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The Night of the Hunter Eleventh Anniversary of the Film Noir Series at NEC

A Ran Blake & Aaron Hartley Production

New England Conservatory Contemporary Improvisation Department

Hankus Netsky, chair Eden MacAdam-Somer, assistant-chair

Thursday, April 14, 2016 7:30 p.m.

NEC’s Jordan Hall

THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER Eleventh Anniversary of the Film Noir Series at NEC

Introduction Hankus Netsky, Chair of Contemporary Improvisation

Scene I: Hing, Hang, Hung (10:38)

Lily Honigberg, violin Pilar Zorro, violin Rafael Natan, oboe

Jesse Gardner, bassoon Rex Bennett, trombone

Eck Sierra, piano, composer Taichiro Ei, percussion

NEC CI American Roots Ensemble

Eden MacAdam-Somer, director

Scene II: Leaning (1:32)

NEC CI American Roots Ensemble Eden MacAdam-Somer, director

Scene III: The Story of Right Hand, Left Hand (6:45)

Rafael Natan, oboe Adam Tuch, computer electronics

Scene IV: Amen (4:00)

Lily Honigberg, violin Rafael Natan, violin Pilar Zorro, violin

Taichiro Ei, percussion

Upcoming Concerts at NEC

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NEC COMPOSERS’ SERIES, Malcolm Peyton, director

Wednesday, May 4, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall

“MUSIC AT THE MEETING HOUSE”

Nataly Wickham, soprano

(Pre-concert reception at 5:30 p.m.)

Thursday, May 5, 2016 at 6:00 p.m.

Old South Meeting House, 310 Washington Street, Boston (free admission)

FACULTY RECITAL: ALEXANDER KORSANTIA, piano

Copland Piano Variations; Beethoven Fifteen Variations, op, 35; Haydn Sonata in E-flat Major; Ravel La valse

Thursday, May 5, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall

HONORS ENSEMBLE: Vi Trio

Monday, May 9, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall

CHAMBER MUSIC GALA 1II


HONORS ENSEMBLE: NEC Jazz Honors Ensemble


NEC COMMENCEMENT CONCERT Saturday, May 21, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall


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NEC JAZZ COMPOSERS’ WORKSHOP ORCHESTRA, Frank Carlberg,

director

Tuesday, April 26, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall

NEC PHILHARMONIA, Hugh Wolff, conductor

Norman Drip Blip Sparkle Spin Glint Glide Glow Float Flop Chop Pop Shatter Splash; Adams Concerto for Violin, Alexi Kenney, violin; Stravinsky L’Oiseau de Feu

Wednesday, April 27, 2016 at 8:00 p.m., Symphony Hall, Boston; tickets required

HONORS ENSEMBLE: Leopold Piano Quartet

Thursday, April 28, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall

FIRST MONDAY AT JORDAN HALL

Beethoven Ten Variations on “Ich bin der Schneider Kakadu”; Takemitsu Ame no ki (Rain Tree); Reich Clapping Music; Dvořák Quintet for Piano and Strings No. 2 in A Major, op. 81

Performers include Soovin Kim, Ayano Ninomiya, violin;

Kim Kashkashian, viola; Natasha Brofsky, Paul Katz, cello;

Pei-Shan Lee, Alexander Korsantia, piano; Robert Schulz, Aaron Trant,

Jeffrey Means, percussion

Monday, May 2, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall

NEC LAB ORCHESTRA, led by student conductors David Yi, Jacob Joyce,

and Radu Paponiu – Haydn Symphony No. 44; Kodály Galanta Dances; Mendelssohn Fingal’s Cave; Beethoven Symphony No. 4 Monday, May 2, 2016 at 8:00 p.m., Brown Hall

CHAMBER MUSIC GALA 1

Tuesday, May 3, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall

CHAMBER MUSIC GALA 1I

Wednesday, May 4, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Brown Hall

Scene V: John’s Bad (2:13)

Seyun Park, piano Adam Tuch, piano

Scene VI: Save My Soul (2:29)

Alexandra Greenwald, piano

Scene VII: Daddy Powell (4:37)

Lily Honigberg, violin Rafael Natan, oboe

Jesse Gardener, bassoon

Intermission

Scene VIII: Dinner Time (8:53)

NEC Jazz Orchestra Ken Schaphorst, director

Marisa Waller, voice Seyun Park, piano

Scene IX: River Escape (7:22)

The Ladles Davey Harrison, voice

Caroline Kuhn, voice, tenor banjo Katie Martucci, voice, guitar

Lucia Purpura-Pontoniere, voice, violin

Scene X: Miss Cooper (5:54)

NEC Jazz Orchestra Ken Schaphorst, director

Scene XI: It’s a Hard World for Little Things (8:21)

Travis Bliss, tenor saxophone Sam Fribush, piano Umar Zakaria, bass Jon Starks, drums

NEC CI Chamber Ensemble


Robbie Pate, voice Ilona Tipp, voice

Sam Fribush, Hammond B3 Organ

Scene XII: No (4:15)

Nima Janmohammadi, setar, & Friends


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NEC CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE, John Heiss, director

Schoenberg Chamber Symphony No. 1 in E Major; Crumb Vox Balaenae; Swire Three Little Pieces for a Curious Quartet; Agócs Immutable Dreams Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall

NEC JAZZ ORCHESTRA: “The Music of Kenny Wheeler”

Thursday, April 21, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall

HONORS ENSEMBLE: Neruda String Quartet

Friday, April 22, 2016 at 8:00 p.m., Jordan Hall

FACULTY RECITAL: DOMINIQUE EADE, jazz voice Works by Eade, Frissell, Carmichael, Van Zandt, Ellington, Otis, Smith,

Ritchie, Powell, and Dylan with Jed Wilson, piano, Kenan Adnawi, oud, and

Nima Janmohammadi, American setar Sunday, April 24, 2016 at 8:30 p.m., Jordan Hall

MUSIC FOR FOOD: Fugue & Fantasy No. 3

Works by Reinecke and Mozart performed by Robert Sheena, oboe, James

Sommerville, French horn, Miriam Fried and Yoo Jin Jang, violin, Paul Biss and

Kim Kashkashian, viola, Marcy Rosen, cello, and Michael Bukhman, piano; all

proceeds will benefit The Women’s Lunch Place; suggested donation:

general admission $25; students $10. Info

Monday, April 25, 2016 at 7:00 p.m., Brown Hall

NEC CONCERT CHOIR, CHAMBER SINGERS, WIND ENSEMBLE, Erica

Washburn, Jonathan Richter, conductors; Stephanie Beatrice, graduate

conductor – Weinstein Gott hämmert for chorus and wind ensemble;

Brahms Drei Gesänge, op. 42; Pärt Da pacem Domine; Rheinberger Ave Regina

and Tribulationes; world premieres of Sanlıkol Șu Yalan Dünya and Maglione

Night, Veiled Night (arr. for double chorus)

Monday, April 25, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall

Contact and Departmental Information:

For those interested in keeping up with Ran’s life, visit Ran’s website at

www.ranblake.com or contact Ran directly at [email protected] or email

Aaron Hartley at [email protected] to receive Ran’s monthly

newsletter.

For news from the Contemporary Improvisation Department, please email

Hankus Netsky, Department Chair of Contemporary Improvisation, at

[email protected] or Eden MacAdam-Somer, Assistant

Department Chair of Contemporary Improvisation, at eden.macadam-

[email protected].


Visit necmusic.edu for complete and updated concert information

HANDEL: AGRIPPINA

NEC Opera students and members of NEC Philharmonia, under the

direction of Crystal Manich; Christopher Larkin, guest conductor

Saturday, April 16-Tuesday, April 19, 2016, Paramount Theater,

Boston; performance times vary– tickets required

HONORS ENSEMBLE: Jordan Wind Quintet

Sunday, April 17, 2016 at 8:00 p.m., Jordan Hall

MARION RUBIN BERMAN ’31 PIANO HONORS CONCERT

NEC pianists play works by Babbitt, Bach, Brahms, and Schoenberg

Monday, April 18, 2016, at 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall

SONATA NIGHT XV, Max Levinson, coordinator

Sonatas by Beethoven

Tuesday, April 19, 2016 at 6:30 p.m., Williams Hall

TUESDAY NIGHT NEW MUSIC

New music by NEC student composers, performed by their peers

Tuesday, April 19, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall

NEC Jazz Orchestra

Ken Schaphorst, director

Saxophones

Nigel Yancey, alto saxophone

Raef Sengupta, alto saxophone

Aaron Blumenthal, tenor saxophone

Brian Aronow, tenor saxophone

Daniel Sagastume, baritone saxophone

Trumpets

Jordan Skomal

Daniel Hersog

David Adewumi

Jeffrey Cox

Alex Quinn

Trombones

Eric Stilwell

Blake Manternach

Rex Bennett

Chris Bassett

Jon Elbaz, piano

Andrew Abenante, guitar Ryan Sands, drum

NEC American Roots Ensemble


(acoustic voice)

Marisa Waller Farayi Sumbureru

Caroline Kuhn

Pilar Zorro Lily Honigberg Maura Scanlin

Elise Leavy Franzi Seehausen

Rafael Natan

Alexander Whiting Sam Talmadge

Daniel Klingsberg

Aidan Scrimgeour

Eli Cohen

NEC CI Chamber Ensemble


Ana López, voice

Lily Honigberg, violin Rafael Natan, violin

Pilar Zorro, violin Dylan McKinstry, guitar

Jinhee Jung, flute

Rubin Hohlbein, trumpet Daniel Bitrán, clarinet

Zachary Mayer, baritone saxophone

DoYeon Kim, gayageum Carlos Pino, bass Seyun Park, piano

Allá arriba en aquel cerro

Tengo un pozo de agua clara

Donde se lava la virgen

Los piecitos y la cara

Nube de agua

Nube de agua, nube de agua

Clavelito, clavelito

Clavelito, Clavelito

Estrella de la mañana

Claro Lucero del día

Cómo no me despertaste

Si se iba el alma mía

Mariposa, Mariposa

Up on that hill

I have a well with clear waters

Where the virgin washes

Her feet and her face

Cloud made of water

Cloud water

Little carnation, little carnation


Morning star

Clear morning star

How come you didn’t wake me up

When my soul was leaving?

Butterfly, butterfly

Production Credits

Produced and Directed by Ran Blake and Aaron Hartley

Film Editing: Aaron Hartley

Administrative Support: Greta DiGiorgio, Eden MacAdam-Somer,

Hankus Netsky, Tom Novak, Ken Schaphorst

Poster Image: Justin Erickson

Guest Speakers: Hankus Netsky

Concert Halls: Frank Casados, Charles Hargreaves, Perry Johnson,

Marie von Kampen, Corinne King, Sasha Mirsky,

Mohan Poormaphaneran, Karen Snitkin, John Stanton, Joe Walker,

Natalie Wheeler, Bob Winters, Brian Yankee

Audio Department: Nick Davison, Lisa Nigris, Loren Stata Press and Publicity: Ann Braithwaite, Greta DiGiorgio, Aaron Edgcomb,

Aaron Hartley, Eden MacAdam-Somer, Katie McShane, Hankus Netsky,

Rob Schmieder

Program: Ran Blake, Aaron Hartley, Sally Millar

Scene XI: It’s a Hard World for Little Things

Thelonious Monk Ruby, My Dear

Traditional, harmonized by Antonio Estévez arr. Ana López

Tonadas de ordeño (see text below)

Anthony J. Showalter lyrics by Elisha Hoffman

Leaning on the Everlasting Arms

Scene XII: No

Improvisation based on a composition by Nima Janmohammadi Tonadas de ordeño

Noche oscura y tenebrosa

Préstame tu claridad

Para seguirle los pasos

A una ingrata

Que se va

Mañana por la mañana

Cubre tu patio de flores

Que te viene a visitar

La virgen de los dolores

Clavelito, clavelito

Clavelito, Clavelito

Estrella de la mañana

Claro Lucero del día

Cómo no me despertaste

Si se iba el alma mía

Mariposa, Mariposa

Dark and scary night

Let me borrow your clarity

To follow the steps

Of an ungrateful woman

That’s leaving

Tomorrow morning

Cover your yard with flowers

Because the virgin that brings pain

Is coming to visit you



Morning star

Clear morning star

How come you didn’t wake me up

When my soul was leaving?

Butterfly, butterfly

Film Used Tonight

Night of the Hunter (1955)

Directed by Charles Laughton

Produced by Paul Gregory

From a Novel by Davis Grubb

Screenplay by James Agee

Cinematography by Stanley Cortez

Film Editing by Robert Golden

Original music by Walter Schumann

Orchestration by Arthur Morton

Robert Mitchum as Harry Powell

Peter Graves as Ben Harper

Shelley Winters as Willa Harper

Billy Chapin as John Harper

Sally Jane Bruce as Pearl Harper

Evelyn Varden as Icey Spoon

Don Beddoe as Walt Spoon

Lillian Gish as Rachel Cooper

Gloria Castillo as Ruby

James Gleason as Birdie Steptoe

Repertoire Used Tonight

(in chronological order)

Compositions not mentioned were storyboarded and/or improvised

by students, faculty, and guests for their respective scene(s)

Scene 1: Hing, Hang, Hung

Eck Sierra Overture to Sinister Fate

Walter Schumann arr. Arthur Morton

(from original film score)

Hing, Hang, Hung

Scene II: Leaning

Anthony J. Showalter lyrics by Elisha Hoffman

Leaning on the Everlasting Arms

Scene III: The Story of Right Hand, Left Hand

Rafael Natan Careening on a Neverlasting Farm

Knowles Shaw (1874) George Minor (1880)

Bringing In the Sheaves

Scene IV: Amen

Walter Schumann arr. Rafael Natan


Hing, Hang, Hung

Scene V: John’s Bad



Theme for Willa

Scene VI: Save My Soul

Alexandra Greenwald Save my Soul



Theme for Willa

Scene VII: Daddy Powell



Theme for Willa

Scene VIII: Dinner Time Walter Schumann arr. Ken Schaphorst (from original film score)

River Escape



Once Upon a Time There Was a Pretty Fly

Scene IX: River Escape



Once Upon a Time There Was a Pretty Fly



Hush Little One, Hush…

Scene X: Miss Cooper

Walter Schumann arr. Ken Schphorst (from original film score)

Happy Theme for Miss Cooper

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