Alejandro Rutty's outreach projects include:
The Hey, Mozart! project (2003-2019) with over 15 iterations in the Catskill region, New Mexico, Colombia, Saint Lucia, Greensboro and one pan-American version with participation of delegations from Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, Haiti, Saint Lucia. with Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, Chatter Ensemble, The Organization of American States, Fundación Batuta and other organizations.
Down Home, the Cantata; Jewish Life in the American South, integrating interviews and history into a cantata for voices and orchestra
I Did My Bit (2003), a project integrating interviews of World War II veterans made as music-soundscapes, integrated with WWII-related music and documents. (Hartwick College, Oneonta Middle School)
The Legacy Project (2000), integrating collaged interviews, songs and spoken word from and about people living with AIDS. Alejandro Rutty-Aids Community Services, Buffalo NY)
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Hey, Mozart! Greensboro. Alejandro Rutty Artistic Director, Evan Feldman, conductor, the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. 2018, 2019. The project includes a call for melodies in the Guilford County and surrounding areas for children in elementary school age. I led a team of student arrangers in arranging 23 of these melodies for orchestra. The GSO performed those arrangements in their educational concerts
The Hey, Mozart! Project Explained
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The Other Side of My Heart. CD recording. Lorena Guillén Tango Ensemble. Includes The Other Side of My Heart, A Future of Tango and arrangements (2017). This project involves research and interviews of Latina inmigrants, and turning those interviews into a song cycle. In partnership with Lorena Guillén and the Lorena Guillén Tango Ensemble
Interview with Alejandro Rutty about "The Other Side of My Heart.
Cristina Baccín, "Corazon Tanguero". KUNM, Albuquerque, 2017
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National Composition Project with the Saint Lucia School of Music, Saint Lucia, West Indies, 2015. The National Composition Project in the island of Saint Lucia was a year-long project following the "Hey, Mozat! procedures adapted to the reality, needs and infrastructure of Saint Lucia, made in conjunction with the Saint Lucia School of Music (link). The recording is available through the School website
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Hey, Mozart! Colombia. Alejandro Rutty, Artistic Director Fundación Batuta, National Youth Orchestra Program. Bogotá, Colombia, 2010. Project, concert and album
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Down Home, The Cantata; Jewish Life in the American South. With the Triangle Jewish Choral and the Jewish Heritage Foundation
The "Down Home
Project" at the JHFNC
Interview at WUNC "The State of Things"
Review, CNVC
Review, CNVC
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Hey, Mozart! of the Americas, (From the Barrio to the Concert Hall. Alejandro Rutty, Artistic Director. Organization of American States and partners in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, and Saint Lucia. 2010 . Project, concert and album
Revista "Sueños"
Mexico
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Hey Mozart! New Mexico 2009, Chatter Chamber Ensemble. Alejandro Rutty, Artistic Director. Hey Mozart New Mexico, 2009. Project, concert and album
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Hey Mozart! New Mexico 2008 Compact Disc, Chatter Chamber Ensemble. Alejandro Rutty, Artistic Director. Hey Mozart New Mexico, 2008. Project, concert and album
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Hey Mozart! New Mexico 2007. The Hey, Mozart! Orchestra. Alejandro Rutty, Artistic Director. Albuquerque, Hey Mozart New Mexico, 2007. Project, concert and album
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Hey Mozart !New Mexico The Hey, Mozart! Orchestra. Alejandro Rutty, Artistic Director. Hartwick College, Crisol Bufons Foundation, 2005. Project, concert and album
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During the years the project run in NM, concerts were held in Albuquerque, Las Cruces, Santa Fe, and other locations in the state, by the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, Chatter Ensemble, Las Cruces Symphony and Santa Fe sSymphony Orchestra
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Hey Mozart! Northeast. The Hey, Mozart! Orchestra. Alejandro Rutty, Artistic Director and Conductor. Hartwick College Child Composer Project, 2004. Hartwick College. Project, concert and album
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Hey Mozart 2. The Hey, Mozart! Orchestra. Alejandro Rutty, Artistic Director and Conductor. Hartwick College Child Composer Project, 2004. Hartwick College. Project, concert and album
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Hey Mozart The Hey, Mozart! Orchestra. Alejandro Rutty, Artistic Director and Conductor. Hartwick College Child Composer Project, 2003. Hartwick College. Project, concert and album
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I Did My Bit; Voices from World War II Veterans” Compact Disc, Alejandro Rutty, Artistic Director. Hartwick College. 2002. Project, concert and album
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“Legacy Project.” Compact Disc production, composition, and arrangement. AIDS awareness raising project combining music and memory. Buffalo: Alejandro Rutty, The Bambara-Lorde Institute, and AIDS Community Services, 2000. Project, concert and album
