2008-2009 — Season 7

Saturday, December 6, 2008

ELLIOTT CARTER 100th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION (#12)

Engleman Recital Hall, Baruch College Performing Arts Center


Eugene Marlow — Playtime

  1. The children gather to play
  2. “Hey, that’s my toy!"
  3. Nap time
  4. Waking up
  5. “Let’s play king and queen"
  6. “Let’s play war"
  7. A real fight
  • Svjetlana Kabalin, flute; Alexandra Knoll, oboe; Amy Zoloto, clarinet; Erik Holtje, bassoon; Nataliya Medvedovskaya, piano

Margaret Fairlie-Kennedy — Woodwind Quintet

  1. Andante sostenuto
  2. Scherzando quasi presto
  3. Allegro giusto
  • Svjetlana Kabalin, flute, Alexandra Knoll, oboe, Amy Zoloto, clarinet, Erik Holtje, bassoon, Michael Atkinson, horn

Cesar Vuksic — Dialogues

  • Svjetlana Kabalin, flute; Alexandra Knoll, oboe; Amy Zoloto, clarinet; Erik Holtje, bassoon; Michael Atkinson, horn; Cesar Vuksic, piano

Joseph Pehrson — Windjammer

  • Svjetlana Kabalin, flute, Alexandra Knoll, oboe, Amy Zoloto, clarinet, Erik Holtje, bassoon, Michael Atkinson, horn

Fedor Kabalin — Divertimento for Wind Septet

  1. Intrada: Pomposo
  2. Lullaby for Maria-Victoria: Andante non troppo lento
  3. Round: Vivace
  • Svjetlana Kabalin, flute; Alexandra Knoll, oboe; Amy Zoloto, clarinet; Erik Holtje, bassoon; Michael Atkinson, horn; David Byrd-Marrow, horn; Donald Batchelder, trumpet

Donald Hagar — Little Suite for Woodwind Quintet

  1. Skyscrapers
  2. Veni
  3. Inner Song
  4. Motet
  5. Rock of Ages
  6. Swing
  7. Gotta Go
  8. Toy
  • Svjetlana Kabalin, flute, Alexandra Knoll, oboe, Amy Zoloto, clarinet, Erik Holtje, bassoon, Michael Atkinson, horn

Elliott Carter — Woodwind Quintet

  1. Allegretto
  2. Allegro giocoso
  • Svjetlana Kabalin, flute, Alexandra Knoll, oboe, Amy Zoloto, clarinet, Erik Holtje, bassoon, Michael Atkinson, horn



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Thursday, February 14, 2009

VALENTINE'S DAY BOUQUET of NEW MUSIC (#13)

Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space


Dinu Ghezzo — Contraste

  • Cesar Vuksic, piano

Martin Halpern — Three Later Poems of Walt Whitman

  1. Youth Day, Old Age, and Night
  2. Whispers of Heavenly Death
  3. Roaming in Thought
  • Jim Trainor, baritone, Victor Frost, piano

John de Clef Piñeiro — Breaths

  • Michael Laderman, flute, Cesar Vuksic, piano

Tania León — Love after Love

  • Tiffany Du Mouchelle, soprano, Steven Solook, marimba

Elliott Carter — Tell Me Where Is Fancy Bred

  • Tiffany Du Mouchelle, soprano, Steven Solook, marimba

Tamara Cashour — Two Songs from Emily Unleashed

  1. Ample make this Bed —
  2. “Hope” is the thing —
  • Tamara Cashour, soprano, Margaret O'Connell, mezzo-soprano, Michael Laderman, piccolo, Marcia Eckert, piano, Tamara Cashour, synthesized harp

Jacob E. Goodman — Oui, J'Aime Brahms

  • Arthur Cook, cello, Marcia Eckert, piano

Dana Dimitri Richardson — The Dutch Muse

  1. Bathsheba: Rembrandt Van Rijn
  2. Malle Babbe: Franz Hals
  3. Girl in a Turban: Jan Vermeer
  • Maria Rose, piano

Richard Russell — Violin Sonata No. 1 in three movements

  • Stanichka Dimitrova, violin, Bethany Porter, piano



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Sunday, April 5, 2009

A CONCERT of NEW MUSIC (#14)

St. Mark's Church In-The-Bowery


Roger Blanc — Movement for String Quartet

  • Romulo Benavides, violin, Eddie Venegas, violin, Orlando Wells, viola, David Gotay, cello

Victor Frost — Souvenir de Nantes

  1. Valse de musette
  2. Intermezzo I
  3. Ecossaise
  4. Intermezzo II
  5. An Hungarian in Paris
  • Mark Snyder, oboe, Romulo Benavides, violin, Eddie Venegas, violin, Orlando Wells, viola, David Gotay, cello

Eugene McBride — Three Short Piano Solos

  1. Baguettelle a la Chopin for Solo Piano
  2. Nocturne for Solo Piano
  3. Stew Art for Solo Piano
  • Nataliya Medvedovskaya, piano, Cesar Vuksic, piano, David Holzman, piano

Donald Hagar — Landscapes

  1. Lakes
  2. Clouds
  3. Mountains
  • Christopher Oldfather, piano

Miki Nakanishi — Two Pieces for Piano

  1. Carrot and Green Pepper
  2. Moon Rabbit
  • Christopher Oldfather, piano

William Vollinger — Christ and His Bride (a lovers' quarrel for flute & viola) based on J.S. Bach's "Wachet Auf" Cantata No. 140

  1. Recitative: “So geh herein zu mir"
  2. Duet: “Mein Freund ist mein"
  3. Chorale: “Gloria sei dir gesungen"
  • Michael Laderman, flute, Rozanna Weinberger, viola

Carl Kanter — Three Short Pieces for Piano

  1. Piano Piece — July 2008
  2. Piano Study — Resignation
  3. Piano Study 4
  • Christopher Oldfather, piano

Richard Brooks — Sonatina

  1. Allegro molto
  2. Adagio
  3. Fugue: presto
  • Cesar Vuksic, piano



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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

A CONCERT of NEW MUSIC (#15)

Saint Peter's Church at Citicorp Center


Richard McCandless — Pile Driver

  • Leon Khoja-Eynatyan, Matt Smallcomb, Richard McCandless, and Stephen Solook, percussion

John Eaton— Song Cycle on "Holy Sonnets" of John Donne, Op. 1

  1. Butter my heart, three person’d God
  2. Spit in my face you Jewes
  3. Oh my black Soule!
  4. What if this present were the worlds last night?
  5. At the round earths imagin’d corners
  • Linda Larson, soprano John Eaton, piano

Christopher Montgomery — Spell of Creation: five songs on poems of Kathleen Raine

  1. Lyric
  2. The Path
  3. Spell of Creation
  4. Paradise Seed
  5. Ark
  • Nancy Ellen Ogle, soprano, Debra Kaye, piano

Brian Fennelly — 'Sigol' for Two

  • duo parnas: Madalyn Parnas, violin, Cicely Parnas, cello

Jacob E. Goodman — Variations for Piano

  • Cesar Vuksic, piano

Debra Kaye — Chain Reaction

  • Nancy Ellen Ogle, soprano, Debra Kaye, piano

Paul Moravec — Passacaglia

  • duo parnas: Madalyn Parnas, violin, Cicely Parnas, cello, Christopher Oldfather, piano



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2008-2009 — Season 7