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		<title>Summer Canvas: for String Orchestra (listen)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summer Canvas performed by Memorial High School String Orchestra Bingiee Shiu, Director 1: Pasquales 2: Hymn to Sibelius 3: Fuge]]></description>
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		<title>Save the World: Im Memoriam Richard Smalley</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 14:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Frazier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gala Introductions and Premiere Performance: http://www.youtube.com/user/FrazierJTodd?feature=mhum#p/u/2/o0EG7MFK3QI Program Notes: The 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was shared between Rice University Chemists Richard Smalley and Robert Curl of America, and Sussex University Chemist Harold Kroto of Brittan. It was awarded for the discovery, in 1985, at Rice University in Houston, Texas, of a new form of carbon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recent News / Press</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Frazier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SEATTLE Renee Fleming, soprano Ludovic Morlot, conductor    Seattle Symphony: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/text/2017775143.html ____ Im proud of my dad! Everyone can see Dr. O. H. Frazier&#8217;s Sundance film: http://www.filmmakermagazine.com/news/2012/01/watch-ten-sundance-shorts-online-including-new-works-by-jeremiah-zagar-and-todd-sklar/ and the inclusion in the most recent National Geographic Magazine: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/12/visions-now-next#/next/1 &#8212;- After the success of its April premiere at the Kennedy Center http://houston.culturemap.com/newsdetail/04-02-11-todd-frazier-kennedy-center/ Renee Fleming programs J. Todd Frazier’s &#8220;We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thomas Jefferson: The Making of America (Listen to Movement 1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:54:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Frazier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We Hold These Truths]]></description>
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		<title>Breath of Life: Interview: Texas Medical Center News</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Frazier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Native by Ronda Wendler; Texas Medical Center News   Jefferson Todd Frazier, native Houstonian, sixth-generation Texan, founder of American Festival for the Arts, breathes life back into opera: “This is something I was meant to do.”    &#8211;   “I grew up watching my father do heart transplants, watching his career rise and bring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Listen to Brazos De Dios</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Frazier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brazos De Dios]]></description>
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		<title>Brazos De Dios</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Frazier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brazos de Dios was commissioned by the Society for the Performing Arts of Houston, Texas for guitarist Susan McDonald. This work for guitar and chamber orchestra is an impressionistic one, inspired by the Brazos River’s many tributaries, or &#8220;arms&#8221;, which become new rivers, connecting Texas and its people. The &#8220;arms&#8221; relate to the seamless movements [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Listen to Buffalo Altar</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Frazier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Orchestral Version Excerpts: http://www.barrycorbin.com/sounds/buffalo_altar.htm Full Orchestral Version: Buffalo Altar with Orchestra Narrator/Piano Version: Buffalo Altar]]></description>
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		<title>Review / Commentary</title>
		<link>http://jtoddfrazier.com/archives/25</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Frazier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of &#8220;Buffalo Altar: A Texas Symphony,&#8221; Robert Freeman, presently the Dean of Fine Arts at the University of Texas at Austin, and Director of the Eastman School of Music from 1974-1996 and writes, &#8220;Frazier writes music that is both powerful and compelling, technically impressive from a professional point of view and at the same time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buffalo Altar: Short Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Frazier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I been in the oil business for fifty-eight years, and I ain&#8217;t tired of it yet. Oil could fall to a nickel a barrel, and I&#8217;d still be out there driving the back roads, trying to talk some old rancher out of his mineral rights. I guess, when you think about it, it&#8217;s the driving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buffalo Altar: A Texas Symphony</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Frazier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buffalo Altar: A Texas Symphony was commissioned by the Institute of American Music of the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York, and is the result of a three year collaboration between composer Jefferson Todd Frazier and writer Stephen Harrigan. &#8220;The Eastman School was interested in a musical piece about Texas,&#8221; Harrigan says. &#8220;We both [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breath of Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:41:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Frazier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Breath of Life,” an opera commissioned by the McNair and Powell Foundations and the Houston Arts Alliance. Composer and Librettist are presently in negotiations with the Texas Tech University Opera Department in Lubbock, TX to present the premiere of &#8220;Breath of Life&#8221; in 2012. This original work explores the modern, challenging and mysterious relationship between science [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thomas Jefferson: The Making of America</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Frazier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I. “We Hold These Truths” Narrator: To the task of composing the American Declaration of Independence from England, Benjamin Franklin, the internationally respected senior member of the Continental Congress, quickly declined, stating, “I make it a policy never to write documents subject to editing by others.” John Adams, the seasoned and experienced politician, was then [...]]]></description>
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