The Delian Society

The Delian Society, conceived by American composer Joseph Dillon Ford, was founded on 23 January 2004 as an international community of composers, performers, scholars, recording technicians, music publishers, and amateurs dedicated to the revitalization of the great tonal traditions in art music. The Delian Society is committed to egalitarianism and diversity, and membership is open to all, regardless of race, color, gender, sexual orientation, handicap, religion, national origin, political affiliation, or marital status. The Society takes its name from the Greek Island of Delos, legendary birthplace of Apollo, god of music and light. Image File history File linksMetadata Delian_games_2006. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Delian_games_2006. ... Composers are people who write music. ... The performing arts include theater, motion pictures, drama, comedy, music, dance, opera, magic and the marching arts, such as brass bands, etc. ... A scholar is either a student or someone who has achieved a mastery of some academic discipline. ... The word amateur has at least two connotations. ... The adjective tonal can refer to: tonality in music a tonal language the opposite of Nagual, in the specific context of Carlos Castaneda, the tonal is what makes the world. ... This article is about the broad genre of classical music in the Western musical tradition. ... The island of Delos, Carl Anton Joseph Rottmann, 1847 The island of Delos (Greek: Δήλος, Dhilos), isolated in the centre of the roughly circular ring of islands called the Cyclades, near Mykonos, had a position as a holy sanctuary for a millennium before Olympian Greek mythology made it the birthplace of... Lycian Apollo, early Imperial Roman copy of a fourth century Greek original (Louvre Museum) In Greek and Roman mythology, Apollo (Ancient Greek , Apóllōn; or , Apellōn), the ideal of the kouros, was the archer-god of medicine and healing, light, truth, archery and also a bringer of death... For other uses, see Music (disambiguation). ... Prism splitting light Light is electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength that is visible to the eye (visible light) or, in a technical or scientific context, electromagnetic radiation of any wavelength[1]. The elementary particle that defines light is the photon. ...

Among the composers and artists holding membership in the Delian Society are the following:

• Michael Conway Baker
• Robert David Billington
• Elisabetta Brusa
• Jean Chatillon
• Nancy Bloomer Deussen
• Sheila Firestone
• Joseph Dillon Ford
• Edward Gold
• John Kenneth Graham
• Anthony Linden Jones
• Michael Mauldin
• Antoine Ouellette
• Warren Park
• James J. Pellerite
• Setrak Setrakian
• David Warin Solomons
• Henry Stevens
• Roman Turovsky-Savchuk

The members of the Delian Society are committed to the following: Michael Conway Baker (born March 13, 1937 in West Palm Beach, Florida, USA) is a Canadian composer resident in North Vancouver, British Columbia. ... Elisabetta Brusa (born 1954) is an Italian composer. ... Jean Chatillon Jean Chatillon (born 1937) is a Canadian composer. ... Joseph Dillon Ford at his home, Gainesville, Florida, 20 November 2003 Joseph Dillon Ford (b. ... Composer John Graham rehearsing one of his works. ... Born in Sydney, Australia in 1959, Anthony Linden Jones is a composer, conductor and performer living in the Hawkesbury region, on the north west fringe of Sydney. ... Michael Mauldin was the founder of the Lycos Web Search Engine company. ... Warren Park is a town located in Marion County, Indiana. ... Setrak Setrakian, Composer and Pianist, former Director of Ganatchian college of Music/ Lebanon, Professor of Piano, Harmony and Composition. ... David Warin Solomons David Warin Solomons is a British singer (countertenor) and composer, born in 1953. ... Henry Stevens (August 24, 1819 - February 28, 1886), American bibliographer, was born in Barnet, Vermont. ... Roman Turovsky-Savchuk Roman Turovsky-Savchuk is a painter and lutenist-composer. ...

1. Mutual respect for all members, regardless of differing musical backgrounds, interests, tastes, opinions, and levels of skill.

2. The creation, performance, study, and worldwide dissemination of new tonal art music in various forms and styles.

3. Collaborative support of artists working in other media who revisit and revalidate the great pre-modernist traditions of their respective disciplines.

4. The free and amicable exchange of ideas and information about new tonal music.

5. Acknowledgement of outstanding contributions to tonal music through a noncompetitive awards program.

6. Publication of relevant articles, reviews, program notes, and other writings.

Composer members of the Delian Society contribute new tonal music to the annual Delian Suite, a collaborative work created every May during the Delian Games and published online. They also are responsible for the world's first virtual new music festival, Nu Mu(sic!) Unlimited (31 October 2006), in which tonal composers and their non-tonal counterparts exchange roles. Those members who demonstrate outstanding support for the work of the Society are honored each year by election to the Order of the Cynthian Palm.

The Delian Society advocates freedom of musical expression, and although some of its members have expressed opposition to non-tonal music, others compose both tonal and non-tonal works. The Delian Society represents a movement away from twentieth-century modernism, whose advocates sought to break with the past and focus on novel, generally non-tonal forms of musical expression. As such, the aesthetic orientation of Delian composers, to the extent that they collectively embrace tonality as a means of ensuring intelligible musical communication, reflects the historicism evident in other art forms of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

External link

• Official site

The official site link above provides details of all of the composers who are currently members of the Delian Society and links to other relevant web pages of interest.