Los Alamos Composer And Musical Director Ted Vives Earns Honorable Mention In Composition From American Prize

Ted Vives

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The American Prize has announced the 2024 winners in music composition competition for opera/theater/film/dance (professional division).

Local composer and musical director of the award-winning Los Alamos Community Winds Ted Vives received an Honorable Mention award for his musical “Scientific Method”. The musical tells the story of Claire Jennings, a physics professor who has built a device to measure quantum anomalies (link).

Unexpectedly, the device begins to function on its own, sending her back in time where she observes the similar struggles of scientists from underrepresented populations. One of these experimental runs goes very wrong when it actually transports Johannes Kepler to the present. All this causes Jennings to run afoul of her department head and puts her job and career (and the entire time line of science) in jeopardy. Will she figure out how to get Kepler back to his own time and save both herself and her career?

The American Prize National Nonprofit Competitions in the Performing Arts is the nation’s most comprehensive series of contests in the performing arts. The American Prize is unique in scope and structure, designed to recognize and reward the best performing artists, directors, ensembles and composers in the United States at professional, college/university, community and high school levels, based on submitted recordings.
Now in its 13th year, The American Prize is awarded annually in many areas of the performing arts. Thousands of artists from all 50 states have derived benefit from their participation in the contests of The American Prize, representing literally hundreds of communities and arts organizations across the nation.
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