Aritst Series presents:

City of Tomorrow Woodind Quintet

Wednesday, October 7, 2015 at 8 pm Lagerquist Concert Hall, Mary Baker Russell Music Center

Pacific Lutheran University School of Arts and Communication / Department of Music present

Artist Series presents:

City of Tomorrow Woodwind Quintet Elise Blatchford, Flute Stuart Breczinski, Oboe Rane Moore, Clarinet Nanci Belmont, Bassoon Leander Star, Horn

Wednesday, October 7, 2015, at 8 pm Lagerquist Concert Hall, Mary Baker Russell Music Center

Welcome to Lagerquist Concert Hall. Please disable the audible signal on all watches, pagers and cellular phones for the duration of the concert. Use of cameras, recording equipment and all digital devices is not permitted in the concert hall.

PROGRAM

Rotary...... (1928-2007)

Blow (1989) ...... Franco Donatoni (1927-2000)

INTERMISSION

Daedalus ...... John Aylward (b. 1980)

East Wind ...... Shulamit Ran (b. 1949) Elise Blatchford, flute

Music for Breathing ...... Nat Evans (b. 1980)

About the

Approaching the delta where contemporary classical music, experimental music, environmentalism, and humanism converge, the City of Tomorrow is a woodwind quintet with unusual ambition. Seeking to give voice to emotions of people living in the world today, the quintet makes music to provide an outlet for our reactions to environmental destruction, endless war, the pixelization of our memories, the overwhelming mass of information collected on humanity every day, and other contemporary issues.

Seeking to forge a new identity for the in the same way that Kronos Quartet did for strings, the City of Tomorrow commissions new works, seeks relevancy for older compositions from the 20th century, and continues to shatter expectations for a concert of wind chamber music. This frequently means unexpected sounds: conch shell horns, strange timbres coming from double-reed instruments, wails from the French horn, improvisation in the clarinet, and a flute that can whisper, spit, talk, and sigh.

The City of Tomorrow is a touring ensemble that has performed across the U.S. and Canada in venues ranging from concert halls to the Mayo Clinic. The group is the first woodwind quintet to win a gold medal at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition in over ten years and in 2014 was awarded a Classical Commissioning Grant from Chamber Music America.

2015-2016 Artist Series: Lagerquist Concert Hall, Mary Baker Russell Music Building Pacific Lutheran University

Stavanger Cathedral Choir, Sunday, October 4, 2015, 5:30 pm City of Tomorrow, Wednesday, October 7, 2015, 8 pm IWO Flute Quartet, Friday, October 9, 2015, 8 pm South Sound Saxophone Ensemble, Sunday, October 11, 2015, 5:30 pm Violin & Piano Recital featuring Maria Sampen and Oksana Ezhokina, Saturday, November 14, 2015, 3 pm The Best of Early Music Concert, Sunday, November 15, 2015, 3 pm Nordic Choir, Thursday, January 14, 2016, 7 pm Erik Steighner, Saxophone Recital, Friday, February 12, 2016, 8 pm Raymond DeLeon, Guest Trumpeter, Saturday, February 13, 2016, 3 pm Anna Hersey, Soprano, Thursday, February 18, 2016, 8 pm Bryan Hall, Violinist, Wednesday, February 24, 2016, 8 pm Guitar Faculty Concert, Saturday, February 27, 2016, 5 pm Cameron Bennett, Pianist, and Friends, Sunday, February 28, 2016, 3 pm Early Music Concert, Sunday, April 24, 2016, 3 pm Jennifer Rhyne, Flute, and Catherine Case, Harp, Saturday, April 30, 2016, 5:30 pm