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Anne Eisenberg: Cassatt String Quartet, Ursula Oppens P + REVIEWS LIVE PERFORMANCE p.6 | CD p.12 | BOOK p.22 ANNE EISENBERG: CASSATT STRING QUARTET, URSULA OPPENS p. 6 NMC TALKS WITH TOBIAS PICKER p.16 J.K. RANDALL: HAVE YOU HEARD? (NEW BOOKS ON JOHN CAGE) p.22 Volume 19, Issue 1 Spring 2011 $6.25 U.S. Vol xx, No. x – Spring 2011 New Music Connoisseur is a semi-annual periodical focusing on the work of the composers of our time. +++ PUBLISHED BY Center for Contemporary Opera Jim Schaeffer, General Director Durwood E. 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All material © New Music Connoisseur, 2011 2 | New Music Connoisseur IN THIS ISSUE +++ Contributors ......................................................... 4 +++ LIVE PERFORMANCE REVIEWS Cassatt String Quartet, Ursula Oppens ..................... 6 Ana Milosavjevic at Le Poisson Rouge ..................... 7 New Chamber Music in Paradise ............................. 8 A Dream Fulfilled .................................................... 9 Fantastical Sounds From Near and Far .................... 11 20th Century Operas in the 21st Century ................ 12 Let There Be Light Et Al ....................................... 15 +++ FEATURE nmc talks with Tobias Picker .................................. 16 +++ CD REVIEWS Oldies But Goodies ............................................... 18 In Brief ................................................................ 19 +++ BOOK REVIEWS Kenneth Silverman / Kyle Gann .............................. 22 The Hollywood Film Music Reader ......................... 28 Previous Issues ................................................. 31 spring 2011 | 3 contributors Barry L. Cohen is a devotee of contemporary William Meyers’ work is in the collection of music in all its various manifestations. After the New York Public Libary and elsewhere. His a career in publishing (Fairchild, Hearst, photos are available at the Nailya Alexander Curtis, Forbes), Barry founded New Music Gallery in Manhattan. Connoisseur 18 years ago, and until 2010 served as its Publisher and Editor-in-Chief. He Renzo Oliva, retired Vice Consul of Italy studied music privately with Eric Ewazen and in Philadelphia, has since 1966 devoted Adrian Carr and created original and realized himself to Scrap Art (“a merciful ecological music in his own MIDI studio, including an gesture, meant to offer a new life to scraps original score for a 16-mm. film. picked up in the streets or fields, where they were rotting, by launching them into a new Cornelius Dufallo (composer/violinist) is an aesthetical dimension of reality.”) His works innovator at the forefront of the American have been shown in twenty solo exhibitions contemporary music scene. The New York internationally. He is also the author of short Times praises his “alluring” performances stories, opera libretti, and is at work on his and “imaginative” compositions. Dufallo third novel. plays acoustic and electric violin and moves seamlessly from classical to pop and jazz Barry O’Neal, a longtime Upper-Westsider, styles. His debut solo album, “Dream Streets”, has enjoyed singing this year with the is a collection of his own compositions choir of St. Michael Church, for whom he for violin. Time Out New York calls it “a arranged the Brahms Geistliche Lied, Op. 30 beautiful, evocative disc of electroacoustic for small orchestra. He continues to write soundscapes.” Dufallo is a founding member music and poetry and enjoy the antics of his of the ensemble Ne(x)tworks and performs granddaughter, Kayleigh. with the string quartet ETHEL. He has toured throughout the US, Europe, Asia, and Composer and writer J. K. Randall is enjoying Australia, and recorded for Mode, Tzadik, his 20th year of retirement in Princeton New Cantaloupe, and Innova. Jersey, with his wife Ruth, and their dogs Benji and Lacey, and turtle Theophilus. Anne Eisenberg covers new developments in science and technology in the column Andrew Violette, keyboardist/composer, lives “Novelties” that she writes for the Sunday in Bushwick, Brooklyn. His new 3 CD Sonata business section of The New York Times. for the Creation of the World for organ, played by the composer, will be out on Composers Leonard J. Lehrman is Founder/Director Concordance Records in September. of the Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus, Conductor of the Hanseaten Chor, former Ben Yarmolinksy, composer of “Clarence & Associate Editor of Opera Monthly, former Anita”, “The Constitution: a secular oratorio” Editor of Opera Today, and former Assistant and many other works, resides in New York Chorus Master of the Metropolitan Opera. City. For more info: benyarmolinsky.com He has completed works of and authored books on Marc Blitzstein and Elie Siegmeister published by Boosey and Hawkes, Praeger, and Scarecrow. The composer of 200 works to date, he has written numerous articles for NMC, all posted at http://ljlehrman.artists-in- residence.com/NewMusicConnoisseurList.html. on the cover: Don Giovanni all’inferno Found objects / mixed media assemblage made from bed springs in combination with other materials and artist pigments 4 | New Music Connoisseur By Renzo Oliva on the cover: Don Giovanni all’inferno Found objects / mixed media spring 2011 | 5 assemblage made from bed springs in combination with other materials and artist pigments By Renzo Oliva LIVE PERFORMANCE reviews All four of the evening’s pieces were quintets, “Ursula is a fantastic pianist,” she said of Ms. CASSATT STRING and all four were executed with the precise, Oppens, “and so I composed the movement QUARTET, angular playing of the Cassatt strings and the with her in mind.” dashing piano passagework of Ms. Oppens. URSULA OPPENS The first half of the program offered three Ms. Oppens had her hands full with the virtuo- contemporary pieces; the second half, the sic piano passages in the piece, but she had Works by Frank, Fang, Tower, and Brahms; familiar Johannes Brahms piano quintet in f other musical roles, too, during the concert. To Symphony Space, May 6, 2011. minor, op. 34. evoke the sounds of winter, she shook a set of sleigh bells that lay ready nearby on the piano. by Anne Eisenberg The opening quintet, Ghosts in the Dream And she was not alone as percussionist. The Machine, composed in 2005, is a two-move- violinist Muneko Otani occasionally laid down The stage at Symphony Space, the perform- ment work by Gabriela Lena Frank, inspired, she her violin and took on the triangle or the water ing arts center on the Upper West Side of says in the program notes, by the artwork of phone, an acoustic instrument with a circle of Manhattan, was just as you might have Simon Dinnerstein and his “themes of mystery, crown-like, upright metal rods that she struck expected it to be on May 6th, just before the night, and wonder.” The piano opened and with a drumstick. evening performance of the Cassatt String closed the piece, leading with dreamy, fractured Quartet and pianist Ursula Oppens. There was arpeggios in long, syncopated sequences and Ms. Fan, an admirer of Sergei Prokofiev and a gleaming ebony grand piano ready for Ms. ending with fading, single notes from the Bela Bartok, said that both composers were Oppens, and four seats near it for the quartet. keyboard. The composer effectively juxtaposed inspirations for the propulsive Lake Erie. Ms. Fan the percussive power of the piano with the is also the composer of Resurrection, commis- But that’s about all that was standard in the smooth strokes of the strings throughout the sioned by the American Composers Orchestra auditorium as people filled the hall in prepara- haunting piece. in 2008. tion for the concert. Scattered through the audience was a welcome novelty to the usual The misty mood of Ghosts in the Dream The first half of the program closed with the chamber music concert: dozens of youngsters, Machine was instantly dispelled when the somber Dumbarton Quintet, composed in some teen-aged students of the Manhattan- second piece, Images of Lake Erie by Fang Man, 2008 by Joan Tower. The piece, which has a based quartet, others children of the musicians. opened with a burst of pounding, propulsive more traditional melodic base than the earlier The young people talked, jumped up and down, piano. Commissioned by Symphony Space for pieces in the program, featured lyrical solos for exchanged toys, and created an excited, laugh- the Cassatt Quartet and Ursula Oppens, Lake the violin. Ms. Tower, like Ms. Fan before her, ing din in the hall. Erie had its premiere at the concert. was present for the concert and took a bow with the musicians. But when the five performers took the stage at Ms. Fang, known as Mandy to her friends, but 7:30 p.m., silence fell, just as it should (punctu- more formally in the program notes as Man, After the intermission, during which the cellist, ated by the occasional
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