PREVIEW NOTES

Jeffrey Khaner, flute and Charles Abramovic, piano Tuesday, October 22 – 8:00 PM Settlement Music School

Program A Flutist’s Sketchbook Pieces of Eight James Primosch Richard Wernick Born: 1956 in Cleveland, Ohio Born: 01/16/1934 in Boston, Massachusetts Composed: 2013 Composed: 2013 World Premiere/PCMS Commission World Premiere/PCMS Commission Duration: N/A Duration: N/A

A student of , , and Winner of the 1977 Pulitzer Prize in Music, Richard Richard Wernick, James Primosch has had works Wernick became renowned as a teacher during his performed by such ensembles as the Los Angeles tenure at the University of Pennsylvania. He has Philharmonic, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Collage, composed numerous solo, chamber, and orchestral the New York New Music Ensemble, and the Twenty‐ works as well as a large body of music for theater, film, First Century Consort. Among his many honors are a ballet and television. He has been commissioned by grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a some of the world’s leading performers and ensembles, Guggenheim Fellowship. Primosch’s music is described including the Philadelphia Orchestra, National as intensely lyrical and dazzlingly angular with hints of Symphony Orchestra, the American Composers jazz and sacred music. Orchestra, the Juilliard String Orchestra, and the . From 1983‐89 he served as the Piano Sonata Philadelphia Orchestra’s Consultant for Contemporary Music, and from 1989‐93 he served as Special Born: December 11, 1908 in New York, New York Consultant to Music Director Riccardo Mutti. Died: November 5, 2012 in New York, New York Composed: 1945‐46 Duo for Flute and Piano Last PCMS performance: Jeremy Denk, 2008 Duration: 23 minutes Born: November 14, 1900 in Brooklyn, New York Died: December 2, 1990 in Tarrytown, New York Generally considered one of the most important piano Composed: 1971 sonatas of the 20th century, Carter’s explores the various Last PCMS performance: Marina Piccinini, 2010 acoustical and mechanical properties of the piano. The Duration: 14 minutes first of the two movements alternates between contrasting textures with scurrying 16th notes, dense Commissioned in memory of William Kincaid (former tonalities, chromatic development, overtone principal flute of the Philadelphia Orchestra), the Duo relationships, and sympathetic vibrations. The second was premiered by Elaine Shaffer and Hephzibah movement features an intricately constructed fugue rich Menuhin at the Settlement Music School on October 3, with development and interplay. The work itself is 1971. The first movement is picturesquely Copland with cyclical in nature―unwinding into the low sustained a slowly crafted melody similar to his folk song notes from the opening. arrangements. The second movement Copland described as “a certain mood that I connect with myself―a rather sad and wistful mood, I suppose”. This meditative movement is interrupted by the more virtuosic third and final movement.