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Jim Dalton
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- Salem, MA
- United States
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Jim Dalton
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Mass. Studies Network Meet & Greet at Healey Library, UMass Boston
March 19, 2009 from 5:30pm to 8:30pm
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Founded &directed by musicians/scholars Jim and Maggi Dalton, Sponsored by nonprofit organization The Institute for Music, History, & Cultural Traditions, Inc.
Profile Information
- Where Do You Consider Your "Hometown"?
- Salem, MA
- What is your interest in the Mass. Studies Network?
- Getting to know others with similar interests and sharing knowledge as well as questions.
- About Me:
- I am a multi-instrumentalist, educator, and composer.
As a performer, I specialize in historical American and ethnic playing styles on a variety of plucked string instruments including guitar, mandolin, banjo, mandocello, Renaissance lute, bouzouki etc. I also play piano, organ, recorder and tin whistle.
In addition to duo performances with my wife, soprano and guitarist Maggi Smith-Dalton, I maintain an active career as a freelance musician -- playing in chamber music ensembles, jazz and world music groups and in opera/theater and symphony orchestras.
My compositions have been performed across the U.S. and Canada and in Europe. My choral composition, "The Rocky Road to Dublin," won first prize in the 1997 Toronto Camerata Competition. My music is been published ins by Fenwick Parva, Friends of the Albany Carillon, Wolfhead Music and Singing String Music Publications.
I am on the faculty of The Boston Conservatory, teaching music theory, ear training, American music and World music courses for both the Music Theory and Music Education Departments.
I have written articles for Blues Revue Magazine and am the author of Mandolin for Beginners, published by Workshop Arts, Inc./Alfred Publishing. I am a frequent guest lecturer on topics such as composition, choral arranging and Irish traditional music.
In the 2004-2005 year I received a MACRO research grant (Univ. of Wisconsin) to study and analyze palindromic compositions in concert music repertoire and presented this work at the 2005 Macro Musician's Workshop in Madison, WI. I co-authored, with my wife, the recently-published book, The Measure of the Year - Singing Through the Seasons.
- Your Website:
- http://www.singingstring.org/JD/
- Another website or blog?
- http://www.singingstring.org/JM/
- Your Organization:
- The Institute for Music, History and Cultural Traditions, Inc. (IMHCT)
http://www.imhct.org/imhct/index.html
- Your Title:
- Co-director and founder
- Another Organization?
- Salem History Society
- Another Title?
- Vice President
- Major areas of interest
- Arts, Cultural Heritage, Education (college/university), History, Languages & Linguistics, Local Studies, Music, Philosophy
- Other areas of interest not listed above?
- specifically: 19th century -- music, Trancendentalism
Concert announcement
The AMERICAN HISTORY AND MUSIC FESTIVAL INAUGURAL EVENT!
12/20/08 SNOW EMERGENCY UPDATE: COLD IS THE NIGHTWIND: A VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS PROGRAM (SALEM, MA) POSTPONED TO DEC. 28
It Will be Held: December 28, 2008 2 p.m. St. Peter's Church, Salem, MA
(We'll have the New Year to celebrate musically, too, after all!)
Advance Tickets On Sale All Week! We will accept admission at the door as well.
PS: You can now buy tickets online, too
For more info, please go to http://americanhistoryandmusicfestival.org
12/20/08 SNOW EMERGENCY UPDATE: COLD IS THE NIGHTWIND: A VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS PROGRAM (SALEM, MA) POSTPONED TO DEC. 28
It Will be Held: December 28, 2008 2 p.m. St. Peter's Church, Salem, MA
(We'll have the New Year to celebrate musically, too, after all!)
Advance Tickets On Sale All Week! We will accept admission at the door as well.
PS: You can now buy tickets online, too
For more info, please go to http://americanhistoryandmusicfestival.org
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