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Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Tarab Cello Ensemble, February 5 at 4 pm
The Forest Hills Educational Trust presents
Tarab Cello Ensemble
8 cellos play contemporary chamber music by Larry Bell, Garrett Byrnes, David Liptak, Brad Lubman, Aaron Travers, and Dan Trueman. Bell & Byrnes will be present.
Sunday, February 5 at 4 pm
in Forsyth Chapel at historic Forest Hills Cemetery,
95 Forest Hills Avenue, Boston, MA
One block from Orange Line, Forest Hills stop. Free parking.
Information: http://www.foresthillstrust.org/calendar.html, 617.524.3354
The eight cellists in Tarab Cello Ensemble play their instruments as if they were their alter egos. The cellos sound like nothing so much as a group of eight human voices conversing, singing, clicking, and expressing emotions from glee to grief. In fact, the ensemble takes its name from the Arabic word tarab, describing an intense emotion, often ascending to a state of ecstasy, brought about by deeply powerful melodic lines. On Sunday, February 5, this “double quartet” will perform work by contemporary composers in Forsyth Chapel at Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain. The program includes music by Larry Bell (head of music theory at New England Conservatory), Garrett Byrnes, David Liptak, Brad Lubman, Aaron Travers, and Dan Trueman many of them commissioned specially for this 8-cello ensemble. Composers Bell and Byrnes will be present.
Two years ago, Forest Hills Educational Trust program director Abigail Norman heard Tarab Cello Ensemble at the Boston Conservatory’s New Music Festival. She knew then she wanted to bring them back to Boston to perform in Forsyth Chapel, the intimate space at Forest Hills Cemetery that has been presenting an eclectic concert series since 2002. “The sound of these eight cellos in this small, resonant chapel will be heart-stopping,” she said. A concert and workshop for students at Phillips Andover Academy completes Tarab’s Boston stay.
Tarab’s founder is New York-based Florent Renard-Payen; its other members converge from throughout the United States; the group formed in 2000 among graduates and faculty of the Eastman School of Music in upstate New York. (Details at www.tarabcello.com.)
Admission is $15. Reservations: 617.524.3354. Details at http://www.foresthillstrust.org/calendar.html
posted by Jerry Bowles
2:16 PM
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Lincoln Center CMS Presents "The Essence of Ligeti"
For immediate release…
December 6, 2005
Contact: Marlisa Monroe
212.875.5776
mmonroe@chambermusicsociety.org
THE CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER
DAVID FINCKEL AND WU HAN, ARTISTIC DIRECTORS
PRESENTS
THE ESSENCE OF LIGETI
A THREE-CONCERT SERIES DEVOTED TO
GYÖRGY LIGETI
JANUARY 13, 15, & 17 IN ALICE TULLY HALL
ARTISTS TO INCLUDE
SOPRANO BARBARA HANNIGAN,
MEZZO-SOPRANO KATALIN KÁROLYI
BARITONE OMAR EBRAHIM
HORN PLAYER MARIE LUISE NEUNECKER
PIANIST PIERRE-LAURENT AIMARD
CONDUCTOR REINBERT DE LEEUW
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center begins the New Year with a three-concert series on January 13, 15, and 17 in Alice Tully Hall, devoted to chamber works of Hungarian composer György Ligeti (b. 1923). The series was conceived by two close colleagues of the composer, conductor Reinbert de Leeuw, and pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard. Maestro de Leeuw and Mr. Aimard will join an esteemed roster of performers including soprano Barbara Hannigan; mezzo-soprano Katalin Károlyi; baritone Omar Ebrahim; horn player Marie Luise Neunecker; the members of Imani Winds, the Brentano String Quartet, and the Shanghai Quartet; and CMS Artist Members. The opening program on January 13 will be preceded by a discussion of the chamber music of Ligeti with Maestro de Leeuw and Bruce Adolphe.
György Ligeti’s exposure to two tyrannies in his youth - Nazi and Stalinist – nourished in him a defiantly individual, contrary, and dissenting spirit. As Ligeti himself has said, “I am permanently scarred; I will be overcome by revenge fantasies to the end of my days.” It is this Ligeti – innovator, paradox, contrarian, and trailblazer – that the Chamber Music Society seeks to reflect on and honor in its series.
Many of the artists participating in The Essence of Ligeti have worked with the composer in the past, and premiered and recorded compositions that Ligeti wrote specifically for them. In 2000, Ligeti composed the vocal work Sippal, Dobbal, Nádihegedüvel for the mezzo-soprano Katalin Károlyi, a work that Ms. Károlyi subsequently performed around the world and recorded for Teldec Classics as part of its ongoing Ligeti Series. In 2001, Ligeti composed the Hamburgisches Konzert for the horn player Marie Luise Neunecker, who both premiered and recorded the concerto under Reinbert de Leeuw for Warner Classics’s Ligeti Edition. The pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard—described by Ligeti himself as “the leading performer of contemporary piano music today”—recorded the composer’s Études for Piano under Ligeti’s supervision for Sony’s Ligeti Edition. In addition, soprano Barbara Hannigan has extensive experience with the music of Ligeti, having performed his Mysteries of the Macabre throughout Europe; and Baritone Omar Ebrahim has performed the composer’s Aventures/Nouvelles Aventures with Pierre Boulez, and has recorded the work for Sony with Esa-Pekka Salonen.
The sixteen works on The Essence of Ligeti were composed between 1949 and 1984. The first concert, on January 13, features a group of works for large chamber ensembles, conducted by Reinbert de Leeuw. The program includes Old Hungarian Ballroom Dances (1949); Chamber Concerto for Thirteen Instrumentalists (1969-1970); Mysteries of the Macabre for Soprano and Ensemble (1972-1977); Hamburg Concerto for Horn and Strings (1998-2002); and Aventures/Nouvelles Aventures (1962-1965).
The January 15 program features Études for Piano, Nos. 1 (1985), 4 (1985), 6 (1985), and 11 (1994); Trio for Violin, Horn, and Piano (1982); and String Quartet No. 1: Métamorphoses nocturnes (1953-1954).
On January 17 the series closes with Sonata for Solo Cello (1948 and 1953); String Quartet No. 2 (1968); Sonata for Solo Viola (1991-1993); Ten Pieces for Wind Quintet (1968); and Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet.
LISTING INFORMATION:
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at Alice Tully Hall
Friday, January 13, 8pm; Sunday, January 15, 5pm; Tuesday, January 17, 7:30pm
Tickets: $49, $39.50, $28 available at box office; by phone 212.875.5788; on-line
www.ChamberMusicSociety.org Student Rush $10 available day of concert
THE ESSENCE OF LIGETI – three-concert series
January 13 at 8pm
Pre-concert discussion at 7pm with Reinbert de Leeuw and Bruce Adolphe.
Performers: Reinbert de Leeuw, conductor; Barbara Hannigan, soprano; Katalin Károlyi, mezzo-soprano; Omar Ebrahim baritone; Colin Jacobsen, Carmit Zori, violins; Hsini-Yun Huang, viola; Clancy Newman, cello; Edgar Meyer, bass; Valerie Coleman, Tara Helen O’Connor, flutes; Toyin Spellman-Diaz, oboe; Miriam Adam, Alan R. Kay, clarinet/basset horn; David Starobin, mandolin; Monica Ellis, bassoon; Michael Atkinson, Daniel Grabois, Patrick A. Pridemore, William Purvis, Kevin Rivard, horns; Louis Hanzlik, trumpet; Michael Powell, David Taylor, trombones; John Ferrari, Jeffrey Milarsky, percussion; Christopher Oldfather, harpsichord; Margaret Kampmeier, keyboard.
GYÖRGY LIGETI Old Hungarian Ballroom Dances
Chamber Concerto
Mysteries of the Macabre for Soprano and Ensemble
Hamburg Concerto for Horn and Strings
Aventures/Nouvelles Aventures
January 15, 5pm
Performers: Shanghai Quartet (Yi-Wen Jiang, Weigang Li, violins; Honggang Li, viola; Nicholas Tzavaras, cello); Marie Luise Neunecker, horn; Mark Steinberg, violin; Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano.
GYÖRGY LIGETI Étude for Piano, No. 11, “En suspens”
Étude for Piano, No. 4, “Fanfares”
Étude for Piano, No. 1, “Desordre”
Étude for Piano, No. 6, “Automne ŕ Varsovie”
Trio for Violin, Horn, and Piano (Hommage á Brahms)
String Quartet No. 1: Métamorphoses nocturnes
January 17, 7:30pm
Performers: Imani Winds (Valerie Coleman, flute; Toyin Spellman-Diaz, oboe; Miriam Adam, clarinet; Monica Ellis, bassoon); Paul Neubauer, viola; Clancy Newman, cello; Brentano String Quartet (Mark Steinberg, Serena Canin, violins; Misha Amory, viola; Nina Maria Lee, cello).
GYÖRGY LIGETI Sonata for Solo Cello
String Quartet No. 2
Sonata for Solo Viola
Ten Pieces for Wind Quintet
Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet
posted by David Salvage
11:09 AM
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