Glenn McClure will present and discuss his musical composition, Ear to the Ice, at JCCs Jamestown Campus on March 25.
McClure will give a presentation, which is free and open to the public, at 8 a.m., 11 a.m., and noon.
The event is provided through the Lenna Endowed Visiting Professorship program sponsored by JCC and St. Bonaventure University. Other sponsors are JCC’s music department, arts, humanities, and health sciences division, and the JCC Faculty Student Association.
Ear to the Ice is the result of McClure collaboration with seismic researchers from the National Science Foundation to chart the response of the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica to global climate change. He describes his musical composition as “rising from the silence of the ice through the sonification of scientific data.”
He has received numerous other federal grants for innovative musical and artistic projects.
McClure taught at the Eastman School of Music and currently serves on the faculties of Paul Smiths College and SUNY Geneseo.
McClure, a two-time recipient of the prestigious Continental Harmony Commission by the American Composers Forum, recently composed a work for choir and string quartet for the European Space Agency. He also worked with scientists and mathematicians from the Rosetta Mission to transform orbital data into melodies and harmonies.
His acclaimed “Kyrie” from St. Francis in the Americas: A Caribbean Mass has been performed in Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. The “Santo” from the same composition was featured in the 2005 CBS broadcast, Enter the Light.
McClure composed the full length operas, Imoinda and Promised Land: An Adirondack Folk Opera, and wrote the children’s operas, Mio Nonno Galileo and Maria’s Lessons.
For details, visit www.sunyjcc.edu/events or call 716.338.1168.