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The Dream of Now The Newsletter of Composer Joelle Wallach Fall 2012 Volume 4, Number 3 New Joelle Wallach CDs from 4Tay Joelle at Copland House Records Joelle Wallach is one of eight composers from five states that have been selected for coveted, all-expenses-paid residencies 4Tay Records has issued two wonderful during the 2012-13 season at Aaron new CDs of Joelle Wallach's songs, Copland's National Historic Landmark chamber and solo piano music: house in New York's lower Hudson Valley.
This year's jury, which included composers Alvin Singleton (a former Copland House Resident), Carman Moore, and Pulitzer Prize-winner Paul Moravec, reviewed the applications of 85 composers from 30 states.
"This year's pool of applicants was especially impressive," noted Copland House Artistic and Executive Director Michael Boriskin, "which made the jury's work selecting only a small percentage that much more difficult. The winners reflect a wide range of creative styles and personal backgrounds."
The residents will live and work, one at a time, at Copland's rustic, hilltop The Door Standing Open home one hour north of midtown Manhattan for stays ranging from three- CD4034 to eight-weeks. Joelle will be at Copland House for three weeks in Spring
2013. The Door Standing Open celebrates composer Joelle Wallach's ongoing Visit Copland House online at http://www.coplandhouse.org/. engagement with vocal music, with melody and with her conviction of their connection to the collective unconscious through folk music and musical gesture. The songs selected reach through several decades and touch many interests and issues in Wallach's life. The two non-vocal chamber works grew directly from the songs represented before them on the disk.
Performers are the University of North Texas Conductors String Quartet; tenor Stephen Alexander Carroll; soprano Marie Therese Mattingly; mezzo-soprano Avis Stroud; baritone Jeffrey Snider; violinist Felix Olschofka, violist Susan Dubois, cellist Nikola Ruzevic and pianist Pamela Mia Paul. 2012-2013 Season Performances and You can purchase The Door Standing Premieres Open at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/joellewallach 2012-2013 has been and continues to be a very busy season for and Amazon.com or digitally at Naxos Music performances of Joelle Wallach's music, including several World Library. Premieres. Fall highlights include:
Sunday, October 7 - World Premiere of Cassandra's Lament, performed by the Vassar College Women's Chorus, Christine Howlett, Conductor at The Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims in Brooklyn, NY. This was part of the National Conference of the Jane Austen Society.
The Nightwatch CD4035 Joelle wrote, "Cassandra's Lament, commissioned by the Jane Austen To be released in early December, this Society of North America, is a collage of melodies and words, elements of collection of songs, solo piano and chamber Cassandra Austen's psychic soundscape at the time of her sister Jane's works commemorates Joelle's time as death...brief excerpts from the traditional, serene Anglican Requiem chant Visiting Professor of Composition at the are juxtaposed with phrases from Cassandra's distraught and poignant College of Music of the University of North letters, lines from Jane's formal prayer, hanging at St. Nicholas' Church, Texas at Denton, and celebrates her Steventon, and the simple, agonized words Jane uttered on her ongoing engagement with melody and deathbed." melodic counterpoint. It features performances from among her favorite The piece was also performed on November 3 by the Vassar College performers from the University of North Women's Chorus at the Colleges' Skinner Hall of Music in Poughkeepsie, Texas and beyond. NY.
Performers are tenor Sam McKelton, Wednesday, October 10 - Lagrimas y Locuras, Mapping the Mind of a soprano Maria Therese Mattingly, mezzo- Madwoman was performed by pianist Ana Cervantes at 12:00 noon at soprano Isabelle Ganz, pianists Elizabeth Salon del Consejo Universitario and at 8:00 PM at Casa del Pozo, both in Rodgers, Chie Watanabe, Chrisdtopher Guanajuato, Mexico. The Salon del Consejo Universitario performance Vassiliades and Eva Polgar, vibraphonist was part of Monarca Week at the International Cervantino Festival. William Trigg and bassoonist Gines Didier- Cano. Joelle has written of the piece, "Lagrimas y Locuras doesn't recount the story of La Llorona, but instead imagines La Llorona's reflections, You can purchase The Nighwatch at recollections and her inner monologue as she walks, eternally distraught http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/joellewallach2 along the banks of innumerable Mexican waterways." and Amazon.com or digitally at Naxos Music Library. The piece was commissioned by Ana Cervantes and her Song of the Monarch Project.
About Joelle Wallach Thursday, October 11 - World Premiere of Scalerica d'oro for cello and percussion, performed by cellist Regina Mushaba and percussionist William Trigg at The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in the City of New York.
Joelle wrote about the piece, ""Scalerica d'oro, for cello and middle Eastern percussion, was commissioned in 2012 by the Shearith Israel League, for premiere by cellist Regina Mushaba at the historic Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue of the City of New York. Scalerica d'oro combines Middle Eastern percussion patterns, based on Arabic rhythmic modes with melodies and gestures of the Jewish Mediterranean. They interact and exuberantly engage to create an exhilarating vision of hope, joy and reconciliation."
The cello and piano version of Joelle's Shadow, Sighs and Songs of Longing, (originally a concerto for cello and orchestra) was also on the Joelle Wallach composes music for program. orchestra, chamber ensembles, solo voices and choruses. Her String Quartet 1995 November 11 - World Premiere of Quietus for treble choir and string was the American Composers Alliance orchestra by the Colorado State University Women's Chorus, Stacy Miller, nominee for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize in conductor and the CSU Concert Orchestra, Leslie Stewart, conductor in Music. The New York Philharmonic the Organ Recital Hall at the University Center for the Arts, Colorado State Ensembles premiered her octet, From the University in Fort Collins. Forest of Chimneys, written to celebrate
their 10th anniversary; and the New York The performance was conducted by CSU Director of Orchestras Wes Choral Society commissioned her secular Kenney. oratorio, Toward a Time of Renewal, for
200 voices and orchestra to commemorate And, coming right up: their 35th Anniversary Season in Carnegie
Hall. Wallach's early training in piano, voice, December 2 - Let Evening Come, performed by soprano Danielle theory, bassoon and violin included study at Freeman as part of her 8:30 PM performance at Drom NYC, 85 Avenue A the Juilliard Preparatory Division. In 1984 in Manhattan. the Manhattan School of Music, where she
studied with John Corigliano, granted her its The song is based on first doctorate in composition. Much more one of poet Jane about her at www.joellewallach.com/. Kenyon's final poems, written as Kenyon QUICK LINKS came to accept her rapidly approaching Joelle Wallach www.joellewallach.com/ death. She observes CD Baby life's abundance of http://www.cdbaby.com/ beauty and blessings New York Philharmonic as she comes to see www.nyphil.org her own death as a Dallas Symphony natural and inevitable www.dallassymphony.com/ part of life's lush landscape. Drom NYC
For more about Joelle Wallach, contact It has been recorded as part of Joelle's recent The Door Standing Open CD on 4Tay Records. Jeffrey James Arts Consulting 45 Grant Avenue For directions and more about Drom, visit http://www.dromnyc.com/. Farmingdale, NY 11735 USA Tel: 516-586-3433 E-mail: [email protected] Website: 2012-13 Lectures www.jamesarts.com Joelle Wallach continues to be a popular and in- demand speaker about the world of classical music for the New York Philharmonic and Dallas Symphony.
On October 18, 19, 20 and 21, she presented Dvorak: Bohemia, London and New New York City's Lincoln Center York lectures for the Dallas Symphony's Performance Preludes series at Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, TX.
Then, on November 8, 9, 10 and 13, she spoke about Brahms' Melancholy Search for Family for the New York Philharmonic Pre-Concert Lecture Series at Lincoln Center's Avery Fischer Hall.
Coming up:
Tuesday, December 18 at 6:30 PM Wednesday, December 19 at 6:30 PM Thursday, December 20 at 6:30 PM Friday, December 21at 6:30 PM Saturday, December 22 at 6:30 PM G. F. Händel - Messiah The New York Philharmonic Pre-Concert Lectures Avery Fischer Hall, Lincoln Center Information and tickets available through the New York Philharmonic - 212-875-5656 or www.nyphil.org.
and in March:
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 at 5:30 PM Thursday, March 21, 2013 at 6:30 PM Friday, March 22, 2013 at 1:00 PM Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 7:00 PM Bach, Time and Timelessness The New York Philharmonic Pre-Concert Lectures Avery Fischer Hall, Lincoln Center, NYC Information and tickets available through the New York Philharmonic 212-875-5656 or www.nyphil.org.
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