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Haleh Abghari, Soprano If You Like Maraschino Cherries, You’Ll Love My Nipples TexTs ShinkoSkey noon ConCert JOZAPHINE FREEDOM (2009) THE UC DAViS DePARTMENT oF MUSiC PRESENTS text by Denise Duhamel artist-in-residence I. If you like maraschino cherries… haleh Abghari, soprano If you like maraschino cherries, you’ll love my nipples. with I was the first to wear a bikini made of twinkle lights. eric Moe, piano Have you tried my line of crystal press-on nails? My hair extensions are spun with gold filigree. and Sam nichols, guitar I was the first to wear a bikini made of twinkle lights, the first to tattoo Jozaphine on my eyelids. PROGrAM My hair extensions are spun with gold filigree. My back-up dancers are all born in the USA. JOZAPHINE FREEDOM (2009) Eric Moe Now everyone tattoos Jozaphine on their eyelids I. If you like maraschino cherries… (b. 1954) in red white and blue cursive letters. arr. Eric Moe My back-up dancers are all born in the USA. text by Denise Duhamel My boyfriends have to be almost as fantastic as I am. Eric Moe, piano In red white and blue cursive letters Selections from Songs or Ayres John Dowland men write me love notes full of promises. Dye not before thy day (Book II) (1563–1626) But my boyfriends have to be almost as fantastic as I am. Only enticing Toms win this game of cat and mouse. A shepherd in a shade his plaining made (Book II) All ye, whom love or fortune (Book I) Men write me love notes full of promises Sam Nichols, guitar and sometimes I feel bad for girls who aren’t me. Only enticing Toms win this game of cat and mouse. Selections Radeef-Khanee according to Mahmood Karimi trad. Have you tried a Jozatini, the cocktail inspired by my voice? Daramad in Shur Sufinameh in Esphehan (The Candle and the Moth) — poem by Sa’adi Sometimes I feel bad for girls who aren’t me. Have you tried my line of crystal press-on nails? Have you tried a Jozatini, the cocktail inspired by my voice? Selections from Récitations pour voix seule (1977–78) Georges Aperghis If you like maraschino cherries, you’ll love my nipples. No. 10A (b. 1945) No. 9 The Candle and the Moth (excerpt) No. 10A by Sa’adi (1184–1283/91?) No. 11 adapted from a translation by Bernard Lewis No. 14 I remember one sleepless night I heard the moth say to the candle “I am in love, if I burn it is well and just! Why do you weep, howl and cry?” “O my poor lover,” the candle made reply, “my sweet love the honey is parted from me 12:05 pm, thursday, 15 April 2010 And since my sweetness has gone, room 115, Music Building Like Farhad, a fire consumes me.” This concert is being recorded professionally for the university archive. Please remain seated during the music, “Presumptuous one! Love is not for you. remembering that distractions will be audible on the recording. Please deactivate cell phones, pagers, and With neither patience nor the power to endure wristwatches. Flash photography and audio and video recording are prohibited during the performance. You flee if the flames of love singe your wing tip, While I burn from head to foot, utterly consumed.” This performance is made possible in part by the generous support from the Joy S. Shinkoskey Series of Noon Concerts endowment. ABOUT THe ARTIsTs NOTES Soprano Haleh Abghari, guest artist-in-residence, is a native of Iran and makes her From Radeef-Khanee according to Mahmood Karimi home in New York City. She has performed as a singer, actor, and voice-over artist in the U.S., Canada, and Europe to critical acclaim. The New York Times hailed her work Persian Classical music is organized into twelve modes called Dastgah-s. The standard in Georges Aperghis’ Recitations for Solo Voice as “a virtuoso and winning performance,” melodic patterns are codified in the Radif, written down from oral sources at the and the Washington Post described her voice as “high, dry, sweet and piercingly pure beginning of the twentieth century. Poetry is of equal importance in the tradition soprano.” Her portrayal of King George III in Eight Songs for a Mad King by Peter Maxwell of Persian Classical vocal music and there are numerous settings of poems by great Davies with the New York New Music Ensemble was cited as one of the “Performances masters such as Hafez, Sa’adi and Molana Jalaluddin Mohammad Rumi. of 2007” by MusicWeb International. In addition to working with numerous living composers, Abghari has collaborated on many projects and installation-performance pieces with visual and performance artists. Her awards include a Fulbright Scholar Grant to work on the vocal music of György Kurtág in Budapest. Her major teachers were Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Adrienne Csengery, and Paul Hillier, and she pursued her music studies at UC Davis, the Peabody Conservatory, the Mannes College of Music, and the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada. Season activities for 2009–10 include soloist in Four Settings by Melinda Wagner at the Monadnock Music Festival, guest soloist with the New York New Music Ensemble in a 75th-birthday concert for Mario Davidovsky, appearance at the San Francisco MOMA with animation artist Martha Colburn, a concert of music by Georges Aperghis with Bent Frequency in Atlanta, guest performer with ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institutes Experimental Media Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), residency at the Montalvo Arts Center, and the premiere of Eric Moe’s work as artist-in-residence at UC Davis. Eric Moe, composer of what the New York Times calls “music of winning exuberance,” has received numerous grants and awards for his work, including the Lakond Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Guggenheim Fellowship; commissions from the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Fromm Foundation, the Koussevitzky Foundation, the Barlow Endowment, and Meet the Composer USA; fellowships from the Wellesley Composer’s Conference and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts; and residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Bellagio, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the UCross Foundation, the Millay Colony, the Ragdale Foundation, the Montana Artists Refuge, the Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians, and the American Dance Festival. As a pianist and keyboardist, Moe has premiered and performed works by a wide variety of composers, including John Cage, Roger Zahab, Marc-Antonio Consoli, Mathew Rosenblum, Jay Reise, and Felix Draeseke. A founding member of San Francisco’s Earplay ensemble, Moe currently co-directs the Music on the Edge new music concert series in Pittsburgh. Moe studied composition at Princeton University and went on to earn graduate degrees at UC Berkeley. He is currently professor of composition and theory at the University of Pittsburgh and has held visiting professorships at Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania. More information is available at www.ericmoe.net. Sam Nichols’s music has been performed across the United States and Europe by musicians such as soprano Haleh Abghari, cellist David Russell, and pianists Amy Briggs and Shuann Chai. His chamber music has been played by various ensembles, including Duo X, eighth blackbird, the Empyrean Ensemble, and the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble. He has received fellowships to the Composers Conference and the Montalvo Center for the Arts. Upcoming projects include pieces for percussionist Chris Froh and cellist David Russell. He’s also working on a chamber opera for the Boston-based group Guerilla Opera. Born in Maine, Nichols studied guitar at Vassar College (Bachelor of Arts, 1994), and composition and theory at Brandeis University (Master of Arts, 1999; Doctor of Philosophy, 2006). His composition teachers include Ross Bauer, Eric Chasalow, Annea Lockwood, David Rakowski, Richard Wilson, and Yehudi Wyner. For the past seven years, he has worked as a lecturer in the UC Davis Department of Music..
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