The Festival of New Music was AWESOME!!!

Unfortunately, I missed most of the performances and lectures affiliated with the Festival of New Music, but I caught the closing concert on Saturday night. It was AMAZING!
The festival features music by contemporary composers and all of the featured composers were actually at the concert and came up to the stage to receive their applause after their respective pieces were performed.
I don't know where I put the program so I cannot recite all of the composers for you, but there is one in particular that I do remember. Christopher Theofanidis. I can't find any free mp3's of his online unfortunately, but the Warren B. Allen music library has some recordings that can be checked out for a few hours at a time, and I highly recommend that if you find yourself on the eastern side of campus, you do so!
The FSU wind orchestra performed two of his pieces "I walk in a dream of my own making" and "rainbow body." They were both equally as amazing. He likes to play with reverberation, like one would hear in a cathedral, that eery, imprecise echoing of noise which makes it unclear where one musical idea ends and the other begins. The effect is hauntingly beautiful and oh so moving. He achieves this effect by toying with different combinations of wind and string instruments and lingering rhythms.
Check out his music if you get the chance!

Rock on-
Beatrice Murray