Friday, September 27, 2019

MUSICAL BRIDGES CONCERT | New York Composers Circle Exchange Program

Nikolai Myaskovsky Concert Hall, Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory

This program includes music by Russian composers Olesya Rostovskaya, Mark Belodubrovsky, Igor Vorobyov, and Anton Rovner, as well as the following works by NYCC composers:

Peter Kelsh — Saranac Sketches for violin and viola

1. Saranac River
2. Wanderings along the hills and distant mountains
3. Echo of the Abenaki
4. Harvest Dance
5. Church
6. Dancing on the hills and lowlands

• Maria Khodina, violin; Vyacheslav Grabennikov, viola

Christopher Sahar — Fantasy for Violin and Piano

• Maria Khodina, violin; Sayaka Takahashi, piano

Mark Belodubrovsky — Poem for violin and piano

• First performed in Moscow
• Maria Khodina, violin; Sayaka Takahashi, piano

David Picton — Redwood Prelude and Fugue for organ

• Olesya Rostovskaya, organ

Olesya Rostovskaya— Meditation for organ

• Olesya Rostovskaya, organ

Eric Heilner — Divertimento for Violin and Viola a la Bartok

• Maria Khodina, violin; Vyacheslav Grabennikov, viola

Dana Dimitri Richardson — Two Rhapsodies for solo piano

• Yulia Cherpakova, piano

Igor Vorobyev — Five Romances and Vocalise in Memory of Valery Garvilin for voice, clarinet, and piano

• S. Yesenin, Samoiilov, Ya Smelyakova, R. Rozhdestvensky, A. Voznensky, Marina Rumyantseva, voices; Irina Dogueva, clarinet; Olga Tabachnik, piano

Hubert Howe — Inharmonic Fantasy No. 10 for piano and electronics

• Elizaveta Danilina, piano

Timothy Lee Miller — Carmina solis et lunae for string trio

• Maria Khodina, violin; Vyacheslav Grabennikov, viola; Nadezhda Grebennikova, cello

Anton Rovner — At Diamond Park

• Ekaterina Milkina, Maria Khodina, Anatoly Burlakov Volkov, Anastasiaa Batrakova, Vladimir Gapontsex



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Wednesday, October 30, 2019

COBALT SAXOPHONE QUARTET PLAYS NEW YORK COMPOSERS CIRCLE

"Little Church Around the Corner," Church of the Transfiguration

David Mecionis — Grand Quartet in E-flat Minor for saxophone quartet

Raoul Pleskow — Three Madrigals for Saxophone Quartet

• I. Peasant Dance
• II. Prayer
• III. Madrigal

Christopher Sahar — Amsterdam, 1983 for solo soprano saxophone

• Raymond Kelly, soprano saxophone solo

Eric Heilner — The Source of The Beat for saxophone quartet

Richard Brooks — Four-Play for saxophone quartet

Hubert Howe — Inharmonic Fantasy No. 11 for alto sax and electronics

• Anthony Izzo, alto saxophone solo; Hubert Howe, electronics

Timothy Lee Miller — Dappled light 'mid mountains gleams

Bunny Beck — Fantasy for Saxophones

The COBALT SAXOPHONE QUARTET:

• Raymond Kelly, soprano sax; Anthony Izzo, alto sax; Ryan Mantell, tenor sax; Josh Lang, baritone sax



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Thursday, December 12, 2019

CRAIG KETTER PERFORMS NEW MUSIC FOR PIANO

Marc A. Scora Hall, National Opera Center

Eugene Marlow — Three in Three

• I. Valse de Pedale (Pedal Waltz)
• II. Une Nouvelle Amour (A New Love)
• III. La Nageuse Incessante (The Relentless Swimmer)

Madelyn Byrne — Piano Sonata

• I. Youth
• II. Constellations
• III. Water

Eric Heilner — Variatrions on Stravinsky's "Les cinq doigts"

• I. Andantino
• II. Allegro
• III. Allegretto
• IV. Larghetto
• V. Moderato
• VI. Lento
• VII. Vivo
• VIII. Pesante

Sam Hoyland — Orpheus and Eurydice

Dary John Mizelle — Sonata XV

• I. Scherza
• II. Dies Irae
• III. September Half Moon
• IV. Prelude

Dana Dimitri Richardson — Vistas

1. Vista
2. Joy After Grief
3. After Dante

CRAIG KETTER, piano



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Wednesday, January 22, 2020

NEW MUSIC FOR TRIOS, ELECTRONICS, AND VOICE

Marc A. Scora Hall, National Opera Center

Thomas Parente — Selections from Morphs for Piano Trio

1. Dona Dona
2. Korobushka

• Gregor Kitzis, violin; Peter Sachon, cello; Craig Ketter, piano

Scott D. Miller — Paganini Liszt Distortion for electronics

• Scott Miller, electronics

Tamara Cashour — Trio of Troubled Earth for piano trio

• A. THINGS UNSPOKEN — Like a bridge over ____ water … Nobody knows the ____ I’ve ...
• B. WE GOT TROUBLE, RIGHT HERE IN … — Dam broke, we all got soaked, goin’ down the river in a little rowboat
• C. THE BEAUTIFUL DAYS — Leggiero e delicate, artifactfully e Liberace-esque … intrusively Blythe Danner
• D. DEARTH: THE BENEFICIARIES — Austere, @ the very least
• E. I’D REALLY RATHER RAVEL — “Alexa: crank up the Bose & pass the Veuve Cliquot"

• Gregor Kitzis, violin; Peter Sachon, cello; Craig Ketter, pian

Richard Brooks — String Trio

• I. Adagio, ma non troppo
• II. Adagio
• III. Allegro molto, scherzando

• Gregor Kitzis, violin; Arthur Dibble, viola; Peter Sachon, cello

Patricia Leonard — The Presence of Absence for soprano, cello, piano

• Christinia Kay, soprano; Peter Sachon, cello; Geoffrey Burleson, piano

Frederick Boyle — Palindrome Canon 5 for electronics

• Frederick Boyle, electronics

David See — In The Gloaming for soprano and piano

• Christinia Kay, soprano; Geoffrey Burleson, piano

Carl Kanter — Piano Trio

• I. Andante
• II. Allegro vivace
• III. Allegro

• Gregor Kitzis, violin; Peter Sachon, cello; Craig Ketter, piano



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Wednesday, February 19, 2020

CLAUDIA DUMSCHAT PERFORMS NEW MUSIC FOR ORGAN

"Little Church Around the Corner," Church of the Transfiguration

Frederick Boyle — Huntington

• I. Prelude & Fugue
• II. Adagio
• III. Rondo

Kevin McCarter — Prelude and Toccata

• I. Prelude
• II. Toccata

Frank Retzel — Selections from Sapphire Cantos

• Canto I. Sapphire
• Canto II. The Dream (Part I)
• Canto III. Il Vento
• Canto IV. Frozen Light

Dary John Mizelle — Passacaglia and Toccata

• I. Passacaglia
• II. Toccata

Gayther Myers — Merry-Go-Round

Timothy Lee Miller — Meditation No. 2 "Chorale & Variations"

• I. Chorale
• II. Variation I
• III. Variation II
• IV. Variation III
• V. Variation IV

Claudia Dumschat, organ



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