{"title":"Karchin, Louis","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"truncate-text\" style=\"display: block;\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOver a career spanning more than four decades, composer LOUIS KARCHIN has amassed a portfolio of over 95 compositions, appeared as conductor with numerous performing ensembles, co-founded new music groups, including the Chamber Players of the League-ISCM, the Orchestra of the League of Composers, the Washington Square Ensemble, and the Harvard Group for New Music, and overseen the formation of a graduate program in music composition at New York University. His works have garnered distinguished honors, including three awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, four National Endowment for the Arts Awards, and Koussevitzky, Barlow, and Fromm commissions. A citation from the American Academy praised his \u003cem\u003eSongs of John Keats \u003c\/em\u003eas “a striking conception, in which the sonic properties of the poetry interact with musical material in unprecedented fusion.” The New Yorker hailed Karchin as a composer of \"fearless eloquence,” and the British music journal, Contemporary Music Review, singled out Karchin as one of twenty-five of the most exciting American composers born in the decade of the 1950's.  He was selected as one of 53 composers to represent New York at the turn of the millennium in the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's \"Great Day in New York\" Festival at Alice Tully Hall.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKarchin (born Philadelphia, 1951) studied at the Eastman School of Music and Harvard University; his principal teachers were Samuel Adler, Joseph Schwantner, Fred Lerdahl, Earl Kim, Gunther Schuller, and Leon Kirchner. Additional study included two summers as a Leonard Bernstein Fellow in Composition at the Tanglewood Music Center. He is Professor of Music at New York University.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"truncate-text more-data read-more-field--name-body\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKarchin’s first opera, \u003cem\u003eRomulus\u003c\/em\u003e, received its premiere in May of 2007, at the Guggenheim Museum’s Peter B. Lewis Theatre and is now available on a much-heralded 2011 Naxos release. His second opera, \u003cem\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/em\u003e, based on the Charlotte Brontë novel, was premiered by the Center for Contemporary Opera in New York in October, 2016, with soprano Jennifer Zetlan and tenor Ryan MacPherson in starring roles, and is now available on a critically acclaimed Naxos double-CD with the original cast, the Orchestra of the League of Composers, and the composer conducting.  Performing and sponsoring organizations championing Mr. Karchin’s music have included the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Tanglewood, Carnegie Hall, the Louisville Orchestra, The Fort Worth Opera (TX), the Da Capo Chamber Players (NYC), the Plurimo Ensemble (Venice, Italy), Spectrum Sonori (Seoul, South Korea), the Delta Ensemble (Amsterdam, Holland), Earplay (San Francisco, CA), Voices of Change (Dallas, TX), the New York New Music Ensemble, and the Portland (ME) Symphony. Soloists have included Lucy Shelton, Fred Sherry, Rolf Schulte, Stephen Gosling, Steven Beck, Miranda Cuckson, Thomas Meglioranza, and Marilyn Nonken, among many others. His music is published by C. F. Peters Corporation and the American Composers Alliance. CDs of his works are available on Bridge, Naxos, New World, Albany and New Focus labels. Mr. Karchin has been Composer-in-Residence at the Composers Conference at Wellesley College, Indiana University, the University of Buffalo, the University of Iowa, and the University of Utah, and he has presented master classes at Harvard, Columbia, Boston, Brandeis, Cleveland State, and Rutgers Universities, as well as the Juilliard School, Westminster Choir College, the Manhattan School of Music, Mannes College, and Queens College, CUNY. In 2010, he was a guest composer at the Etchings Festival in Auvillar, France.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs a conductor, Mr. Karchin is Music Director of the Orchestra of the League of Composers, and with them has conducted New York or world premieres of works by Elliott Carter, Joan Tower, Charles Wuorinen, David Rakowski, Arthur Kreiger, Missy Mazzoli, Julia Wolfe, and Milton Babbitt, among many others. He is also a conductor of the Washington Square Ensemble and the Chamber Players of the League–ISCM.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMr. Karchin lives in Short Hills, NJ, with his wife, Julie Sirota Karchin, and their daughters, Marisa and Lindsay.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"karchin-ancient-scenes","title":"ANCIENT SCENES","description":"\u003cp\u003eComposer's Note:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere were several sources of inspiration for Ancient Scenes, and it is a more programmatic work than most others I have written. One obvious influence was the beautiful poetry of the late Seamus Heaney, Ireland's Nobel Prize-winning poet. The second was a visit to the ancient town of Auvillar, France, where I was invited to spend a week as composer-in-residence at the Etchings Festival in 2010. The town had an ancient market area dating back to Roman times, and also had been (and is still today) a stopping-off point for pilgrims en-route to a sacred shrine in the Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela. I envisioned the development of such a town in its early stages. The instrumental movements (I Origins, II Constructions, V Journeys: Pilgrims, Prayer, Conflicts, Reconciliations) suggest a chronological trajectory. The songs (II, III, VI, and VII) are stops along the way. The first poem takes its cue from the sound of a crowd echoing through an ancient coliseum; the second accompanies a dance (sounding more Irish than French to my ear) that might have been performed as festive entertainment. The third song is a reflection on the fragility of the human condition, and the last paints a portrait of a still harbor shimmering in the light.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReviews:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"This was the most purely contemporary piece of the evening. It's challenging, yet attractive in the best modern sense. There's a real urgency and sense of forward motion to the instrumental movements, presented superbly, as usual, by this fine ensemble.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e(Performance by the Da Capo Chamber Players.)- James Grant, SoundWordSight Arts Magazine\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"These words and these sensations\"”if we allowed it\"”reached another level of our consciousness. 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Arches had to wait for its premiere until the Covid-19 pandemic had begun to subside in 2022, but previous to its composition, Sam and I had discussed various possibilities for the trumpet's accompaniment, and settled upon the modern tones of the vibraphone as providing an unusual and intriguing complement to the brass sound. To this timbre, I added a few chimes, and in two places in the work, expanded the percussion to include some non-pitched instruments. These come to the fore as mini-cadenzas towards the work's center.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe piece spawned its own form: a slow introduction becomes increasingly active until it blossoms into a steadier Allegro with the vibes displacing the chimes in the faster music. The first non-pitched percussion cadenza interrupts; it ushers in a more contemplative mood. Then the work reverses itself, and a return to the faster music leads to a second brief percussion cadenza that, in turn, initiates a slowing process as the trumpet begins to recall more and more of its opening legato lines, but in a modified reverse order. Given the pervasive palindromic allusions, \"Arches\" seemed an appropriate title, evoking the symmetrical architectural shape. And, of course trumpet players are often found under arches. 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His Compositions on Canvas: Three Art Songs was, in turn, directly inspired by paintings, and the two poems I chose to set had as their subjects John Singer Sargent's San Vigilio: A Boat with a Golden Sail and Marc Chagall's You and I and the Village. Withrow's poems overlay imaginative flights of fancy onto the subjects and characters of these art works, and the poems are truly \"compositions on (or \"about') canvases;\" likewise, my music aspires to similar aim. The paintings themselves, of course, are the literal \"compositions on canvas.\" The first song seeks to reflect a particular off-the-beaten-path harbor scene that intrigued Sargent on his travels in Italy; its tone is peaceful and ruminative in nature. The second song is, by contrast, animated, and set in a modified verse form, as Withrow brings Chagall's iconic shapes (giant noses, upside down figures and people embedded in animals) to life. 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It is based on a chamber version of the songs, written in 2012 for three groups, Ensemble Peripherie in Iowa, Magnetic South in Charleston, South Carolina, and Ensemble mise-en in New York. The four poems are taken from several collections of the Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet, and I arranged them in an order that seemed to suggest an overarching musical shape. All are descriptive vignettes, emerging out of inner visions, or observations both large and small. The first poem, Lightenings iv, takes as its point of departure the roar of a crowd in an ancient coliseum with reverberations echoing throughout the amphitheater. The second, The Rain Stick, describes, in very accurate detail, a most intriguing percussion instrument (although the instrument's appearance within the song is delayed until its final moments). The third poem, Lightenings i, evokes the image of a beggar in a doorway sparking thoughts of the frailty of the human condition. 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Already recognized for several acclaimed song cycles and the one-act opera Romulus, Karchin (b. 1951) describes Eyre, composed over a four-year period, as \"the largest project I have ever undertaken\". He is clearly a master of theatrical writing. In the best operatic traditions, the score has an inner logic that mirrors the dramatic progression of each aria, scene, and the piece as a whole. The lilting phrases of the Prelude immediately establish an atmosphere of Gothic Romance, and structural formality evokes the sense of period. There are three acts with three scenes each, and Diane Osen's libretto (Karchin rightly calls it a \"feat of compression\") abounds in neat rhyme schemes that strike a remarkable balance between plainspoken clarity and what the composer terms a \"faithful echo\" of Bronte's \"distinctive syntax\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe composer's engaging and melodious vocal writing employs a variety of expressive techniques to differentiate the characters. For example, in the final scene of Act I, Rochester opens up to Jane about his history of dissolution with short phrases and awkward intervals. When Jane responds (\"It is God alone who judges'), her vocal lines are even and sustained, and the captivating sweetness of the three-note falling figures in the orchestra exorcise Rochester's demons in a flash. There are numerous orchestral highlights as well, all with purpose and direction, like the interlude between the second and third scenes of Act 2 that sets the mood for Jane's aborted wedding to Mr Rochester. A number of full-blown solos for the principals, designed to \"help establish their characters and the emotions that motivate them\", are inserted into the first act.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThus, two consecutive and contrasting arias in the very first scene give Jennifer Zetlan the opportunity to display her commanding vocal presence in the title role. Her instrument is a bright and flexible soprano, and she makes every phrase sound natural and artless. It's no wonder Zetlan is in high demand for new works \"¦Ryan MacPherson gives a fully committed performance of Mr Rochester, a role that demands the robustness of a verismo tenor. He hits all of the character's explosive cadences on the mark and shows a flair for character singing, as when he disguises himself as a Gypsy in order to elicit information from Jane about her feelings for him. Together, Zetlan and MacPherson make the most of the exquisitely moving redemption scene that ends the opera. The full libretto is included, though hardly required, thanks to the happy confluence of Karchin's canny setting of text, the consistency of the singers' diction, and the high quality of the audio engineering. Under the composer's direction, the Orchestra of the League of Composers plays the sumptuous score with notable grace.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e- Altman, American Record Guide\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Karchin's Jane Eyre is an old-fashioned opera, bold in its aim, unblushing about opera's traditions. I got the feeling that Karchin was writing from the heart, as well as the head\"”that he was not out to impress critics or colleagues, but to write a good opera\"¦... \"He tells the story through the orchestra, as much as the singers, with their words. This is a symphonic opera as much as a vocal one. Karchin writes like a man who has lived with opera, although Jane Eyre is only his second opera, and his first full-length one. Ah well: Beethoven wrote just one opera. So did Gershwin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the Kaye Playhouse, Jane Eyre was served by a very good production, overseen by the director, Kristine McIntyre. Use of video was intelligent. At every turn, the production enhanced the story, libretto, and music, rather than overtaking them. The Directors' Guild may revoke McIntrye's membership\"¦. \"The librettist, too, deserves a bow. She has performed a feat of compression. Osen's libretto is dotted with interesting couplets. I wrote one of them down: \"Can I trust you with this task?' \"Need you ask?' The composer, and the librettist, and the stage director\"”and the novelist, Charlotte Brontë\"”had me the whole way. The end was moving, as Jane returns to Rochester, in his wrecked physical state. I thought, \"This opera, in its warmth, beauty, and goodness, is brave.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e- Jay Nordlinger, New Criterion\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"The music of Louis Karchin (b. 1951) has received rave reviews from five Fanfarers, including myself, going back to the LP era (Fanfare 9:1, September\/October 1985). It has been compared to a slew of great composers, including Berg and even Beethoven; let me add Hugo Weisgall. If the world heeded its Fanfares, Karchin would surely be recognized as one of America's greatest composers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe music of Jane Eyre (2010--2014) is equally remarkable. It still retains elements of the avant-garde (Milton Babbitt, Roger Sessions, Charles Wuorinen) but has mellowed considerably. It is complex and harmonically adventurous, but admits a font of grand lyricism most appropriate to Charlotte Brontë's late Sturm und Drang novel. Karchin's orchestration is supremely colorful, yet dark enough to limn Jane's bleakest moments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe poetic libretto simulates Bronte's ever-expressive language. Contrary to Naxos's usual practice, the libretto is included in the booklet. Eagerly recommended to all.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e- James H. North, Fanfare\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Diane Osen's sturdy libretto for Karchin does a good job of boiling the novel down to its essence: the romantic relationship between the governess Jane Eyre and Rochester, master of the estate on which she is employed. 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