CCMP Music Program

David Cook, “American Idol”, already scored a solid hit with his first single, “The Time of My Life”. He is fairly generic, but its rock edge is dirtied up with crunching guitars and the artist’s tuneful growl.

The Vienna Vegetable Orchestra plays nothing but vegetables and kitchen tools. Cool! Consisting of eleven musicians, one cook, and one sound engineer, the orchestra incorporates a spectrum musical style including contemporary music, free jazz, noise, dub, experimental electronic, and house beets. Onion peels, pepper trumpets, leek violins, pumpkin bongos, carrot flutes, and cucumberphones.

Music by Neil Rolnick

The Economic Engine, a multi-media powerhouse collaboration combining the forces of two chamber ensembles, Music from China and The Todd Reynolds String Quartet, with video produced by Cindy Ng Sio Leng, coordinated and performed by Adam Kendall with Rolnick’s musical score. This visual realization portrays the impact of dramatic economic growth on the lives of the Chinese people. The four movements are called Traffic, Farm to Factory, Opaque Air, and Hutong to Highrise.