2008-2009 SEASON 7

Saturday, December 6, 2008

ELLIOTT CARTER 100th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION (#17)

Engleman Recital Hall, Baruch College Performing Arts Center


Eugene Marlow — Playtime

Margaret Fairlie-Kennedy — Woodwind Quintet

Cesar Vuksic — Dialogues

Joseph Pehrson — Windjammer

Fedor Kabalin — Divertimento for Wind Septet

Donald Hagar — Little Suite for Woodwind Quintet

Elliott Carter — Woodwind Quintet


Svjetlana Kabalin, flute, Alexandra Knoll, oboe, Amy Zoloto, clarinet, Erik Holtje, bassoon, Michael Atkinson & David Byrd-Marrow, French horn, Donald Batchelder, trumpet, Nataliya Medvedovskaya & Cesar Vuksic, piano.

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Thursday, February 14, 2009

VALENTINE'S DAY BOUQUET of NEW MUSIC (#18)

Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space


Dinu Ghezzo — Contraste

Martin Halpern — Three Later Poems of Walt Whitman

John de Clef Piñeiro — Breaths

Tania León — Love after Love

Elliott Carter — Tell Me Where Is Fancy Bred

Tamara Cashour — Two Songs from Emily Unleashed

Jacob E. Goodman — Oui, J'Aime Brahms

Dana Dimitri Richardson — The Dutch Muse

Richard Russell — Violin Sonata No. 1 in three movements


Premieres: † World

Tamara Cashour & Tiffany Du Mouchelle, soprano, Margaret O’Connell, mezzo-soprano, Jim Trainor, baritone, Michael Laderman, flute & piccolo, Stanichka Dimitrova, violin, Arthur Cook, cello, Marcia Eckert, Victor Frost, Bethany Porter, Maria Rose, & Cesar Vuksic, piano, Tamara Cashour, synthesized harp, Steven Solook, marimba.

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Sunday, April 5, 2009

A CONCERT of NEW MUSIC (#19)

St. Mark's Church In-The-Bowery


Roger Blanc — Movement for String Quartet ‡

Victor Frost — Souvenir de Nantes

Eugene McBride — Three Short Piano Solos

Donald Hagar — Landscapes

Miki Nakanishi — Two Pieces for Piano

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

Carl Kanter — Three Short Pieces for Piano

Richard Brooks — Sonatina


Premieres: † World  ‡ New York

Michael Laderman, flute, Mark Snyder, oboe, Romulo Benavides & Eddie Venegas, violin, Rozanna Weinberger & Orlando Wells, viola, David Gotay, cello, David Holzman, Nataliya Medvedovskaya, Christopher Oldfather, & Cesar Vuksic, piano.

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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

A CONCERT of NEW MUSIC (#20)

Saint Peter's Church at Citicorp Center


Richard McCandless — Pile Driver ‡

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

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

Brian Fennelly — 'Sigol' for Two

  • Co-Winner of the 2008 NYCC Composers Competition

Jacob E. Goodman — Variations for Piano

Debra Kaye — Chain Reaction

Paul Moravec — Passacaglia



Premieres: † World  †† US ‡ New York

Linda Larson & Nancy Ellen Ogle, soprano, Christopher Oldfather, Cesar Vuksic, John Eaton & Debra Kaye, piano, Leon Khoja-Eynatyan, Matt Smallcomb, Richard McCandless, & Stephen Solook, percussion.

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

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