• BROOKLYN PHILHARMONIA INTRODUCES MUSIC NEW WORKS BY AND MICHAEL SAHL FOR RELEASE: February 7, 1977

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John Cage's Quartets I & II for 24 Instruments and Michael Sahl's Violin Concerto will have-rheir world pre~ieres when the Brooklyn Philharmonia, under the direction of Lukas Foss, presents a program of new American music on February 22. The works of four other American composers will have their premieres on the same program.

Paul Zukofsky is soloist in the Violin Concerto and 's Flowers. Gwendolyn Belle, mezzo soprano, sings Samuel Adler's Nuptial Scene in a program that also includes °s Mme. Press Died Last Week At 90 and Tom JohnSOJl~S 60 Note Fanfares for Antiphonal Trumpets •

Violin Concerto is the third composition Michael Sahl has written for Paul. • Zukofsky. The others are: A Mitzvah For the Dead in 1966 and String Quartet 1969. Violin Concerto was completed in 1973.

John Cage, whose complex multi-media opus HPSCHD was given its New York premiere two seasons ago by the Brooklyn Philharmonia, is one of the most influential figures in avant garde arts. His use of chance and exploita­ tion of heretofore neglected sounds and silences has left its impact on the younger generation not only in music, but in the other arts, especially dance.

Mr. Zukofsky, the chief exponent of contemporary American violin music made his debut in in 1956. He has given the world premieres of concerti by Penderecki, Sessions, Earlo DLown, Iain Hamilton and Charles Wuorien. Mr. Zukofsky hM~ ~~peared with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Scottie~ z~1nphony, the and the New York Ph .j ~lld rmror- i r- ~.u addition to performing I Paul Zukofsky holds work­ s~~~s and conducts at various university campuses each year. He is director of the Center for Contemporary Performance Practice.

Gwendolyn Belle has appeared with Sarah Caldwell's Boston Opera Company, with Leopold Stokowski at Carnegie Hall and in numerous oratorio perfor­ mances as soloist throughout New England and New York. She has also appeared on television in operatic and dramatic roles.

• This third concert in the Meet the Moderns survey of American music is presented in BAM's Lepercq Space February 22 at 8:00 P.M. Tickets are $~.00 an~ are available,at t~e BAM Box Office, A & s Brooklyn, Bloom1ngdale s and Broadway s Ed1son Theatre. To charge tickets to major credit cards call Chargit at (212) 239-7177. For ticket infor­ mation call (212) 636-4100.

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