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Cazenovia Counterpoint
A festival of the arts in the historic Village of Cazenovia featuring concerts, Writer's Corner, Rising Stars recitals, workshops and an art exhibit. July 17 through August 2. Details will be announced soon. past concertsNew Music with Silent Film: Opening of 5th Syracuse international Film Festival
Las Hurdes (Terre sans pain) (Land without bread), 1933, a silent film by Luis Buñuel, with music by Martin Matalon: Traces II (La Cabra), 2005 John Graham, viola; Malcolm Ingram, narrator This film makes a triptych with Un Chien Andalou and L'Age d'Or. Buñuel did these three films between 1927-1933, and then nothing for 16 years, when he began his Mexican series. A surrealistic documentary portrait of the region of Las Hurdes, a remote region of Spain where civilization has barely developed, showing how the local peasants try to survive without even the most basic utilities and skills. Narration translated by Josy McGinn. Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog), 1929, a silent film by Luis Buñuel with Salvador Dali as the art director. Music by Martin Matalon: Las Siete vidas de un Gato, 1996 Kelly Covert, flute; Ann McIntyre, violin; David Abrams, clarinet; Florent Renard-Payen, cello; Melissa Bushee, trumpet; Sar Shalom Strong, piano; John Allis, percussion; Jeff Grubbs, percussion; Heather Buchman, conductor Roger Ebert: "The most famous short film ever made" - might be the genesis of the style now present in modern music video. A Woman of Tokyo, 1933, a silent film by Yasujiro Ozu (1903-1963), with music by Wayne Horvitz, Seattle-based guest composer/pianist Frank Grosso, tenor saxophone/bass clarinet; Darryl Pugh, double bass; John Allis, percussion; Jeff Grubbs, percussion; Wayne Horvitz, piano/conductor Set in depression-era Tokyo, A Woman of Tokyo presents the dilemma of moral responsibility, obligation, and perseverance in the increasing hopelessness of an economically polarized, modern Japan. Characteristic of his early films, Ozu addresses contemporary social issues by examining the dissolution of family. In 2002 Ozu's Tokyo Story was ranked by Sight and Sound as the 5th best movie of all time. Vision of Sound
New music with dance, choreographed by the stellar dance faculties at Brockport and Buffalo. Ping Jin Three Chinese Folksoongs, choreographer Melanie Aceto Performance presented in collaboration with SUNY Brockport and the University at Buffalo. Musicians include Alyssa Blount, violin; Amy Diefes, viola; Elinor Frey, cello; and Sar Shalom Strong, piano Vision of Sound
New music with dance, choreographed by the stellar dance faculties at Brockport and Buffalo. Ping Jin Three Chinese Folksoongs, choreographer Melanie Aceto Performance presented in collaboration with SUNY Brockport and the University at Buffalo. Musicians include Alyssa Blount, violin; Amy Diefes, viola; Elinor Frey, cello; and Sar Shalom Strong, piano Deep Listening
Exciting new works by Society commissioned composers Edward Ruchalski Deep Winter (premiere of 2007 commissioned work) John the Revelator
Featuring Lionheart male vocal ensemble and SNM string quartet Phil Kline John the Revelator Concert in conjunction with S.U. Pulse and Hendricks Chapel. Lionheart is one of America's leading ensembles in vocal chamber music, acclaimed for its "smoothly blended and impeccably balanced sound." (Allan Kozinn, NY Times). Phil Kline wrote this work as a kind of spiritual portal through which one can become part of a universal body. This is not a "blues" Mass any more than it is a medieval one, although the title was inspired by a song by gospel-blues legend Blind Willie Johnson, and it does set the traditional Latin Ordinary along with Klines own set of Propers. The texts Kline ultimately chose suggest a narrative of redemption in a blighted world. Several are from the Old Testament, including two from the Lamentations of Jeremiah, plus one by American poet David Shapiro, whose image of indifferently falling snow recalls the ashes falling from the skies of lower Manhattan. Offered as a prayer, Samuel Beckett's monologue "The Unnamable" portrays the struggle of the mind in present tense. And while "Dark was the Night" has no text that can be heard, it is a fantasy on Willie Johnson's 1927 recording of an old hymn depicting Jesus' doubt at the Passion, paraphrased in wordless moaning. Bookending the Mass are treatments of two early American shape-note hymns from The Sacred Harp: "Northport" and "Wondrous Love." Kline's "favorite part of religion has always been the mystery. What wondrous love is this?" Reading of Scores by Young Composers
Composers whose work will be performed include Diego Davidenko, Ian Hartsough, Tom Healy, Diane Jones, and Elizabeth Luttinger. America Sings
John Harbison Songs America Loves to Sing Action Music
Rob Smith Sprint, 2006 Performers include Steven Heyman and Sar-Shalom Strong, piano; Linda Green, flute; David Abrams, clarinet; Patricia Sharpe, oboe; Cristina Buciu, violin; George Macero, cello; Rob Bridge, percussion |
other area concertsConcert Allan Kolsky, clarinet; David LeDoux, cello; Sar-Shalom Strong, piano Music of Bernstein, Boatwright, and Brahms. |
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