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Neuwirth Chamber Ensemble One Creates the Possibility for Multiple Simultaneous Contrapuntal Webs of Identical Instruments QNotes 73 (Final) 12/1/08 10:03 am Page 2 Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Limited February 2008 2008/1 Elliott Carter, the elder statesman Sommerville crossed the of American music whose 100th Atlantic last month to give birthday falls on 11 December the Dutch premiere at the Jenkins 2008, is the focus of attention Concertgebouw in around the world this year with Amsterdam with the Radio Stabat Mater Included in this issue: Meredith Heuer Photo: a series of festival features, Kamer Filharmonie Birtwistle concert profiles and new conducted by Peter Eötvös, premiere Interview exploring recordings. and further European The Minotaur's labyrinth performances are scheduled Following the Celebrations in the USA were for Settembre Musica in Turin worldwide launched with the Juilliard School’s and Milan and by the City of success of The Focus! Festival: All About Elliott last Birmingham Symphony Armed Man and month, featuring more than Orchestra and Sakari Oramo Requiem, Karl 30 Carter works with the opening on Carter’s birthday itself. Jenkins has and closing concerts conducted by composed a new Pierre Boulez and James Levine. An Elliott Carter has not only “Carter gives the soloist a workout in some rapid reached his 100th year but figurations, but the dominant character of this Stabat Mater to be extensive five-day retrospective is offered at piece is surprisingly lyrical… He uses the horn’s premiered at the Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary has also composed new long solo lines as opportunities for vivid Liverpool Anglican Music (20-24 July), including world works for the celebrations. experiments in timbre, as if challenging the soloist Photo: Mitch Jenkins Cathedral on premieres of Sound Fields for string to see how many masks he can don in quick 15 March. One of orchestra and Mad Regales for six solo succession. Sommerville rose gamely to the the major events in Liverpool’s City of voices, and culminating with the Boston challenge, navigating the passagework with Culture celebrations, the first performance Symphony Orchestra performing his apparent ease and demonstrating a wide MacMillan kaleidoscope of tone, by turns powerfully focused, features young Lithuanian mezzo Jurgita magnum opus Symphonia: sum fluxae Adamonyte and the Royal Liverpool from passionate opera to pretium spei. darkly veiled, raspy and aggressive, and brightly St John Passion gleaming. The composer was on hand to take Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, In Europe centenary events began with two bows, smiling widely, and then surely conducted by the composer. The Stabat major features in Madrid and Turin, and repairing off to write more music.” Boston Globe Mater is simultaneously released on CD by continue via concerts in Amsterdam, Paris, “It is a thoroughly agreeable piece - lucid in its mix EMI (509 2832) and a vocal score is Berlin, Lucerne and Vienna to a birthday of sonorities, rhythmically vital, brilliant in exploiting published by Boosey & Hawkes concert on 11 December in London by the the horn’s resources and outgoing in a way that (9790-060-11952-1). Ensemble Intercontemporain conducted by befits a concerto. Its single movement comprises seven brief sections, each pitting the horn, which In the Stabat Mater, as with his earlier Boulez. The birthday also brings the New plays virtually non-stop, against a different works for choir and orchestra, Jenkins York premiere at Carnegie Hall of Bayerische Theaterakademie orchestral grouping. A legato line is heard against interpolates the Latin sacred texts with Interventions for piano and orchestra, muted brass, florid passages vie with a battery of settings of sympathetic poetry. The themes featuring Daniel Barenboim as soloist and Photo: percussion. The 11-minute piece should have a Carter’s What Next? staged in Munich in of weeping, desolation and prayer, as Mary the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted bright future...” Financial Times sees her son on the cross, are reflected in by Levine. Carnegie Hall has just announced November in a double bill with Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi. The opera was also staged at the Miller Persian and ancient Babylon texts Carter as its featured composer for the Theater in New York in December and a new translated into English by poet Grahame Turnage 2008/09 season. production is planned by the Neue Oper in Vienna Davies, a lament by Carol Barratt, and the Bernard Haitink premieres For a full diary of Carter centenary events and in November. hymn Ave Verum Corpus. Chicago Remains a video interview with the composer visit the The composer writes: “I tend to look special website at www.carter100.com. composer’s productivity has been the vitality Reich outside the purely western European of the music he has been writing. The new tradition for inspiration and freshness, so Horn Concerto premiere in Boston Horn Concerto is no exception.” The first apart from setting the religious text I have performance took place on 15 November With premieres continuing into his 100th Double Wonge Bergmann also included words by ancient writers from year, there has been no relaxing of Carter’s with the Boston Symphony and its principal what is now the Middle-East. My Stabat compositional activity, but as the Boston horn James Sommerville, conducted by Sextet Photo: Mater will also feature some indigenous Globe noted, “more impressive than the James Levine. instruments such as the riq and darabuca, unveiled and a female vocalist will conjure sounds and techniques characteristic of the area.” Steve Reich’s latest work, Double Sextet, receives its premiere by the ensemble Eighth Jenkins explored his Welsh roots in the New webshop launched Blackbird on a US tour between March and recent EMI album This Land of Ours May including concerts in San Francisco, (509 0932), with arrangements for brass Carnegie Hall in New York, Washington and band and male voice choir of popular Andriessen www.boosey.com/shop Chicago. European performances follow melodies, hymns and opera favourites as towards Dante's Commedia including the UK premiere on 21 November well as the Pie Jesu from Requiem and in Amsterdam as part of Liverpool’s European City of Benedictus from The Armed Man. A choral Culture festivities. collection from the album for male voices and keyboard will be published by The 22-minute work has two performing Boosey & Hawkes this summer. options, either as a live sextet of flute, clarinet, violin, cello, vibraphone and piano playing against a pre-recorded sextet on tape, or as an ensemble of 12 instrumentalists. Steve Reich writes: “By doubling an entire Neuwirth chamber ensemble one creates the possibility for multiple simultaneous contrapuntal webs of identical instruments. Lost Highway In Different Trains and Triple Quartet all instruments are strings to produce one large string fabric. In Double Sextet there is more timbral variety through the interlocking of six different pairs of percussion, string and wind instruments.” Steve Reich is the featured composer at Tokyo Opera City’s Composium (21-25 May) A new and expanded online shop has been www.boosey.com/radio comprising concerts, a ‘conversation with the recently launched. composer’, and the Takemitsu Composer’s How do you Olga Neuwirth’s remarkable operatic G Competition. Two programmes by Ensemble Music from all publishers attract new adaptation of David Lynch’s cult film travels to Modern and Synergy Vocals conducted by G The widest range of classical music audiences to London for its UK premiere by English Bradley Lubman include Music for Eighteen G Items shipped globally classical music? National Opera, opening on 4 April at the Musicians and Proverb together with the G New selection of 12,000 CDs and DVDs By letting them Young Vic theatre. The new production is by Japanese premiere of Daniel Variations. G Gifts and accessories, including stands, listen to it for Diane Paulus with video design by Philip Other national premieres of this recent work strings and reeds themselves, Bussmann and musical forces conducted by are in Turin (4 March) and Amsterdam G Search facility for 120,000 products without any confusing jargon or distracting Baldur Brönnimann. Lost Highway has (29 November) and the first recording is G Links to ringtones and downloads advertising. enjoyed successful productions in Austria, G released by Nonesuch this spring. 125,000 international customers BooseyRadio is a new way to discover music Switzerland and the USA and its premiere If you prefer the personal touch, in which listeners can direct the track Reich’s success in the dance world recording on Kairos by Klangforum Wien was please ring our Music by Mail helpline on selection on their online radio player, suiting continues with Wayne McGregor’s ballet to awarded a Diapason d’Or (KAI 0012542). the Dolly movement from Three Tales 0800 731 4778 their own moods and tastes. 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I’ve moved towards a more consonant style of writing for the voice to make the lines sound more Harrison Birtwistle discusses his How does the path through the opera relate to natural and to help the text come over.
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