In Women of Influence in Contemporary Music: Nine American Composers, Michael K. Slayton has collected essays, which focus on women who have made significant contributions to American music: Elizabeth Austin, Susan Botti, Gabriela Lena Frank, Jennifer Higdon, Libby Larsen, Tania León, Cindy McTee, Marga Richter, and Judith Shatin.Each chapter includes a … In 2009, she was designated a Fellow in UNT's Institute for the Advancement of the Arts. [Andrew] Litton brought along a souvenir from his Dallas years, a curtain-raiser that he commissioned from Cindy McTee called "Timepiece" . Short circuits are normally regarded as undesirable but I doubt if anyone found fault with this Circuits for being short. Cindy McTee (born February 20, 1953) is an American composer and educator. Cindy McTee brings to the world of concert music a fresh and imaginative voice. Apart from a couple of patches of glimmering string chords, [To open the evening, Kahane brought Dallas composer Cindy McTee onstage to introduce her evocative Commissioned by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra for its100th Anniversary Season. McTee taught at Pacific Lutheran University for three years before joining the faculty of the University of North Texas College of Music in 1984, where she received a promotion to Full Professor in 1995 and to Regents Professor in 2000. Cindy McTee's "Timepiece" got the concert off to an enjoyable start.

Teaching experience. fairly bursts forth with energy and orchestrational flair. The work was written in 2000 for Litton and the Dallas Symphony on the occasion of the orchestra's centennial.

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fast-paced, highly energetic, extremely rhythmic, full of unusual percussion effects and just plain delightful. works: alphabetical list. Circuits.

Cindy McTee's "Circuits," completed in 1992, chugs along for all its six minutes at a very steady if urgently quick pace. It has affinities with the brisk, fat-free music Michael Torke wrote for the Olympic Games in Atlanta and might well be used to focus the minds of athletes getting ready for sudden and decisive movement.The short, festive work was . . RMP • Rondure Music Publishing (distributed by Bill Holab Music) HL • Hal Leonard Compositions marked † are student works or withdrawn. Despite the electronic title, the piece is on a perceptibly human scale; indeed at moments "Circus" might have been a more appropriate title. Cindy McTee brings to the world of concert music a fresh and imaginative voice. "Circuits" was . It belongs to the category of trim, fast, precisely engineered music that measures out its distance and reaches it on time, without the slightest suggestion of dawdling or indulgence. McTee avoids the rock-influenced composer's tendency to overuse the percussion section.

TITLE. Though the "Concerto for Saxophones" might have been the most unusual work on the Omaha Symphony's first Masterworks program of the 2007 season, it wasn't the only draw.

The percussion parts are central to "Circuits" yet remain humbly, whimsically in an accompanying role, and she makes charming use of bright, perky instruments – cowbells, wood blocks, a glockenspiel. All in all, it's one of the more successful fusions of the jazz and symphonic styles that I've heard and it could have gone on longer than it's eight minutes as far as I was concerned. McTee's "Circuits: A Concert Overture'' opened the concert in a brisk, forward-looking fashion. RMP.

Metal Music: Tins And Tanks - Cindy McTee 8. Agnus Dei (for organ) 10. PUBLISHER . 1998. . In her spoken remarks, she mentioned her upbringing in jazz and that's what came through strongly in "Timepiece." . Premièred on February 17, 2000 2003. 2004.

I wish they had played it twice. The flittering lines cavort …