“When one artist salutes another artist...it’s aboutexchanging things of beauty; each in his own artform.” So muses Michael Morgan, music director ofthe Sacramento Philharmonic, as the orchestracelebrates its tenth anniversary with the 14 October world premiere of AndréPrevin’s Night Thoughts. Commissioned as part of the orchestra’s California

Compositions initiative, NightThoughts is the first workpresented in a multi-year projectthat celebrates the state’s greatestachievers in the arts and otherfields. Previn’s work honorsSacramento native andinternationally known artistWayne Thiebaud. “I am verypleased by the idea that I ampart of a celebration of Mr.Thiebaud’s extraordinaryartistry,” Previn comments. “Heis certainly a major voice inAmerican contemporary paintingand I admire him boundlessly.”

Morgan continues, “MaestroPrevin is one of the great minds

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His new Violin Concerto may mix influencesranging from bluegrass to baroque, but AvnerDorman has created a new work that is all his own.

“Unlike a traditional concerto, in which thesoloist and the orchestra compete for prominencemainly as two separate entities, in this piece, eachmember of the orchestra aspires, so to speak, tobe a soloist,” says Dorman. The interplay amongthe instruments creates a sort of battle for domination, as “each member of theorchestra tries to pull the piece in a different stylistic direction. For example,the harpsichord may play a baroque figure, while the clarinet, trumpet anddouble basses create a jazzy jam session. Alternatively, the percussionist mightplay the salsa, while the solo violin plays a classical theme.”

From Bluegrass to Baroque Stewart Copeland JoinsThe Music Sales GroupA warm welcome torenowned percussionistand composer StewartCopeland, the latestcomposer to ink a dealwith the Music SalesGroup. Having leaped tointernational fame withthe award winninginnovative post-punkband The Police,Copeland moved beyondthe rock arena in the mid-80s when he returned tohis classical roots withcreative pursuits inconcert and film music.His numerous film scoresinclude Oliver Stone’sWall Street, the seminalscore for the GoldenGlobe-nominatedsoundtrack for FrancisFord Coppola’s RumbleFish, the score for Bruno Barreto’s Oscar nominated Four Days in Septemberand his Emmy nomination for the Showtime pilot and series Dead Like Me.His work in television is also evidenced by his contributions to The Equalizer,Babylon V, and most recently Desperate Housewives. The rise, subsequentsuccess and ultimate demise of The Police over an eight year period were allrecorded and kept as a video diary in 8mm film by Copeland, the band’sfounder. That diary became the film “Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out,”which premiered in January 2006 at the Sundance Film Festival and debutedon the Showtime network in August.

Copeland’s concert works include the ballets Lear for the San Francisco Ballet(choreographed by Victoria Morgan) and Prey for Ballet Oklahoma, severalorchestral works, including Arise Awake for chorus and orchestra for theBrighton Festival, and the operas Holy Blood and Crescent Moon for theCleveland Opera, Horse Opera for BBC Channel 4 and the chamber opera TheCask of Amontillado (after Edgar Allan Poe’s timeless tale). Copeland continuesto perform having made his percussion solo debut with the Seattle Symphonyin a concert with his own compositions, and tours with groups such as the

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Tan Dun’s The First Emperorpremieres on 21 December at theMetropolitan Opera. Here’s a quickglance at costume designer EmiWada’s collage rendering forsoprano Elizabeth Futral, whooriginates the role of Princess Yue-yang – the Emperor’s tragicdaughter who refuses to sacrificeher own happiness for the successof the new empire. Commissionedby the Metropolitan Opera, TheFirst Emperor features stage

direction byaward-winningfilm makerZhangYimou, as Tan Dun conducts.

To get an advance look at the complete story, order thenewly printed libretto of The First Emperor from yourmusic dealer or from MusicDispatch.com.

Michael GordonWhat to Wear 65'

What to Wear [has] dazzling, hard-hitting musicby Michael Gordon and words, staging, designand equally hard-hitting and dazzling zaniness byRichard Foreman... What to Wear is what operain America might have been like if the VirgilThomson/Gertrude Stein model in the ’30s hadbecome mainstream and kept evolving... So whatis What to Wear ? I’m doing my best not to tellyou, because this is music theatre for theunprepared, a theater that you discover while youlook, listen and wonder.

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of the music world today and it is an honor for the Philharmonic and forSacramento that he has written a piece for our orchestra to pay tribute to Mr.Thiebaud. While Night Thoughts has no direct connection to any Thiebaudpainting, it does take a variety of orchestral colors and puts them together inways ranging from lyrical to rhythmic and from quiet to full sounding. Whenone artist salutes another artist, it’s not necessarily about making a directconnection between the two artists’ works. Often it’s about exchanging thingsof beauty; each in his own art form.”

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Danny Elfman’s first majorwork for the concert hall,Serenada Schizophrana, isnow available on SonyClassical. John Mauceri,departing music director ofthe Hollywood BowlOrchestra, conducts theperformance on this super-audio recording (SACD).Earlier in the year, excerptsfrom Serenada Schizophranawere featured in the IMAXfilm “Deep Sea 3D,” narratedby Oscar-nominated starsJohnny Depp and Kate Winslet.

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Last June, Joan Tower and Nashville Symphony artistic advisor Leonard Slatkintipped their hats to audience members after Nashville’s “hard-hat” concertperformance of Made in America. The program was the orchestra’s tribute to thebuilders of their new Schermerhorn Symphony Center. The all-Tower concert wasrecorded for an upcoming Naxos CD. Tower returns to Nashville this month, as partof their new “American Encores” series, where they present her latest workChamber Dance.

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In 1975, Mario di Bonaventura – then-Director of Publications of G. Schirmer –heard Giya Kancheli’s Symphony No. 4 at aTrans-Caucasian festival in the former SovietUnion. Kancheli was not yet known in theWest, but di Bonaventura was so struck by the music, he offered the composerhis first Western commission. It resulted in the introspective Symphony No. 5,“In Memory of My Parents.”

Kancheli’s works often focus onthe themes of light, dark, nostalgia,grief, fear, solitude and memory;and is filled with simple, organicsounds and poignant silence.Michael Walsh of TIME notes, “InKancheli’s hands the sounds ofsilence are hauntingly eloquent.”But Symphony No. 5 introduces anew theme – imagery rooted inunpretentious glimpses of childrenand memories from the composer’sown life. Symphony No. 5 is aperhaps a philosophical explorationon naïveté and wonder of theworld, juxtaposed with anirrecoverable sense of whatKancheli calls “letting go... TheFifth is permeated with theravaged, almost ancient breath offate. In the central section it is as ifthe irretrievable is being mourned. Yes, the leitmotif of childhood breaks offafter it has hardly begun. And, not once is it heard completely. That’s just it,everything rests on this theme. That’s like childhood, isn’t it?”

Symphony No. 5 received its first performance inTbilisi in February 1978 by the Georgian StateSymphony, conducted by Djansug Kakhidze. Thework received its Western premiere that summer inItaly, as di Bonaventura conducted the work at the22nd Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds, with SamuelBarber, Luciano Berio and Gian Carlo Menotti inattendance. The US premiere took place on 5March 1982 at Boston University.

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Bright ShengComposer in ResidenceSaratoga Chamber Music Festival1 – 6 August 2006; Saratoga Springs, NY

Sheng’s String Quartet No. 3 is an effective work... Thecomposer is skilled at making the instruments play with amemorable sense of sadness, yet with rich tones that keepthe listener’s attention... Sheng has a commanding ability to combinetraditional sounds with Asian elements for a unique synthesis...

James Hennerty, The Albany Times Union

Bright Sheng’s The Phoenix gave a vivid musical depiction ofa classic fable, [and] featured a soprano singing the proselibretto with the orchestra...in Sheng’s work the vocal linecarries words through strange intervals and rhythms, pleasant,eerily lovely... [it was] complex but wonderfully powerfulcombination of voice and unique orchestration...

Judith White, The Saratogian

These chamber works show Sheng as a skilled andexpressive composer, who very effectively communicateswith his listeners... these scores leave a powerfulimpression on the audience, and combine Chinese andWestern music elements to expand their expressivevocabulary. The listeners at the concert were suitablyimpressed; Sheng seems to have struck the right chord.

James Hennerty, The Albany Times Union

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The PhoenixShana Blake Hill,

sopranoThe PhiladelphiaOrchestra/Dutoit

Four Movements for Piano Trio

Tibetan DanceChantal Juillet, violin;

Gautier Capuçon, cello;Ricardo Morales, clarinet;

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Bright Sheng (left)and conductorCharles Dutoit(right) take abreak backstageduring Sheng’sresidency at theSaratoga ChamberMusic Festival.

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In 1988, Giya Kancheli traveled to Boston, MA, and made his personal markin the US during the historic American-Soviet music festival “Making MusicTogether.” Since then, Kancheli’s music has been programmed throughoutNorth America. His commissioners include the San Francisco Symphony(Don’t Grieve, written for baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky), the New YorkPhilharmonic (And Farewell Goes Out Sighing... – a millennial commission)and Seattle’s Bridge Ensemble (Piano Quartet in L’istesso Tempo).Kancheli’s guest residencies include the Winnipeg New Music Festival andthe University of Colorado. His music has been featured at the BaltimoreSymphony (who presented the US premiere of ...Al Niente...), the ChamberMusic Society of Lincoln Center, Kansas City Symphony and in choreographed works at BalletMet (OH) and the Alberta Ballet.

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1 Charles IvesEmerson Overture (arr. David G. Porter) premiered 1998

1 Dmitri ShostakovichSymphony No. 12 premiered 1961

3 John CoriglianoCreations premiered 1984

4 Leon KirchnerToccata premiered 1956

6 William SchumanAmerican Festival Overture premiered 1939

7 Henry CowellSymphony No. 15 “Thesis” premiered 1961

9 Robert X. RodriguezIl Lamento di Tristano premiered 1997

9 Roberto Sierra born 1953

10 Paul Creston born 1906

11 Sergei ProkofievSymphony No. 6 premiered 1947

12 Philip GlassThe Voyage premiered 1998

14 Kaija Saariaho born 1952

15 Peter Maxwell DaviesThe Jacobite Rising premiered 1997

16 Leon KirchnerMusic for orchestra premiered 1969

17 Peter LiebersonFire premiered 1996

19 Morton GouldInventions for Four Pianos and Orchestrapremiered 1953

20 Charles Ives born 1874

21 Malcolm Arnold born 1921

22 John HarbisonThe Most Often Used Chords premiered 1993

23 Richard DanielpourCelestial Night premiered 1997

24 John HarbisonSongs America Loves to Singpremiered 2004

24 Sofia Gubaidulina born 1931

25 Peter Lieberson born 1946

26 Gunther SchullerPiano Concerto No. 1 premiered 1962

27 Heitor Villa-LobosConcerto for Harmonica premiered 1957

28 William Grant StillAfro-American Symphony premiered 1931

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Berkshire Theatre FestivalDorman (GS) Azerbaijani DanceMoments MusicauxPiano Sonata No. 1Eliran Avni, pianoStockbridge, MA

Tower (AMP) Purple RhapsodyVirginia Symphony

Joel (GS) Symphonic Fantasies Harrisburg Symphony

Corigliano (GS) The Red Violin: ChaconneAstana State Orchestra/Emily Freeman BrownDulles, VA

Lang (RP) World to Come ★★

Maya Beiser, celloGordon (RP) Yo ShakespeareIcebreakerLondon, England

Sallinen (NOV) Chamber Music VI ★★

Virtuosi di KuhmoHelsinki, Finland

Corigliano (GS) Fantasia on an OstinatoRed: An Orchestra/Jonathan ShefferCleveland, OH

Gordon (RP) GothamBritten Sinfonia/Stefan Asbury(October 8 - 11)London, England

Maxwell Davies (CH) Mavis in Las VegasLaredo Philharmonic/Brendan Townsen

Nyman (CH) L'Orgie ParisienneTavener (CH) Tears of the AngelsBBC Concert Orchestra/Charles HazlewoodLondon, England

Tonsättar Festival Henze (CH) Sebastian im Traum ★★

Royal StockholmPhilharmonic /Alan Gilbert

Saariaho (CH) PetalsSpins and SpellsZurich Ballet

Tyzik (EMI) Hot Soul MedleyDetroit Symphony/Jeff Tyzik

Salonen (CH) Five Images After SapphoUtah Symphony/Outwater

Stravinsky (GS)Concerto in E-flat —“Dumbarton Oaks”(October 12 - 17)New York Philharmonic/David Robertson

Tan Dun (GS)The MapNorwegian Academy ofMusic/Engeseth

Barry (EMI) The Best of BondDiamonds Are ForeverGoldfingerOn Her Majesty’s SecretService / A View to a KillYou Only Live TwiceNew Mexico Symphony/Michael Krajewski

Corigliano (GS) To MusicRochester Philharmonic/Christopher Seaman

Previn (GS) Night Thoughts ★★★

(October 14, 15)Sacramento Philhar-monic/Michael Morgan

Corigliano (GS) The Red Violin: ChaconneLas Vegas Philharmonic/David Commanday

Henze (CH) L’heure bleueSan FranciscoConservatory of Music

Joel (GS) Symphonic Fantasies Brevard Symphony/Christopher Confessor

Kernis (AMP) Musica CelestisNashua Symphony/Christopher Knapp

Tower (AMP) Made in America(October 14, 15)Santa Barbara Symphony

Gordon (RP) Yo Shakespeare Alarm Will Sound/Allan PiersonNew York City

Festival Cervantino Maxwell Davies (CH) Mavis in Las VegasPhilharmonia Orchestra/Peter Maxwell DaviesGuanajuato, Mexico

Dorman (GS) Violin Concerto ★★★

Jerusalem Symphony/Gisele Ben-Dor

Maxwell Davies (CH) Naxos Quartet No. 9 ★★★

Naxos Quartet No. 8Maggini QuartetLondon, England

Dorman (GS) Udacrep AkubradStratford-upon-AvonMusic Festival, UK

Gordon (RP) I Buried PaulWolfe (RP) The Vermeer RoomEastman School ofMusic/Brad Lubman

Husa (AMP) An American Te Deum University of Cincinnati/Rodney Winther

Saariaho (CH) NymphéaMETA4, New York City

Maxwell Davies (CH) Kettletoft Inn ★★★

Crossing Kings ReachNorthern Sinfonia/Gary WalkerGateshead, England

Corigliano (GS) Fern Hill Eastman School of Music

Corigliano (GS) The Mannheim Rocket Detroit Symphony/Kwame Ryan

Previn (GS) Honey and RueVocalise Oslo Philharmonic/André Previn

Schoenberg (WH) Serenade, Op. 24 California Institute of theArts/Mark Menzies

Tower (AMP) Chamber Dance Nashville Symphony/Anu Tali

Arnold (NOV) Burlesque ★★★

Royal PhilharmonicOrchestra/BarryWordsworthNorthampton, England

Corigliano (GS) Concerto for ViolinTampere Philharmonic/John Storgårds

Wyner (AMP) CommediaMacalester College

Kernis (AMP) Musica Celestis (October 20 - 26)Philadelphia Orchestra/Peter Oundjian

Previn (CH) Every Good Boy DeservesFavourBoston University

Thomson (GS) Piano EtudesAmerican Ballet TheatreNew York City

Dorman (GS) Variations Without aThemeBowling GreenPhilharmonia/Emily Freeman Brown

Lang (RP) World to ComeTalbot (CH) Motion DetectorTan Dun (GS) FeigeMaya Beiser, celloWashington, DC

Shchedrin (GSR) Carmen Suite (afterGeorges Bizet) Evansville Philharmonic

Tower (AMP) Made in America South Dakota Symphony

Wyner (AMP) All the Rage; Dances ofAtonement; On This MostVoluptuous Night; Psalm 143; Shir HashirimMacalester College

Dorman (GS) Udacrep AkubradPercussive Arts Society Birmingham, England

Glass (DUN) ItaipuLos Angeles MasterChorale/Grant Gershon

Wyner (AMP) Dances of AtonementOn This Most VoluptuousNightUniversity of Utah

Tower (AMP) In Memory★★

TinAlley String QuartetSydney, Australia

Bennett (NOV) Morning MusicNew EnglandConservatory of Music

Corigliano (GS) Three Hallucinations Knoxville Symphony/Lucas Richman

Tower (AMP) Made in America Baton Rouge Symphony/Timothy Muffitt

Corigliano (GS)Troubadours(October 27 - 29)Fort Worth Symphony/Alasdair Neale

Talbot (CH) Trumpet Concerto ★★★

Royal LiverpoolPhilharmonic OrchestraLiverpool, England

Thomas (GS) Toft Serenade ★★★

Rachel Barton Pine, violin; Matthew Hagle,pianoChicago, IL

Corigliano (GS) Clarinet ConcertoLouisiana Philharmonic

Gould (G&C) Tap Dance ConcertoHarrisburg Symphony

Rodríguez (GS) A Colorful SymphonyDayton Philharmonic

Thomas (GS) Shakin’Memphis Symphony

G. Schirmer Selected Performances October ’06

Frank (GS) IllapaUniversity of Wisconisin at Milwaukee/Margery Deutsch

Tower (AMP) Made in America(October 13, 15)Honolulu Symphony/Joann Falletta

McPhee (AMP) Concerto for Piano andWind OctetNew EnglandPhilharmonic/Richard Pittman

Tower (AMP) Violin Concerto USC ThorntonSymphony/Carl St. Clair

Guy (NOV) Celebration ★★

Lucerne, Switzerland

Shostakovich (GSR) Symphony No. 6Symphony No. 11Kirov Orchestra/Valery GergievNew York City

Harbison (AMP) Mirabia SongsColumbus StateUniversity Camerata

Shostakovich (GSR) Symphony No. 12Symphony No. 14Kirov Orchestra/Valery GergievNew York City

Arnold (NOV) Tam O'ShanterLondon PhilharmonicOrchestra/David Angus

Catán (AMP) Florencia en El AmazonasHeidelberg Opera/Zoam NurGermany

Wallin (CH) Stonewave Millikin UniversityPercussion Ensemble

Corigliano (GS) Gazebo Dances Promenade OvertureUniversity of MichiganSchool of Music/Kenneth Kiesler

Previn (GS) I Want MagicRenee Fleming, sopranoBaton Rouge Symphony/Timothy Muffitt

Tan Dun (GS) Secret LandFilharmonie HradecKralove/Petr VronskyCzech Republic

Bruun (WH) Letters to the Ocean ★★★

Breve til HavetSeattle Chamber PlayersSeattle, WA

Harbison (AMP) My Little Children, Let UsNot Love In Word ★

We Do Not Live To Ourselves ★

New York Virtuoso SingersNew York City

Kapilow (GS) Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggsand HamEastern Illinois University

Shostakovich (GSR) Symphony No. 8Symphony No. 13Kirov Orchestra/Valery GergievNew York City

Schoenberg (GS) Chamber Symphony No. 2Orchestra Graz/Heinrich SchiffGermany

Arnold (NOV) The Three Musketeers(October 4 - 7)Northern Ballet TheatreNorthampton, England

Prokofiev (GSR) Cinderella(October 4 - 15)Joffrey BalletChicago, IL

Harbison (AMP) Symphony No. 1New EnglandConservatory/Joseph Silverstein

Kernis (AMP) Too Hot ToccataBard ConservatoryOrchestra/Xian Zhang

Sallinen (NOV) Chamber Music VI ★★★

Debussy Quartet;Orchestre d'AuvergneParis, France

Schaathun (WH) Requies ★★★

Ensemble Court-CircuitOslo, Norway

Saariaho (CH) Tag des JahrsLes Jeunes SolistesDresden, Germany

Kyburz (B&H) touché ★

Cleveland Orchestra/Franz Welser-MöstNew York City

Kernis (AMP) Musica CelestisJacksonville Symphony/Fabio Mechetti

Stookey (AMP) Above the Thomas GateLee TrioNew York City

Armstrong (CH) Memory Takes My Hand★★★

Royal Scottish NationalOrchestra/Garry WalkerScotland

Abrahamsen (WH) Fire Stykker ★★

Teatro la FeniceVenice, Italy

Corigliano (GS) The Mannheim Rocket(October 6, 7)Indianapolis Symphony/Kwame Ryan

Gould (G&C) Fall River Legend(October 6 - 8)Nashville Ballet

Tower (AMP) Made in AmericaSouth Dakota Symphony

Barber (GS) Cello ConcertoSlovak Radio SymphonyOrchestra/DohnanyiBrataslava, Slovakia

Schnittke (GSR) Piano QuintetStephen Drury, piano;Jupiter String QuartetNew EnglandConservatory of Music1

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Ultima 2006 FestivalSchaathun (WH) Transcriptions of anUnknown Symphony★★★

EclogueCikada 2Oslo, Norway

Kyburz (B&H) touché ★★

Cleveland Orchestra/FranzWelser-MöstCleveland, OH

Tower (AMP) Made in AmericaGreater Grand ForksSymphony/James HannonGrand Forks, ND

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“Without doubt Malcolm Arnold wasone of the great British musical figuresof the 20th century, one of very few ofany nationality to make a genuine markworldwide as a composer of bothconcert and also film music. While notalways in vogue, in recent years Malcolmenjoyed a great flowering of interest inhis concert music. Many works are nowstandard on concert programs and, with

the passing of time, when there will be a true perspective on his lyrical, directlyemotional music, his position as the last of the hugely talented elder generationof mid-20th century British composers will no doubt be confirmed.”

— James Rushton, Managing Director

Chester Music Ltd. and Novello & Co.

percussion quartet Ensemble Bash, the progressive group Gizmo, and his 20-piece ensemble Orchestralli, which presents concert arrangements of hisoriginal scores.

On signing his new contract Copeland remarks, “I’m all puffed up, and yetvery humbled to join the company of Barber, Ives, and Ellington. With stable-mates like these, my nostrils are flaring and the music is rising!”

Barrie Edwards, President of Music Sales Corporation, comments: “Wewelcome the multi-talented Stewart Copeland to Schirmer/AMP, our newSchirmer Media division, and to the international companies of the Music SalesGroup. We’re very much looking forward to bringing his innovative operas,ballets, and concert music to audiences who may previously only have knownhim as a percussionist and film composer. As we work with him on newprojects in a wide variety of media we expect the energy of his music willresonate widely.”

Stewart Copelandcontinued from page 1

Arnold passed away a few weeks short of his 85th birthday (21 October),just prior to a major celebration of his life and music planned by the cityof his birth – Northampton, England. The Arnold Festival continues asplanned this month with a series of lectures, recitals and concerts,including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s world premiere of thecomposer’s recently discovered work, Burlesque (for horn and orchestra).

A story of two brothers: their father favors one and teststhe other. We speak of course of the timeless Biblicalstory of Cain and Abel, which is also the subject ofBent Lorentzen’s new chamber opera. Commissionedby the Royal Danish Theatre and featuring a libretto byLorentzen, Cain and Abel premiered on 5 Septemberwith famed Wagnerian tenor Stig Fogh Andersen in his directorial debut. FransRasmussen conducted. The opera, set in contemporary tableaux, ran for ten

performances and is the firstproduction written forTakkelloftet, the RoyalDanish Theatre’s newintimate hall. An Englishlibretto is forthcoming.

Next month, 30 Novemberbrings the OdenseSymphony’s premiere ofLorentzen’s new accordionconcerto Tivoli, performedby soloist Branco Djordevic.

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This year’s Edinburgh International Festival was thesetting for the world premiere of The Assassin Tree,Scottish composer Stuart MacRae’s first opera.Based on classic mythology, and featuring a librettoby Simon Armitage, the opera was co-commissionedby the Festival and the Royal Opera House, in a co-production with the Scottish Opera. The AssassinTree premiered in August and was co-directed byEmio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten. The Londonpremiere followed in September at the LinburyStudio of the Royal Opera House.

Stuart MacRae’s Assassin TreeWorld Premiere

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Van Hulle and ColinAinsworth, tenors, Paul

Whelan, baritoneThe Britten Sinfonia/Walker25 August 2006; Edinburgh

International Festival,Edinburgh, Scotland

...The Assassin Tree is barely 70 minutes long and economically scored for fourvoices and 15 instrumentalists. It is so multi-layered that you emerge feelingyou have had a full evening’s worth and more. That says something about theimaginative landscape that MacRae and his librettist, the poet Simon Armitage,have encapsulated within their crucible of ideas and sounds...

Andrew Clark, The Financial Times (London)

Review

LIBRETTIST’S NOTE

The story of The Assassin Tree is taken from the first section of JamesGeorge Frazer’s classic study in magic and religion, The Golden Bough.According to the legend, Diana’s sacred grove is stalked by a tragic andlonely king or priest. Anyone who murders the priest will inherit the role...

— Simon Armitage

Malcolm ArnoldIn Memoriam 1921 – 2006

Burlesque 6'Philip Lane, arr.

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ReviewJohn Tavener Schuon Lieder

...There is a hauntingly beautiful sound to thisdeeply spiritual music, conveying the composer’sconviction that music must have “a pure, piercing,and elemental beauty.” ...Rozario’s singing is stunning[and] exceptional. The playing of the SchubertEnsemble is clean and precise without soundingmechanical, and the Tibetan temple bowls add adepth of mysticism to the overall sound... ExploringTavener’s more recent expression of spiritualitythrough his music is reason enough to hear this. And the bravura performanceshould make this recording irresistible to Tavener fans and to anyone open tonew expressions of spirituality in music.

Robert A. Moore, American Record Guide

Patricia Rozario, sopranoGillian McDonaugh,

Tibetan temple bowlsSchubert Ensemble

Black Box BBM 1101

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Michael Hurd In Memoriam 19 December 1928 – 8 August 2006

From Bluegrass to Baroquecontinued from page 1

Violinist Ittai Shapira, who will premiere the work, adds, “Avner hasallowed himself to be influenced by all of these and more, while keeping hisown unique voice throughout the entire work. This concerto utilizes ourmutual interest in 20th century, baroque, bluegrass and middle easterngenres – all as technically demanding as they are charismatic.”

Dorman’s Violin Concerto,commissioned by the JerusalemSymphony, premieres on 18 Octoberin Jerusalem, Israel, with Shapira assoloist and Gisele Ben-Dor conducting.

Last month, Dorman’s song-cycle TheFear of Men (for baritone and piano),commissioned by the Goerlitz Festival,premiered on 15 September in theGerman-Polish twin city of Goerlitz-Zgorzelec. Looking ahead to March2007, the Nashville Symphony presentsthe US premiere of Dorman’sVariations Without a Theme, under thedirection of Asher Fisch. credit: Lawrence White

Ittai Shapira, violin

The National Endowment for the Arts recentlydrew up a list of 75 “American Masterpieces”of choral music, among them the following G.Schirmer/AMP works:

Samuel Barber

Agnus Dei 50313910 $1.70

(from Adagio for Strings, Op. 11)

Reincarnations (SATB a cappella)

No. 1: “Mary Hynes” 50301440 $1.70

No. 2: “Anthony O’Daly” 50301450 $1.70

No. 3: “The Coolin” 50301460 $1.70

Twelfth Night 50315300 $1.60

(SATB a cappella)

William Billings (SATB a cappella)

When Jesus Wept 50311160 $1.60

Harry T. Burleigh (SATB a cappella)

Deep River/Dig My Grave 50484754 $3.95

R. Nathaniel Dett (SATB a cappella)

Listen to the Lambs 50298960 $1.70

Stephen Foster (SATB a cappella)

Come Where My Love 50318790 $1.50

Lies Dreaming

Aaron Jay Kernis

Ecstatic Meditations (SATB a cappella)

No. 1: 50483504 $2.25

“Effortlessly Love Flows”

No. 2: 50483505 $2.25

“How the Soul Speaks to God”

No. 3: 50483506 $2.95

“I Cannot Dance, O Lord”

No. 4: 50483507 $2.25

“How God Answers the Soul”

“In Search of Hope,” No. 4 50485941 $1.70

from Garden of Light

Gian Carlo Menotti

Missa O Pulchritudo (SATB) 50335310 $8.95

The Shepherd’s Chorus 50308460 $1.75

from Amahl and the Night Visitors

William Schuman

Casey at the Bat 50235790 $20.00

(SATB and orchestra, vocal score)

Virgil Thomson

Seven Choruses from Medea (SSAA or SATBand opt perc) (arr. Daniel Pinkham)

Available from the GS Rental Library

American Choral Masterpieces

1st Prize: Octavo Sheet Music – single titlesKernisHome (from Garden of Light)SATB Chorus and Piano – 50485938 $1.70

1st Prize: Folio Chamber EnsembleTan DunElegy Snow in JuneCello and 4 Percussion – 50485894 $35.00

2nd Prize: Folio Chamber EnsembleCoriglianoSnapshot: Circa 1909String Quartet – 50485983 $16.95

2nd Prize: Folio Standard EditionKirchnerInterlude IIPiano – 50485965 $9.95

3rd Prize: Folio Solo with AccompanimentBach 3 Sonatas for Cello and KeyboardBWV 1027, 1028, 102950485851 $17.95

G. Schirmer/AMP’s production team came up winners at the 2006 Paul RevereAwards. Sponsored by the Music Publishers Association of America, the Paul RevereAwards are professional awards for graphic excellence that acknowledge superbengraving and design in the music industry. All five Schirmer/AMP entries for the2006 Awards were prize-winners. Each year, a publisher may submit fivepublications within twelve groups of four categories. The Paul Revere Awards havebeen presented since 1964; this is the first time each of the five Schirmer/AMPentries won an award.

Award Winners!

George AntheilSonata No. 2 for Violin and PianoHenry CowellSonata for Violin and PianoMiwako Abe, violin; MichaelKieran Harvey, pianoNew World Records CD 80641-2

New Recordings

David BakerKosbro (“Keep on Steppin’,Brothers”)Czech National Symphony/PaulFreemanAlbany Troy CD 843

The Malcolm Arnold EditionDecca RecordsVol. 1: The CompleteSymphoniesCD 289 4765337 0Vol. 2: 17 ConcertosCD 289 4765343 1Vol. 3: Orchestra, Brass andPiano Music CD 289 47653486

John Corigliano The Red Violin: Chaconne forViolin and OrchestraChloë Hanslip, violinRoyal PhilharmonicOrchestra/SlatkinNaxos CD 8559302

John CoriglianoChiaroscuro; Etude Fantasy;Fantasia on an Ostinato; Violin SonataCzech National Symphony/PaulFreemanAlbany Troy CD 843

Elliott Carter“A Labyrinth of Time”Frank Scheffer, directorJuxtapositions (Naxos) DVD9DS17

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Gabriela Lena Frank Ritmos Anchinos 15'

...Gabriela LenaFrank’s “RitmosAnchinos,”... evokedSouth Americansounds, using Westernand Asian instrumentslike the sheng andpipa. The virtuoso pipa player Wu Manstopped the show in Ms. Frank’s deftwriting for the instrument...

Vivien Schweitzer, New York Times

Review

World Premierestr4tet; pipa, sheng

Silk Road Ensemble16 September 2006;

Zankel Hall,Carnegie Hall,

New York

Excerpt from André Previn’s Night Thoughts. World premiere: 14 October2006. Sacramento Philharmonic, conducted by Michael Morgan. Sacramento,CA. Copyright © 2006 by G. Schirmer, Inc. (ASCAP). New York, NY.International Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved. Used by permission.

Augusta ReadThomasRitualIncantations

This album isboth a goodlisten and arepertoire find...RitualIncantations reallymade my earsperk up. Cast inthree movementslike a standard concerto, it’s beautifullycolored, rhythmically inventive, andattention-holding from first to last. Thesolo cello’s interplay with the orchestra is alike a beam of light pouring throughstained glass, and the work ends before youwant it to. Would as many classicalstandards had that effect!

Craig Smith, The Santa Fe New Mexican

Review

World Premiere recordingDavid Finckel, cello

Taipei Symphony/ChenArtistLed CD