AE ZENKE ORVI AUDITORIUM July 6, 1970 8:00 P.. Monday, July 6, 1970 8:00 P.M. Mae Zenke Orvis Auditorium
THE JUllllARD E SE BlE
DE IS RUSSEbL DAVIES, conductor Anne Diener, flute Max Lifchitz, piano Joel Marangella, oboe Romuala Teco, violin Virgil Blackwell, clarinet Karen Phillips, viola Charles Nussbaum, bassoon Fred Stlerry, cello Ronald Romm, trumpet Donald Palma, double bass David Jolley, French horn Kathleen Bride, harp Garrett List, trombone Richard Fitz, percussion Assisted by William Storandt, percussion Morton Feldman, piano Ruth Pfeiffer, piano
Program
Igor Stravinsky Septet (1953) (For clarinet, horn, bassoon, piano, violin, viola, violoncello) .j == 88 Passacaglia Gigue First Performance in Hawaii
Max Lifchitz Pieza (1968) (For Three Pianos) First Performance in Hawaii
Morton Feldman False Relationships and the Extended Ending (1969) (For cello, violin, trombone, 3 pianos, chimes) First Performance in Hawaii
Charles Wuorinen Chamber Concerto for Cello and Ten Players (1963) (For solo cello, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, violin, viola, double bass, pjano, two percussion) First Performance in Hawaii
I"termi ion
Joji Yuasa Triplicity for Contra Bass (1970) (For solo bass with two prerecorded tapes) World Premiere
Hugh Aitkin Trios for Eleven Players (1970) (For flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, violin, viola, cello, double bass) World Premiere
Luciano Berio Differences (1957-58) (For flute, clarinet, viola, cello, harp, ape) First Performance in Hawaii ro ram otes
Pieza is an experiment in boredom. Through the sim plest and most primitive aspect of musica thinking the idea of repetition -I hope to take the listener into a world of exhilarating emotional adventures. The number of associations and reactions that one single chord can create are infinite.... M.L. Triplicity For Contraba s is for 3 separate parts in juxtaposition. But it is desirable that it be played by one performer accompanying a prerecorded tape performance in stereophonic version, yet 3 performers can play at the same time. The principal interest in this piece is the formation of sound (timbre) and the aes thetic unity among 3 independent parts while maintai ning their separate identities.... J.Y.
Trio For Eleven Players was composed for the Juilliard Ensemble. As the title suggests, the players are grouped in various combinations of threes with instruments adjacent to them. At points where the trios re group, the players move to other chairs on the stage. The piece is tonal, with a harmonic structure over which the various instruments, each in its own rhythmic sub-division, play solo lines or as part of a trio. The rather wild sounding sections are separated by quieter, more traditionally notated ones, and by ca denzas for some of the instruments. ...H.A.
bout The Artists
MAX LIFCHITZ studies at the Juilliard School of Mus ic where he holds a Teaching Fellowship and Special Scholarship in Composition. His composition teachers have been Roger Sessions, Darius Milhaud and Luciano Berio. His works, published by Ricordi, have been performed in numerous festivals in Mexico, United States and Europe.
MORTON FELDMAN was born on January 12, 1926, in New York City. He began his study of music at the age of twelve with Madam Maurina-Press; at fifteen, he was a composition and counterpoint student of Wallingford Riegger; and later, at eighteen, he was pursuing informal studies with Stefan Wolpe. In 1950 he met and became friends with John Cage, whom he admired as one of the great experimentalists of our time. Through Cage he met the painters Guston, de Kooning, Pollock, and Kline as well as the musicians Henry Cowell, Virgil Thomson, Earle Brown, and Pierre Boulez. The complete list of Feldman's composi tions is long and includes music for orchestra, chamber ensemble, chorus, solo voice with instruments, key board, magnetic tape, and incidental music for film. Feldman is published by C. F. Peters, and his works have been recorded by Columbia, Odyssey, and Time Records.
CHARLES WUORINEN was born in New York City in 1938. He earned graduate and undergraduate degrees from Columbia University where he is presently a member of the Music Faculty. A highly accomplished pianist, his awards, honors and commissions have included such ources as the Ford, Koussevitsky and Fromm Music Foundations, the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the Tanglewood Festival. He re cently won the Pulitzer Prize in Music for his work TIME'S ENCOMIUM, an electronic music composition written specifically for records without a live, auditor ium performance in mind. JOJI YUASA was born in Koriyama in 1929. During his undergraduate study as a medical student at Keio University, Mr. Yuasa became interested in musical creativity and eventually devoted all of his time to com position study in Tokyo's famed Experimental Workshop (Jikken Kobo) were he was associated with Toru Takemitsu, one of Japan's most distinguished composers. He has on e Grand Prize of e Japa Art Festival and the Golden Lion Award of the Venice Film Festival as well a other a ~ or hi radio, television and film compositions. As a 1968 Japan Society Fell shi gr n ua a traveled and lectured throughout the United States and Europe. In 1969 he was sic ed a a com os r and organi zer for the 1969 Japan Cros Talk Festival which featured multi-media projection b Japanese-American creative artists. Mr. Yuasa ha recently completed two major commissioned works for the Communications and Textile Pavilions of Expo '70.
HUGH AITKI was born in New York City. Following early study at New York University and service with the Air Force, he completed the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Juilliard School of Music where he has served on the Literature and Materials of Music Faculty since 1960. Mr. Aitkin's compositions include a piano con certo, sets of pieces for orchestra, and choral and chamber works which have been performed and broad cast in England, Holland, France, Sweden and the United States.
LUCIANO BERIO, founder and co-director of the Jui lIiard Ensemble, studied at the Milan Conservatory of Guiseppi Verdi with G. C. Paribeni, G. F. Ghendini and Luigi Dallapiccola. He has been Composer in Resi dence at Berkshire Festival in Tanglewood and presently is on the faculty of the Juilliard School of Music. In August 1970, the world premiere of Mr. Berio's operatic work, entitled OPERA, will be presen ed by the ante Fe Opera Company.
The JUILLI RD ENSEMBLE w s founded by Luciano Berio for the purpose of performing on the highest possible level the new music of our times. Under co-directors Luciano Berio and Dennis Russell Davies, the Ensemble has, since early 1968, presented concerts in Copenhagen, Rome, Perugia and London. During the 1968 summer, the Ensemble was in residence at the Festival of Two Worlds in Spolet 0, Italy, and in the 1969 spring they gave three concerts at t he Sixth International Festival of Contemporary Music in Royan, France. The Ensemble has recorded for the West German Radio, the Danish State Radio, the British Broadcasting Corporation and the National Educational Television Network in the United States. Commercial recording cond cted by Berio and Davies have been released by Philips. In the 1970-71 sea son the Ensemble will present four concernts at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center and will become the contemporary music group in residence at the center.
DEN IS RUSSELL DAVIES, co-director with Luciano Berio of the Juilliard Ensemble, holds degrees in piano performance and orchestral conducting. He is also the conductor of the Juilliard Repertory Orchestra and teaches orchestral conducting. He has been involved with many performances of new works includ ing first American performances of Luciano Berio's PASSAGGIO, LABORINTUS and CHEMINS II, and the premiere of Eric Salzman's VERSES AND CANTOS. Mr. Davies has recently completed a successful sea son as conductor of the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra and the Juilliard Repertory Orchestra. The world premiere of Luciano Berio's OPERA at the Sante Fe Opera Company will be conducted by Mr. Davies on August 12 and 14, 1970.
Acknowledgement :
Program Committee: Neil McKay, chairman Armand Russell Ricardo Trimillos Edward Higa, student representative