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ABOUT BNMI The Boston New Music Initiative is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to maintaining an international network of composers, performers, conductors, directors, and champions of music in order to generate new music concerts, compositions, collaborations, and commissions. Incorporated in 2010, the organization aims to advance the careers of its members in the field of new music by serving as a resource for networking, commissioning, collaboration, and programming. Douglas McRay Daniels, Music Director Nathan Lofton, Associate Music Director The Boston New Music Initiative, Inc. 2011 – 2012 2011-2012 Board of Directors Mike Anmuth; Todd Minns; Erin Smith; Kirsten Volness Opening Night 2011-2012 Staff Featuring the works of: Administration Artistic/Production Staff Timothy A. Davis, Chief Executive Officer Erin Smith, Artistic Director Curtis Minns, Chief Financial Officer Douglas McRay Daniels, Music Director Ian DICKE Jeremy Spindler, Vice President Nathan Lofton, Associate Music Director Kirsten Volness, Director of Publicity/Marketing Rebecca Smith, Production Manager Kirsten VOLNESS Jean Foo, Director of Development Liora Holley, Orchestra Manager Kyong Mee CHOI Nate Wakefield, Marketing Associate Stephen Jean, Orchestra Librarian Clifton CALLENDER Aaron Kirschner,. Membership Coordinator Kyle Phipps, Stage Manager Jonathan Blumhofer, Publications Editor Nick Gleason, General Staff Garrett BYRNES Jared Field, Licensing Coordinator Minna Pyykhala, Graphic Designer/Pho Gabriele VANONI Sid Richardson, General Staff Jacob Richman, Media Specialist Chris ARRELL Michael GANDOLFI Saturday, October 1, 2011 7:30 pm Fenway Center Northeastern University 77 St. Stephen Street Boston, Massachusetts Concert 1 Season 3 The Boston New Music Initiative Concert Series 2 Become involved with BNMI! To join BNMI: To join our organization’s network of composers, performers, conductors, collaborators, and champions of new music, please visit our website (URL listed below). The Boston New Music Initiative Concert Series Performance Fund Membership is free to all! 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The Boston New Music Concert Series 3 The Boston New Music Initiative Concert Series 4 The Boston New Music Initiative Donors The Boston New Music Initiative would like to thank the following donors for their generous gifts in support of our organization and our mission. Our organization could not function and grow without all of their help! 2011 – 2012 Grants Elizabeth Biggs The National Christian Foundation Jessica Casto Avital Chatto 2011 – 2012 Donors Nicholas Danford Platinum Donors ($1000 and up) Danielle Delaney Jim and Chris Pursell Ian Dicke Richard and Connie Smith Janet Ferguson Howard Haimes Gold Donors ($500 and above) Nicole Halmi Michael Anmuth Hope Hussey Benjamin and Christine Davis Peter Juffernbruch Cynthia Swienton and Ian MacLachlan Kurt Levitan Christopher Lewis Silver Donors ($100 and above) Dee Malone Kikuyu Daniels Ari Massoudi Richard and Deborah Minns Adara Meyers Jadrian Miles Robert and Judith Vertalka Jane Mitchell Yulied Morales Bronze Donors ($50 and above) Cat Oettinger Catherine Belden David Olson Nicholas Croft Caroline Park Donald and Joyce Martin Anne Phillips Ben Nelson Lauretta Pope Sam and Gale Pasternack Seonghee Ryu David and Carol Richman Lois Schwartz Charlotte and Jane Swienton Bob Severino Helen Swienton Anne Shepard Ken and Jan Volness Steven Sloman Shawna Sullivan Crystal Donors (up to $50) Thomas Tachovsky and Lynn Baird Dawna Baccari John Thomas Jeremy Baguyos Carol Walker Rose Bellini The Boston New Music Initiative Concert Series 5 The Boston New Music Initiative Concert Series 6 THE BOSTON NEW MUSIC INITIATIVE Program Notes Concert Series Assembly Lines 2011-2012 Concert Season October 1, 2011 Ian Dicke Fenway Center at Northeastern University Boston, Massachusetts Assembly Lines was commissioned by the Detour New Music Ensemble. The work can be Assembly Lines (2011) Ian DICKE optionally accompanied by live video projections of factory footage from the Prelinger (b. 1982) Archives. After a brief, yet clangorous fanfare, a solo bassoon unveils the work’s BNMI Ensemble “conveyor belt” theme. Not unlike Ford’s automobile assembly line, the ensemble appends this tune with a series of interchangeable motifs, which hammer and thrash the musical Sleeping in the Forest (2006) Kirsten VOLNESS texture in an intricate web of syncopation and orchestral color. The Model T is born. (b. 1980) Lilit Hartunian, violin solo; Sleeping in the Forest Deirdre Viau, flute; Elise Kopesky, bass clarinet; Kirsten Volness Liora Holley, cello; Bill Solomon, vibraphone; Christopher Orzech, piano This piece is inspired by a poem bearing the same title by Mary Oliver, whose work I have long adored. The intimacy and uncertainty of being in the woods alone after dark is an Sublimation, for marimba and electronics (2004) Kyong Mee CHOI experience I remember vividly from childhood, especially the heightened sense of listening (b. 1971) it brings. It is a treasure to be removed from human constructs, to be but one of many Jeff Stern, marimba beings, to linger among them and find peace. Metamorphoses, for cello and electronics (2007) Clifton CALLENDER Sublimation (b. 1969) Kyong Mee Choi Cherry Kim, cello This piece represents composer’s idea based on these following meanings: From Merriam-Webster Dictionary SUBLIME means to improve or refine as if by Villanelle, for violin and harp (2006) Garrett BYRNES subliming; to cause to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state and condense back to (b. 1971) solid form; to elevate or exalt especially in dignity or honor; to render finer (as in purity or Olga Patramanskaya, violin; Maria Rindenello-Parker, harp excellence); to convert (something inferior) into something of higher worth intransitive senses; to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state; to divert the expression of (an -Brief Intermission- instinctual desire or impulse) from its primitive form to one that is considered more acceptable. Blurry Landscapes (2010) Gabriele VANONI (b. 1980) Metamorphoses BNMI Ensemble Clifton Callender Metamorphoses is a three-part canon for solo cello and computer-assisted delay that explores Argot (2000) Chris ARRELL the simultaneous presentation of multiple independent accelerandos and ritardandos. The (b. 1970) solo cello and two “virtual” cellos begin at the same time and in the same tempo. During Kimberly Soby, soprano; BNMI Ensemble the first half of the piece the virtual cellos gradually decelerate independently and then return to the original tempo, lagging behind the solo cello by four and eight beats. The As Above (2005) Michael GANDOLFI second half of the piece inverts this process so that the piece concludes with all three (b. 1956) voices ending at the same time and in the same tempo. The gradually evolving formal BNMI Ensemble design