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New chamber work by Sean Hickey to be premiered Wednesday, June 23, by members of the One World Symphony

St. Ann & the Holy Trinity in Brooklyn will once again be the setting of a premiere by composer Sean Hickey on Wednesday, June 23.  Members of the One World Symphony will premiere the newly-commissioned piece, To the Wars, a setting of a Richard Lovelace poem and scored for soprano, clarinet and cello. The performers will be Jennifer Greene (soprano), Scott Gerhardt (clarinet) and Jessie Reagen (cello). 

        Last November, the One World Symphony, led by music director Sung Jin Hong, performed Hickey’s Sagesse, for vocal soloists and chamber orchestra in two concerts in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Ms. Greene was the soloist. The New Music Connoisseur wrote “…Although Mr. Hickey at times gives evidence of a connoisseur’s ear for Stravinskian wind sonorities and rhythms (particularly in the second part), his part writing for voices and his overall conception in this most intelligent and sagacious setting of Verlaine’s poem whets the appetite for what audiences can expect from this youthful composer of heart and mind.”

Program Information

Brahms: Symphony No. 1
Hickey: To the Wars (World Premiere)

Wednesday, June 23, at 8 p.m. Concert
Wednesday, June 23, at 6 p.m. Open Rehearsal
St. Ann and the Holy Trinity
Corner of Montague/Clinton in Brooklyn Heights
$15 General Admission
$10 Students / Seniors
$5 Open Rehearsal
 

Dan Locklair’s “In the Autumn Days”- To Be Presented By Lake Superior 
Chamber Orchestra On June 24 - Concert To Be Conducted by Warren Friesen

Dan Locklair's “In the Autumn Days” - A Symphony for Chamber Orchestra 
will be performed by the Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra, Warren 
Friesen, Music Director and Conductor, on June 24 at the Weber Music 
Hall, 1151University Drive on the campus of the University of Minnesota 
in Duluth. The concert will also feature Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1, 
Bach’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, BMV 1041, Peter McGuire, violin 
soloist, Sibelius’ Romance in C and Saint-Saëns’ “Introduction and Rondo 
Capriccioso”.

Tickets for this concert are $15, with discounts for students and 
seniors. For more concert information, contact the Lake Superior Chamber 
Orchestra at (218) 724 – 2141
 

Songs and Orchestral Music of Beth Anderson to be Presented at Concerts 
in Pennsylvania and Russia on - June 12 in West Chester, PA and June 17 
in Moscow

The songs and orchestral music of American composer Beth Anderson will 
be heard in two concerts in West Chester, Pennsylvania and Moscow, 
Russia on June 12 and June 17, 2004.

On June 12 at 4:30 PM at the Philips Library of West Chester University, 
University Avenue in West Chester, PA, baritone Randall Scarlata will 
premiere Ms. Anderson’s newly commissioned “Swimmers On The Shore” 
(words by David Mason) and sing a group of her recent songs, including 
“Cat Songs”, as part of the West Chester Poetry Conference The concert 
will be preceded at 3:05 by a panel discussing Poetry & Song (Johanna 
Keller, chair; David Mason, poet, Beth Anderson and Stefania deKenessey 
composers) and will be followed by a social hour and picnic at Alumni House.

For more information about these events, contact the West Chester Poetry 
Conference at (610) 436-3235, or visit go here online.

On June 17, at 10:30 PM at Gnesin State Academy of Music Concert Hall in 
Moscow, Ms. Anderson’s “Three Swales” for string orchestra will be 
featured in a Nightcap with the Classics concert by Russia’s Chamber 
Orchestra Kremlin, Misha Rachlevsky, Music Director.

Chamber Orchestra Kremlin, founded in 1991 and led by Misha Rachlevsky, 
has earned national and international recognition as one of Russia's 
leading ensembles. The orchestra, comprising some of Russia's finest 
young string players, has carved a niche for itself under the creative 
baton of its founder and music director Misha Rachlevsky. Visit them 
online.
 

Steven R. Gerber’s Music To Be Performed in New York and Moscow – 
Concerts by Violinist Rolf Schulte and Chamber Orchestra Kremlin

The music of Steven R. Gerber will be heard in concerts in New York and 
Moscow in the coming days.

His “Fantasy for Solo Violin” will be preformed by Rolf Schulte on June 
15, 8 PM at Mannes College of Music, 150 W. 85 St. in Manhattan as part 
of their Institute and Festival for Contemporary Performance. Works for 
violin and piano by Boulez, Webern and Elliott Carter will also be 
presented on this program by Mr. Schulte and pianist Marc Ponthus..

Tickets for this concert are $20, with discounts for students and 
seniors. For more information, contact Mannes College of Music at 
212-580-0210, ext. 285 or visit them online.

Gerber’s “Spirituals for String Orchestra” will be featured in a 
Nightcap with the Classics concert by Russia’s Chamber Orchestra 
Kremlin, Misha Rachlevsky, Music Director, on June 17 at 10:30 PM at 
Gnesin State Academy of Music Concert Hall in Moscow.

Chamber Orchestra Kremlin, founded in 1991 and led by Misha Rachlevsky, 
has earned national and international recognition as one of Russia's 
leading ensembles. The orchestra, comprising some of Russia's finest 
young string players, has carved a niche for itself under the creative 
baton of its founder and music director Misha Rachlevsky. Visit them 
online.
 
 

KITTY BRAZELTON'S "TIME REMAINING" BAND DEBUTS SUNDAY, JUNE 13
AT NUYORICAN POETS CAFÉ

Composer/performer Kitty Brazelton will premiere her Time Remaining Band at 3 p.m. on Sunday, June 13 at the Nuyorican Poets Café, 236 East 3rd Street (Between Avenues B & C), New York.  Tickets $10.  Call 212-505-8183.

Brazelton originally assembled the Time Remaining Band in the spring of 2002 for a collaboration with Gina Gibney Dance.Twin sextets (6 musicians + 6 dancers) premiered at St. Mark's Danspace in October '02 (where the New York Times found the Brazelton's score "enhanced [the dance]...with impressive fervor") and went on to tour the piece, called "Time Remaining." The final performance took place at the Doris Duke on 42nd St. in February 2004. But the music kept going.

So for the first time, after 6 weeks of rehearsal to deconstruct and reconstruct the one-hour piece as a music-only statement, the band will perform as a single sextet + Brazelton:  David Bryan, countertenor; John Brauer, tenor; Keith Borden, baritone; Mark Lin, bass; Matt Goeke, cello; Alex Vittum, extended drumkit, concert bass drum and hammered dulcimer; Kitty Brazelton, laptop and "conduction" (improvised conducting).

Brazelton's compelling music explores the concept of time within music, entwining ideas of past, present and future .  From  drones and archetypal chants to microtonal slides and bends, African-influenced riffs, formal choral music, a time ritual, and the prescient words of Ecclesiastes ending in a triumphant through-composed choral/instrumental tutti: "that which has been, is now, and that which is to be, has already been!"
 
 

CELEBRATED CELLIST, ANDRÉ EMELIANOFF IN RECITAL AT MERKIN CONCERT HALL ON TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 2004 AT 8PM

Featuring World Premieres by Martin Bresnick and Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum

New York, NY 4/26/04  Cellist André Emelianoff will appear in recital with the renowned German pianist, Thomas Hoppe on Tuesday, June 1, 2004 at 8PM at Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th St., New York, NY 10023. The program, entitled Refractions & Reflections on Schumann and Brahms, will feature works by Leos Janàcek, Pohadka (a fairy tale for cello and piano); Gyorgy Kurtag, Jelek II-Armyak-Az hit for solo cello; a World Premiere commissioned by Mr. Emelianoff by Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum, entitled Vis a' vis (an homage to Schumann) for solo cello with 3 videos, featuring the work of visual artist Chase Palmer; Robert Schumann, Five Pieces in Folk Style, Op.102  for cello and piano; a World Premiere commissioned by Mr. Emelianoff by Martin Bresnick, entitled Ballade (an homage to Brahms) for cello and piano; Johannes Brahms, Sonata in F,  Op. 99.  Tickets for this recital are $15 (general admission) and $10 (students/senior citizens) and can be obtained at the Merkin Box Office (212) 501-3330.