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With the remarkable Mozart 250th anniversary yeardrawing to a close, two new Mozart tributes join thecelebrations this month: John Tavener’s new oboeconcerto Kaleidoscopes (A Tribute to Mozart) and RolfWallin’s percussion concerto Das was schön!
Das was schön! explores Mozart’s fascination with theinfinite possibilities of sound production. “…All this inventing,” pennedMozart in his diary, “this producing, takes place in a pleasing, livelydream…I simply follow my feelings…” The concerto takes its name fromthe story of Mozart’s reaction when he heard his pet bird singing the finaleof his Piano Concerto No. 17. Das was schön! premieres on the 17th withthe Vienna Radio Symphony, featuring percussionist Martin Grubinger.John Axelrod conducts the work — a co-commission with the OsloPhilharmonic, which presents the Norwegian premiere on 21 February2007.
“I have always regarded Mozart,” Tavener shares, “as the most sacred andalso the most inexplicable of all composers. Sacred, because more than anyother composer that I know, he celebrates the act of Being; inexplicable,because the music contains a rapturous beauty and a childlike wonder…in
Kaleidoscopes, I attempted to pluck Mozart’s music from out of the harmony of the spheres, and tomeditate on it…” Kaleidoscopes, written for oboe and four distinct string quartets that surround thesoloist, premieres on the 6th with the Britten Sinfonia, and Nicholas Daniel as soloist and director.
250 Years and CountingJohn Tavener
Kaleidoscopes 30'Oboe; perc, 18 str
Rolf WallinDas war schön! 20'
Percussion; orchestra
“Among living composers, John Corigliano is a superstar. Huge. The proverbial mack-daddy…And hismasterpiece, Circus Maximus, is spectacular…witness the future of music.” Hyperbole? Or truth inadvertising? Dallas Wind Symphony audiences will judge for themselves on 14 November as JerryJunkin conducts. The ensemble brings it to theMidwest Clinic in Chicago on 20 December.
Circus Maximus (Symphony No. 3 for LargeWind Ensemble) — Corigliano’sgroundbreaking first work for concert band —premiered in 2005 with Junkin and theUniversity of Texas at Austin Wind Ensemble.Corigliano composed his band opus as adramatic and engulfing experience, a “wildride…people standing to cheer”(musicweb.uk.net). “I searched for its shape,”he explains, “with the desire to create a ‘spatial’ piece in which the performers would surround theaudience.” The work takes its name from the famed ancient Roman arena and the spectacles offered tocrowds with appetites for larger-than-life amusement. “Entertainment dominates our reality and theparallels between the decadence of the coliseums and our present time are obvious.”
“Circus Maximus” Mack-Daddy
Timothy Salzman’s AComposer’s Insight: Thoughts,Analysis and Commentary onContemporary Masterpieces
for Wind Band (Volume III,Meredith Music Publications)contains a chapter on Circus
Maximus. Corigliano’s work isanalyzed by contributor
Christopher Koch, who — withthe composer — examines indepth the various influencesand novel spatial techniques
found in this distinctive concert work.
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Rudolf Steiner: early20th-century Austrianphilosopher, literaryscholar, educator, andsocial thinker. Founderof Anthroposophy — amovement that marriesspiritual thought andawareness with humandevelopment. Throughextensive lectures andaccompanyingillustrative drawings,
Steiner’s innovative teachings touched many areas ofthought — economics, religion, science, medicine,and the arts. His drawings (sketched on papercovering a lecturer’s blackboard) are consideredhighly singular art, and are housed at the RudolphSteiner Archives in Dornach, Switzerland. It is here— in Dornach — where Augusta Read Thomaswill be for the 28 Novemberpremiere of her new trio TheSoul is Light.
“Rudolf Steiner’s blackboard drawings are a hugeinspiration to me,” Thomas explains. Commissionedby the Steiner Archives, The Soul is Light takes itsname from Steiner’s drawing of the same title. “Fromout of a timeless universe within a blackbackground,” Thomas reflects, “Steiner’s beautifulwork with its colorful, vivid lines (which look andfeel as if they are still in motion by the hand thatdrew them) remind us of a spiritual world. Someobjects are close, others timelessly far away. Shapesare improvisatory, yet concrete....This trio lasts just abrief time during which materials evolve, transformand shift from calm to bold, ritualistic to elegant,and majestic to playful.”
Prior to the Dornach premiere, Thomas travels toGermany to attend lectures and portrait concerts asshe serves a brief composer residency at theMusikseminars Hamburg. Thomas’s next worldpremiere takes place on 18 January 2007, as pianistLang Lang presents Traces, at the Montalvo ArtsCenter in Saratoga, CA.
Blackboard Drawings
The Soul is Light 8'Violin, oboe, harp
W.A. Mozart, 1777, by anunknown painter for thePadre Martini Collection
It may be that when theangels go about their taskpraising God, they playonly Bach. I am sure,however, that when theyare together en famillethey play Mozart
— Karl Barth
Rudolf Steiner, 1889
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“I want you to continue along yourmistaken path.” Dmitri Shostakovichgave this advice to a young SofiaGubaidulina upon her graduationfrom the Moscow Conservatory. Eventhen, Gubaidulina’s music exhibiteditself as original, exploratory,
forceful, and spiritual. “I’ll never forgetthose encouraging words,” she recalled.“Shostakovich encouraged me to bemyself, no matter what everybody elsesaid, and I am very grateful for that.”Gubaidulina indeed followed her pathto become one of the most distinctivepost-Soviet voices in contemporarymusic; and, her journey continues thismonth as she embarks on a NorthAmerican tour.
Gubaidulinabegins inToronto for a75th birthdayfestival hostedby the TorontoSymphony,SoundstreamsCanada, theEsprit Orchestra, and New MusicConcerts. From 21 to 27 November,she will attend numerous performanceswhich include the Canadian premieresof Now Always Snow sung by the Berlin-based RIAS Chamber Choir,
and the Toronto Symphony’s concertsof The Rider on the White Horse.
On 1 December, Gubaidulina goes toPittsburgh, where Andrew Davisconducts the Pittsburgh Symphony intheir performances of Feast During aPlague, a co-commission with thePhiladelphia Orchestra. Pittsburghimmediately brings the work toCarnegie Hall for the 5 December NewYork premiere. The following day,
Gubaidulina joins moderatorAra Guzelimian for a portraitevening at Zankel Hall. TheMaking Music 2006chamber concert includes theUS premieres of Mirage: TheDancing Sun and On theEdge of the Abyss.
Gubaidulina starts her New Year inLondon at the Barbican’s annualcomposer weekend which includesperformances of Feast During a Plague(UK premiere), Pro et Contra, and TheLight of the End.
[a] lively, soft-spoken womanwith warm and piercing eyes...known for a uniquely personaland uncompromising vision....[Her] music has the power tomove and transform the humanspirit.”
The Christian Science Monitor
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“I was simply shocked at the maturity and depth which is contained inLera Auerbach’s works. It is unbelievable! Truly a great talent!” SofiaGubaidulina enthuses these admirable words about her fellow Russiancomposer — an impressive, young voice on the American andinternational music scene.
At age 33, Auerbach is a culturaltriple-threat — an accomplishedcomposer, pianist, and poet.Described as a passionate andversatile musician, Auerbach has acompositional voice that iscommunicative, imaginative, andengaging. Often called neo-Romantic (with a 21st-centurysensibility) and polystylistic (à laAlfred Schnittke), her music drawsboth performer and listener into hersound world.
Born in Chelyabinsk (a city near Siberia), Auerbach began pianostudies at an early age, and, at 12, she composed her first opera whichtoured throughout the former Soviet Union. In 1991, Auerbach wasinvited to perform in the US, during which time she became one of
the last Soviet artists to defectand remain in America.Auerbach receivedundergraduate and master’sdegrees from the JuilliardSchool, where she studied pianoand composition. Her teachersincluded Einar Steen-Nokleberg, Joseph Kalichstein,Nina Svetlanova, and MiltonBabbitt and Robert Beaser incomposition. She also studiedliterature and poetry atColumbia University, as
evidenced by her integral and intimate text-setting sensibilities. Withover 50 works in her growing catalogue, Auerbach’s music is publishedby Sikorski Music Publishers in Hamburg, Germany (www.sikorski.de).
This month, Auerbach’s Symphony No. 1 receives its world premiere bythe Düsseldorf Symphony, conducted by John Fiore. Here in the US,the Louisiana Philharmonic showcases her Violin Concerto No. 1 withsoloist Philippe Quint (for whom the work was written), and theTokyo String Quartet performs String Quartet No. 2, “Primera luz” inNew York. Next month, the SWR Radio Symphony OrchestraStuttgart (led by Andrey Boreyko) offers the world premiere of herDouble Concerto for Violin, Piano and Orchestra, with soloists VadimGluzman and Angela Yoffe.
Introducing Lera Auerbach
Lera Auerbach is one of themost gifted artists I ever met.Her strong talent which is evi-dent in so many fields — per-forming, composing, writing— is nurtured by a deeprespect towards the past, butstill allows her creations toremain sincere and personal,while being innovative andadventurous.
— Gidon Kremer
Auerbach is also a writer noted for her poetry (“1996 Poet of theYear” by the International Pushkin Society), prose, novels, andnumerous contributions to Russian-language newspapers and jour-nals. She is among the first recipients of the Paul and Daisy SorosFellowship for New Americans (1998).
“Lera Auerbach Plays Her Preludes and Dreams” BIS CD 1462
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“Ten years ago, when the Metropolitan Opera approached me withthis commission, I began to think about the best way to revitalizethe opera tradition and to expand it so that it’s relevant to youngpeople around the world. I knew that I must find a unique subject,a challenging format, and a new conceptual language to bridge thevisual and musical aspects in more innovative ways than traditionalopera had previously done.” *
With that, Tan Dun harkens back to the brainstorming sessionsbehind his new opera The First Emperor, which premieres nextmonth at The Met. The work features an English libretto by thecomposer and novelist Ha Jin. Award-winning filmmaker ZhangYimou directs and Tan Dun conducts. Tenor Plácido Domingooriginates the title role of an emperor widely recognized for unifyingChina and building The Great Wall.
Tan continues, “The story of The First Emperor is very familiar inChina. It is a very human and tragic story. He was the first man tounify China and the Chinese language. But in doing so, he killed somany people and destroyed their culture and language. I thought itwould be interesting to try to discover musically the process throughwhich the Emperor attempted to find the soul of the people whileestablishing the nation. The soul did not yet exist — it was empty.The opera examines the Emperor’s search for his own voice as wellas the spirit of the nation.
“Thirty years ago, I was a Peking Opera musician, and since thattime, I have also developed a great love of Western opera. Both arevery dramatic and colorful, yet each is unique in its different artform. In this work, I wanted to continue the Western traditionwhile heightening the Eastern one. I wanted it to be melodic butchallenging, romantic yet theatrical. I felt that it would beartistically provocative and fulfilling to link them together — out oftwo distinct forms — and create one different and new operalanguage. I’m looking forward to seeing how the audience reacts tothis new vocabulary. The First Emperor will speak to the generationof today and tomorrow.”
*Tan Dun, as told to Elena Park of The Metropolitan Opera3
To Challenge and be Challenged
Gunther Schuller, musical polymath, leaves notimbral stone unturned in his Chamber Symphony of1989. “I’m always fascinated by the infinite varietyand possibilities of colors and textures within anensemble,” he shares. “I enjoy searching for anddiscovering the particular, idiomatic characteristics ofa group of instruments. I’ve always been drawn tocolor and have a deep interest in translating it intomusic. Of course, the possibilities increase whenwriting for musicians ranging from flute to tuba, as opposed to a string quartet.”
Schuller’s Chamber Symphony translates color into a soft introduction, followed by a firstmovement featuring solo passages for many instruments, then returning to the opening
tone. In the second movement, the horn(Schuller’s own instrument) enjoys aprominent solo theme, which develops untilit is performed by the entire ensemble inunison. Schuller describes the thirdmovement as opening with a “lively, bouncyscherzo-like motion, which undergoes variousinstrumental and rhythmic transformations.”These changing color combinations runthrough most of the ensemble members.Then Schuller paints “an exact recapitulationof the first part of the movement. [It] issuddenly interrupted by slower broadlysustained chords, ending in a quiet cadence.The coda, returning to the bouncyscherzando motive, brings the piece to abrilliant and fortissimo close for the wholeensemble.”
Schuller’s inspirations come from a buffet ofsources — with jazz occupying a special
place. This work may not be jazz, but it has the energy and rhythmic urgency of a full-fledged jazz riff — complete with solos. And although the solos are written out for the
players — the virtuosity andintensity required of theplayers has all the hallmarks,it not the impetus, of a realjazz “out” solo.
(Re)View – Gunther SchullerChamber Symphony
Chamber Symphony (1989) 14' 1+pic.2(ca).2(bcl).2(cbn)/1111/hp/str
Premiere: Cleveland ChamberSymphony/Edwin London
16 April 1989; Shaker Heights, OH
In Three Movements: I. Calmo-animando-calmo
II. Arioso III. Vivo
Schuller’s Refrains (for 10 euphoniums, 12 tubas, and 2percussion players) premieres on 5 November by theTennessee Technological University Tuba Ensemble,conducted by Winston Morris. The group records thepiece for the Mark Recordings label to bereleased in time for their December/Januarytour to Chicago, Washington, DC, and NewYork City. Schuller just finished Volume I ofhis autobiography. The yet-to-be-namedtome, published by Oxford University Pressand scheduled to be released next year, isan expansive journey through his lifelonginvolvement in concert music and jazz, aswell as his passionate efforts in education,literature, music publishing, and audiophil-ia. Upcoming compositions include a com-mission for the Boston Symphony and hisFifth String Quartet.
Chamber Symphony. Copyright © 1989 byAssociated Music Publishers (BMI), New York,NY. International Copyright Secured. All Rights
Reserved. Used by permission.
2007 Tennessee Technological University Tuba/Euphonium Ensemble;courtesy: Music Department, Tennessee Technological University
Plácido Domingo and Tan DunPhoto: courtesy Parnassus Productions
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1 Virgil ThomsonThe Feast of Love premiered 1964
2 Henry CowellVariations for Orchestra premiered 1959
3 Dmitri ShostakovichSymphony No. 9 premiered 1945
4 Bright ShengString Quartet No. 3 premiered 1993
5 Samuel BarberAdagio for Strings premiered 1938
6 Augusta Read ThomasBrass Rush premiered 2004
7 Peter Maxwell DaviesPiano Concerto premiered 1997
9 John CoriglianoOboe Concerto premiered 1975
10 Stephen AlbertSymphony No. 2 premiered 1994
11 John CoriglianoVocalise premiered 1999
11 Augusta Read ThomasDancing Galaxy premiered 2004
12 Dmitri ShostakovichString Quartet No. 14 premiered 1973
13 Poul RudersSymphony No. 2 premiered 1997
14 Richard DanielpourAn American Requiem premiered 2001
15 John HarbisonMirabai Songs premiered 1983
16 Morton GouldPhilharmonic Waltzes premiered 1948
19 Elliott CarterSonata for flute, oboe, cello and harpischord premiered 1953
20 Roy HarrisSymphony No. 7 premiered 1952
21 John HarbisonThe Flight into Egypt premiered 1986
22 Gunther Schuller born 1925
23 Manuel de Falla born 1876
24 Alfred Schnittke born 1934
25 Walter PistonSymphony No. 6 premiered 1955
25 Virgil Thomson born 1896
26 John CoriglianoThe Red Violin (Chaconne for Violin and Orchestra) premiered 1997
28 Charles T. GriffesThe Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan premiered 1919
29 Anthony DavisAmistad premiered 1997
30 John CoriglianoSymphony No. 2 premiered 2000
30 John HarbisonNovember 19, 1828 premiered 1989
Anniversaries This month, mezzo-sopranoDenyce Graves again channels Margaret Garner— the title role written forher by Richard Danielpourin his acclaimed first opera— as she joins JohnDeMain and the MadisonSymphony in concert performances of the“Triptych from MargaretGarner.”
Schuller (AMP) Refrains ���Tennessee Tech TubaEnsemble/Winston MorrisCookeville, TN
Kirchner (AMP) For the Left HandGary Graffman, pianoNew York City
Auerbach (SIK) Primera Luz, Quartet No. 2Tokyo String QuartetPurchase, NY
Kapilow (GS) Dr. Seuss’s GertrudeMcFuzz Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggsand HamKansas CitySymphony/Gupton
Tan Dun (GS) Crouching Tiger ConcertoPro Arte ChamberOrchestra/Stanley DerushaIndianapolis, IN
Corigliano (GS) The Red Violin: ChaconneUniversity CitySymphony/Leon BurkeSt Louis, MO
Hovhaness (AMP) Mysterious MountainPrinceton SymphonyPrinceton, NJ
Babbitt (AMP) All SetBoston Conservatory ofMusic/Eric Hewitt
Barber (GS) Concerto for ViolinKnoxville, Summer of 1915Mary PetroChappaqua Orchestra/Michael Shapiro
Dorman (GS) Azerbaijani DanceConcerto in AJuilliard School
Tower (AMP) Made in America Youth Symphony ofKansas City
Weill (GS) Down in the ValleyUniversity of Texas PanAmericaEdinburg, TX
G. Schirmer Selected
Tchaikovsky / Ellingtonand Strayhorn / Tyzik(TPO) The Nutcracker SuiteBochumer Symphony/Steven SloaneGermany
Tower (AMP) For the UncommonWomanTurok (GS) A Joplin OvertureMadison Symphony
Barber (GS) Medea’s Dance ofVengeanceShostakovich (GSR) Festive OvertureSymphony No. 6Oklahoma CityUniversity/Mark Parker
Shostakovich (GSR) String Quartet No. 15Calder QuartetNew York City
Tower (AMP) Made in America Charlotte SymphonyPort Charlotte, FL
Tower (AMP) Made in America Louisville Youth Orchestra
Villa-Lobos (AMP) Concerto for HarmonicaRiverside CountyPhilharmonic/Patrick Flynn
Brubeck (MAL) ElementalsTexas State University/Howard HudiburgSan Marcos, TX
Kernis (AMP) The Four Seasons ofFuturist Cuisine(November 13, 14)SOLI ensembleSan Antonio, TX
Thorne (MG) Adagio Music for BandEastman Wind Orchestra/Mark ScatterdayRochester, NY
Adams (AMP) HarmonielehreMannes College ofMusic/David HayesNew York City
Corigliano (GS) Circus MaximusDallas Wind Symphony/Jerry Junkin
Antheil (GS) Ballet mécaniqueWichita State University
Barber (GS) Symphony No. 1Northern IllinoisUniversity/Brett Mitchell
Schuller (AMP) Grand Concerto forPercussion andKeyboardsCleveland Institute ofMusic/Paul Yancich
Shostakovich (GSR) October, Op. 131University of MichiganSchool of Music/Anthony Elliot
Wyner (AMP) A Mad Tea Party (fromAlice's AdventuresUnderground)Mirror ImagesMerkin Concert HallNew York City
Adams (AMP) Grand Pianola MusicShepherd School ofMusic/Karl Blench
Falla (CH) The Three-Cornered HatUniversity ofMassachusetts Amherst/Lanfranco Marcelletti
Tower (AMP) Noon DanceUniversity of SouthernCalifornia
Rudolf Steiner Archive Thomas (GS) The Soul is Light ���Virginia Shaw, oboeVerena Giovanazzi, violinStephanie Meitzner, harpSix Piano EtudesKazuhiko Yoshida, pianoDornach, Switzerland
Corigliano (GS) DodecaphoniaMarvelous InventionCherry Duke, soprano;Cynthia Peterson, pianoLehman CollegeNew York City
New Crowned Hope FestSaariaho (CH) La Passion de Simone���Klangforum Wien; ArnoldSchoenberg Chor/SusannaMälkki; Vienna, Austria
Tavener (CH) A Little Child Shall LeadThem ���Choir of King's CollegeCambridge/StephenCleobury; United Kingdom
Gubaidulina (GSR) De ProfundisSeven Last WordsEsprit Orchestra/Alex PaukHell und DunkelWilliam O'Meara, organIn ErwartungToronto New MusicProjects/Gregory OhToronto, ON, Canada
Gubaidulina (GSR) Hommage à T.S. EliotIn CroceNew Music ConcertsSilenzioThe Garden of Joy andSorrowGlenn Gould StudioToronto, ON, Canada
Kirchner (AMP) String Quartet No. 4Orion String QuartetPittsburgh, PA
Sheng (GS) China Dreams(November 27 - 29)Dortmund Philharmonic/Bright ShengGermany
Tavener (CH) Kaleidoscopes ���Nicholas Daniel, oboeBritten Sinfonia/Nicholas DanielLondon
Harbison (AMP) Concerto for OboeOhio University/Steven Huang
Husa (AMP) String Quartet No. 4,North Carolina Symphony
Tanaka (CH) Techno EtudesJay Gottlieb, pianoSan Francisco, CA
On TourTower (AMP) DNATalujon PercussionQuintetSacramento, CA
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Lang (RP) Men ��Maverick EnsembleChicago, IL
Antheil (GS) Fighting the WavesLang (RP) Mary Stuart ChorusesThomson (GS) Seven ChorusesCantori New York/Mark Shapiro
Lang (RP) World to ComeTalbot (CH) Motion DetectorTan Dun (GS) FeigeMaya Beiser, celloEmory UniversityMeltzer (GS)RumorsSequitur, New York CityTower (AMP) Made in AmericaGulf Coast Symphony
Adams (AMP) Shaker Loops(November 8 - 26)Cullberg BalletNorsborg, Sweden
Ali-Zade (GSR) Music for PianoTatjana Rankovich, pianoGreenwich HouseNew York City
Hovhaness (AMP) Mysterious MountainCase Western ReserveUniversity
Shostakovich (GSR) Cello Concerto No. 2Montreal Symphony/Jacques Laconbe
Tan Dun (GS) Circle with Four Trios,Conductor and AudienceNDR SymphonyHamburg, Germany
Koppel (WH) Concerto for Saxophone,Piano and Orchestra ���Danish National Symphony/John StorgårdsDenmark
Pape (WH) Suburban Nightmares���Odense SymphonyDenmark
Thomas (GS) Ring Flourish Blaze
Corigliano (GS) Violin ConcertoLahti SymphonyOrchestra/Osmo VänskäFinland
Rodríguez (GS) Decem PerfectumSeven Deadly SinsVolans (CH) L’isle joyeuse (Debussy)New EnglandConservatory/Charles Peltz
Auerbach (SIK) Violin Concerto No. 1Louisiana Philharmonic/Carlos Miguel Prieto
Kancheli (GSR) Night PrayersMarymount ManhattanCollege
Schnittke (GSR) Moz-Art à la HaydnSan Diego ChamberOrchestra/Jung Ho Pak
Kirchner (AMP) Piano Sonata ���Joel Fan, pianoLongy School of Music
Górecki (CH) Harpsichord ConcertoStamford Symphony/Eckart Preu
Kapilow (GS) Dr. Seuss’s GertrudeMcFuzzSyracuse Symphony/William Henry Curry
Sheng (GS) La’iUniversity of Louisville/Frederick Speck
Tan Dun (GS) Crouching Tiger ConcertoPro Musica ChamberOrchestra/TimothyRussell
Tower (AMP) Made in AmericaSanta Barbara Symhony/Nir Kabaretti
Harbison (AMP) Darkbloom: Overture foran Imagined OperaRemembering GatsbyThree City BlocksSyracuse UniversitySyracuse, NY
Danielpour (AMP) A Child's Reliquary���Jaime Laredo, violin;Sharon Robinson, celloPacific Symphony/Carl St. Clair
Wallin (CH) Das war schön! ���Martin Grubinger, percussionVienna Radio Symphony/John Axelrod
Corigliano (GS) Promenade OvertureRostov RegionalPhilharmonia/PiotrGribanov; Russia
Lutoslawski (CH) Concerto for OrchestraChicago Symphony/Paavo Järvi
Mingus (MG) RevelationsAmerican ComposersOrchestra/Steven Sloane
Koppel (WH) Marimba Concerto No. 4���MusikvereinVienna, Austria
Chávez (GS) Sinfonía de AntígonaAmerican SymphonyOrchestra/Leon Botstein
Danielpour (AMP) Toward the Splendid CityAmarillo Symphony/Byung-Hyun Rhee
Lang (RP) World to ComeTalbot (CH) Motion DetectorTan Dun (GS) FeigeMaya Beiser, celloSeattle, WA
Frank (GS)Sonata AndinaLura Johnson-Lee, pianoBaltimore, MD
O'Regan (NOV) Lamentation ���Helsinki Male Voice Choir/Matti Hyökki; London
Thomas (GS) Ring Out Wild Bells, to theWild Sky ��University of Surrey/Russell Keable; London
Kernis (AMP) Musica CelestisCharlotte Symphony/Alan Yamamoto
Barber (GS) Cello ConcertoMatt Haimovitz, celloLas Vegas Philharmonic/David Itkin
Hamlisch (GS) Zin! Zin! Zin! A ViolinDetroit Symphony/Thomas Wilkins
Yanov-Yanovsky (GSR) Lux AeternaSan Francisco Conservatory/Nicole Paiement
Glass (DUN) Concerto Fantasy for TwoTimpanists and Orchestra��Orchestre National deFrance/James Conlon
Gubaidulina (GSR) The Rider on the WhiteHorse ��Toronto Symphony/Gianandrea Noseda
Kernis (AMP) Musica CelestisIsrael Sinfonietta/Stephen Gunzenhauser
Shostakovich arr.Barshai (GSR) Chamber Symphony, Op. 110aManitoba ChamberOrchestra/Anne Manson
Danielpour (AMP) Adagietto ��Barber (GS) Violin ConcertoMoravian Philharmonic/André Raphel SmithOlomouc, Czech Republic
Talbot (CH) Trumpet Concerto ��(November 23, 24)Alison Balsam, trumpetTurku PhilharmonicTurku
Gubaidulina (GSR) Now Always Snow ��(November 24, 26)RIAS ChamberChoir/James WoodToronto, ON, Canada
Henze (CH) L' Upupa und der Triumphder Sohnesliebe ��Orchestra of the TeatroCarlo Felice/Julia JonesGenova, Italy
Sallinen (NOV) Ratsumies ��Savonlinna Opera/Ari RasilainenMoscow, Russia
Corigliano (GS) Symphony No. 1Royal ConservatoryOrchestra/Bramwell ToveyToronto, ON, Canada
Harbison (AMP) Concerto for Bass ViolLos AngelesPhilharmonic
Stravinsky (CH) Les NocesUniversity ofToronto/Doreen RaoToronto, ON, Canada
Composer-in-ResidenceThomas (GS) Basho SettingsCornelia Bitzner, sopranoMatthias Boelts, piano Bells Ring SummerSpring SongWolfgang Sellner, celloLove SongsKammerchor desMusikseminarsSix Piano EtudesAlan Newcombe, pianoHamburg, Germany
Performances November ’06
Thomas (GS) Ritual IncantationsShakin'Louisville Orchestra/Stuart ChafetzBloomington, IN
Thomas (GS) Silver Chants the LitaniesUniversity of Louisville
Tower (AMP) Made In AmericaOakland East BaySymphony/Michael Morgan
On TourGuarnieri (AMP) Abertura Concertante(November 1 - 16)Sao Paulo StateSymphony/John NeschlingNew York City
Thomson (GS) Piano Etudes(November 1 - 5)American Ballet TheatreNew York City
Adams (AMP) Grand Pianola MusicLang (RP) The Anvil Chorus Volans (CH) White Man Sleeps(November 2 - 12)Pacific Northwest Ballet
Corigliano (GS) Concerto for ViolinAlexander Souptel, violinSingapore Symphony/Lim Yau
Dorman (GS) Sonata for ViolinChamber Music Societyof Lincoln Center
Harbison (AMP) Concerto for Bass ViolJordan Anderson, bassSeattle Symphony/Lawrence RenesSchoenberg (GS) Concerto for ViolinChristian Tetzlaff, violinBoston Symphony/Levine
Frank (GS) El Dia de los Muertos(chamber version)���Santa Clara University
Carter (AMP) The Harmony of MorningWyner (AMP) PassageVassar College
Lindberg (CH) Related RocksNew World Symphony/
Danielpour (AMP) Triptych from MargaretGarnerDenyce Graves, mezzoMadison Symphony/John DeMain
Concert WorkshopO’Regan (NOV) Heart of DarknessAmerican Opera ProjectsBrooklyn, NY (Nov. 3)Princeton, NJ (Nov. 4)
Lorentzen (WH) Tivoli ���Odense SymphonyDenmark
Corigliano (GS) Circus MaximusUniversity of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign/James KeeneRantoul, IL
Glass (DUN) Concerto Fantasy for TwoTimpanists and OrchestraJonathan Haas and JohnEvans, timpaniNaples Philharmonic/Jorge Mester
Corigliano (GS) Symphony No. 1Yomiuri NipponSymphony Orchestra/Tatsuya ShimonoJapan
Nyman (CH) The Man Who MistookHis Wife for a HatTeatro Municipal De SaoPauloBrazil
Shostakovich (GSR) String Quartet No. 14Miró Quartet New York City
Tubin (NS) Symphony No. 11(November 29, 30)CincinnatiSymphony/Paavo Järvi
On 11 November, contem-porary music advocate Joel
Fan puts fingers to keyswhen he premieres Leon
Kirchner’s Piano Sonata atthe Longy School of Music
in Cambridge, MA.
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Hanspeter Kyburztouché 22'
...Kyburz’s newest creationdraws the listener into thedramatic narrative throughsheer force of vocal andinstrumental personality.
A tenor and soprano speak, sing and declaim fragmented lines, answeringand ending sentences or ordering the other to move on. The diversion isalmost unrelievedly dark, its episodes of anger, sarcasm and tensionalleviated by moments of serenity.
Kyburz’s musical language rarely flirts with tonality, but its powerfulsonorities are reminiscent of Alban Berg’s writing in terms of turbulentlyricism. The composer uses the orchestra as a brooding, clamorous beastthat can transform itself into a delicate creature.
..The artistic weather isn’t completely overcast. Flashes of humor can bediscerned...Kyburz’s command of vocal color and orchestral animation isso sure that touché intrigues even when, like the protagonists, its essenceis untouchable. Donald Rosenberg, Cleveland Plain Dealer
ReviewEnglish texts by Sabine Marienberg
Soprano, Tenor4(pic,afl).2+ca.3+bcl.2+cbn/4321/timp.4perc/
2hp.pf.cel/str (14.12.10.8.6) Laura Aikin, soprano; John Mark Ainsley, tenor
Cleveland Orchestra/Welser-MöstUS Premiere; 1 October 2006; Cleveland, OH
Malcolm ArnoldThe Three Musketeers 100'
...Arnold’s [music] — lively, tuneful, fast-paced or romantic — drives theaction and fits the bill with great success. And it is delightful….The ThreeMusketeers is an attractive stage spectacle...
David Dougill, Sunday Times (London)
...Malcolm Arnold was famous for his commitment to writing tunes evenwhen melody had gone out of vogue. In much the same way,choreographer David Nixon insists on creating family-friendly, full-lengthballets....In both men’s work, accessibility and communication are key, soit is apt that Arnold’s music is Nixon’s partner for Northern BalletTheatre’s The Three Musketeers…it is Arnold’s cinematic soundtrack thatmakes this ballet a sweeping drama…and the soaring themes, jazzy licksand folk inflections are played with relish…It’s all-around greatentertainment... Lyndsey Winship, The Telegraph (London)
photo: Merlin Hendy, courtesy: Northern Ballet Theatre
Hironao Takahasi, Jonathan Byrne Olliver and David PaulKierce in Northern Ballet Theatre’s The Three Musketeers
Tarik O’ReganThree Motets from Sequence for St. WulfstanMagnificat and Nunc Dimittis: Variations for ChoirTwo Upper-Voice SettingsDorchester CanticlesFour Mixed-Voice SettingsColimaçon
The composer Tarik O’Regan is a significant newBritish voice…His music communicates through thewell-explored channels of warm, chordal sonority, but,crucially, neglects neither rhythmic vitality norpolyphonic weave. Consequently, there’s a real rigor tohis music, and when it is performed with as muchcommitment as it is here, it is a transportingexperience...
William Whitehead, BBC Music Magazine
Tarik O’Regan won the vocal category at last year’s British Composer Awards and,listening to this disc of his choral music, one can hear why. In a largely tonal, or atleast modal language, he breathes new life in the motet idiom...
Matthew Rye, The Telegraph (London)
Rafal Jezierski, cello James McVinnie, organ
Adrian Spillett, percussionHelen Tunstall, harp
The Choir of Clare College,Cambridge/Brown
Collegium Records COLCD 130
“As we enter the 21st century, it’s frightening to think that all that happens in JosephConrad’s seminal novella, which heralded the 20th century, still goes on in theworld’s many hearts of darkness.” Composer Tarik O’Regan seizes upon thisunsettling feeling in his new project — a musical adaptation of Heart of Darkness.O’Regan creates his first opera with librettist Tom Phillips, the British painter,
collagist, and multi-media artist. On 3 and 4November, both artists will be on hand inBrooklyn, NY, and Princeton, NJ, for a pair ofdevelopmental workshops presented by AmericanOpera Projects (www.operaprojects.org).
“Tom and I,” O’Regan notes, “have worked onvarious projects before and he had long wanted to work on the story. My interest inHeart of Darkness was rekindled when Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now”(itself an adaptation of the Conrad story) was re-released in 2001, making mentionof an Orson Wells abridgement as a radio play from the 1930s. I became aware,while watching Coppola’s film, how the narrative is bound together by WalterMurch’s seminal sound design and editing. When re-reading the book, after thisepiphany, I discovered that Conrad wrote his own soundtrack into the novella(water, trees, drums, guns, steam engines, beatings, trampling, etc). It seemed anatural development to augment Conrad’s music with my own, while offering a newadaptation of this timeless and ever-timely tale for a modern-day audience.”
“Heart of Darkness”
The old savageries of colo-nialism are reappearing innew and terrible guises andthe moral void that Conraddescribes is clearly prevalenttoday. — Tarik O’Regan
Upcoming: On 4 March, the Yale Schola Cantorum andconductor Simon Carrington premiere The EcstasiesAbove, based on Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “Israfel.” Afterwards, the ensemblepresents the work at the American Choral Directors Association convention inMiami. O’Regan is also composing Stolen Voices, a 20-minute oratorio for theYoung People’s Chorus of New York. Written in collaboration with poet MelanieChallenger — editor of the soon-to-be-released volume Stolen Voices (a collec-tion of children’s diaries during times of war) — the work premieres on 21September 2007 and marks the International Day of Peace.
The Ecstasies Above 18'2S, 2A, 2T, 2B;
SATB chorus; str4tet
Reviewssmall orchestra
David Nixon, choreographerNorthern Ballet Theatre
Premiere; 23 September 2006; Bradford, England
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The Absolute CDThe latest in a series of samplers to promotethe Schirmer/AMP catalogue to the film,television, and advertising industries,“Absolute Masters” consists of 19 newlyrecorded orchestral tracks especially chosenfor their cinematic and evocative qualities.Samples include Adagio for Strings, Sabre
Dance, Peter and the Wolf, and works by Adams, Nyman, Revueltas,Shostakovich, Tavener, and others. To license both the music and the recordingin one easy step contact [email protected].
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GramophoneAmericanAwards
Bridge Records’ recent portrait disc ofPeter Lieberson is among thehonorees of the first annual WQXRGramophone American Awards. NewYork City-based radio station 96.3WQXR-FM partnered with the UKaudiophile journal The Gramophone tohonor the year’s best recordingachievements by American artists andin American repertoire.
Peter LiebersonRilke SongsLorraine Hunt Lieberson,mezzo-soprano; Peter Serkin, pianoHorn ConcertoWilliam Purvis, hornOdense Symphony/PalmaThe Six RealmsMichaela Fukacova, celloOdense Symphony/BrownBridge Records CD 9178 irresistibly
listenable disc
San Francisco Chronicle
George AntheilDreamsPiano Concerto No. 2Serenade No. 2Guy Livingston, pianoPhiladelphia Virtuosi ChamberOrchestra/SpaldingNew World Records CD 80647
New Recordings
Philip GlassOpeningAugusta Read ThomasSilhouettesNathaniel Bartlett, marimbaAlbany Troy SACD 855
Elvis CostelloThe Juliet LettersKerry-Anne Kutz, sopranoThe Abysse String QuartetX (Albany Troy) CD 541
John HarbisonBook of Hours and SeasonsNorth and South: Six Poems ofElizabeth BishopSix American PaintersThe Three Wise MenLorraine Hunt Lieberson andEmily Lodine, mezzo-sopranosChicago Chamber MusiciansNaxos CD 8.559188
Dmitri ShostakovichA Child’s Exercise BookThe Limpid StreamPiano Sonata No. 2Konstantin Scherbakov, pianoNaxos CD 8.570092
Hans Werner HenzeSebastian im TraumeRoyal ConcertgebouwOrchestra/JansonsRCO Live CD 5425008375304www.concertgebouworkest.nl
Joan TowerValentine TrillsNina Assimakopoulos, fluteCapstone Records (Albany Troy)CPS 8759
John HarbisonString Quartet No. 4Orion String QuartetKoch International ClassicsKIC CD 7598
Yehudi WynerMa TovuShiru Ladonai (Psalm 93)Meir Finkelstein, tenorBBC SingersNaxos CD 8.559445
Michael GordonThe Sad Park 30-45'
The program’s centerpiece, MichaelGordon’s The Sad Park, surrounds theelectronically manipulated voices ofchildren who witnessed the WorldTrade Center attack with stringtextures incorporating their speech
rhythms, and itemerges as athrenody for lostinnocence. Theexperience is
disorienting and heartbreaking…
Allan Ulrich, Financial Times
str4tet and recordingKronos Quartet
11 September 2006San Francisco, CA
Robert X. RodríguezLa Curandera 60'
An entertaining, family-friendly treat….Using an orchestra of just nine musicians,Rodríguez …has created an appealing, mariachi-infused score…
Kyle McMillan, The Denver Post
A revelation....Rodríguez’ inventive score andMary Medrick’s modern libretto highlight thetimelessness of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s originalstory while creatively updating the romantic talefor 21st-century sensibilities and adapting it toLatin American cultural paradigms.
Bob Bows, Variety
A mini-masterpiece that seems destined to be popular for years to come.
Wes Blomster, Boulder Daily Camera
Reviews
Soprano, Mezzo-soprano, Contralto,Tenor, Baritone, Bass
cl(asx), tpt, btbn, 2perc, acn, pf, vn, vcKatherine Myers, stage director
Opera Colorado/RodríguezWorld Premiere
13 May 2006; Denver, CO
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JohnCoriglianoThe Red Violin:Chaconne forViolin andOrchestra
Coriglianoeventually devised a whole violin concertofrom music he wrote for the 1998 film“The Red Violin,”but he first releasedthis Chaconne, adramatic andeffective updating ofthe baroque variation form.
Scott Cantrell, The Dallas Morning News
Chloë Hanslip, violinRoyal Philharmonic
Orchestra/SlatkinNaxos CD 8.559302
Opening bars of Leon Kirchner’s new Piano Sonata. World premiere: 11 November 2006.Joel Fan, piano. Pickman Concert Hall, Longy School of Music, Cambridge, MA.Copyright © 2006. Associated Music Publishers (BMI). New York, NY. InternationalCopyright Secured. All Rights Reserved. Used by permission.
ReviewsBright ShengLa’i
This spectacular album opens with a bang— several minutes of roaring, cacopho-nous horns and trombones, along withbashing percussion punctuations. BrightSheng calls it a “Love Song” (“a looselybased impression of La’i singing”) that heheard in the fields of Tibet, but [there are]
wild free-for-allsounds...I havemuch to learn aboutTibet.
Barry Kilpatrick, American Record Guide
University ofMichigan Symphonic
Band/HaithcockEquilibrium CD 75
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