Friday, October 24, 2014

NEW MUSIC for CLARINET and PIANO

Benzaquen Hall, The DiMenna Center for Classical Music

Jacob E. Goodman — Six Intermezzi for Piano

1. Moderato
2. Allegretto
3. Lingeringly
4. Giocoso
5. Furioso
6. Somberly

• Craig Ketter, piano    

Peri Mauer — Morning, Night, & Noon

1. Morning
2. Night
3. Noon

• Vasko Dukovski and Ismail Lumanovski, clarinets

Nailah Nombeko — Three Preludes

1. Lively
2. Meditation
3. Playful

• Craig Ketter, piano

Kevin McCarter — Summer Souvenirs

1. Woodland Song
2. Hillside Lookout

• Kevin McCarter, piano

Max Giteck Duykers — "Theia" (2014) for Bass Clarinet, Two MIDI Foot Controllers, and Bar Chimes

• Christina Van Alstine, clarinet

Emiko Hayashi — Two Piano Pieces

1. New Prelude
2. Piano Sonata

• Martha Locker, piano

Hubert Howe — Pentachordal Etudes

• 4. Larghetto
• 5. Adagietto

• Jonathan Howe, piano

Raoul Pleskow — Four Piano Pieces for Maestro Hsu

1. Maestro Hsu: Pavane
2. Maestro Hsu: Fantasy
3. Maestro Hsu: His Elegy
4. Maestro Hsu: A Remembrance

• Craig Ketter, piano



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Tuesday, December 2, 2014

MEMORIAL CONCERT for LEO KRAFT

Saint Peter's Church, Citicorp Center

Leo Kraft — Six Pieces for Violin with Piano Obbligato

1. Cantilena
2. Capriccio
3. Ombre
4. Dialogo
5. Ripresa del Carpiccio
6. Finale

• Curtis Macomber, violin; Blair McMillen, piano

Nailah Nombeko — Obscurity

• Curtis Macomber, violin; Blair McMillen, piano

Carl Kanter — Trio for violin, cello, and piano (excerpts)

1. Allegro vivace
2. Adagio

• Curtis Macomber, violin, Greg Hesselink, cello, Blair McMillen, piano

Eugene McBride — Moments for Violin, Violoncello, and Piano

• Curtis Macomber, violin, Greg Hesselink, cello, Blair McMillen, piano

Jacob E. Goodman — Andante for String Quartet

• Calvin Wiersma, violin, Gregor Kitzis, violin, Daniel Panner, viola, Greg Hesselink, cello

Scott D. Miller — Coots and Rails for violin trio

• Miranda Cuckson, Ken Hamao & Marina Kifferstein, violins

Kevin McCarter — Quiet Moments for Viola and Piano

1. Andante
2. Andante tranquillo
3. Adagio

• Daniel Panner, viola; Blair McMillen, piano

Craig Slon — String Quartet

1. q = 150
2. q = 100
3. q = 120
4. q = 150

• Calvin Wiersma, violin, Gregor Kitzis, violin, Daniel Panner, viola, Greg Hesselink, cello



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Tuesday, February 24, 2015

MEMORIAL CONCERT for STEVEN LEIBHOLZ

Saint Peter's Church, Citicorp Center

Brian Fennelly — Memoria

1. Ballade
2. Babbittelle
3. Eidolon

• Christopher Oldfather, piano

Cesar Vuksic — Prelude and Toccatina for Piano

• Christopher Oldfather, piano

Richard D. Russell — Three Partings

1. So, we’ll go no more a-roving
2. When We Two Parted
3. On This Day … (excerpted)

• Sofia Dimitrova, soprano, Stanichka Dimitrova, violin, James Waldo, cello, Michael Brofman, piano

Nataliya Medvedovskaya — Suite for Solo Piano (excerpts)

1. Cranes’ Dance at the Festival of Animals and Birds
2. Pas de Deux of Marta and Martin Geese
3. Lace Craftswomen in the Underwater City
4. Squirrels’ Story

• Nataliya Medvedovskaya, piano

John Eaton — Ad Luciam Beatricem

• Tranquillo, ma molto libero — un poco più mosso — tempo primo — Agitato — Più Tranquillo — With a Lilt — Chant-like — Flowing — tempo primo, Tranquillo

• Phoebo Haines, mezzo-soprano, David Keberle, clarinet

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; Craig Ketter, piano

Debra Kaye — The Doppelganger

• Haim Avitsur, trombone

Dana Dimitri Richardson — Moonsongs for Soprano and Piano

1. Dark Moon
2. I Kiss the Moon
3. The Moon is Bare

• Jacqueline Milena Thompson, soprano, Simon Mulligan, piano



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Friday, March 13, 2015

A CONCERT of NEW MUSIC

Benzaquen Hall, The DiMenna Center for Classical Music

Nataliya Medvedovskaya — Winter Ballade

• Nataliya Medvedovskaya, piano

Susan J. Fischer — What Is Going. What Is Coming

• Kathleen Mulready, soprano; Michaela Mechlovitz, alto; Amanda Farley, alto; Luis Gutierrez, tenor; Philip Allen, bass; Craig Ketter, piano

Matt Weber — Americana Journey: City and Country

• Craig Ketter, piano

Dana Dimitri Richardson — Friezes of Dreams

1. You Alone Remain
2. Remembrance of a Greek Soldier
3. Long Ago
4. When Springtime Comes

• Jacqueline Milena Thompson, soprano, Craig Ketter, piano

Eugene Marlow — From the Hebraic Songbook

1. Hallelujah
2. Yotvata
3. Heiveinu Shalom Aleichem

• Craig Ketter, piano

Tamara Cashour — eMIly DIckinson: towaRd TECH-NO-lo-gy

• Biraj Barkakaty, countertenor, Tamara Cashour, piano

Robert S. Cohen — An Ant's World

1. The Work Never Ends
2. Dat Roach Is A Heavy Load
3. Invasion of the Anteaters

• Lynn Bechtold and Stanichka Dimitrova, violins

Frank Retzel — Daughter of Dawn (1993)

1. I Am My Beloved's
2. One Woman
3. Upon that Lucky Night
4. Sleep, My Darling
5. I Remember
6. Postscript

• Jacqueline Milena Thompson, soprano, Craig Ketter, piano



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Tuesday, April 21, 2015

A CONCERT of NEW MUSIC

Saint Peter's Church, Citicorp Center

Susan J. Fischer — Intermezzo

• Christa Robinson, oboe, Esther Noh, violin, John Popham, cello, Stephen Gosling, piano

Peri Mauer — Journey

• Virginia Cheng Chien, oboe

Gayther Myers — The Workday

• Roberta Michel, flute; Christa Robinson, oboe; Christa Van Alstine, clarinet; Kate Sheeran, horn; Stephen Gosling, piano

Max Giteck Duykers — Dark Body

• Margaret Lancaster, flute; Esther Noh, violin; John Popham, cello; Stephen Gosling, piano

David Picton — Turning Leaves for Sandy

1. Blossom
2. First Spring Bud
3. The Turning of the LEaves
4. Red Passion

• Keve Wilson, oboe, Oren Fader, guitar

Orlando Legname — Vortici D'etere

1. q= 60
2. q = 90

• Margaret Lancaster, flute; Christa Van Alstine, clarinet; Ester Noh, violin; John Popham, cello; Stephen Gosling, piano; Tamara Cashour, conductor

Eugene Marlow — Trois Chansons pour une Poetesse

• Margaret Lancaster, flute, Roberta Michel, alto flute

Richard Brooks — Into the Twilight

• Margaret Lancaster, flute; Nanci Belmont, bassoon; Ester Noh, violin; Hannah Levinson, viola; Stephen Gosling, piano



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Saturday, May 30, 2015

A CONCERT of NEW MUSIC

Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space

Roger Blanc — Mood Swings for Jazz Quartet

• Roger Blanc, guitar, David Sherr, clarinet/soprano saxophone, Steve Sandberg, piano, Jennifer Vincent, double bass

Madelyn Byrne — First Flight, Early Spring

• Ellen Weller, flute

Emiko Hayashi — End of Hot Summer

• David Sherr, soprano sax, Derin Öge, piano, Cesare Papetti, vibraphone, David Picton, bongos, Roger Blanc, conductor

Dary John Mizelle — Baseball: I Opening Day

• Presto — Andante — Adagio — Poco Meno Mosso — Poco Piu Mosso

• Dary John Mizelle, piano, Rina Okubo, marimba

Vladimir del Orbe — Contextual Enigma

• Winner of the 2014 NYCC Composers Competition
• David Sherr, clarinet; Evan Runyon, double bass; Nina Siniakova, piano

Hubert Howe — Inharmonic Fantasy No. 3

• electronics, Hubert Howe

Robert S. Cohen — Galapagos Suite

1. Rise of the Archipelago
2. Dance of the Blue-Footed Boobies
3. Iguana Rock
4. Tortoise Moon
5. Run Sally Lightfoot Run

• Jonathan Singer, marimba

Tamara Cashour — Queen Suite

1. JS-Queen of Versailles (solo violin)
2. LT-Queen of Vail (violin, cello, harp)
3. KM-Queen of the Labor Party (Not Quite Queen!) (violin, viola, cello)
4. SS-Queen of Pisa (violin, harp)
5. KC-Queen of Hoards (solo cello)
6. MC-Queen of Landlords … er … Landladies (solo viola)
7. PDS-The Genuine Article (violin, viola, cello, harp)

• Karen Rostron, violin; Gregor Kitzis, viola; Peter Prosser, cello; Aliz Raspé, harp

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