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Thursday, February 16, 2006
NEC Callithumpian Consort to Perform Xennakis' "Kraanerg"
Contact: Ellen Pfeifer
Public Relations Manager
New England Conservatory
617-585-1143
epfeifer@newenglandconservatory.edu
For Immediate Release:February 16, 2006
NEC's Enchanted Circle Concert Series Presents Iannis Xenakis’s Rarely Heard Kraanerg
Stephen Drury Conducts Radical Ballet Score March 7 in NEC’s Jordan Hall
“Imagine, in addition, the reports of dozens of machine guns and the whistle of bullets adding their punctuations to this total disorder. The crowd is then rapidly dispersed, and after sonic and visual hell follows a detonating calm, full of despair, dust and death. The statistical laws of these events, separated from their political or moral context, are the same as those of the cicadas or the rain. They are the laws of the passage from complete order to total disorder in a continuous or explosive manner. They are stochastic laws…” --Iannis Xenakis, Formalized Music, 1955
New England Conservatory’s Stephen Drury will conduct the Callithumpian Consort in Iannis Xenakis’s rarely heard, evening-length ballet score, Kraanerg, March 7 at 8 p.m. in NEC’s Jordan Hall. The Callithumpian Consort is a loose aggregation of NEC students, alumni, and new music enthusiasts that has performed locally, on the East Coast, and in Europe
Composed in 1969 for the opening of the National Arts Center in Ottawa, Canada, Kraanerg is an electro-acoustic work for small orchestra and tape (and, originally, dancers). The title means “Youth-Energy” and the work was inspired by the youth rebellions taking place in the late sixties and by Xenakis’s own experiences fighting in guerilla battles against the fascists in Greece.
Describing the work, online reviewer R. Hutchinson writes: “Over 74 minutes, "Kraanerg" alternates between live orchestral sections and electronic tape sections (of pre-recorded orchestral sounds)…The (live) music features rapid staccato outbursts from trumpets and trombones, woodwinds and strings, and glissandos -- the sound associated with Xenakis ever since his revolutionary Metastaseis. The tape sections utilize various levels of sound alteration -- some passages are slightly distorted, and others leave no trace of the original instruments. This results in a fascinating range of textures -- the mysterious sheets of electronic sounds at times sound like the shimmering aurora borealis. The overall effect of this stochastic, electro-acoustic music, undergoing continuous transformation, is like witnessing the awe-inspiring organic processes of nature majestically unfold.”
The concert is free and open to the public.
For more information, call the NEC Concert Line at (617) 585-1122 or visit NEC on the web at www.newenglandconservatory.edu/concerts
ABOUT NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY
Recognized nationally and internationally as a leader among music schools, New England Conservatory offers rigorous training in an intimate, nurturing community to 750 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral music students from around the world. Its faculty of 225 boasts internationally esteemed artist-teachers and scholars. Its alumni go on to fill orchestra chairs, concert hall stages, jazz clubs, recording studios, and arts management positions worldwide. Nearly half of the Boston Symphony Orchestra is composed of NEC trained musicians and faculty.
The oldest independent school of music in the United States, NEC was founded in 1867 by Eben Tourjee. Its curriculum is remarkable for its wide range of styles and traditions. On the college level, it features training in classical, jazz, Contemporary Improvisation, world and early music. Through its Preparatory School, School of Continuing Education, and Community Collaboration Programs, it provides training and performance opportunities for children, pre-college students, adults, and seniors. Through its outreach projects, it allows young musicians to engage with non-traditional audiences in schools, hospitals, and nursing homes—thereby bringing pleasure to new listeners and enlarging the universe for classical music and jazz.
NEC presents more than 600 free concerts each year, many of them in Jordan Hall, its world- renowned, 100-year old, beautifully restored concert hall. These programs range from solo recitals to chamber music to orchestral programs to jazz and opera scenes. Every year, NEC’s opera studies department also presents two fully staged opera productions at the Cutler Majestic Theatre in Boston.
NEC is co-founder and educational partner of “From the Top,” a weekly radio program that celebrates outstanding young classical musicians from the entire country. With its broadcast home in Jordan Hall, the show is now carried by National Public Radio and is heard on 250 stations throughout the United States.
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posted by Ellen C. Pfeifer
12:02 PM
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Margaret Leng Tan Gives World Premiere by John Cage
New York, (FEB 12th, 2006)--- On Saturday and Sunday, February 18 and 19, 2006, at 8:00 pm, the celebrated avant-garde pianist and renowned Cage interpreter, Margaret Leng Tan, will perform at the Anthology Film Archives (32 Second Avenue at Second Street). Ms. Tan will present the world premieres of Chess Pieces (1944) by John Cage, Chess Serenade (1944) by Vittorio Rieti and Pawn to King Four (2006) by Michael Nyman.
John Cage's and other artists' interest in chess is well documented. Cage contributed his "score-painting", Chess Pieces, to the surrealist The Imagery of Chess exhibition (1944) at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York. Purchased after the show, it disappeared into a private collection. Recently rediscovered, Cage’s Chess Pieces as well as Rieti's Chess Serenade from the same show, are currently on view at The Noguchi Museum’s The Imagery of Chess Revisited exhibition.
Nyman's toy piano arrangement of Pawn to King Four, the chess sequence from his opera The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, is specially created for this Anthology Film Archives event.
In addition Ms. Tan will provide live accompaniment to two surrealist film classics: Anemic Cinema (1926, 7 minutes) by Marcel Duchamp and Entr’acte (1924, 21 minutes) by René Clair.
Tickets for both nights are available at the door and are $12.00 general admission. For further information please call (212) 979-1027. The Anthology Film Archives are located at Second Avenue at Second Street.
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Monday, February 13, 2006
AME "Love & Sensuality" concert, February 18, 8:00 PM, Tenri, NYC
Looking for something romantic to do around Valentine's Day? Want to impress your date? How about a great concert of American works followed by luscious desserts and sparkling champagne?
Join the American Modern Ensemble for our second concert of the season on Saturday, February 18th entitled Love and Sensuality. The program will consist of a few classics as well as rarely heard gems, including Love Songs by Leonard Bernstein, What Lips My Lips Have Kissed by David Del Tredici, the highly erotic Valentine by Jacob Druckman, and the sexy Shiny Kiss by Alex Shapiro. We will also perform the winning work of the American Modern Ensemble's First Annual Composition Competition, The Secret of Your Heart by Karim Al-Zand. World-renown tenor Paul Sperry will sing a selection of wonderful art songs by Daron Hagen, William Bolcolm, Tom Lehrer, Christopher Berg and a few others. Join us after the concert for a special reception featuring gourmet chocolates and desserts, strawberries and champagne. This concert will also be repeated at Sarah Lawrence College on February 15th at 8:00 PM in Reisinger Hall (see website for more information).
American Modern Ensemble
Love and Sensuality
Saturday, February 18th, 8:00 PM
Tenri Cultural Institute of New York
43A West 13th Street
(Between 5th and 6th Ave.)
New York City
Phone: (212) 645-2800
Admission: $15, $10 (Students and Seniors)
TO ORDER TICKETS ONLINE: visit http://www.americanmodernensemble.org.
TO ORDER BY PHONE: please call (800) 838-3006 and ask for "American Modern Ensemble tickets"
NOTE: Tickets also available at the door one hour before the concert, but we recommend ordering early as it will probably be sold out. Please check online or call for availability.
Program
Coming Together - Derek Bermel
Shiny Kiss** - Alex Shapiro
Love Songs - Leonard Bernstein
The Secret of Your Heart** - Karim Al-Zand*
Valentine - Jacob Druckman
Love in the Dictionary - Celius Dougherty
Holy Thursday - Daron Hagen
Nocturne - Ethelbert Nevin
Euthanasia - George Chadwick
What Lips My Lips Have Kissed - David Del Tredici
Poem - Christopher Berg
Nevermore Will the Wind - William Bolcom
I Hold Your Hand in Mine - Tom Lehrer
No One to Love - Stephen Foster arr: Warren Swenson
I Rise when You Enter - Theodore Chanler
*Winner of AME's First Annual Composition Competition
**NYC Premieres
Artists
Anna Tonna, mezzo-soprano
Paul Sperry, tenor
Erin Lesser, flute
Meighan Stoops, clarinet
Dave Eggar, cello
Sean McClowry, double bass
Ieva Jokubaviciute, piano
Please join us for a dessert and champagne reception to follow.
Special AME door prizes! AME Valentine Teddy Bears, thongs, boxers and more...
We hope to see you there!
Victoria Paterson, Managing Director
American Modern Ensemble
This fall, AME was featured in a NY Times Arts section cover story and review on the two pianists from our first concert of the season, Powerhouse Pianists. Please visit http://www.americanmodernensemble.org to read the reviews...
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6:51 PM
Goliard Ensemble Concert, February 18th 2006
Goliard Southeastern Music Festival 2006
The Tour Concert: "Music of the Heart and the Soul"
Goliard's principal players present a stunning array of chamber works of the Renaissance, the Romantic Era, the 1920's and the present day. This concert kicks off our annual tour of the Southeastern U.S.
Performers:
Amy Synatzske, Soprano
Scott Gerhardt, Clarinet
Sarah Kim, Violin
Lawrence Zoernig, Cello
Arielle Levioff, Piano
Paul Brantley, Composer in Residence
Program:
World premier of "Looks of Love" by Paul Brantley.
Madrigals of Purcell & Monteverdi
Ravel Violin Sontata
Brahms Clarinet Trio in A Minor
Puccini: La canzone di Doretta from La Rondine
Date/Location: Steinway Reformed Church
41st Street & Ditmars Blvd.
Astoria, NY
Saturday February 18th7:30pm
Tickets:
$15 general admission, $10 seniors, $5 students
Directions from Manhattan:
Take N train to Ditmars Blvd (last stop in Queens). Go down LEFT stairway (where the apartment rental bulletin board is) to street and walk to Ditmars, turn right and walk 10 blocks (or take bus) to 41st Street. Or, take M60 bus to Steinway Street (2nd stop in Queens) and walk 5 blocks to Ditmars, turn right and go one block to 41st. The trip takes about 45 minutes from midtown and Upper West Side.
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2:10 PM
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