Contemporary Music Ensemble

Suffolk County Community College • Music Department • Ammerman Campus Presents Contemporary Music Ensemble Spring Concert May 12, 2001 7:30 pm Islip Arts Building, Shea Theatre Contemporary Music Ensemble William Ryan, Director ________________________________________________ Premonition (1997) Phil Kline for many boomboxes (b. 1953) Vanessa Bonet Malachy Gately Lauren Kohler Jamie Carrillo David Greenberg Anne McInerney Lisa Casal Duane Haynes Corin Misiano Chris Ciccone Ryan Himpler Michelle Orabona Mike Clark William Jantz Rachel Rodgers Anne Dekenipp Colin Kasprowicz Gerry Rulon-Maxwell Virginia Dimiceli Andrew Keegan Michael Sarling Jason Dobranski Melanie Scalice Jessica Drozd Pete Stumme Joe Fogarazzo Naomi Volkel New York Counterpoint (1985) Steve Reich for clarinet and tape (b. 1936) Joseph Iannetto, clarinet Evan Ziporyn, recorded clarinets Elvis Everywhere (1987) Michael Daugherty for string quartet and tape (b. 1954) Lisa Casal, violin Malachy Gately, violin Vanessa Bonet, viola Jason Dobranski, cello A Change of Hearts (2001) Phil Kline for chamber ensemble and boomboxes (b. 1953) World Premiere Commissioned by the SCCC Contemporary Music Ensemble Melanie Scalice, flute Joseph Iannetto, clarinet Lauren Kohler, clarinet David Greenberg, trumpet Lisa Casal, violin Malachy Gately, violin Vanessa Bonet, viola Jamie Carrillo, viola Jason Dobranski, cello Colin Kasprowicz, keyboard Rachel Rodgers, electric bass Joe Fogarazzo, electric guitar Gerry Rulon-Maxwell, guitar Program Notes Premonition was written as a fanfare for the Bang On A Can Festival’s 10th Birthday Party. It is scored for an imaginary orchestra of 1000 strings or, (let’s get this right,) a real orchestra of 1000 virtual (computer- midi) strings. -Phil Kline New York Counterpoint is one of a series of works for soloist accompanied by pre-recorded layers of themselves. As such, it is part of Reich's ongoing interest in the mediation between tape and live performance, as evidenced both in early works such as "It's Gonna Rain" right through to "The Cave". NYC was originally written for Richard Stoltzman. I re-recorded it under Reich's supervision in January of 1996. The sessions took place in New York on the day following the "storm of the century," when the entire eastern United States was buried under several feet of snow. I didn't quite make it to the airport in time and ended up spending 16 hours on a train from Boston to New York (it normally takes 5), arriving in a dead Manhattan at 4 am, trudging through the snow with my instruments. No cabs were running, the city was more quiet than it had been since the Dutch purchased it, and the only people on the street were the doormen at the Russian Tea Room, who were busily shoveling snow. Afterwards, the musician's union refused to pay me, claiming that they knew for a fact that no work could possibly have gone on that day. - Evan Ziporyn A Change of Hearts is a suite of dances (or a succession of grooves) which moves from section to section by tangential free-association and is bound together by the undercurrent of a single pulse, forming an analogy to the patterns of daily life, calm, lively, ordered or chaotic depending on the depth of one's perspective. To complete the diorama, a chorus of boomboxes plays the sounds of Henry Street in lower Manhattan as recorded from my studio window on a summer night. The title has an amalgam of associations: to the beating of hearts that pass one another, to the primary-colored heart paintings of pop artist Jim Dine and, ultimately, to an unstaged one-act opera by poet Kenneth Koch, one of my favorite teachers during my days at Columbia. - Phil Kline Composer Biographies Phil Kline’s music has been presented at Alice Tully Hall, BAM, The Kitchen, The Knitting Factory, the Whitney Museum and P.S. 1 and, as well as non-traditional venues such as the Brooklyn Anchorage and Central Park. He is perhaps best known for sound sculptures employing dozens or even hundreds of boom box tape players as media, such as ‘Unsilent Night,’ which has been presented in the streets of Greenwich Village annually since 1992. Recent works include a string quartet, a sextet, ‘Exquisite Corpses,’ commissioned by the Bang On A Can All-Stars and a mixed media opera, 'Into the Fire,' based on texts by Luc Sante, which was presented at The Kitchen. Recordings are available on CRI, Starkland and Cantaloupe. -Phil Kline Steve Reich has been recognized internationally as one of the world's foremost living composers. From his early taped speech works It's Gonna Rain (1965) and Come Out (1966) to The Cave (1993) his collaboration with the video artist Beryl Korot, Mr. Reich's path has embraced not only aspects of Western classical music, but the structures, harmonies, and rhythms of non-Western and American vernacular music, particularly jazz. Mr. Reich's work has been hailed by the Washington Post as "absolutely spellbinding....so original in impulse and form that it challenges all past assumptions about the goals of the art....intensely visceral and frequently almost hallucinogenic in impact." -American Music Center Biography BACK TO MENU Michael Daugherty holds degrees from Yale University, the Manhattan School of Music, and North Texas State University. He collaborated with jazz arranger Gil Evans in New York, studied with György Ligeti in Hamburg, and went to Paris as a Fulbright Scholar. He taught composition at Oberlin College from 1986 to 1990, and is currently associate professor of music at the University of Michigan. He was appointed composer-in-residence with the Detroit Symphony in 1999. Daugherty often mixes popular and concert music. His works include Desi, a tribute to Desi Arnaz; Elvis Everywhere, for three Elvis impersonators with the Kronos Quartet; Flamingo, a flamenco-inspired piece with two tambourine soloists, Lounge Lizards for two pianos and orchestra, and Sing Sing: J. Edgar Hoover. -Charley Samson.

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