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his music mostly disappeared from the concert stage, and, when his name was mentioned at all, it was mostly not for his composition work but for his (admittedly important) performance as the baritone soloist of Peter Maxwell Davies Eight Songs for a Mad King in the 1973 Nonesuch recording. In the last few years there have been several high-profile performances of his music, including a January 20th Los Angeles premiere of his Gay Guerilla on the Jacaranda concert series in Los Angeles. Eastman’s Stay On It combines a pop music-inspired main riff repeated in the manner of a minimalist work, rather than a pop one, with elements of improvisation, noise, and randomness. UPCOMING EVENTS • NEW MUSIC • Saturday, March 2, 2019: Faculty Artist Recital, Chizuko Asada and Samuel Grodin, piano 4:00pm Daniel Recital Hall Tickets $10/7 • • Tuesday, March 12, 2019: Faculty Composers Concert, Alan Shockley, coordinator 8:00pm Daniel Recital Hall Tickets $10/7 • • Friday, April 12, 2019: ENSEMBLE New Music Ensemble, Alan Shockley, director 6:00pm Daniel Recital Hall Tickets $10/7 • • Monday, April 22, 2019: Composers’ Guild, Alan Shockley, director 8:00pm Daniel Recital Hall ALAN SHOCKLEY Tickets FREE • • Wednesday, April 24, 2019: DIRECTOR Guest Artist Recital: Aperture Duo, Adrianne Pope, violin & Linnea Powell, viola 8:00pm Daniel Recital Hall Tickets $10/7 • Wednesday, May 1, 2019: Laptop Ensemble, Martin Herman, director 8:00pm Daniel Recital Hall PERFORMER APPROACHES: Tickets $10/7 • Saturday, May 4, 2019: NEW YORK/CALIFORNIA AVANT-GARDE Celebrating Music, Johannes Müller Stosch, conductor 8:00pm Carpenter Performing Arts Center Tickets $15/10 • Tuesday, May 7, 2019: Beach Orchestra, Erin Hobbs Reichert, conductor 8:00pm Daniel Recital TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2019 8:00PM Hall Tickets $10/7 For upcoming events please call 562.985.7000 or visit the web at: GERALD R. DANIEL RECITAL HALL PLEASE SILENCE ALL ELECTRONIC MOBILE DEVICES. This concert is funded in part by the INSTRUCTIONALLY RELATED ACTIVITIES FUNDS (IRA) provided by California State University, Long Beach. PROGRAM Earth Piece VII (2015) ......................................................... Yoko Ono (b. 1933) in long-form drone music became a major influence on Riley. In 1970, Riley began studying with North Indian master vocalist Prandit Pran Nath, with whom Riley frequently played and sang in concerts over the next 26 years, until Pran Nath’s Keyboard Study No. 2 (1970) ............................................ Terry Riley (b. 1935) death in 1996. Many musicians have commissioned Riley, including, The Rova Saxophone Quartet, pianist Sarah Cahill, the Crash Ensemble, the Paul Dresher Ensemble, the Arditti Quartet, and the Bowed Piano Ensemble. In particular, Riley Approaches and Departures— has had a long-term association with Kronos Quartet, which has led to his writing Appearances and Disappearances (1994) ........Pauline Oliveros (1932-2016) 13 string quartets, a quintet, and a concerto for string quartet. Like his famous ensemble piece In C (1964), Riley’s studies for keyboard are Stay On It (1973) ....................................................Julius Eastman (1940-1990) long-form works in which the players play short melodic cells in any number of repetitions. Initially conceived as a solo work, Keyboard Study No. 2 will be performed in an ensemble realization for tonight’s concert. PERSONNEL NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE Approaches and Departures--Appearances- and Alan Shockley—director Disappearances Composer Pauline Oliveros was born in Houston, Melissa Demarjian—clarinet Texas and has taught at Mills College, the University of California, San Diego, Cameron Johnston, tuba Oberlin, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Since the 1960s she has influenced Phoebe Lin, Maria Penaloza, Esbeyde Sanchez—violin American music profoundly through her work with improvisation, meditation, Kathryn Carlson, Angel Liu—cello electronic music, myth and ritual. She is the founder of “Deep Listening,” which Tobias Banks—contrabass comes from her childhood fascination with sounds and from her works in concert Joseph Bucsit, Tom Flores, Tiffany Ta—piano music with composition, improvisation and electro-acoustics. Oliveros describes Kelly McCandless, David Saldaña—voice Deep Listening as a way of listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear no matter what you are doing. John Cage said, “Through Pauline Oliveros and Deep Listening I now know what harmony is. It’s about the pleasure of making NOTES music.” In the last few years, there have been major releases of Oliveros’ works in both recording and in score form; in 2012, Important Records released a 12-CD box set of Oliveros’ works, Reverberations: Tape & Electronic Music 1961-1970, Earth Piece VII Yoko Ono is a Japanese singer, songwriter, multimedia and late in 2013, Oliveros published an anthology of her text scores. In November and performance artist, and a political activist. She was an active part of the Fluxus 2014 the New Music Ensemble gave the world premiere of Oliveros’ work Sound group in the 1960s in New York City, and in 1980 her collaboration with her Listening, which was commissioned by the ensemble. husband John Lennon, the album Double Fantasy, topped the pop charts. In 1989 the Whitney Museum hosted a retrospective of her art, and in 2009 she received a Stay On It Golden Lion Award for lifetime achievement from the Venice Biennale. Composer, pianist, and singer Julius Eastman trained at the Curtis Institute and joined the SUNY Buffalo’s Center for the Creative and Performing Arts as a Creative Associate, where he was a founding member of S.E.M. Ensemble. Keyboard Study No. 2 Terry Riley was born in Colfax, California and Much of his music combines elements of minimalism along with often politically studied at Shasta College, San Francisco State University, and the San Francisco motivated themes and titles. Eastman’s work Gay Guerilla (ca. 1980) uses Martin Conservatory before earning a master’s degree from the University of California, Luther’s hymn “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God” as part of a gay manifesto. Eastman Berkeley. Riley met composer La Monte Young at Berkeley, whose own experiments died in obscurity with no public notice of his death for eight months after it, and 2 3.