THE MORNINGTON TRUST IN ASSOCIATION Lontano’s Biennial TICKETS LONTANO THE FIFTH Festival – created in 2006 WITH MUSICAL ELEMENTS St. James Studio – explores and celebrates 2 12 Palace St, London SW1E 5JA AND LON DON the work of major £15, £18, Concessions £10 American composers and 0 ODALINE DE FE STIVA L OF THE FIFTH St. James Studio Box Office: reflects the diversity of 1 0844 264 2140, [email protected] LA MARTINEZ AMERICAN style that is so characteristic of More than three decades ago a new 4 The Actors Church, Covent Garden contemporary American musical force exploded onto the MUSIC LONDON Bedford St, London WC2E 9ED music today. The festival contemporary music scene, when the £15, Concessions £10 programme was put together by Lontano’s Music Director dynamic Cuban-American composer Lontano Box Office for the Actors Church Odaline de la Martinez, one of Britain’s most dynamic and and conductor Odaline de la Performance: on-line booking at gifted musicians and the first woman to conduct a complete Martinez and flautist Ingrid FE STIVAL OF www.lontano.co.uk or purchase on the night BBC Prom at the Royal Festival Hall. This year’s festival also
N Culliford founded Lontano, a music celebrates Odaline de la Martinez’s 65th Anniversary. The Mornington Trust gratefully acknowledge financial assistance group whose impact on the o With a wide selection of well-known and successful from the following organisations: The Amphion Foundation, perception of new music has been profound and enduring. v composers, the festival reflects new music in America today, The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust, The Massachusetts Institute of Over the years, Lontano has featured some of the most e AMERICAN as well as diversity of gender, generation and geography. Technology, Musical Elements, The Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia noted, inventive and radical names in contemporary music, m Some of the composers Charles Ives, Virgil Thomson and John who have seen their works given valuable and sensitive University, the RVW Trust, and The Ambache Charitable Trust. Harbison are Deans of American music. Some of the
b exposure by this most adventurous of groups. composers featured such as John Adams are internationally 7th November at 8pm e MUSIC CONCERT I The ensemble has travelled the world and its international known and others, though well known in the States, are now OPERA AND MORE reputation ensures a busy schedule with performances both in r emerging voices outside their native North America, and were CELEBRATING Lontano and Eclectic Voices the UK and abroad. In 1992, Lontano turned its energies
7 selected specifically to treat UK audiences to a broader Nadine Mortimer-Smith Soprano towards recording and its label LORELT has since acquired
t spectrum of the best of American music today. ODALINE DE John-Colyn Gyeantey Tenor the same reputation for versatility, eclecticism and vision h Conductor Scott Stroman Lontano opens the festival on 7th November with a semi- enjoyed by Lontano itself. Lontano is synonymous with
- LA MARTINEZ’S Movement Director Yael Loewenstein. staged performance of The Crossing , Part II of Odaline de la
1 ‘the future in music’. Martinez’s Slavery Opera Trilogy – a reflection on Liberty.
4 65TH BIRTHDAY CONCERT II 10th November at 8pm The second and sixth concerts feature some of our guest
t Clelia Iruzun piano performers. They are Clelia Iruzun and Jenna Sherry on the
h Jenna Sherry violin 10th of November, the American ensemble Trio Appasionata on the 13th, with a lunchtime concert by the Canadian 2 CONCERT III 11th November at 8pm
L violinist Jonathan Chan on the 12th. On the 11th of November 0 BERNARD RANDS 80TH Follow us /LontanoMusic BIRTHDAY CONCERT O Lontano dedicates a whole programme in celebration of 1 @lontanouk English-born American composer Bernard Rands’ 80 th N 4
CONCERT IV 12th November at 1pm A www.lontano.co.uk Birthday, and on the 12th Lontano presents Boston Beats ,
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M featuring some of the top composers living in Boston today.
Jonathan Chan solo violin O Our last performance on November 14th is titled American E
N Originals with works by the unique voices of Derek Bermel,
CONCERT V 12th November at 8pm R Daniel Asia, and Fred Lerdahl. BOSTON’S BEATS I F The festival programme includes World Premieres from Lontano, Alison Wells Mezzo-Soprano C Rowland Sutherland solo flute E Daniel Thomas Davis, Barbara Jazwinski, Armando Bayolo and T A Conductor Odaline de la Martinez S Charles Shadle, numerous UK Premieres, and the European H N T Premieres of two Pulitzer Prize winners Caroline Shaw and John E CONCERT VI 13th November at 8pm I Harbison. Many of the composers featured including John V M Trio Appassionata Harbison and Bernard Rands, will be attending the festival. F A Most of the pieces presented will be UK or European premieres. U I
CONCERT VII November 14th at 8pm L Featured before each evening performance will be Meet the F AMERICAN ORIGINALS S Composer or Meet the Artist – a chance for audiences to learn T O
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H more about the pieces and hear what the composers and C Jeremy Huw Williams Baritone F performers have to say.
Conductor Odaline de la Martinez N N CONCERT I CONCERT II CONCERT IV CONCERT VI o o 7th November at 8pm at The Actors Church 10th November at 8pm at St. James Studio 12th November at 1pm at St. James Studio 13th November at 8pm at St. James Studio v v 7:15pm Meet the Composer 7:15pm Meet the Artists: 7:15pm Meet the Artists: e e Raymond Yiu talks to Odaline de la Martinez and Odaline de la Martinez talks to Clelia Iruzun and LUNCHTIME Arlene Sierra talks to Trio Appasionata m m Joan Anim-Addo Librettist of The Crossing . Jenna Sherry CONCERT b b TRIO CLELIA IRUZUN Jonathan Chan solo violin e e OPERA & MORE APPASSIONATA r r Lontano and Eclectic Voices, JENNA SHERRY William Bolcom
Nadine Mortimer-Smith Soprano, 7 7 Clelia Iruzun piano and Violin Suite Charles Ives John-Colyn Gyeantey Tenor, t t Jenna Sherry violin John Corigliano’s Piano Trio h h Conductor Scott Stroman, Red Violin Caprices Thomas Kotcheff - - Movement Director Yael Loewenstein. Charles Ives Steven Mackey gone into night are all the eyes UK Premiere 1 1 Sonata No.4 “Children’s Day” Repeated Notes INTERVAL 4 4 Caroline Shaw Amy Beach Odaline de la Martinez Chen Yi t t Jacques Duran on the Beach UK Premiere Romance h h Caroline Shaw Improvisations Tibetan Tunesca. UK Premiere Peter Child Limestone and Felt UK Premiere Andrew P. MacDonald Eric Moe 2 2 Primary Colours-Elementary Shapes solo piano UK Premiere Gabriela Lena Frank The Great Square of Pegasus We Happy Few UK Premiere 0 0 Gottschalk Adagio para Amantani UK Premiere Leon Kirchner 1 1 Fantasia on the Brazilian National Anthem for solo piano Steven Burke Piano Trio UK Premiere 4 4 INTERVAL In Time’s Wake UK Premiere CONCERT V Gottschalk Virgil Thomson 12th November at 8pm at St. James Studio Union Concert Paraphrase on National Airs for solo piano Four Poems of Thomas Campion for Choir 7:15pm Meet the Composers Jennifer Higdon Charles Ives Nicola LeFanu talks to John Harbison, CONCERT VII Legacy UK Premiere General Booth Enters Heaven for Choir Peter Child, Keeril Makan and Charles Shadle November 14th at 8pm at St. James Studio John Adams 7.15pm Meet the Composers INTERVAL Road Movies, Relaxed Groove, Meditative, 40% Swing BOSTON’S Joseph Phibbs talks to Daniel Thomas Davis, Odaline de la Martinez Barbara Jazwinski and Daniel Asia The Crossing (semi-staged opera) UK Premiere BEATS The Crossing , Part II of Odaline de la Martinez’s Slavery CONCERT III Lontano, Alison Wells Mezzo-Soprano, AMERICAN Opera Trilogy is based on Aphra Ben’s 17th Century novel 11th November at 8pm at St. James Studio Rowland Sutherland solo flute ORIGINALS Oroonoko : or The Royal Slave , with libretto by the 7.15pm Meet the Composer Conductor Odaline de la Martinez Grenadian poet Joan Anim-Addo. The Crossing depicts Lontano, Jeremy Huw Williams Baritone Rob Keeley talks to Bernard Rands Evan Ziporyn “the Middle Way”, the horrible Atlantic journey suffered Conductor Odaline de la Martinez by every slave to the Americas. BERNARD RANDS 80TH Speak, At-Man! UK Premiere Peter Child Armando Bayolo BIRTHDAY CONCERT Dialogue for flute UK Premiere Gestos Inútiles World Premiere Lontano, Alison Wells Mezzo-Soprano, John Harbison Daniel Thomas Davis TICKETS Real Country World Premiere St. James Studio Rowland Sutherland solo flute, Janey Miller solo The Right to Pleasure European Premiere 12 Palace St, London SW1E 5JA oboe, Conductor Odaline de la Martinez INTERVAL Derek Bermel £15, £18, Concessions £10 Keeril Makan Tied Shifts UK Premiere Most of the pieces are UK Premieres St. James Studio Box Office: Mercury Songbirds UK Premiere INTERVAL Prelude…sans voix parmi les voix… (2004) 0844 264 2140, [email protected] Barbara Jazwinski Memo 4 (1997) for solo flute Charles Shadle Shadows in Shades of Blue World Premiere Walcott Songs (2004) for mezzo and cello Red Cedar World Premiere The Actors Church, Covent Garden Fred Lerdahl INTERVAL Peter Child Bedford St, London WC2E 9ED Seeing the Unseen for ensemble and video UK Duo for violin and piano UK Premiere £15, Concessions £10 Scherzi (2008) Memo 8 for solo oboe (2000) Premiere Daniel Asia Lontano Box Office for the Actors Church Amichai Songs UK Premiere Performance: on-line booking at “…in the receding mist…” (1988) www.lontano.co.uk or purchase on the night