2005 Next Wave Festival

November 2005 2005 Next Wave Festival Mary Heilmann, Last Chance for Gas Study (detail), 2005 BAM 2005 Next Wave Festival is sponsored by: The PerformingNCOREArts Magazine Altria 2005 ~ext Wave FeslliLaL Brooklyn Academy of Music Alan H. Fishman William I. Campbell Chairman of the Board Vice Chairman of the Board Karen Brooks Hopkins Joseph V. Melillo President Executive Prod ucer presents Symphony No.6 (Plutonian Ode) & Symphony No.8 by Philip Glass Bruckner Orchestra Linz Approximate BAM Howard Gilman Opera House running time: Nov 2,4 & 5, 2005 at 7:30pm 1 hour, 40 minutes, one intermission Conducted by Dennis Russell Davies Soprano Lauren Flanigan Symphony No.8 - World Premiere I II III -intermission- Symphony No. 6 (Plutonian Ode) I II III BAM 2005 Next Wave Festival is sponsored by Altria Group, Inc. Major support for Symphonies 6 & 8 is provided by The Robert W Wilson Foundation, with additional support from the Austrian Cultural Forum New York. Support for BAM Music is provided by The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc. Yamaha is the official piano for BAM. Dennis Russell Davies, Thomas Koslowski Horns Executive Director conductor Gerda Fritzsche Robert Schnepps Dr. Thomas Konigstorfer Aniko Biro Peter KeserU First Violins Severi n Endelweber Thomas Fischer Artistic Director Dr. Heribert Schroder Heinz Haunold, Karlheinz Ertl Concertmaster Cellos Walter Pauzenberger General Secretary Mario Seriakov, Elisabeth Bauer Christian Pottinger Mag. Catharina JUrs Concertmaster Bernhard Walchshofer Erha rd Zehetner Piotr Glad ki Stefa n Tittgen Florian Madleitner Secretary Claudia Federspieler Mitsuaki Vorraber Leopold Ramerstorfer Elisabeth Winkler Vlasta Rappl Susanne Lissy Miklos Nagy Bernadett Valik Trumpets Stage Crew Peter Beer Malva Hatibi Ernst Leitner Herbert Hoglinger Jana Mooshammer Magdalena Eichmeyer Hannes Peer Andrew Wiering Reinhard Pirstinger Thomas Wall Regina Angerer- COLUMBIA ARTISTS Yuko Kana-Buchmann Philipp Preimesberger BrUndlinger MANAGEMENT LLC Gorda na Pi rsti nger Tour Direction: Gudrun Geyer Double Basses Trombones R. Douglas Sheldon, Simone Schreiberhuber Stanislaw Pasierski Moshe Leibovitz Senior Vice President Vera Kral Filip Cortes Anton Miesenberger Chie Akasaka Erich Buchmann Walter Schiffler Ka ren Kloster, Ute Gillesberger Barbara Hirschvogl Tour Coordinator Herwig Krainz Tuba Second Violins Alwin Staple Andreas Hofmeir Jeffrey Mitchell, Thomas Schaupp Roland Wiesinger Managerial Assistant Tajana Novosel-Weitzer Philipp Paireder Percussion Elizabeth Ely Torres, Ulrike Cuchiero Leonhard Schmidinger Program Manager Iwona Semik Flutes Alfred Steindl Hartwig Munz Christian Landsmann Dieter Seiler Renee O'Banks, Wolfgang Zimmermann IIdiko Deak Markus Ridderbusch Tour Manager Andrej Tarnok Peter Kapun Josef Hoffelner Edwin Schreiber Manuel Hofstatter Dan Woods, Alois Mares Oboes Backstage Manager lise Keppl inger Franz Scherzer Keyboard Daniela MUlleder Gabriele Kindler Reinhold Puri-Jobi Maestro Tour & Travel Hotels Elisabeth Nusko Tomoko Shimazaki Maria Raberger Evelyn Hollwerth Sintec-Tur, Chen-Wen Liang Clarinets Harp International and GUnther Gradischnig Werner Karlinger Domestic Air Violas Kathrin Moser Martina Rifesser Walter Haas Gernot Fresacher Miyuki Nakamura Hans Hofer Gerhard Paal Ulrike Landsmann Bassoons Peter Neundlinger Leonard Erod Monika Hemetsberger Johannes Wregg Gerhard Pitsch Christoph Wichert Sabine Luger Symphony No. 6 whirlpools of starspume silver-thin as hairs of ("Plutonian Ode") (2002) Einstein! Father Whitman I celebrate a matter that renders PHILIP GLASS Self obi ivion! Born January 31, 1937 in Baltimore Grand Subject that annihilates inky hands & pages' prayers, old orators' inspired Immortalities, ALLEN GINSBERG (text) I begin your chant, open mouthed exhaling into Born June 3, 1926 in Newark, NJ spacious sky over silent mills at Hanford Died April 5, 1997 in New York City Savannah River, Rocky Flats, Pantex, ' Burlington, Albuquerque I I yell thru Washington, South Carolina, Colorado, What new element before us unborn in nature? Is Texas, Iowa, New Mexico, there a new thing under the Sun? Where nuclear reactors create a new Thing under At last inquisitive Whitman a modern epic, the Sun, where Rockwell war-plants fabricate detonative, Scientific theme this death stuff trigger in nitrogen baths, First penned unmindful by Doctor Seaborg with Hanger-Silas Mason assembles the terrified poisonous hand, named for Death's planet weapon secret by ten thousands, &where through the sea beyond Uranus Manzano Mountain boasts to store whose chthonic ore fathers this magma-teared its dreadful decay through two hundred forty Lord of Hades, Sire of avenging Furies, millennia while our Galaxy spirals around its billionaire Hell-King worshipped once nebulous core. with black sheep throats cut, Priests face averted I enter your secret places with my mind, I speak from underground mysteries in single temple with your presence, I roar your Lion Roar with at Eleusis, mortal mouth. Spring-green Persephone nuptialed to his One microgram inspired to one lung, ten pounds inevitable Shade, Demeter mother of asphodel of heavy metal dust adrift slow motion over weeping dew, gray Alps her daughter stored in salty caverns under white the breadth of the planet, how long before your snow, black hail, gray winter rain or Polar ice, radiance speeds blight and death to sentient immemorable seasons before beings? Fish flew in Heaven, before a Ra m died by the Enter my body or not I carol my spirit inside you, starry bush, before the Bull stamped sky and Unapproachable Weight, earth o heavy heavy Element awa kened I voca Iize you r or Twins inscribed their memories in cuneiform consciousness to six worlds clay or Crab'd flood I chant your absolute Vanity. Yeah monster of washed memory from the sku II, or Lion sn iffed the Anger birthed in fear 0 most lilac breeze in Eden- Ignorant matter ever created unnatural to Earth! Before the Great Year began turning its twelve Delusion of metal empires! signs, ere constellations wheeled for twenty Destroyer of lying Scientists! Devourer of covetous four thousand sunny years Generals, Incinerator of Armies & Melter of slowly round their axis in Sagittarius, one hundred Wars! sixty-seven thousa nd ti mes retu rn ing to th is Judgement of judgements, Divine Wind over night vengeful nations, Molester of Presidents [Death-Scandal of Capital politics! Ah ' Radioactive Nemesis were you there at the civilizations stupidly industrious! beginning black dumb tongueless unsmelling Canker-Hex on multitudes learned or illiterate! blast of Disillusion? Manufactured Spectre of human reason! 0 I manifest your Baptismal Word after four billion solidified imago of practicioner in Black Arts] years I dare your reality, I challenge your very being! I I guess your birthday in Earthling Night, I salute publish your cause and effect! your dreadful presence lasting majestic as the I turn the wheel of Mind on your three hundred Gods, tons! Your name enters mankind's ear! I Sabaot, Jehova, Astapheus, Adonaeus, Elohim, embody your ultimate powers! lao, laldabaoth, Aeon from Aeon born ignorant My oratory advances on your vaunted Mystery! in an Abyss of Light, This breath dispels your braggart fears! I sing Sophia's reflections glittering thoughtful galaxies, your form at last behind your concrete & iron walls inside your fortress of rubber & translucent silicon shields of planet Earth six months and fourteen days in filtered cabinets and baths of lathe oil, around our Solar System in a Spiral Galaxy My voice resounds through robot glove boxes & the local year after Dominion of the last God ingot cans and echoes in electric vaults inert nineteen hundred seventy eight of atmosphere, Completed as yellow hazed dawn clouds brighten I enter with spirit out loud into your fuel rod drums East, Denver city white below underground on soundless thrones and beds Blue sky transparent rising empty deep & of lead spacious to a morning star high over the o density! This weightless anthem trumpets balcony transcendent through hidden chambers and above some autos sat with wheels to curb down breaks through iron doors into the Infernal hill from Flatiron's jagged pine ridge, Room! su nIit mou nta in meadows sloped to meet rust-red Over your dreadful vibration this measured sandstone cliffs above brick townhouse roofs harmony floats audible, these jubilant tones as sparrows waked whistling through Marine are honey and milk and wine-sweet water Street's summer green leafed trees. Poured on the stone black floor, these syllables are barley groats I scatter on the Reactor's core, III I call your name with hollow vowels, I psalm your This ode to you 0 Poets and Orators to come, you Fate close by, my breath near deathless ever at father Whitman as I join your side, you Con your side gress and American people, to Spell your destiny, I set this verse prophetic on you present meditators, spiritual friends & teach your mausoleum walls to seal you up Eternally ers, you 0 Master of the Diamond Arts, with Diamond Truth! 0 doomed Plutonium. Take this wheel of syllables in hand, these vowels and consonants to breath's end II take this inhalation of black poison to your heart, The Bard surveys Pluton ian history from midnight breath out this blessing from your breast on lit with Mercury Vapor streetlamps till in ou r creation dawn's early light forests cities oceans deserts rocky flats and he contemplates a tranquil politic spaced out mountains in the Ten Directions pacify with between Nations' thought-forms proliferating exhalation, bureaucratic enrich this Pluton ian Ode to explode its empty & horrific arm'd, Satanic industries projected thunder through earthen thought-worlds sudden with Five Hundred Billion Dollar Magnetize this howl with heartless compassion, Strength destroy this mountain of Plutonium with around the world same time this text is set in ordinary mind and body speech, Boulder, Colorado before front range of Rocky thus empower this Mind-guard spirit gone out, Mountains gone out, gone beyond, gone beyond me, twelve miles north of Rocky Flats Nuclear Facility Wake space, so Ah! in United States on North America, Western Hemisphere July 14, 1978 Symphony No.

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