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Rose, Liz, Printemps, Verdure ���������������������������������������������� ��������������������������� 2. Dame,���������������������������� de Qui Toute Ma Joie Vient ���������������� �������������� ������������������������ ������������������������� 3. Inviolata Genitrix ������������������� ��������������� �������������� ���������������������������� ������������������������ ���������������������������John Zorn The Remedy of Fortune (2014) (b. 1953) ������������������ ������������������������������������ ������������� ������������������������� ��������������� ������������������������ ������������������������������� ������������������������������������������ ����������������������������Cenk Ergün Celare ���������������������� ��������������������������(b. 1978) ��������������� ���������������������������������� ���������������������������� ������������������������� ����������������������� ��������������������������� Intermission ���������������� ���������������������������� ���������������� ���������������������� Cover������������������������������������ image: Cenk Ergün’s program note for ������������������������� ��������������� Celare��������������� and Sonore Claudio Monterverdi Selections������������������� from L’Orfeo, (1567–1643) arr. Kevin McFarland Caroline Shaw Ritornello 2.sq.2.j (2014) ������ ������������������������������������������������ (b. 1982) ��������������������� ��������������������������������������������� Cenk Ergün Sonore �������������������������������� NOTES ON THE PROGRAM thought to be one of the first great examples of opera (in which the music is more or less continuous as opposed to functioning interstitially between dramatic episodes) Guillaume de Machaut (c. 1300-1377) it seemed to me that the works by Monteverdi and Henry Three Machaut Pieces (arranged by Ari Streisfeld) are as united in ambition and spirit as they are in subject Notes will be announced from the stage matter. So, in this way, Monteverdi reflects the Henry, which motivated Twombly to inspire Pintscher, and a chain of influence is revealed. John Zorn (b. 1953) The Remedy of Fortune (2014) The excerpts from L’Orfeo presented tonight are all taken The Remedy of Fortune was composed for JACK Quartet from the fourth Act, in which Proserpina and Plutone, to premiere at The Cloisters Museum of the Metropolitan queen and king of the underworld, negotiate the terms by Museum of Art on May 30, 2015 as part of a program of the which Euridice is released from Hades to be reunited with music of Zorn. Orfeo to return to world of the living. Orfeo is instructed not to turn around as Euridice is to follow behind him as they escape the underworld, but startled by a noise he Cenk Ergün (b. 1978) turns around and she consequently vanishes. The spirits Celare and Sonore sing of how Orfeo’s passions have gotten the better of him The Cenk Ergün commission has been made possible by and sealed the lovers’ fates. the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by The Andrew Due to some tricky issues with the viola scordatura (which W. Mellon Foundation, and the Chamber Music America is used by Pintscher in his works, and repurposed here to Endowment Fund. allow the instrument to emulate King Plutone) the order of events in tonight’s arrangements does not follow the dramatic art of the fourth act exactly. Moreover, the goal is to musically ruminate on this veil between life and death that serves as the backdrop (both literal and figurative) for tonight’s program. Claudio Monterverdi (1567-1643) Selections from L’Orfeo arr. Kevin McFarland —Kevin McFarland As Cy Twombly’s Treatise on the Veil was inspired by Pierre Henry’s Le Voile d’Orphée, a work of musique Caroline Shaw (b. 1982) concrète based on the Orpheus myth, I thought it would be Ritornello 2.sq.2.j (2014) fitting to arrange some of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo for string Ritornello is a long-term project, begun in 2008 with a quartet to serve as a kind of ancient ancestor to Matthias minor obsession with the Prologue of Monteverdi’s Orfeo Pintscher’s works on the program today. While Henry and the baroque ritornello aria form. The first real iteration may not have had Monteverdi’s work in mind specifically of Ritornello came about through a two-week residency when composing his electronic opus, it was nonetheless with Opera Cabal in Chicago, in January 2012, during conceived as part of a larger operatic form (entitled which I performed a 20-minute solo with film and a few Orpheus 53, composed in collaboration with Pierre 4 Schaeffer for the Donaueschingen Festival.) As L’Orfeo is 5 theatrical accessories. For two performances in October Haas’ String Quartet No. 3 In iij. Noct. “mind-blowingly 2013 I expanded the film to 30 minutes and wrote parallel good.” scores, one for 8 voices (Roomful of Teeth) and one for The recipient of Lincoln Center’s Martin E. Segal Award, string quartet (ACME). This performance is an abbreviated New Music USA’s Trailblazer Award, and the CMA/ASCAP (15’) version for quartet alone. Future iterations in different Award for Adventurous Programming, JACK has performed configurations are planned for 2015, with planned revisions to critical acclaim at Carnegie Hall (USA), Lincoln Center to the film.It’s hard to explain all of the little notions (USA), Wigmore Hall (United Kingdom), Suntory Hall that fuel Ritornello. I suppose one could say it’s my own (Japan), Salle Pleyel (France), Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ exploration of the idea of the refrain. It is also about (Netherlands), La Biennale di Venezia (Italy), the Lucerne memory, simplicity, forgetting, functional harmony (as one Festival (Switzerland), Bali Arts Festival (Indonesia), friend said, “that piece is all like V-I-V-I-V”), the strangeness Reykjavik Arts Festival (Iceland), Festival Internacional of familiarity, as well as Rip Van Winkle, Nietzsche, Terrence Cervatino (Mexico), Kölner Philharmonie (Germany), Malick, and a small pile of other things. It’s also, as Donaueschinger Musiktage (Germany), and the Wittener implied by the name, a musical project that I find myself Tage für neue Kammermusik (Germany). returning to again and again. It’s not a fixed piece, no one commissioned it, and nobody really knows what it is yet. Comprising violinists Christopher Otto and Ari Streisfeld, I’m looking forward to living with some of this material violist John Pickford Richards, and cellist Kevin McFarland, for a very long time. Many thanks to the JACK Quartet for JACK is focused on the commissioning and performance playing this “.j” version of Ritornello 2.sq.2. of new works, leading them to work closely with composers John Luther Adams, Derek Bermel, Chaya —Caroline Shaw Czernowin, James Dillon, Brian Ferneyhough, Beat Furrer, Georg Friedrich Haas, Vijay Iyer, György Kurtág, Helmut Lachenmann, Steve Mackey, Matthias Pintscher, Steve Reich, ABOUT THE ARTISTS Roger Reynolds, Wolfgang Rihm, Salvatore Sciarrino, and John Zorn. Upcoming and recent premieres include works JACK Quartet by Wolfgang von Schweinitz, Toby Twining, Georg Friedrich Haas, Simon Holt, Kevin Ernste, and Simon Bainbridge. The JACK Quartet electrifies audiences worldwide with “explosive virtuosity” (Boston Globe) and “viscerally JACK operates as a nonprofit organization dedicated exciting performances” (New York Times).
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