| JCFA COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE " You Won't Know Who to Trust, What to Believe, or Where to Turn " MICHAEL SCHELLE, founder / director / program design / web design FRANK FELICE, associate director / engineer
_______________________________________________________________________________ Founded in 1985 by Butler University JCFA Composer in Residence MICHAEL SCHELLE, the JCFA COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA (NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE) is dedicated to the preservation (& presentation) of music by 'not dead yet' (or recently dead) composers and also serves as a live performance ensemble for the university student composers. The versatile, energetic, action-packed JCFACO programs - over 200 concerts on & off campus - consist of new works by many Butler composers, 20th / 21st Century avant garde 'classics' & experimental new music by highly respected contemporary composers from across the US & abroad such as Steve Reich, Philip Glass, John Cage, Terry Riley, Meredith Monk, Ed London, Barney Childs, David Tudor, Harold Budd, Alvin Curran, Michael Nyman, Charlemagne Palestine, Robert Ashley, Dan Lentz, David Bedford, Laurie Anderson, Pauline Oliveros, Cornelius Cardew, Phil Winsor, Luigi Nono, Yoko Ono, Michael Torke, Bruno Maderna, Eve Beglarian, Olivier Messiaen, Ornette Coleman, R. Murray Schafer, Dick Higgins, Frederic Rzewski, Toshiro Mayuzumi, Toru Takemitsu, Krzysztof Penderecki, Jacob Druckman, Akira Ifukube, Aurelio de la Vega, James Tenney, Elliott Schwartz, Cecil Taylor, Danny Elfman, Thomas Newman, Franz Waxman . . . and many others of Species, Nightmare on Elm Street, Hellraiser, Ghost Rider, Tales from the Hood, Exorcism of Emily Rose, Drag Me To Hell, etc.), Paul Chihara, Sven-David Sandstrom, Elliott Schwartz, Steven Stucky, Michael Daugherty, William Albright, Stephen Gryc, Giya Kancheli, Jim Fox, Arnold Franchetti, Henry Gwiazda, Dinos Constantinides,
_______________________________________ _________________________________________________ OCTOBER 2009 - JCFA COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA presents: Guest Composer from Tokyo: HIFUMI SHIMOYAMA (b. 1930)
PHOTOS OF SHIMOYAMAFEST '09 . . . JCFA COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA founder/director, MICHAEL SCHELLE w/ Guest Composer HIFUMI SHIMOYAMA . . we can't share clothing
_____________________________________ SHIMOYAMA ... photo-op stalking one of my (5) Maine Coons, Valentine ... _____________________________________ Indiana University composer P Q Phan, Schelle, Shimoyama _________________________________________________ SHIMOYAMA with the concert poster, and ULTRAMAN : ____________________________________ SHIMOYAMA, MIHO SASAKI (composer, pianist, and 24/7 translations), NY / Butler grad composer SCOTT COMANZO, and MRS. YOKO SHIMOYAMA : +++ Lunch at NAKED TCHOPSTIX in Broad Ripple +++ ( ... altho composer COMANZO looks adorable, he is actually not a midget . . . . . . he is kneeling . . . he is actually 6' 7" ) ________________________________________ SHIMOYAMA working with Butler University composition majors . . . ____________________________________
REHEARSALS and CONCERT: SHIMOYAMAFEST 2009 . . .
Eugenio Urrutia-Borlando and cellist Margot Marlatt Eugenio Urrutia-Borlando, Bill Grubb, Emilio Buonanni and Hifumi Shimoyama, after a breathtaking performance of Shimoyama's 1972 masterpiece, WAVE Pianist Eugenio Urrutia-Borlando, Hifumi Shimoyama, cellist Bill Grubb . . .
___________________________________ POST-CONCERT RECEPTION, hosted by the Butler University grad composers . . .
SCHELLE, SHIMOYAMA, and about 1/2 of our composition majors . . .
____________________________________ JCFA COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA CONCERTS 2009, 2010 ....
5/8ths of an Inch (2009) by JCFA grad composer, Daniel McIntosh ( Michael Schelle, tools / 'percussion' ) ___________________________________________________ Three (3) of the twenty-five (25) 2009/2010 JCFA Composers: : Scott "The Big Show" Pfitzinger, Kyle 'Zimmer' Wernke, Rev. Daniel McIntosh Ed London's ROLL ____________________________________ SCHELLE and JACFCO Guest Composer PAUL CHIHARA - infamous new music composer, film composer, Composition program Director at UCLA, Los Angeles JCFACO CHIHARAFEST 2006 __________________________________ with Guest Composer JOHN CORIGLIANO . . . ____________________________________ with Guest Composer CHRISTOPHER YOUNG, Hollywood A-List film composer (Chris' visit including working with the composition students, and a full-length Butler Symphony Orchestra & Chorus concert (with back screen projections) featuring excerpts from his bombastic scores for HELLBOUND: HELLRAISER 2, SPECIES, NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, TALES FROM THE HOOD, U-BOAT, COPYCAT, etc. The visit also resulted in the release of a commercial CD on CITIDEL RECORDS 
__________________________________ with Guest Composer JIM FOX (Los Angeles) . . . 
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 JCFACO REUTERFEST 2007
( MICHAEL SCHELLE and JCFACO Guest Composer, ROCKY REUTER )
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JCFACO SCHWARTZFEST 2006
( Guest Composer Elliott Schwartz (Maine), Matthew Lanier & Michael Schelle) _____________________________________
COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA has received ELEVEN (11) Meet the Composer / Arts Midwest grants for JCFACO visiting composers since 1991
_____________________________________ ENSEMBLE 48 : GUERRILLA NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE WITHIN JCFACO, FOUNDED BY 2007/09 JCFA GRADUATE COMPOSERS L TO R: MEGAN POKORNEY, BRIAN GRIMM, COL. JOSHUA MORRIS, MATTHEW SMART, SCOTT COMANZO, ZANE MERRITT, ADAM COHEN-LEADHOLM 
E48 Grad Composers ZANE MERRITT & ADAM COHEN-LEADHOLM perform PAN-OCEANIC 
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JCFACO performs CUT PIECE by YOKO ONO ____________________________________ RECENT JCFACO PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS JCFA Composers Orchestra, the Butler Symphony Orchestra with Hollywood film composer Christopher Young. Orchestral concerts of his film music, composition master classes, talks. October 1999. Commercial CD (Citadel STC 77130) released in 2000:
(Butler Symphony Orchestra concert and OST original soundtrack of Chris' Judas Kiss)
1999: JCFA Composers Orchestra on tour: Capital University (Columbus, OH) - February 1999: JCFACO performs for the Morgan Swift Arts and Culture Mayoral Candidacy fundraiser:
Susurrus Space, 429 E. Vermont, Indianapolis, IN - 20 February 1999 JCFA Composers Orchestra was the invited ensemble (and paid) to perform an entire program at the state convention of the National Innovative Change Network Society - 4/99 2002: members of JCFACO perform in the streets of St. Petersburg, Russia . . March 2002 2004: JCFACO - Terry Riley's In C, Clowes Hall, MidWinter Dance Festival: Feb 19-21, 2004 2004: JCFACO performs concert: Clowes Hall - for Freshman Orientation! August 2004
2004: JCFACO performs full-length concert at Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN: September 2007: JCFACO performs full-length concert at Anderson University, IN: November 2007 2009: JCFACO performs concert @ The Wood Room, Circle Theatre, Indianapolis: 3 March 2009 Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra hosts, the monthly First Monday concert series 2009: JCFACO guest ensemble for Society of Composers, Inc. Region V Conference, Iowa, 10/09 ______________________________________ 2008: JCFA Composition major, KYLE WERNKE, directs members of JCFACO in a performance of JUMPING MUSIC (Laura Dean) . . . . in the streets of PRAGUE, VIENNA and AMSTERDAM, March 2008 . . . 
______________________________________ ANNUAL JCFA COMPOSER / CHOREOGRAPHER PROJECT: Since 2000, annual pairing of 10 - 12 JCFA student composers with 10 - 12 JCFA Dance
Department choreography students for original collaborative presentations / performances. _____________________________________ JCFACO NEW MUSIC FESTIVALS / CONFERENCES MICHAEL SCHELLE and FRANK FELICE: Program Co-Directors / Co-Coordinators -
2005 SCI Region V Festival Conference: Midwest regional conference of Society
of Composers, Inc. at Butler University. Nine (9) concerts (chamber, orchestra, band, choir)
of members music, lecture series, etc. Four days in November, 2005 MICHAEL SCHELLE Program Director / Coordinator - 1985 ASUC Region V Festival
/ Conference: Midwest regional conference of the American Society of University
Composers at Butler University As co-chair of the region (1984 - 1996), I organized /
hosted the festival/conference which included 8 concerts (chamber, orchestra, band,
choir) of members music, lecture series, etc. November, 1985. ________________________________________
REVIEW (NUVO, Indianapolis' weekly Village Voice-style underground newspaper):
"Psst . . . Wanna hear something scary? For many, the words "contemporary music" are enough to induce vertigo. Throw in "student orchestra," and they can go positively psycho. But no one should be spooked by the JCFA Composers Orchestra (JCFACO) at Butler University. This rapscallion ensemble, under the direction of Butler Composer in Residence Michael Schelle, dishes out contemporary musical fare with saucy style. Those who equate "student bands" with "student drivers" - as something to be given a wide berth - should summon the courage to drive over, take a look. JCFACO refuses to let jazz and rock have all the fun when it comes to musical experimentation. JCFACO concerts present numerous premieres and a repertoire of late 20th century chamber musicm with an emphasis on pieces that otherwise wouldn't have a ghost of a chance of being heard in Indianapolis. It's for 'people just looking for something very different in the local music world,' Schelle says. 'If you are into the weird, the bizarre, the unusual, the somewhat irreverent, we are for you.' But, he adds, it's all done with professionalism, serious rehearsal, pedagogical bjectivity, and a 'wink of the eye.' JCFACO's next program will include Moon Babies Get Off My Carby Tim Perrine (ed. note: Tim's a recent graduate of the USC Film Scoring Program), My Mother Told Meby Rob Simpson, Schemascapesby Adam Cotton, Unexpected Voices by James Mobberley (UM Kansas City), and This is Halloween (from Nightmare Before Christmas) by Danny Elfman, arr. by Tim Perrine."
NUVO, October, 2006 - Gary Weir
_____________________________________ WHAT OTHER PEOPLE SAID ABOUT THE JCFA COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA CONCERTS: I don't like it. It's not real music - anon. JCFA voice major
Get me the hell out of here - Laura Thomas
It's a New World Order ! - Melissa Williams Daddy, do you really get paid to do this? - Katie Schelle Do you think this will hurt? - Raymond Leppard
This stuff is terrific! - Dr. Peter Alexander, Dean, JCFA
More fun than Schoenberg - Dr. Louis Chenette
I Used to Like this Piece - anon JCFA voice major Better than Pork Butt on a Stick - Maren Urness Is this like musica ficta or something? - anon. JCFA theory student
Do you guys rehearse? - anon. JCFACO parent
Repulsive, yet strongly seductive - Anderson University faculty member
Made me eager to avoid Hell at all costs - Anderson University
I thought I was dying, & found myself afraid I wouldn't - Anderson U.
Music started going to shit when the Romantics died. Yeah, every once in awhile they (the Composers Orchestra) will have something decent, but I swear if they ever do another one of those IN C minimalists concerts, I'll f---ing kill them all -
Cory Ellison WE'RE WATCHING Sit in the back row, it's safer there - Gary Weir, NUVO Uproarious and insightful, provocative- Helen Straight
Duck! - the artist formerly known as Dean Sells
Four thumbs up! 2 stars! Too hip for NUVO - Dr. Robert Grechesky Dr. Schelle, do you permit this kind of music? - Dainis Michel's father
I didn't say anything - Natalie Booth S C A R Y JCFA COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA HALLOWEEN CONCERT, 1996 Dr. Paula Telesco, Dr. Rocky J. Reuter, Dr. Michael Schelle
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