Ucross Launches Annual Music Fellowships With Rice University
The exciting new partnership offers fellows from The Shepherd School of Music the gift of time and space at Ucross’s 20,000-acre Wyoming ranch.by BWW News Desk
Ucross has announced the establishment of a new partnership with Rice University s Shepherd School of Music. An annual fellowship will award four weeks of Ucross residency time to accomplished artists and/or scholars in the field of music. This year, the inaugural fellowship will be given to two composers, who will each receive two-week residencies at Ucross: composer and doctoral student, Nicky Sohn, and Assistant Professor of Musicology at Rice University, Danielle Ward-Griffin.
The show, produced by Barrington Stage Company of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, is available for $25 at barringtonstageco.org
Baytown seems an unlikely destination for a Broadway singer/actor sidelined by the COVID-19 shutdown of New York Cityâs theater districtâbut it was also an unlikely path that took a former Robert E. Lee High School football player and salutatorian Alan H. Green to Broadway.
Green was getting ready to start a new Broadway show, âBlue,â directed by Phylicia Rashad, when the pandemic closed down live theaters.
âI actually came straight to Baytown because I thought that the airports were going to shut down, and physically not being able to get to my mother at that point was worse than maybe even getting COVID.