PERFORMERS

Timothy Steeves, violin Dian Zhang, violin Jarita Ng, viola Jakob Nierenz, cello Austin Lewellen, double bass Christina Hughes, flute and piccolo DEBUT CONCERT Katie Hart, oboe and english horn Thomas Frey, clarinet and bass clarinet Ben Roidl-Ward, bassoon and contrabassoon Michael Chen, trumpet (Mazzoli only) Daniel Egan, trumpet Daniel Hawkins, horn Tanner Antonetti, trombone Craig Hauschildt, percussion (Norman and Cerrone) Brandon Bell, percussion (Norman and Adès) Yvonne Chen,! piano Tuesday, December 6, 2016 Led by conductor, Jerry Hou 7:30pm ! SPECIAL THANKS TO Gallery at MATCH Ally Smither, Loop38 singer and staff Ling Ling Huang, Loop38 violinist and staff 3400 Main Street Fran Schmidt, recording Brian Hodge, Anthony Brandt, and Chloe Jolly, Musiqa Houston, TX 77002 Scuffed Shoe ! Lynn Lane Photography ! ! MORE INFO AT ! WWW.LOOP38.ORG new music in the heart of Houston www.loop38.org /Loop38 /instaloop38 /Loop38music PROGRAM Living Toys (1993) Thomas Adès (b.1971) Try (2011) Andrew Norman (b.1979) 18 min. 14 min. I. Angels Winner of the 2016 Grawemeyer Award, Andrew Norman is a Los Angeles- II. Aurochs based composer whose work draws on an eclectic mix of sounds and -BALETT- notational practices from both the avant-garde and classical traditions. He is III. Militiamen increasingly interested in story-telling in music, specifically in the ways non- linear, narrative-scrambling techniques from other time-based media like movies IV. H.A.L.’s Death and video games might intersect with traditional symphonic forms. -BATTLE- V. Playing Funerals Recovering (2011/12) Christopher Cerrone (b.1984) -TABLET- 8 min. “When the men asked him what he wanted to be, the child did not name any of Brooklyn-based composer Christopher Cerrone is internationally acclaimed for their own occupations, as they had all hoped he would, but replied: ‘I am going music which ranges from opera to orchestral, from chamber music to electronic. to be a hero, and dance with angels and bulls, and fight with bulls and soldiers, Winner of a 2015 Rome Prize and a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize, his music and die a hero in outer space, and be buried a hero’. Seeing him standing there, is characterized by a subtle handling of timbre and resonance, a deep literary the man felt small, understanding that they were not heroes, and that their lives fluency, and a flair for multimedia collaborations. were less substantial than the dreams which surrounded the child like toys.” - Anon. (from! the Spanish) The Sound of the Light (2008) Missy Mazzoli (b.1980) A native of London, Thomas Adès has integrated recognisable elements of 5 min. popular culture and music into complex works which deal with the most profound themes. Adès’ music has attracted numerous awards and prizes, Missy Mazzoli inhabits a gorgeous and mysterious sound-world that melds including the Grawemeyer Award (2000) of which he is the youngest-ever indie-rock sensibilities with formal training from Louis Andriessen, David Lang, recipient. He is the only composer to have won the Royal Philharmonic Prize for and others. The recipient of a 2015 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Award, Large-scale composition three times. Adès is also a renowned interpreter of a four ASCAP Young Composer Awards, and a Fulbright Grant, she was recently range of music as conductor and pianist. deemed “one of the more consistently inventive, surprising composers now working in New York” (New York Times) and “Brooklyn’s post-millenial This program was made possible, in part, by the generous support of Musiqa. Mozart” (Time Out New York).

INTERMISSION Join us immediately Herbstlied (1992, rev. 2009) Hans Abrahamsen (b.1952) after the concert 6 min. down the block (a two minute walk!) at In a creative life of almost half a century, Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen Wooster’s Garden has more than once had the courage to stop, and the equal courage to start again – freshly, out of a clear reconsideration of where he was before. His (3315 Milam Street) allegiances are shown by the many composers whose works he has, as a for a reception! master orchestrator, reconceived: Bach and Ligeti, Nielsen and Schumann, Schoenberg and Debussy.