Freitag, 18.Oktober 2013 “Mozarteum” 18.00 Uhr Wiener Saal GESANGSKLASSE MARTHA SHARP LIEDER VON AMERKANISCHEN KOMPONISTEN DES 20. JAHRHUNDERTS AM KLAVIER: ADRIAAN DE WIT URBAN ÖSTLUND Charles Tomlinson Griffes Born: September 17, 1884, Elmira Died: April 8, 1920, New York City Education: Stern Conservatory Griffes is the most famous American representative of musical Impressionism. He was fascinated by the exotic, mysterious sound of the French Impressionists, and was compositionally much influenced by them while he was in Europe. He also studied the work of contemporary Russian composers (for example Scriabin), whose influence is also apparent in his work, for example, in his use of synthetic scales. “LE JARDIN “ (Text: Oscar Wilde) MEREDITH HOFFMAN-THOMAS “WIND” (Text: N. Lenau) ARON AXEL CORTES Aaron Copland Born: November 14, 1900, Brooklyn Died: December 2, 1990, Sleepy Hollow Education: Fontainebleau Schools Awards: Guggenheim Fellowship, Pulitzer Prize for Music He studied three years with Boulanger, whose eclectic approach to music inspired his own broad taste in that area. Upon his return to the U.S. he found composing orchestral music in the "modernist" style, he had adapted abroad, a financially contradictory approach, particularly in light of the Great Depression. He shifted in the mid-1930s to a more accessible musical style which mirrored the German idea of Gebrauchsmusik (music for use), music that could serve utilitarian and artistic purposes. “WHY DO THEY SHUT ME OUT OF HEAVEN?” ELISE VAN ES (Text: Emily Dickinson) “THERE CAME A WIND LIKE A BUGEL” (Text: Emily Dickinson) MEREDITH HOFFMAN-THOMAS “CHING-A-RING-CHAW” (The Minstrel, an Old American Song) ARON AXEL CORTES Samuel Barber Born: March 9, 1910, West Chester Died: January 23, 1981, New York City Education: Curtis Institute of Music Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music, Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition He is one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century: music critic Donal Henahan stated that, "Probably no other American composer has ever enjoyed such early, such persistent, and such long-lasting acclaim.“ Unusual among contemporary composers, nearly all of his compositions have been recorded. “A SLUMBER SONG OF THE MADONNA” (Text: ALFRED NOYES) “ MOTHER, I CANNOT MIND MY WHEEL” (Text: WALTER SAVAGE LANDER) ELISE VAN ES AUS DER CYKLUS “DESPITE AND STILL” OP.41 “A LAST SONG” “DESPITE AND STILL” (Text: ROBERT GRAVES) MEREDITH HOFFMAN-THOMAS Norman Dello Joio Born: January 24, 1913, New York City Died: July 24, 2008, East Hampton Education: Yale University, Juilliard School Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music Norman Dello Joio was a composer who achieved wide popularity in the mid-20th century with a proliferation of essentially tonal, lyrical works. In defining his musical approach, Mr. Dello Joio cited the advice of a teacher, composer Paul Hindemith, that he should never forget that his music was “lyrical by nature.“ “Don’t sacrifice necessarily to a system.” said Dello Joio. “If it’s valid, and it’s good, put it down in your mind. Don’t say, I have to do this because the system tells me to. No, that’s a mistake.” He said he took the advice to heart, and jokingly called himself an “arch-conservative.” “AFTER LOVE” (Text: John Hall Wheelock) “FAREWELL” (Text: Arthur Symons) ALICE DEPRET Dominick Argento Born: October 27, 1927 (age 85), New York City Education: Eastman School of Music, Peabody Institute Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music, Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition Dominick Argento is best known as a leading composer of lyric opera and choral music. In a predominantly tonal context, his music freely combines tonality, atonality and a lyrical use of twelve-tone writing, though none of Argento's music approaches the experimental avant garde fashions of the post World War II era. He is particularly well known for sensitive settings of complex, sophisticated texts. FROM “TO BE SUNG UPON THE WATER” “HYMN NEAR THE RAPIDS” MEREDITH HOFFMAN-THOMAS “FAIR IS THE SWAN” “THE LAKE AT NIGHT” ALICE DEPRET KLARINETTE/BASS-KLARINETTE: FLAVIA FEUDI Richard Hundley Born: September 1, 1931 (age 81), Cincinnati Education: Manhattan School of Music Continued studies in New York with Israel Citkowitz, William Flanagan, and Virgil Thomson. American composer, Richard Hundley, is best known and loved for his many concert songs now performed by several generations of famous and rising young artists. Teresa Stratas, Frederica von Stade, Marilyn Horne, Renee Fleming, Jennifer Larmore, Arlene Auger, Anna Moffo, Rosalind Elias, Anneliese Rothenberger, William Warfield, Giorgio Tozzi, Paul Sperry, David Daniels and Stephanie Blythe are among the internationally known artists who have performed his music. Hundley is recognized as a “standard American composer for vocalists” by the International American Music Competition sponsored by Carnegie Hall and the Rockefeller Foundation. “BARTHOLOMEW GREEN” “SWEET SUFFOLK OWL” (Epitaphs) JOHANNA KAPELARI “SOFTLY THE SUMMER” (Text: Richard Hundley ) MAYUMI SAWADA William Bolcom Born: May 26, 1938 (age 74), Seattle Education: Conservatoire de Paris, Mills College, University of Washington Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Music, Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition William Bolcom is an American composer and pianist. He has received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Medal of Arts, two Grammy Awards, the Detroit Music Award and was named 2007 Composer of the Year by Musical America. Bolcom taught composition at the University of Michigan from 1973– 2008. He is married to mezzo-soprano Joan Morris. “BLACK MAX” (AS TOLD BY THE KOONING BOYS) ROLAND FAUST Terry Wallstein Born: August 16, 1951, in New York Education: Harvard University, The Juilliard School, Yale School of Music Continuing Studies: David Del Tredici, Fred Lerdahl, Earl Kim, Gilbert Kalish, Ryan Edwards, Viola Peters, Nadia Boulanger in Paris as part of a Paine Traveling Fellowship from Harvard Film / TV / Recording: Producer and Composer of the 1999 musical film, “LOOK AT ME,“ funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts Composer and producer of the score for the 2002 film, “LUNCH-BOX,“ (Director, Hideaki Jimbo) Selected for the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival Producer for the recording, “SONGS OF THE AMERICAS,“ Reservoir Studio, Newfane, Vermont – 1986, funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts Awards: Song “Ophelia“ performed by prize-winner, 1982 Carnegie Hall International American Music Competition for Vocalists, New York City Concert Duo for Cello & Piano: Prize-winner, 1980 Stroud International Composers Competition, Glos. England “SUICIDE” ARON AXEL CORTES “NOVEMBER DREAMS” ARON AXEL CORTES AND MAYUMI SAWADA “THE IDEALIST AGES” ARON AXEL CORTES AND JOHANNA KAPELARI (Text: by Hugh Fleetwood) .