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Brian Israel Tribute 25 years after the death of the prodigiously gifted composer/pianist/conductor Brian Israel, the Society is featuring several past Israel winners throughout the year. This special program honors Brian's legacy as a composer and champion of young composers. Music by Brian Israel, Thomas Healy (2011 Israel Prize winner), Bret Bohman (2011 NY Federation of Music Clubs Israel Prize winner), Rob Paterson, and performer/composer Derek Bermel "Bermel may not be a household name yet, but if there is any justice in the music world, he soon will be." Chicago Tribune Vision of Sound: New Music with Dance Music by David Hanner, Diane Jones, Paola Marquez, Mark Olivieri, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, and Roberto Sierra Choreographers: Melanie Aceto, Candy Aguilera, Michelle Pritchard, Sarah Zehnder, and Cheryl Wilkins Mitchell Performed by Ann McIntyre, violin; David LeDoux, cello; Sar Shalom Strong, piano Vision of Sound: New Music with Dance Music by David Hanner, Diane Jones, Paola Marquez, Mark Olivieri, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, and Roberto Sierra Choreographers: Melanie Aceto, Candy Aguilera, Michelle Pritchard, Sarah Zehnder, and Cheryl Wilkins Mitchell Performed by Ann McIntyre, violin; David LeDoux, cello; Sar Shalom Strong, piano past concertsKronos Quartet Steve Reich WTC 9/11 Polar Suite, 2011, by sound designer and Syracuse University associate professor Douglas Quin, is written for quartet, soundscape recordings from the northern and southern polar regions of the earth and outer space, processed samples, plus interactive electronics involving the revolutionary human/machine interface -- the K-Bow Bluetooth Sensor Bow by Keith McMillen. Presented in partnership with the Syracuse University Arts Presenter and others. The Geography of the Imagination A collaboration with the Syracuse University Humanities Center and Syracuse Symposium in conjunction with their series on Identity, addressing the poetics of identity and historical memory. Gregory Wanamaker The Geography of the Imagination with visuals by renowned artist Carrie Mae Weems (world premiere of Society-commissioned work) Performers include Linda Greene, flute; John Friedrichs, clarinet/bass clarinet; Ann McIntyre, violin; David LeDoux, cello; Rob Bridge, percussion; Adrienne Kim, piano; Cynthia Johnston Turner, conductor "Wanamaker's Duo Sonata features sinuously intertwined saxophone and clarinet, a mournful but never despondent elegy, a brief scherzo with Minimalist tendencies, and a lively, bluesy finish." Fanfare Magazine, Dec. 2010 "Weems has long been one of our most effective visual and verbal rhetoricians. When she tackles complex subjects in complex ways, the results are...deeply stirring." Holland Cotter, New York Times Power of Pattern x 2 Steve Reich Music for 18 Musicians and a presentation by David MacDonald on his "Power of Pattern," ceramic exhibit of recent work 4:00 pm: David MacDonald presentation Performers include Andrew Russo, Marc Mellits, Sar Shalom Strong, Rob Auler, Cristina Buciu, Heidi Hoffman, Richard Faria, John Friedrichs, Janet Brown, Bridget Moriarty, Pamela Igelsrud, Neva Pilgrim, Rob Bridge, Jennifer Vacanti, Thad Anderson, Jon Lee, Jeff Moore, plus OCC percussionists Brianna Hoige, Jimmy Spagnola, Alex Bick, and Luke Dennis Steve Reich is one of the 20th century's most important composers, a Pulitzer Prize and Grammy Award winner. Music for 18 Musicians is among his most important works. In this work Reich uses the metallophone to cue the ensemble to change patterns, much like Balinese Gamelan or West African music. "our greatest living composer" (NY Times), "America's greatest living composer." (Village VOICE), "...the most original musical thinker of our time" (New Yorker) and "...among the great composers of the century" (NY Times) The Society for New Music was founded under the umbrella of the Everson Museum in 1971, premiering a work in conjunction with an exhibit. It seemed appropriate to begin our 40th season at the Museum, again in conjunction with an art exhibit, this time by legendary ceramist David MacDonald. |
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other area concertsRobert Palmer Memorial Concert Ensemble X Robert Moffatt Palmer, who was a teacher to Steven Stucky and Brian Israel, among many other very successful composers, died in Ithaca in July 2010 at the age of 95. He will be remembered at this concert of his music featuring his Sonata for Violin and Piano, the Sonata for Two Pianos, and the Quintet for Clarinet, Strings, and Piano. Two by Two, Too Society for New Music Eleanor Roosevelt Eleanor Roosevelt, a fully staged opera with chamber orchestra) by Persis Parshall Vehar, based on Rhoda Lerman's book and play Eleanor: Her Secret Journey. Produced by Society for New Music Jasper String Quartet Lera Auerbach String Quartet No.2, "Primordial Light", plus Borodin, Beethoven Michael Dubaniewicz, saxophone; Maryna Mazhukhova, piano Phil Woods Alto Saxophone Sonata, Scriabin Preludes, Op. 74, and more. Play the Tuneful Oboe: Works for Chorus and Oboe Premier of Michael Dellaira's Nobody, a work using four interwoven texts by Emily Dickinson, featuring Anna Petersen Stearns, oboe; and other works. Live! At The Everson: A Wrinkle in Time With Rothko Lauren Dunseath, cello, and Marc Giosi, piano, perform the world premiere of a piece by David Byrne, plus works by Aleksandra Vrebalov, deFalla, and Beethoven. Play the Tuneful Oboe: Works for Chorus and Oboe Premier of Michael Dellaira's Nobody, a work using four interwoven texts by Emily Dickinson, featuring Anna Petersen Stearns, oboe; and other works. Timothy Schmidt, guitar; Selma Moore, flute Robert Beaser Mountain Songs and more. The Mythical Flute Martha Grener, flute, and Maryna Mazhukhova, piano, perform The Sorcerer by Efrain Amaya, and more. Let There Be Light! Morten Lauridsen Lux Aeterna, Gilbert M. Martin Let There Be Light, and works by Samuel Barber, Alexander Gretchaninoff, Randall Thompson, John Rutter, Felix Mendelssohn, Willy Richter, Keith Hampton, Andre Thomas, and others. Let There Be Light! Morten Lauridsen Lux Aeterna, Gilbert M. Martin Let There Be Light, and works by Samuel Barber, Alexander Gretchaninoff, Randall Thompson, John Rutter, Felix Mendelssohn, Willy Richter, Keith Hampton, Andre Thomas, and others. Present Beauty Ethel Acclaimed as America's premier postclassical string quartet, Ethel invigorates contemporary concert music with refreshing exuberance, fierce intensity, imaginative programming, and exceptional artistry. Present Beauty celebrates the concepts of presence and continuity and features the quartet's new arrangement of Philip Glass's score from the film The Hours. Kalichstein Laredo Robinson Trio Stanley Silverman Piano Trio No.2, plus Mozart, Beethoven Women in Song Elizabeth Kisselstein, soprano, and Rebecca Horning, piano, perform works that feature women composers, lyricists, and characters, including Libby Larsen's Try Me Good King, about the wives of Henry VIII. The Age of Pompeii in the Italian Style Pianist and composer Anthony Crain performs his own works along with those of Rachmaninov and Beethoven. |
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