CE TURY a IU Ma Zanke Orvis Auditorium Onday, July 12, 971 8:00 P.M
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E TIV L OF TE OFT CE TURY a IU Ma Zanke Orvis Auditorium onday, July 12, 971 8:00 P.M. E JU LI RD EM L (1971-1972, t e ew Mu ic En emble) DE IS RU SELL DAVIES, conduc or nne Diener Gila I flute Roy Pennington percu s·on Joel Timm, oboe Max Lifchitz, piano David Shifrin, clarine Romuald Teco, violin Charles ussbaum, bassoon Marna treet, viola Ronald Romm, rumpe Eric ilson, cello David Jolley, rench ho n Donald Palma, double ba Garret List trombone Elizabeth Kane, harp Gordon Gottlieb, percussion arl einz tockhau en efrain for Three Player (9 1) (For piano, cele te, v·braphone) irst Performance in H waH Toru Takemitsu Eucalypts (1970) (For flu e, oboe, harp) First P rformance in Hawaii Toru Takemitsu Voice for Solo Flutist (197 ) Fi s Performance in Hawaii Garrett List ongs (1 71) (For flu e, viola, horn, two perc sion, double bass, rump ,tape) World Premiere ay Kaleidoscope (1971) (For flute, oboe, carine bassoon, rumpe orn, tro bone two violi iola, clio, double bas , wo percusslo ,piano) World Premiere Do aid Erb In a trange Land (1968) For trombone, double bas , tape) First Performance ·n Hawaii Robert all ewis Music for Tw Ive Players (1967 (For piccolo, lute, clarinet as oon, horn, trumpe trombone, percussion) piano, ha p, violin, cello, daub e ba ) F·r Per orman e i Progra ole "SO GS" is meant as an approach to the Iyr'c. The ongs that he title implies are not trad· ional but are lyric a ftudes superimposed upon, interlocking with, contradicting and supporting, one another un il the songs become a song, All songs must have words and I have chosen the voice and poe ry of Mr Dylan Thomas. The tape in this piece was made with the help of the Charles Morrow Associates of ew York City and members of the Juilliard Ensemble.. ~ . G.l. KALEIDOSCOPE A serie of textural variation exploring intervallic and harmonic possibilitie implicit·n the pelog pen atonic cale ate values are organized in such a way as to induce an ebbing and flowing rather than a steady pUlsation. The constant overlapp ng of pitch temporal and timbral elemen s is de igned to create a kaleidoscopic aural experience. ... .Mc. "I 0 TRA GE LA 0,' taken from he ill of a poem by Francis Thomp on, reveal something abou my feelings oward electronic music. Electronic music, which the public is apt to regard ith awe, is not omething e oteric. It is a new vocabulary of sound for the composer. It i not a revolutionary new world designed solely for he ini iate but offers a new mus·cal vocabulary for anyone who likes music. It will not turn a technician Into a composer nor will it make a good composer out of a mediocre one. It 's a new tool for the composer, a rich new source added to an already r~ch body of sound. .. D.E. MU IC FOR WELVE PLAYER wa compo ed especially for the Twentieth Century Innovations series. The ensemble is treated a an" rche tra-in-miniature", although certain instruments func ion prominently as soloist. My intention w 0 achieve a continuum of variegated timbre, textures and technical resource ithin a symme r1cally organized structure in which ex ensive motivic variation forms the basic generative process. The work is in one movement containing seven principal sections, the secon nd sixth of which are accompanied cadenzas.... R.H.l. T e 1971 Festival renews profes ional and personal acquaintance with five Asian composer who have been visi ing ompo er in pa t fes ivals: ucrecia Kasilag (Philippines) (1963)' Toru Takemitsu (Japan) (1964); Chou Wen-chung (China-United State) (1967); Jose Maceda (Philippines) (1967); Yoshiro Irina (Japa ) (1968). Tonight's honored composer is: TORU TAKEMIT U is known throughou he world as one of Japan's leading compo ers. He has received commission from the Kous evitsky Mu ic Foundation (1966), from the New York Philharmonic for Its 125th nniver ry (1 67) (November Step for Biwa and Shakuhachi with Orchestra) and from RCA (1967) (A terism for Piano and Orchestra). Mr. Takemi su received a Fellowship from the John D. Rockefelfer III Fund (1 67), nd erved as E ecutt e Dire tor of Space Theatre for Expo' 70 (1969-1970). In late Oe ober 1971, em ine Musicale Inte ational de Paris will present "Journee Toru Takemitsu'. GARRETT LIST earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Juitliard School of Music where he held the Naumberg Scholarship in Orchestral Instruments and was a Teaching Fellow in Bras Ensemble. Presently on the Pre-College faculty at Juilliard, he is a founding member of the New York Brass Society and as played with the Music Aeterna Orchestra and Arthur Weisberg's Theatre of Sound. Mr. Lis has studied composition with Leonard Stein and Bertram McGarrity. ElL McKAY was born in British Columbia. After two years of service as clarinetist with the Canadian avy Band, he did radio work as arranger and conductor. He was educated at the University of Western Ontano (B.A.) and the Eastman School of Music (M.A., Ph.D.). He has been teaching in the United States for four teen years, for the past six years as teacher of theory, orchestration and composition at the University of Hawaii. McKay's compositions have been heard in the United States, Canada, Europe, South America and Japan. They include orchestra and band works, chamber music, choral and piano music and comic opera. Several works have been published and recorded. DONALD ERB was born in Youngstown, Ohio. He received music degrees from Kent State University, the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he is currently a member of the faculty, and Indiana University, where he studied with Marcel Dick and Bernhard Heiden, respectively. His orchestral music has been performed by the Seattle, CJeveland, Dallas, Atlanta, Detroit, Indianapolis, Philadelphia and Australian Broadcasting Company orchestra. Mr. Erb has held grants from the Ford, Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundations and from the ational Council on the Arts. ROBERT HALL LEWIS was born in Portland, Oregon an 1926. He studied at the University of Rochester, the Paris Conservatory, and the Vienna Academy of Music. His principal teachers have been Bernard Rogers, Karl Schiske and Hans Erich Apostel. He is presently a resident of Baltimore, where he teaches at Goucher College and John Hopkins University. The JUILLIARD E SEMBLE, to be known in the coming season as the NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE, is making its third consecutive appearance as the featured performing group in the Festival of the Arts of This Cen tury. Founded by Luciano Berio and co-directed by Dennis Russell Davies for the purpose of performing on the highest possible level the new music of our times, the Ensemble has, since early 1968, presented concerts in Copenhagen, Rome, Peruggia and London, the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoteto and he Royan International Festival of Contemporary Music. The Ensemble has recorded for the West German Radio the Danish State Radio, the British Broadcasting Corporation and the ational Educational Television Network in the United States. Commercial recordings conducted by Berio and Davies have been released by Philips and RCA. During the 1970-1971 season, the Ensemble gave a series of four concerts on Lincoln Center's NEW AND NEWER MUSIC series, including world premieres of works by Henri Pousseur, Bruno Maderna, Luciano Berio and George Costinescu. The series concluded with a concert under the direction of Pierre Boulez. The Ensemble will return to the NEW AND NEWER MUSIC serie next season ith four concerts. DENNIS RUSSELL DAVIES, co-director with Luciano Berio of the Juilliard Ensemble ( ew Music Ensemble 1971-1972), has, since 1969, completed two seasons as conductor and Musical Director of the Norwalk Sym phony Orchestra. During the 1970-1971 season he has appeared as conductor of four concerts in the New and Newer Music series at Lincoln Center and five cancens with the Juilliard Repertory Orchestra. Guest appearances have included the San Francisco Spring Opera Thea er, the Lexington Symphony Orchestra, the American Opera Center In New York where he conducted the premiere of Hall Overton's opera HUCKLE BERRY FINN, and the University of Virginia, where he a sisted in a chamber music workshop. Next season, 1971-1972, Mr. Davies will be making hi debut with the 51. Paul Chamber Orchestra in Minnesota..