Monday, Feb. 18, 7:30pm:
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Program:
Lewis Nielson: Opera Amoris
Elizabeth Bell: Millennium
Lawrence Dillon: What Happened
Phillip Rhodes: Following Picasso
Christopher Shultis: Songs of Love and Longing
Peter Westergaard: Palindrome
Ensemble:
Mary Elizabeth Mackenzie soprano
Itay Lantner flute
Alicia Lee clarinet
Francesca Anderegg -
violin
Claudia Schaer
violin
Erin Wight viola
Brian Snow cello
Yael Manor piano
With special guests: Sara Perez, soprano; Laura Cocks, flute; Dustin Chung, clarinet; and Sean
Dowgray, percussion
20>>21
is passionate
for sharing new music with new audiences and collaborates
with today's emerging composers to curate deep concert experiences. The
ensemble's successful inaugural season of 2011-12 at the
Gershwin Hotel in downtown Manhattan included a world
premiere performance of a commissioned work by each featured composer,
including Anglica Negrn, Gilad Cohen, Clint Needham, and Aleksandra
Vrebalov.
Oberlin Ensemble
Francesca Anderegg
Alicia Lee
Tuesday, Feb. 19, 7:30pm
Lunatics at Large:
Lunatics at Large
Program:
Richard Brooks: Circular Motions
Richard Cameron-Wolfe: Labyrinths
Eleanor Cory: Things Are
Brian Fennelly: Sukhi!
Tom Flaherty: Scenes from Sarajevo
Jan Gilbert: The Indigo Rooftop of the Night
Louis Karchin: Rhapsody
Ensemble:
Hannah Fuerst soprano
Laura Falzon
flute
Ben Ringer clarinet
Arthur Moeller
violin
Jen Herman viola
Michael Haas cello
Steve Beck piano
special guests Manon Hutton De-Wys, piano, and Miranda Cuckson, violin
Lunatics at Large was formed in 2007 to explore the timbral
possibilities of chamber music repertoire from the beginning of the 20th
century to the present. It is a mixed ensemble combining voice, strings,
winds and piano. In thematic concerts, the group juxtaposes standard
repertoire and chamber pieces from established composers of the 20th
century with more recent works.
Hanna Fuerst, sopranoTom Flaherty, composer
Miranda Cuckson, Steven Beckperforming Louis Karchin "Rhapsody"
Manon Hutton-DeWys
Composer panel discussionFeb. 19, 2013
ACA is thrilled to be collaborating with the amazing ensembles
20>>21 and Lunatics at Large for this year's Composers Now!
festival. For more information and tickets, contact the box office 212-864-5400 or http://symphonyspace.org.
Kicking off the fourth annual month-long citywideComposers Now Festival on February 2, 2013 (under the
leadership of composer Tania Len) is Symphony Space's genre-busting Music-of-Now marathon, curated by Symphony Space Artistic Director, composer
Laura Kaminsky, and hosted by WQXR's Terrance McKnight. From electronic
experimentation to post-minimalism, to spectralist sonorities to Latin
jazz, the marathon brings the broadest range of new music by today's
emerging and established composers and composer-performers to the stage.
Since 2004, ACA has presented new works by
more than 100 American composers, and more than 35 works by young
composers, with support from the Alice M. Ditson Fund, the Argosy
Foundation's Contemporary Music Fund, the Cary New Music Performance
Fund, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Puffin Foundation, BMI, and
many generous individuals.
In June, 2012, ACA celebrated its 75th anniversary
with a gala concert of works from the ACA catalog, performed by the
Orchestra of the League of Composers.
Music from the ACA catalog is licensed for
performance by Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI). Printed sheet music is
available from www.composers.com