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International Workshop for Young Composers
THE LATVIAN NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INVITES YOU TO THE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP FOR YOUNG COMPOSERS Latvia’s top symphonic player, the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra (LNSO), reintroduces the international workshop for young composers. Andris Dzenītis, one of Latvia’s most excellent composers, developed the tradition by attracting numerous young authors to workshops in various Latvia’s cities – Dundaga, Cēsis, and Mazsalaca. The workshops will take place on 19–23 August, 2019, in Rēzekne – a city in the heart of Latvia’s most peculiar region Latgale. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to draw inspiration from the oldest layers of North Latgale’s traditional music. The workshop lecturers are: Andris Dzenītis (Latvia), Marco Stroppa (Italy/Germany), and Anders Nordentoft (Denmark). The workshop will conclude with a performance of the participants’ new works in the opening concert of the LNSO Summer Festival at the Latgale Embassy GORS Small Hall. THEME – METAMORPHOSIS OF NORTHERN LATGALE’S TRADITIONAL SONGS LATGALE is a glorious lakeland in the southeast of Latvia. It is the poorest and the wealthiest part of the country simultaneously: a region with the least successful economy and the richest traditional culture and music. Historically, the territory of Latvia (and Estonia) adopted Lutheranism in the 16th century, except for Latgale, which was under Polish rule at the time and remained Catholic. Another specific feature of Latgale is that the majority of population speak the Latgalian, or High Latvian language. This form of Latvian has its own literature, and the relation between the Latvian of the Lutheran regions and Latgale’s High Latvian makes an approximate analogy to the relation between the High German and Low German or even High German and Dutch. -
Morning Heroes Blissmorning Heroes
SUPER AUDIO CD MORNING HEROES BLISS Hymn to Apollo (original version) Samuel West orator BBC Symphony Chorus BBC Symphony Orchestra SIR ANDREW DaVIS Arthur Bliss,1923 Arthur Photograph by Herbert Lambert (1881 – 1936) / Mary Evans Picture Library Sir Arthur Bliss (1891 – 1975) Morning Heroes, F 32 (1930)* 55:33 A Symphony for Orator, Chorus, and Orchestra To the memory of my brother FRANCIS KENNARD BLISS and all other comrades killed in battle 1 I Hector’s Farewell to Andromache. Maestoso – L’istesso tempo – L’istesso tempo – 13:00 2 II The City Arming. Allegro alla marcia (with great spirit and elation) – Poco meno – Più mosso – Meno mosso (Moderato) – Alla marcia – Più mosso – Pochissimo meno – Andante moderato 11:14 3 III Vigil. Andante sostenuto – L’istesso tempo (Tranquillo) – Agitato – Tempo I – 7:53 4 The Bivouac’s Flame. Adagio maestoso – Più mosso – A tempo maestoso – Tempo I – Largamente 4:26 5 IV Achilles Goes Forth to Battle. Allegro con fuoco – Tranquillo – 6:45 6 The Heroes. Allegro con fuoco – Molto animato 1:38 V Now, Trumpeter, for thy Close 7 Spring Offensive. Andante maestoso – Più animato – Andante molto tranquillo – 5:32 8 Dawn on the Somme. Grave (quasi chorale) – Andante tranquillo – Pochissimo più mosso – Più mosso – Maestoso – Molto tranquillo 5:02 3 premiere recording 9 Hymn to Apollo, F 116 (1926) 9:26 for Orchestra Original version Moderato maestoso – Più mosso (assai allegro) – A tempo I (moderato) – Più mosso – Tranquillo, ma non meno mosso – A tempo I meno mosso TT 65:12 Samuel West orator* BBC Symphony Chorus* Stephen Jackson chorus master BBC Symphony Orchestra Laura Samuel leader Sir Andrew Davis 4 Sir Andrew Davis Andrew Sir © Dario Acosta Photography Bliss: Morning Heroes / Hymn to Apollo Morning Heroes by machine gun fire near barrier.. -
SMC2011 Tiffon Sprenger-Ohana
MARCO STROPPA’S COMPOSITIONAL PROCESS AND SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE BETWEEN 1980-1991 Vincent Tiffon Noémie Sprenger-Ohana Université de Lille-Nord de France (UDL3-CEAC) / Université de Lille-Nord de France (UDL3-CEAC) / Laboratoire STMS (Ircam-CNRS-UPMC) Laboratoire STMS (Ircam-CNRS-UPMC) [email protected] [email protected] ABSTRACT and intellectual scientific surroundings. For each of these parts of his workshop, it is worth describing how the The purpose of this paper is to show the creative relation- worlds of scientific research and musical invention can ship that can be established between scientific knowledge enrich each other. and musical innovation, through the example of Marco Stroppa’s work performed between 1980 and 1991 in 2. STROPPA, BOTH COMPOSER AND three specific places: Padova CSC (and the Conservatory of Venice), Ircam (Paris) and MIT (USA). SCIENTIST The following methodological tools allow to understand Marco Stroppa’s personality provides a perfect basis for the links between Stroppa’s technico-scientific innova- the study of the interactive relationship between scientific tion, and musical invention: an analysis of his training and art research. This interaction stands out in Stroppa’s years from 1980 to 1983 and of the main sources of cog- work, in particular in Traiettoria (1982-1988)1, a work nitive models; a genetic study of the work Traiettoria written for piano and computer generated sounds. As re- (1982-1988), that is, the systematic study of traces, gards the man himself, beyond his work, and following sketches, drafts, computer jotters and other genetic docu- the example of some famous predecessors such as John ments; written work published by Stroppa between 1983 Chowning or Jean-Claude Risset, Stroppa is often con- and 1991; multiple interviews with the composer and wit- sidered as a scientist by the artistic community, such his nesses of the period; a partial reconstitution under Open- competence has been proven in the field. -
Disc A: Miniaturised Concertos (Total Duration 58:48)
disc A: Miniaturised Concertos (total duration 58:48) 1 Swimming with the Stone Book (Andrew Poppy) 15:43 Kate Halsall, Fumiko Miyachii: pianos F Andrew Poppy: keyboard Joel Bell: electric guitar F Ruth Goller: electric bass F Lucy Shaw: upright bass Robert Millett & Jeremy Barnett: percussion 2 Always again (Naomi Pinnock) 13:48 Kate Halsall, Fumiko Miyachi: pianos F Delia Stevens: percussion 3 Furor (Philip Cashian) 9:14 Kate Halsall, Fumiko Miyachi: pianos Ensemble Dark Inventions, conductor Chris Leedham 4 Hanging in the Balance (Colin Riley) 19:54 I Ritual Groove II Break, Tackle and Bowl III Scent of an Ending Kate Halsall, Fumiko Miyachi: pianos James Waterworth: electronics, sound design video track not on album: Katharine Norman: Making Place 16:15 Kate Halsall (pianos) Buy the download (£2.00 or $3.50) at http://www.divineartrecords.com/CD/makingplace.htm Stream video on YouTube at https://youtu.be/RZLwjCh6j5E in case of difficulty accessing video contact [email protected] disc B: Maché (total duration 39:39) 1 Maché 1 16:20 Duncan MacLeod: Cut, Strike, Grip, Throw * Kate Halsall, Fumiko Miyachi: keyboards F Duncan MacLeod: electronics Simon Vincent: Study No. 3 * Kate Halsall, Martin Butler:pianos F Simon Vincent: electronic soundtrack Joel Bell: bell-like * Kate Halsall, Martin Butler: pianos F Joel Bell: e.guitar Ryoko Akama: an.dt.wo * Kate Halsall, Fumiko Miyachi: pianos 2 Maché 2 5:38 Dominic Murcott: Time and Place* Kate Halsall: pianos F Sounds of Chatham Historic Dockyard recorded by Chris Lewis 3 Maché 3 12:45 -
Composer Brochure
CARTER lliott E composer_2006_01_04_cvr_v01.indd 2 4/30/2008 11:32:05 AM Elliott Carter Introduction English 1 Deutsch 4 Français 7 Abbreviations 10 Works Operas 12 Full Orchestra 13 Chamber Orchestra 18 Solo Instrument(s) and Orchestra 19 TABLE TABLE OF CONTENTS Ensemble and Chamber without Voice(s) 23 Ensemble and Chamber with Voice(s) 30 Piano(s) 32 Instrumental 34 Choral 39 Recordings 40 Chronological List of Works 46 Boosey & Hawkes Addresses 51 Cover photo: Meredith Heuer © 2000 Carter_2008_TOC.indd 3 4/30/2008 11:34:15 AM An introduction to the music of Carter by Jonathan Bernard Any composer whose career extends through eight decades—and still counting—has already demonstrated a remarkable staying power. But there are reasons far more compelling than mere longevity to regard Elliott Carter as the most eminent of living American composers, and as one of the foremost composers in the world at large. His name has come to be synonymous with music that is at once structurally formidable, expressively extraordinary, and virtuosically dazzling: music that asks much of listener and performer INTRODUCTION alike but gives far more in return. Carter was born in New York and, except during the later years of his education, has always lived there. After college and some postgraduate study at Harvard, like many an aspiring American composer of his generation who did not find the training he sought at home, Carter went off to Paris to study with Nadia Boulanger, an experience which, while enabling a necessary development of technique, also lent his work a conservative, neoclassical style for a time. -
Patricia Alessandrini – Biography
Patricia Alessandrini – Biography Patricia Alessandrini’s works, principally involving live electronics, actively engage with the concert music repertoire, and issues of representation, interpretation, perception and memory. She has become increasingly involved in multimedia, theatrical and collaborative work, often involving social and political issues. Her compositions have been presented in new music festivals including Agora (Paris), Archipel (Geneva), Festival de la imagen (Manizales), Festival en tiempo real (Bogotá), Festival Synthèse (Bourges), Musica Strasbourg, Musiques Démesurées (Clermont-Ferrand), Musiques Inventives d’Annecy, Pacific New Music Festival (California), Sonorities (Belfast), Sound and Fury (NYC), and Miso Music Portugal – 25 Years (Lisbon), and performed by ensembles including Accroche Note, Arditti Quartet, Ensemble Aleph, Ensemble Alternance, Ensemble InterContemporain, Ensemble Itinéraire, Ensemble Vortex, Ives Quartet, New Millennium, Speculum Musicae, and Talujon Quartet. She has composed music for the Ballet de l’Opéra National du Rhin, and collaborated with institutions such as the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM), Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM), La Muse en Circuit, Musiques Inventives d’Annecy, Elektronmusikstudion (EMS, Stockholm) and other centres of research and production. She studied composition with Ivan Fedele, Paul Koonce, Tristan Murail, and Thea Musgrave, and participated in courses with Richard Ayres, Franco Donatoni, Brian Ferneyhough, Beat Furrer, Jonathan Harvey, Michael Jarrell, Betsy Jolas, Helmut Lachenmann, David Lang, Pär Lindgren, Philippe Manoury and Marco Stroppa. She attended an experimental course in composition and live electronics at the Conservatorio di Bologna with Adriano Guarnieri and Alvise Vidolin, the One-Year Course in Composition and Computer Music of IRCAM, and IRCAM’s Cursus II, involving the production of a multimedia project. -
MUSIC for MY LOVE, VOLUME THREE by Martin Anderson
MUSIC FOR MY LOVE, VOLUME THREE by Martin Anderson Yodit Tekle was born in Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, on 29 December 1977, and came to the United Kingdom as a refugee from the harsh internal policies of her native country. We were introduced by a mutual friend at a concert on 13 April 2008, and she stopped the breath in my throat – I hope you know the feeling when you first see someone and know that’s where you have to be – and, but for a hiatus of a few months, we spent the rest of her short life together. In the autumn of 2014 Yodit was diagnosed with stomach cancer. That kind of news throws everything into perspective and so the first thing I said to her when I went to see her in hospital was: ‘I hadn’t realised I loved you so much’. Quick as a flash, she answered: ‘So where’s the ring?’ I countered: ‘But what happens if we get married and you survive?’ We both laughed loudly – because neither of us thought for a minute that she really might die. Even so, on the bus home that evening I didn’t require much reflection to understand what needed to be done, and as soon as I got in, I went online and bought a ring. We duly got engaged on Christmas Day, when Yodit was so full of life and happiness that even now, years later, it doesn’t seem possible that she had less than five months to live.1 This project of 100+ new pieces for string orchestra had its origins in a Skype conversation with the composer Steve Elcock just after that first shocking diagnosis. -
Ensemble Intercontemporain Matthias Pintscher, Music Director
Friday, November 6, 2015, 8pm Hertz Hall Ensemble intercontemporain Matthias Pintscher, Music Director PROGRAM Marco Stroppa (b. 1959) gla-dya. Études sur les rayonnements jumeaux (2006–2007) 1. Languido, lascivo (langoureux, lascif) 2. Vispo (guilleret) 3. Come una tenzone (comme un combat) 4. Lunare, umido (lunaire, humide) 5. Scottante (brûlant) Jens McManama, horn Jean-Christophe Vervoitte, horn Frank Bedrossian (b. 1971) We met as Sparks (2015) United States première Emmanuelle Ophèle, bass flute Alain Billard, contrabass clarinet Odile Auboin, viola Éric-Maria Couturier, cello 19 PROGRAM Beat Furrer (b. 1954) linea dell’orizzonte (2012) INTERMISSION Kurt Hentschläger (b. 1960)* Cluster.X (2015) Edmund Campion (b. 1957) United States première Kurt Hentschläger, electronic surround soundtrack and video Edmund Campion, instrumental score and live processing Jeff Lubow, software (CNMAT) * Audiovisual artist Kurt Hentschläger in collaboration with composer Edmund Campion. Ensemble intercontemporain’s U.S. tour is sponsored by the City of Paris and the French Institute. Additional support is provided by the FACE Foundation Contemporary Music Fund. This performance is made possible, in part, by Patron Sponsor Ross Armstrong, in memory of Jonas (Jay) Stern. Hamburg Steinway piano provided by Steinway & Sons of San Francisco. Cal Performances’ – season is sponsored by Wells Fargo. PLAYBILL ORCHESTRA ROSTER ENSEMBLE INTERCONTEMPORAIN Emmanuelle Ophèle flute, bass flute Didier Pateau oboe Philippe Grauvogel oboe Jérôme Comte clarinet Alain -
DVD Extra 10. Thomas Adès and Tal Rosner in Conve
CTP Template: CD_DPS1 COLOURS Compact Disc Booklet: Double Page Spread CYAN MAGENTA Customer YELLOW Catalogue No. BLACK Job Title Page Nos. IN SEVEN DAYS NANCARROW STUDIES for piano and orchestra with moving image (2008) Nos. 6 & 7 Thomas Adès music Conlon Nancarrow, arr. Thomas Adès Tal Rosner visuals Tal Rosner and Sophie Clements visuals 1. Chaos – Light – Dark [8.25] 8. Study No. 6 [3.39] 2. Separation of the waters into sea 9. Study No. 7 [10.00] and sky [4.14] THOMAS ADÈS & ROLF HIND pianos 3. Land – Grass – Trees [5.35] Recorded in Kings Place Hall 2 on 12 June 2011 Arrangement commissioned by Fondazione Katia 4. Stars – Sun – Moon [3.16] & Marielle Labèque www.fondazionekml.org Published by Schott Music GmbH & Co. KG, Mainz Fugue 5. Creatures of the Sea TOTAL TIMINGS: [42.36] and Sky – [3.05] 6. Creatures of the Land [2.29] DVD Extra 7. Contemplation [1.53] 10. Thomas Adès and Tal Rosner in conversation NICOLAS HODGES piano Recorded at the Southbank Centre, London on 3 August 2011 THOMAS ADÈS conductor Filmed and Produced by Kieran Morris of De Novo Arts LONDON SINFONIETTA Facilitated by Marshall Marcus Recorded live in concert at Birmingham Symphony Hall on 11 March 2011 Commissioned by the Southbank Centre, London and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association Published by Faber Music Ltd Generously supported by Simon Yates and Kevin Roon In Seven Days performed as part of a London Sinfonietta UK tour supported by Sound and Music Engineered and Produced by Ian Dearden of Sound Intermedia Project Management by Claire Stevens Design - Darren Rumney P2011 Signum C2011 Signum www.signumrecords.com 20 1 291.0mm x 169.5mm CTP Template: CD_DPS1 COLOURS Compact Disc Booklet: Double Page Spread CYAN MAGENTA Customer YELLOW Catalogue No. -
Empyreanensemble Laurie San Martin & Kurt Rohde, Directors Department of Music Presents The
DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC PRESENTS THE empyreanensemble Laurie San Martin & Kurt Rohde, directors DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC PRESENTS THE EMPYREAN ENSEMBLE Directors Kurt Rohde Laurie San Martin Core Players Terrie Baune, violin Tod Brody, flute Chris Froh, percussion Peter Josheff, clarinet Thalia Moore, cello Guest Artists David Moschler, conductor Michael Orland, piano Pre-Concert Speaker Sandra Graham Administrative & Production Staff Phil Daley, events & publicity manager Josh Paterson, events & production manager Rudy Garibay, senior graphic designer Jessica Kelly, senior writer David Moschler, Empyrean student production manager EMPYREAN ENSEMBLE Through compelling performances and diverse programming, Empyrean Ensemble offers audiences an opportunity to hear original works by emerging and established composers alike. It has premiered over 200 works and performed throughout California, including appearances at many prominent music festivals and concert series. Empyrean has two full-length CDs released under the Centaur and Arabesque labels and has been the featured ensemble on others. Founded in 1988 by composer Ross Bauer as the ensemble-in-residence at UC Davis, Empyrean Ensemble now consists of a core of some of California’s finest musicians with extensive experience in the field of contemporary music. 2 PROGRAM The 51% Majority: Modern Works by Female Composers The Memory Palace (2006) for clarinet, cello, and piano Ann Callaway (world premiere) Peter Josheff, clarinet; Thalia Moore, cello; Michael Orland, piano Piano Etudes (1992) Unsuk -
John Cage Sonatas & Interludes
ZUBIN KANGA JOHN CAGE SONATAS & INTERLUDES Wednesday 12 October 6pm | Salon Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre in association with Melbourne Festival ARTIST Zubin Kanga, solo piano PROGRAM John Cage (1912–1992) Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano (1946–1948) Sonata I Sonata II Sonata III Sonata IV First Interlude Sonata V Sonata VI Sonata VII Sonata VIII Second Interlude Third Interlude Sonata IX Sonata X Sonata XI Sonata XII Fourth Interlude Sonata XIII Sonata XIV and XV (“Gemini” – after the work by Richard Lippold) Sonata XVI ABOUT THE MUSIC John Cage towers over modern American music as one of its most original musical voices, and most influential iconoclasts. Cage’s music spans many styles and approaches, from his work with chance operations (using dice and the Chinese ‘Book of Changes’, the I Ching) to his many collaborations with dancers and choreographers including his partner, Merce Cunningham, to his experimentation with graphic notation. Perhaps his most famous work is 4’33” (1948). Consisting of four minutes and 33 seconds of silence, it’s often unfairly used as the punchline for jokes about experimental music, though it deserves to be seen as Cage intended it – as a deeply profound exploration of the rituals of performance and the intensity of performed silence: two obsessions that can be found throughout his oeuvre. One of Cage’s most significant innovations was his radical expansion of the ‘prepared piano’. Although he was not the first to stick objects between the strings of a piano to alter its sound, the extent and complexity of preparations that Cage developed set a new benchmark which has rarely been surpassed. -
MARCO STROPPA Miniature Estrose – Primo Libro Per Pianoforte D’Amore
MARCO STROPPA Miniature Estrose – Primo Libro per pianoforte d’amore Erik Bertsch © Roberto Masotti Marco Stroppa (*1959) Miniature Estrose Primo Libro (1991 – 2003; rev. 2009) 1 Passacaglia canonica, in contrappunto policromatico 08:30 2 Birichino, come un furetto 03:41 3 Moai 09:56 4 Ninnananna 06:04 5 Tangata Manu 10:00 6 Innige Cavatina 11:40 7 Prologos: Anagnorisis I. Canones diversi ad consequendum 13:08 TT 63:00 Erik Bertsch, piano 3 Miniature Estrose “Miniature” as it is used here does not no. Each Miniatura is based on a com- so much refer to a piece that is brief plex system of resonances created by as it does to one that is fashioned in a sizeable number of keys being low- great detail, like the elaborately dec- ered silently prior to the performance orated initials of medieval illuminated and then held by the sostenuto ped- manuscripts or some of the miniatures al, leaving the relative strings free to from India. “Estrose” is an untrans- vibrate throughout the duration of latable word with various shades of the Miniatura. In this manner, the oth- meaning, having to do with imagina- er notes played interact with the free tion, creative intuition, inspiration and strings, generating countless sympa- genius, but also extravagance and ec- thetic resonances and giving rise to centricity. Suffice it to say that Antonio the formation of latent harmony. This Vivaldi chose this same word for his mechanism, which lies at the basis of L’Estro Armonico. a metamorphosed instrument which Stroppa refers to as the pianoforte Marco Stroppa, from d’amore, demands a radical change Miniature Estrose, Primo Libro – from the performer in his or her ap- Casa Ricordi, Milano proach to the piano.