlight
4 I Saw a Dust Devil This Morning
5 My Wife and I Walk the Cold Roads
6 All Night, in Gusty Winds
7 Our Finch Feeder
8 Spring, the Sky Rippled with Geese
9 How Important It Must Be
10 Prologue
11 The Dead in Frock Coats
12 Souvenir of the Ancient World
13 Don't Kill Yourself
14 Quadrille
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Maria Schneider releases: 'Winter Morning Walks' featuring soprano Dawn Upshaw. It is Schneider's first recording with major orchestras and features two commissioned works composed and conducted by Schneider with The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Australian Chamber Orchestra, and poetry by Ted Kooser and Carlos Drummond de Andrade. Blurring the line between classical and jazz, with touches of avant-garde and pop sensibilities, Winter Morning Walks marks a new chapter in an already illustrious career.

 

  • Maria Schneider to be honered at 2019 NEA Jazz Masters
    Posted At: April 16, 2019

    The National Endowment for the Arts will recognize four multitalented honorees -- Stanley Crouch, Bob Dorough, Abdullah Ibrahim and Maria Schneider -- as its 2019 NEA Jazz Masters, the nation's highest honor in the genre, on April 15. A series of free events, including the Jazz Masters Tribute Concert at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in D.C. will be livestreamed on the NEA's website ...

  • New Jersey Public Media meets Maria Schneider and Dawn Upshaw in Winter Morning Walks
    Posted At: February 20, 2019

    New Jersey Public Media meets composer Maria Schneider and soprano Dawn Upshaw as Upshaw performs Winter Morning Walks, Schneider's Grammy Award-winning song-cycle based on poems by US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser. Although primarily a jazz artist, Maria Schneider straddles the worlds of classical and jazz music seamlessly, collaborating with musicians as diverse as Dawn Upshaw and David Bowie. Winter Mo...

  • Dawn Upshaw will sing Maria Schneider's 'Winter Morning Walks' in NJSO's Winter Festival / JAZZIZ
    Posted At: January 18, 2019

    Soprano Dawn Upshaw sings Maria Schneider - Winter Morning Walks Jan. 18 at Richardson Auditorium in Princeton; Jan. 19 at Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red Bank; and Jan. 20 at NJPAC in Newark. Upshaw will perform Morning Walks and Mahler's Fourth Symphony January 18–20 in the second program NJSO's 2019 Winter Festival, "Music Speaks." Music Director Xian Zhang conducts. Zh...

  • Maria Schneider reflects on 'Winter Morning Walks,' before NJSO concerts / WBGO
    Posted At: January 16, 2019

    Maria Schneider's acclaimed classical composition Winter Morning Walks began with a scrap of poetry, which reached her ears before she encountered it on the page. Schneider, a peerless composer for big band, had previously composed a classical song cycle incorporating language by the Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andade. Her vocal collaborator was the illustrious soprano Dawn Upshaw, who responded wi...

  • Maria Schneider conducts the BGSU jazz band, and gives master class on intellectual property / Sentinel -Tribune
    Posted At: April 3, 2018

    Genre-bending jazz conductor and composer Maria Schneider taught and performed last week at Bowling Green State University and spoke about how she has benefited from taking chances and pushing boundaries. While Schneider is the five-time Grammy-winning leader of an 18-piece jazz band and has become known for her large, soaring classical pieces with internationally known artists such as soprano Dawn Upsha...

  • Maria Schneider picks up 3, 2017 JJA nominations
    Posted At: April 24, 2017

    p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica; min-height: 12.0px} 2017 JJA Jazz Awards Nominees were chosen by the votes of Jazz Journalists Association members. Nominations were made on the basis of work done in calendar year 2016, with the exception of Lifetime Achievement Awards categories, in which nominations are for a lifetime body of work. Members and others were able to subm...

  • JazzMN Orch. will wrap season w Maria Schneider / Lakeshore Weekly News
    Posted At: March 29, 2017

    The JazzMN Orchestra wraps up its 2016-17 concert season with guest artist and Grammy-winning composer Maria Schneider on Saturday, April 8 in the auditorium at Hopkins High School in Minnetonka. The 12 time Grammy nominee and five time winner, will work with the JazzMN Orchestra as an artist-in-residence, customizing her compositions to feature the unique talents within the local ensemble. Schneider wil...

  • Maria Schneider will receive - ASCAP Foundation 'Life in Music Award' / MARKET WIRED
    Posted At: November 20, 2016

    The ASCAP Foundation announces that composer and bandleader Maria Schneider will receive The ASCAP Foundation Life in Music Award. Ms. Schneider will be celebrated at the 2016 ASCAP Foundation Honors, theld at the Appel Room and Ertegun Atrium in Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall, Broadway at 60th Street, New York City. Maria Schneider's music has been hailed by critics as "evo...

  • Music & Poetry - Maria Schneider / WNYC
    Posted At: March 8, 2015

    When Maria Schneider released Winter Morning Walks featuring soprano Dawn Upshaw, it was the composer's first recording with major orchestras and features two commissioned works written and conducted by Schneider with The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Australian Chamber Orchestra. With poetry by Ted Kooser and Carlos Drummond de Andrade, the album blurred the lines.  Sometimes making musi...

  • Maria Schneider Orchestra plays The Jazz Standard / The Wall Street Journal
    Posted At: November 29, 2014

    The music from composer and bandleader Maria Schneider 's most recent album, "Winter Morning Walks," is far too ambitious to be performed in a jazz club, or to be contained under any one roof, combining, as it does, key soloists from Ms. Schneider's ensemble (notably saxophonist Scott Robinson and pianist Frank Kimbrough ) along with two complete chamber orchestras, numerous poets, and soprano Dawn Upsha...

  • Maria Schneider performs works with Dawn Upshaw and students at Festival Miami / South Florida Classical Review
    Posted At: October 26, 2014

    Composers from the world of popular music who attempt to write classical scores can find the distance between genres daunting. While many have failed to cross that divide successfully, Maria Schneider is clearly a creative artist who has made that leap with distinction. Best known as a jazz composer and band leader, Schneider conducted two of her song cycles that featured soprano Dawn Upshaw at Fest...

  • David Bowie set to release 'Sue (In A Season of Crime) with the Maria Schneider Orchestra
    Posted At: October 14, 2014

    David Bowie recorded a new single, called "Sue (or In A Season of Crime)," this summer in New York with the Maria Schneider Orchestra. With saxophonist Donny McCaslin and trombonist Ryan Kebrle soloing, Schneider who arranged the song also co-wrote it with Bowie. The track will also be released as part of a new album, Nothing Has Changed, on Nov. 14, and the album is a collection of tracks dating as far ...

  • Maria Schneider plays South Africa's Standard Bank Jazz Festival / Grocott's Mail review
    Posted At: July 8, 2014

    Seats for multi-award-winning US composer, arranger and bandleader Maria Schneider were at a premium on Saturday night. Everyone, it seemed, wanted to see if the Standard Bank Jazz Festival headliner lived up to the hype. I ended up sitting right next to the left-hand speaker. Despite my having no view of virtuoso pianist Olga Konkova, my seat turned out to be the best in the house. Aside from the glorio...

  • Maria Schneider PLAYS South Africa's Standard Bank Jazz Festival / BD Live
    Posted At: July 2, 2014

    SOUTH Africa is not as excited as it ought to be about the arrival of composer, arranger and bandleader Maria Schneider at the Standard Bank Jazz Festival in Grahamstown. Disgracefully, one of the festival's sponsors, the SABC, billed her briefly in a radio announcement as a vocalist before correcting the error: a classic instance of the gendered blinkers that see women in jazz (despite Mary Lou Williams...

  • ASCAP Honors Maria Schneider@15th annual Concert Music Awards
    Posted At: May 23, 2014

    The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) held its 15th annual Concert Music Awards today at Merkin Concert Hall at the Kaufman Center in New York City. ASCAP member, composer, conductor and radio broadcast journalist Bill McGlaughlin hosted the invitation-only event, which recognized the achievements of ASCAP's 2014 Concert Music Honorees who represent the diverse aesthetic spect...

  • Congratulations to Maria Schneider for winning three 2014 JJA Awards
    Posted At: April 15, 2014

    Congratulations to the winners of the 18th annual Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards for Music and Recording. Seven Crossover Media artists received awards for 2013 including - Maria Schneider who wins for ‘Composer of the Year,' ‘Arranger of the Year,' and the Maria Schneider Orchestra wins for ‘Large Ensemble of the Year.'...

  • All About Jazz: Maria Schneider interview
    Posted At: April 3, 2014

    Maria Schneider is widely considered one of the finest contemporary band leaders, composers, and arrangers. For two decades, The Maria Schneider Orchestra has generated excitement and sometimes surprise, at club dates, concerts, and festivals and with GRAMMY-winning records on the ArtistShare label, where Schneider pioneered in the process of commissioning recordings by giving subscribers an inside look ...

  • Maria Schneider named finalist for 2014 Jazz Journalists Association Award
    Posted At: March 9, 2014

    Composer/Arranger Maria Schneider is a finalist nominees for the 2014 JJA Jazz Awards.  Nominees in most categories were chosen by the votes of the Professional Journalist Members of the Jazz Journalists Association. Nominations were made on the basis of work done in calendar year 2013, with the exception of Lifetime Achievement Awards categories, in which nominations are fo...

  • Maria Schneider | Dawn Upshaw: Winter Morning Walks / New York Times review
    Posted At: January 25, 2014

    Over the past 20 years, Maria Schneider has built a reputation as a leading jazz composer, arranger and big band leader. Her last two CDs won Grammys, and her achievement are even more remarkable because she was the first artist to win a Grammy for a web-exclusive recording in 2004, using the fan-funding ArtistShare platform. Schneider's current collaboration with Dawn Upshaw: 'Winter Mornin...

  • GRAMMY-Nominated Winter Morning Walks is this week's KDFC: San Francisco / Download Of the Week
    Posted At: January 7, 2014

    GRAMMY-Nominated Winter Morning Walks is the first partnership between Schneider and Upshaw, bringing together two preeminent figures in jazz and classical music. KDFC members can download a free mp3 of Upshaw, Schneider and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra performing the Prologue to Carlos Drummond De Andrae Stories. ...

  • Maria Schneider & Dawn Upshaw get 2014 GRAMMY Nomination for 'Winter Morning Walks'
    Posted At: December 7, 2013

    Congratulations to Crossover Media Artists: Dawn Upshaw and Maria Schneider on their 2014 GRAMMY Nominations for: 'Winter Morning Walks' on artistShare, in the Best Contemporary Classical Composition, Best Classical Vocal Solo and Best Engineered Album, Classical category. The 56th Annual GRAMMY Awards will air Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014, on CBS....

  • Maria Schneider | Dawn Upshaw: Winter Morning Walks / Washington Times review
    Posted At: September 23, 2013

    Maria Schneider's music is poised to surprise, and her bold crossover effort in "Winter Morning Walks" is no exception.  Composed for the legendary soprano Dawn Upshaw and played by both The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Australian Chamber Orchestra, Schneider composes two song cycles based on the prose of American poet Ted Kooser and Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond respectively.  The...

  • Maria Schneider on PRI's 'To The Best of Our Knowledge
    Posted At: May 22, 2013

    Maria Schneider has a new project out, an album called "Winter Morning Walks." She worked with Dawn Upshaw to arrange poems by poet laureate Ted Kooser and Carlos Drummond de Andrade. She told PRI's 'To The Best of Our Knowledge' Senior Producer Anne Strainchamps about notions of beauty in music, how music helped get her through a diagnosis of breast cancer, and her p...

  • 45 North speaks with Maria Schneider about 'Winter Morning Walks'
    Posted At: May 16, 2013

    45 North / Friday, May 3, 2013 Anne Strainchamps talks with a jazz composer and two-time Grammy winner Maria Schneider about her new album: 'Winter Morning Walks.' Also on the show, Zoe Keating is a cellist with a lot of pluck. Acting as her own agent, tour manager, producer and publisher, Zoe tells Anne Strainchamps how to orchestrate a "slow, sustainable, career" as ...

  • 'NPR: All Songs Considered' Features Maria Schneider | Dawn Upshaw: 'Winter Morning Walks'
    Posted At: March 7, 2013

    http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2013/03/05/173417418/this-weeks-mix-new-flaming-lips-surfer-blood-sufjan-stevens-more NPR Music's Anastasia Tsioulcas shares the story of composer Maria Schneider's heartfelt and emotional journey with singer Dawn Upshaw during the making of the new album, Winter Morning Walks. We finish off the March 5 edition, with a great set of tracks, and the hau...
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