Ziering-Conlon Initiative for Recovered Voices Showcase and Competition Spring 2019 The competition is open to all Colburn School students enrolled for the Spring 2019 semester in the Conservatory, Music Academy, and Community School of Performing Arts. Divisions Prizes Pre-college (Music Academy and Community All finalists will receive a cash award (minimum School) $150 for each student). Solo musicians or College (Conservatory) members of a group judged by the adjudicating panel to be the most outstanding in the pre- Accompanists college and college divisions will receive a Pre-college entrants performing solo repertoire minimum of $1,500 each. with piano may engage a professional accompanist. Pianists in chamber ensembles About the Initiative must be students. All college entrants must LA Opera Music Director James Conlon formed be students in the Conservatory (this includes the groundbreaking Recovered Voices project collaborating pianists). to shine a spotlight on the music by composers suppressed by the Nazi regime. In honor of Deadline his efforts, the Ziering-Conlon Initiative for Entries to be submitted no later than March Recovered Voices sponsors seminars, academic 11, 2019 via YouTube video. Those selected conferences, and competitions in an effort to for the live, public finals on Monday evening, present a deeper understanding of the history March 25, will be notified no later than 9 pm of the music from the first half of the 20th on Tuesday, March 19. All entrants must be century. available to perform at the March 25 finals. Ziering-Conlon Initiative for Recovered Voices Showcase and Competition Spring 2019 List of Repertoire Submitting Your Video Performance The works on the provided list were selected When recording your performances, place as representative, and all are approved for this the video-recording device in such a way that showcase competition. However, entrants may all members of your group can be seen at all select works that are not on the list, provided times. they were written by composers who are among the 24 featured composers on the OREL Take care to ensure the best possible sound Foundation website, www.orelfoundation.org. quality. The submitted work must be recorded in its entirety as one unedited, complete take. Criteria One of the criteria for works on the provided For your YouTube video, enter the title of the list is length; there is a general—not precise— work and the name of your group. consistency to the length of these works (approx. 13 –18 minutes each). Also, for the Example: Pavel Haas Suite for Oboe and Piano most part, the listed works are complete works. performed by Sally Smith and Joseph Jones. All students are heartily encouraged to explore the OREL Foundation website for additional Go to broadcasting and sharing options repertoire. (Each composer’s profile is accompanied by a complete list of repertoire). Select Private (viewable by up to 25 people) and check the limited access URL box. Composers Not on the List If you/your group wish(es) to submit the Once uploaded, copy and paste the full link performance of a work by an OREL Foundation- into the space provided for your submitted featured composer not on the provided list, recording. Be sure test the link before you send you must contact Bob Elias, Director of the it. Ziering-Conlon Initiative for Recovered Voices, to discuss it at [email protected]. Copy and paste the full YouTube link of your performance and send it to [email protected] along with the name of each member and your Colburn School division (Conservatory, Music Academy, or Community School). Feel free to contact Bob Elias with any questions at [email protected]. (Repertoire list on next page) Ziering-Conlon Initiative for Recovered Voices Representative Repertoire Flute Ensemble works for Oboe, Clarinet, and • Erwin Schulhoff Sonata for Flute and Piano Bassoon (1927) • Bohuslav Martinů Four Madrigals for Oboe, • Hans Gál Three Intermezzi for Flute and Clarinet and Bassoon (1938) Piano (1974) • Erwin Schulhoff Divertissement for Oboe, Clarinet and Bassoon (1927) Oboe • Pavel Haas Suite for Oboe and Piano (1939) Horn in ensemble • Franz Reizenstein Three Concert Pieces for • Franz Schreker Der Wind for Violin, Clarinet, Oboe and Piano, Op. 10 (1937) Horn, Cello und Piano (1909) • Bohuslav Martinů Quartet for Clarinet, Clarinet Horn, Cello, and Snare Drum (1924) • Mieczyslaw Weinberg Clarinet Sonata (1945) Four Horns Clarinet in ensemble • Eric Zeisl “The Hunt” for four horns (1940) • Bohuslav Martinů Four Madrigals for Oboe, Clarinet and Bassoon (1938) Trumpet • Erwin Schulhoff Divertissement for Oboe, • Bohuslav Martinů Sonatina for Trumpet and Clarinet and Bassoon (1927) Piano, H. 357 (1956) • Franz Schreker Der Wind for Violin, Clarinet, Four Trumpets Horn, Cello und Piano (1909) • Eric Zeisl “On the Grave of Napoleon” for • Bohuslav Martinů Quartet for Clarinet, four B-flat trumpets (1940) Horn, Cello, and Snare Drum (1924) Trombone in ensemble Bassoon • Karl Amadeus Hartmann Dance Suite for • Mieczyslaw Weinberg Sonata for Bassoon Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon, Trumpet and Solo, Op. 133 (1981) Trombone (1931) Select three of the four movements sampled here—16, 17, 18, 19 (Repertoire continued on next page) Harp in ensemble • Eric Zeisl “Arrowhead” Trio for Flute, Viola, Double Bass and Harp (1956) • Mieczyslaw Weinberg Sonata No. 1 for Dou- ble Bass, Op. 108 (1971) • Mieczyslaw Weinberg Trio for Flute, Viola, and Mvmts I, II, III, IV, VI (In the YouTube videos: Harp, Op. 127 (1979) Numbers 11, 12, 13, 14, and 16) Snare Drum Duo for Violin and Cello • Bohuslav Martinů Quartet for Clarinet, Horn, • Erwin Schulhoff Duo for Violin and Cello Cello, and Snare Drum (1924) (1925) Violin solo Trio for Violin, Viola, and Cello • Erwin Schulhoff Sonata for Violin Solo (1927) • Gideon Klein Trio for Violin, Viola and Cello (1944) • Karl Amadeus Hartmann any of the suites or sonatas for solo violin (all from 1927) String Quartet Note: A selection of movements from any single • Vítĕzslava Kaprálová String Quartet, Opus 8 one of these Hartmann works, totaling approx. (1936) 14–16 minutes will suffice. Mvmts I and III • Mieczyslaw Weinberg Sonata No. 2 for Solo • Mieczyslaw Weinberg String Quartet No. 8, Violin, Op. 95 (1967) Op. 66 (1959) Violin and Piano • Viktor Ullmann String Quartet Number 3 • Hanns Eisler Sonata for Violin and Piano (1943) (1937) • Erwin Schulhoff Five Pieces for String Quartet • Mieczyslaw Weinberg Sonatina for Violin and (1924) Piano, Op. 46 (1949) Piano solo • Bohuslav Martinů Sonata in D Minor for • Viktor Ullmann Piano Sonata No. 2 (1939) Violin and Piano (1926) • Viktor Ullmann Piano Sonata No. 3 (1940) Viola • Viktor Ullmann Variations and Double Fugue • Mieczyslaw Weinberg Sonata for Viola Solo on a Theme of Arnold Schoenberg (1925) No. 2, Op. 123 (Complete) • Erwin Schulhoff Hot Music-10 Syncopated • Ernst Krenek Sonata for Viola Solo, Op. 92, Etudes (1929) No. 3 (1942) • Erwin Schulhoff Cinq études de Jazz (1926) Cello • Erwin Schulhoff Dancing Suite in Jazz WV 98 • Bohuslav Martinů Cello Sonata No. 1, Op. (1931) 227 (1939) Voice (Community School students) • Eric Zeisl Sonata for Cello and Piano (1951) Select a group of songs by Alexander Zemlinsky or Viktor Ullmann with a total performance time of 12–16 minutes. .