Museum Concert Series The North Dakota Museum of Art The Museum Concert Series is underwritten by a grant from the Myra Foundation. Additional educational support comes from the Performing Arts Fund, a program of Arts Midwest, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional Myra Presents: contributions from the North Dakota Council on the Arts, General Mills Foundation, and Land O’Lakes Foundation. Committed classical music lovers also contribute an additional $50 on top of their season ticket to become sponsors who share in the Sunday Concerts in the Galleries cost of bringing great music to the community. Hidden Histories, Borrowed Sounds Richard and Luise Beringer Ellen McKinnon Mae Marie Blackmore Kevin and Amy Muiderman ETHEL Alice and David Brekke Evan Nelson Ralph Farris, Artistic Director, Viola Dave and Denise Britton Bobbi Jo and Kyle Olson Dorothy Lawson, Artistic Director, Cello Margaret Bundlie Cathy and David Perry Kip Jones, Violin Madelyn Camrud Randy Rasmussen Sharon Carson and Lucy Ganje Bruce Reeves Tema Watstein, Violin Kim and Sue Fink Dennis and Julie Reisnour David Haberman and Cathy Williams Laurel Reuter Nancy Hadlich Daniel and Amy Rice Cara Halgren and Bob Axtman Elizabeth Rheude Sean Hightower Jolene Seames Linda Holdman Devera Warcup January 13, 2013 at 2 pm Trudy and Gordon Iseminger Shari Weisz Jon and Margaret Jackson Bob and Barbara White Mark Koponen Shana Wiley Elizabeth Legerski Lonny Winrich and Sandra Donaldson with funding from Robert Lewis Tom and Margaret Zidon The Myra Foundation Museum Concert Series Committee Carolyn Baker, Mike Bakken, Luise Beringer, Colleen Berry, Mae Marie Blackmore, Eller Bonifacio, Emily Burkland, Nancy Hadlich, Narda Hamilton, Raymond Lagasse, Robert (BJ) Rainbow, Tamar Read, Claudia Routon, Harriet Thorson, Devera Warcup, Naomi Welsh, Rosemary Wharton, and Michael Wittgraf Acclaimed as “one of the most exciting quartets around” ( Strad Mag ) and “as a Kip Jones (Violin) is known for his ebullient and innovative solo performances in a necessary jet of cold water in the contemporary classical scene” ( Pitchfork.com ), style he describes as “experimental folk”. A modern musical troubadour, he’s ETHEL , was founded in 1998. This post-classical pioneer invigorates contemporary performed in a range of eclectic venues that include a veranda packed with concert music with exuberance, intensity, imaginative programming, and Bangladeshi migrant laborers in Kolkata, Aerostich’s Very Boring Motorcycle Rally, exceptional artistry. With an eye on tradition and an ear to the future, ETHEL is a Tirana’s Jordan Nisja School of Music, and the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. A leading force in concert music's reengagement with musical languages, fusing native of Minnesota, Kip earned his degree in Violin Performance from the Berklee diverse traditions into a vibrant sound that resonates with audiences the world over. College of Music. Over the past three years, ETHEL has premiered over 50 new works by 20th- and Tema Watstein (Violin) is an active soloist, chamber musician, and educator. 21st-century composers, including pieces that were commissioned by the quartet or Hailed for her “sweeping and bristling” sound by the New York Times, she has composed by ETHEL. Recent premieres and noteworthy performances include: Phil performed with the Metropolis Ensemble, Mark Morris Dance Group, Argento Kline’s SPACE at the gala reopening of Alice Tully Hall; ETHEL Fair: The Songwriters Ensemble, Tanglewood’s New Fromm Quartet, to name a few. She served most at opening night of Lincoln Center’s Out of Doors Festival; ETHEL’s HomeBaked recently as the violinist in Gabriel Kahane's February House at the Public Theater. series featuring commissioned works by emerging NYC composers, as well as An alum of Rice University and graduate of MSM's Contemporary Performance premieres by Rick Baitz and Randall Woolf at the Tribeca New Music Festival; and Program, Tema is equally home whether playing Ligeti in concert or improvising works by many other contemporary music luminaries. in a field. ETHEL has initiated innovative collaborations with an extraordinary community of international artists that include David Byrne, Bang on a Can, Kaki King, Ursula Upcoming at the Museum Oppens, Loudon Wainwright III, among many others. ETHEL has appeared as a guest artist on a dozen music labels and has been featured o many recent albums MAYA Trio: March 3, 2013 including the Grammy Award-winning Dedicated to You: Kurt Elling Sings the Music MAYA, a trio formed in the summer of 2005, brings to the Myra Series a uniquely of Coltrane and Hartman (Concord Records, 2009). ETHEL served as the 2011-12 compelling and rhythmically driven combination of flute, harp, and percussion, Artists-in-Residence at New York City’s Park Avenue Armory, the official house band performing classical and new music, world music, and incorporating improvisations of TEDxManhattan and TEDxBig Apple conferences, the Resident Ensemble at the into its performances. Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Balcony Bar, and the Ensemble-in-Residence at the Grand Canyon Music Festival as part of the Native American Composers Benefit Dinner and Silent Auction: February 9, 2013 Apprenticeship Project. ETHEL recorded Oshtali: Music for String Quartet The Benefit Dinner, which is both a prominent social event and successful (Thunderbird Records, 2010), the first commercial recording of American Indian fundraiser for the Museum, will be held in the elegant galleries of the Museum. The student works. evening includes a multi ‐course meal prepared by Chef Justin Welsh. Dress is black ETHEL's 2012-13 season includes a nationwide tour of Tell Me Something Good, a tie optional, and valet service is provided. As with each of the previous benefits, a celebration of the culture and sounds of the 1970s, featuring rock icon Todd silent art auction will go throughout the evening. This year, over 50 pieces from Rundgren. Off-stage, ETHEL continues to receive acclaim for its third album, Heavy regional, national, and international artists will be auctioned. The auction includes (Innova Recordings, 2012), which has been described as “another beautiful reality work by emerging artists as well as contemporary artisans. The pieces will be of contemporary music” ( All About Jazz ). circulated throughout the dinner via walking easels. my piece the four independent lines of the string quartet are made of small changes Present Beauty – a half step up, a whole step down, and each line by itself is not that interesting. Put together, however, they allow the music to rock oddly back and forth between major and minor, between consonance and dissonance, between hope and despair. Mark Stewart wed was written for the Kronos Quartet. To Whom It May Concern: Thank You Huang Ruo String Quartet No. 2: The Flag Project Terry Riley In Huang Ruo's words: String Quartet No. 2: The Flag Project is about the Buddhism Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector Prayer Flags, and it is written for string quartet with four pairs of Tibetan Finger Cymbals. A prayer flag is a colorful panel or rectangular cloth often found strung along mountain ridges and peaks high in the Himalayas to bless the surrounding Philip Glass, arr. ETHEL land and creatures. Unknown in other branches of Buddhism, prayer flags are Suite from The Hours believed to have originated with Bön, which predated Buddhism in Tibet. String The Poet Acts Quartet No. 2: The Flag Project has three movements, and each movement is about Morning Passages a different motion of the flags. The entire piece runs around 15 minutes. Escape The Hours Individual Biographies A founding member of ETHEL, Ralph Farris (Artistic Director, Viola) is a Grammy- Julia Wolfe nominated arranger, an original Broadway orchestra member of The Lion King and Early that summer former musical director for The Who’s Roger Daltrey. He has worked with Leonard Bernstein, Martin Scorsese, Depeche Mode, Natalie Merchant, Harry Connick Jr., Allen Ginsberg, Yo-Yo Ma, and Gorillaz. A graduate of Walnut Hill School for the David Lang Arts, Ralph earned his Bachelor’s and Master's degrees from the Juilliard School. wed A founding member of ETHEL, Dorothy Lawson (Artistic Director, Cello) has performed with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the White Oak Dance Project, Huang Ruo Philharmonia Virtuosi, the American Symphony Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony String Quartet No. 2: The Flag Project Orchestra, and numerous new music ensembles. Canadian-born, she completed I. degrees at the University of Toronto, the Vienna Academy, and the Juilliard School. II. She teaches in the Preparatory Division of Mannes College at the New School in III. New York City. Notes Philip Glass, arranged by ETHEL Suite from The Hours About "Present Beauty" : The concept of literature as a muse for composers is hardly In ETHEL’s words: Stephen Daldry’s 2002 film realization of Michael Cunningham's a new phenomenon. Passages of sacred text have always inspired musical treatment. novel The Hours drew a hauntingly beautiful sound score from Philip Glass. There The art of the song cycle evolved largely from literary and poetic sources, and there is a powerful affinity between Glass’ creative aesthetic and that of the novel's are certainly many popular songwriters following this model today. Opera, Ballet, protagonist author Virginia Woolf. As a writer, she developed the theme of beauty Theater and now Film are all media where music and literature meet and mingle. as an experience rooted in the present moment, rather than in relationship to the past or the future. In his music, Glass captures beauty in continuity, without The art of living in and appreciating the “Now” is more and more becoming the beginning, climax, or end. As Michael Cunningham points out in the liner notes to subject of universal discussion; from spiritual communities to popular entertainment The Hours CD, “Glass can find in three repeated notes something of the strange to scientific publications.