Message from the Executive Director
Carol Worthey's dual career has expanded on both fronts: music and art this past year. Let me enumerate some of the wins of the past year.
The year began with Carol garnering the cover article for the first quarter IAWM Journal (International Alliance for Women in Music) featuring a full-color print of her work "Musical Mermaid" on the cover. In her article, entitled "Intriguing Counterpoint" Carol discusses both the stresses and pleasures of having dual careers. Later, Carol was welcomed as a new member of The Ebell of Los Angeles, the oldest woman's club in southern California. A show at the Royal Gallery in Glendale, California exhibited a new artwork of Carol's "No More Genocides!" that commemorated and protested the inhumanity of the Armenian genocide. Carol applied for an received a Mu Phi Epsilon Chapter Grant sponsoring herself and other chapter musicians to the 2008 IAWM conference in Bejing, China.
As a composer, Carol finished a symphonic work, "Jade Flute in Lo Yang" for orchestra with three traditional Chinese intruments which was accepted and will be performed in 2008 in Bejing. Carol will also deliver a seminar on integrating Chinese instruments with Western instruments. Part of the joy in creating the new musical work was the opportunity to consult with a Chinese Dizi (flute) master and exchange musical thoughts. Thanks to Mary Au (pianist) we had her entire score translated into Chinese prior to submission to the IAWM committee which was quite a challenge. Also this year, Carol was honored to receive the Mu Phi Epsilon ACME award for distinguished musical achievement.
On the Art front, Carol exhibited works at two shows at the ARTZworks Gallery in Ventura,California, An artwork at the Johnson Art Collection gallery on Melrose in Los Angeles and another artwork at the James Gray Gallery in Bergamont Station in Santa Monica as well as exhibiting five paintings at the seventh annual Artists for A Better World show. The year has been topped off by an invitation from the committee to exhibit three large works at the Biennale d'Arte Contemporanea di Firenze 2007 in Florence, Italy.
Following the invitation to the Biennale, Carol proposed (and it was accepted) to create a musical fanfare in the Renaissance tradition to open the Biennale. Carol wrote and prepared this musical work and the Florence world-premiere of "Fanfare for The New Renaissance" was performed by the Brass Dimension Ensemble conducted by maestro Luca Benucci as music director. The musicians so loved the work that they insisted on performing it twice! each time to a standing ovation. The performance earned her a special award from both the Biennale and City of Florence!
Lastly, one of Carol's poems was published in an anthology with works by other major published poets.
Quite a year so far...and I might add, "You ain't seen nothin' yet!"
