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Featuring Cleveland School of the Arts ensembles

R. Nathaniel Dett Concert Choir
Intermediate Concert Choir
William B. Woods, director
CSA Alumni Choir
Angelo D. Johnson, director
CSA Chamber Orchestra
Dianna Richardson, director

Joplin Selections from Treemonisha

Frederick Tillis -  In the Spirit and the Flesh

Monday, Feb. 18, 7:30pm:

20>>21

20>>21

Program:

Lewis Nielson: Opera Amoris
Elizabeth Bell: Millennium
Lawrence Dillon: What Happened
Phillip Rhodes: Following Picasso
Christopher Shultis: Songs of Love and Longing
Peter Westergaard: Palindrome

Ensemble:

Mary Elizabeth Mackenzie – soprano
Itay Lantner – flute
Alicia Lee – clarinet
Francesca Anderegg - violin
Claudia Schaer – violin
Erin Wight – viola
Brian Snow – cello
Yael Manor – piano

With special guests: Sara Perez, soprano; Laura Cocks, flute; Dustin Chung, clarinet; and Sean Dowgray, percussion

20>>21 is passionate for sharing new music with new audiences and collaborates with today's emerging composers to curate deep concert experiences. The ensemble's successful inaugural season of 2011-12 at the Gershwin Hotel in downtown Manhattan included a world premiere performance of a commissioned work by each featured composer, including Angélica Negrón, Gilad Cohen, Clint Needham, and Aleksandra Vrebalov.

Tuesday, Feb. 19,  7:30pm

Lunatics at Large:

Program:

Richard Brooks: Circular Motions
Richard Cameron-Wolfe: Labyrinths
Eleanor Cory: Things Are
Brian Fennelly: Sukhi!
Tom Flaherty: Scenes from Sarajevo
Jan Gilbert: The Indigo Rooftop of the Night
Louis Karchin: Rhapsody

Ensemble:

Hannah Fuerst – soprano
Laura Falzon – flute
Ben Ringer – clarinet
Arthur Moeller – violin
Jen Herman – viola
Michael Haas – cello
Steve Beck – piano

special guests Manon Hutton De-Wys, piano, and Miranda Cuckson, violin

Lunatics at Large was formed in 2007 to explore the timbral possibilities of chamber music repertoire from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. It is a mixed ensemble combining voice, strings, winds and piano. In thematic concerts, the group juxtaposes standard repertoire and chamber pieces from established composers of the 20th century with more recent works.

ACA is thrilled to be collaborating with the amazing ensembles 20>>21 and Lunatics at Large for this year's Composers Now! festival. For more information and tickets, contact the box office 212-864-5400 or http://symphonyspace.org.

Kicking off the fourth annual month-long citywideComposers Now Festival on February 2, 2013 (under the leadership of composer Tania León) is Symphony Space's genre-busting Music-of-Now marathon, curated by Symphony Space Artistic Director, composer Laura Kaminsky, and hosted by WQXR's Terrance McKnight. From electronic experimentation to post-minimalism, to spectralist sonorities to Latin jazz, the marathon brings the broadest range of new music by today's emerging and established composers and composer-performers to the stage.

Ensemble MeitarROSS BAUER'S Heartstrings (MEITAREY HA LEV) for flute and string trio, will be premiered by the Meitar Ensemble and their wonderful flutist, Roy Amotz (for whom it was written) on Tuesday, October 23rd -- the opening concert of the contemporary music series at the Tel Aviv Academy.

Thurs. Oct. 25, the Hartford Composers Concert Series, featuring the music of Robert Carl and Arthur Hernandez at Centinel Hill Hall, Capital Community College, 950 Main Street, Hartford,  CT.   Robert Carl works to be performed include:  Garland for electric cello and video; River’s  Bend  for two  flutes; and Wind Quintet  No. 2,  “Birds  of  Guandu”. 

Nazareth OrchestraThe Nazareth Symphony Orchestra  in Rochester, NY, will perform on November 9th at 7:30 pm in a program inspired by Shakespeare and the blues. A rare but witty solo turn for the tuba, with Professor Jeremy Stone and Walter Mourant's Blue Haze for clarinet and strings with Professor Marcy Bacon, as well as Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. Blue Haze, composed in 1954 by Walter Mourant, has been recorded by Reginald Kell and re-released on CD by Deutsche Grammophon in 2005.  

The Southern Great Lakes Symphony with Charles Greenwell conducting, presents Michigan-born clarinetist Ramon Wodkowski in concert on Sunday, Oct. 28th at 3pm in Flatrock Auditorium. The concert features The Pied Piper by Walter Mourant, performed by Wodkowski and the orchestra in the same version as the well-known recording of this work as performed by Reginald Kell on Decca in the 1950s. Trenton welcomes their hometown hero, acclaimed clarinet soloist, chamber musician and instrument mouthpiece maker, currently residing in London.

Out of the Vivid Air is an octophonic electroacoustic work that grew out of another closely-related work, Vivid Air, an extended thirty-two minute work for solo percussionist, real-time sound processing, and electroacoustic sounds. Both Vivid Air and Out of the Vivid Air, by composer Robert Scott Thompson, have been released on CD by Aucourant Media with percussionist Stuart Gerber.

These works owe much to the collaboration between the composer and percussionist Dr. Stuart Gerber, to whom the score of Vivid Air is dedicated.  Out of the Vivid Air utilizes sounds drawn from the solo percussion part of the parent work, as performed by Dr. Gerber. Product details - order now on Amazon.  Live perf version on Soundcloud 

This work was originally composed by invitation for premiere during the 30th Annual New Music Festival of the Mid-American Center for Contemporary Music, Bowling Green, Ohio in 2009, and is presented on this recording in a stereo realization.

Robert Scott Thompson is a composer of electroacoustic and computer music as well as music for chamber ensemble and orchestra. A student of Roger Reynolds, Bernard Rands, F. Richard Moore and Joji Yuasa, he earned the Ph.D. in composition in 1990 from the University of California at San Diego, where he was a research assistant at the Center for Music Experiment (CME), Computer Audio Research Laboratory (CARL) from 1984 to 1989.

Gary PhiloHosted once again by Equilibrium Concert Series, Transient Canvas opens its second season with a concert of music that ranges from personally introspective to violently extroverted.  Continuing in its mission to bring new music to the people, the group will be premiering works by Marti Epstein, Gary Philo, Mischa Salkind-Pearl, John Murphree and Keith Kusterer.  

Philo's work, Duo for Clarinet and Marimba, will be performed by Amy Advocat, clarinet, and Matt Sharrock, Marimba.