Flute/Percussion Music by members of the Long Island Composers Alliance performed by the (Just) Music Duo

Tue - November 16, 2010, 7:00 pm

 

Flute/Percussion Music by members of the Long Island Composers Alliance performed by the (Just) Music Duo

Cesare Papetti, percussionistCesare Papetti, percussionistTuesday, November 16, 2010, 7:00 PM

Music by Members of The Long Island Composers Alliance
The Tank, 354 West 54th St, (between 8th and 9th Avenues) New York City

The (just) music duo, Alice Jones (flute) and Cesare Papetti (percussion) will play Eleanor Cory's Epithalamium for Solo Flute, and other works by Richard Brooks, Herbert Deutsch, Paul Hefner, George Cork Maul, Leo Kraft and Dana Dimitri Richardson.

Admission $10. For more information call 212-563-6269. Advance tickets available at Brown Paper Tickets, 1-800-838-3006.

Continuing its history of performing multicultural
offerings from the flute and percussion repertoire, the (just) music duo will present a program of works from distinguished
members of the Long Island Composers Alliance. Paul Hefner, who has been a bandleader
in the private party industry servicing New
York City's finest hotels and private clubs, is
represented by the jazz-influenced Chick
and McCoy
, which delivers the flavor of Chick
Corea’s Afro-Cuban melodies and the multi-voice quartal harmonies of McCoy
Tyner. In Passageways, Herbert Deutsch explores the interplay of rhythmic and
melodic phrases and motifs between the flute and marimba. A co-founder of the Long Island Composers Alliance and collaborator with Robert Moog in the development of
the first Moog synthesizer, he is also an author of a large body of
distinguished concert music.

 

Eleanor Cory
originally wrote Epithalamium for her own wedding. It exploits the advanced
technical capability of the flute and, in retrospect, “reflects the depths and
surprises in many years of marriage” while retaining its celebratory spirit.
Eleanor Cory’s work has been recognized by awards from the National Endowment
for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the
Arts, Fromm Foundation of Harvard University, the Aaron Copland Fund, and the
Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia
University, among many
others. In Bachatelles for solo
percussionist, Richard Brooks uses
some of Bach’s favorite contrapuntal techniques to develop a theme based on
Bach’s name in a modern style. Richard
Brooks was on the music faculty of Nassau
Community College from
1975-2004 where he was Professor and Department Chair for 22 years. He has
received a Composer Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, an
American Music Center grant, and numerous commissions including one from the
Kent Philharmonia Orchestra that resulted in Concerto for Trumpet/Flugelhorn and Orchestra which was premiered
in May 2006.George Cork Maul’s Human Race is a story about how the rhythm of our lives sometimes
traps us in a repeating cycle that we can end only by realizing our humanity. He is an East End
composer, pianist and performance art specialist. His credits include modern
songs, suites and dance pieces, contemporary operas, musicals, music for
software and recently, pieces for string orchestra.

 

In his Line Drawings for flute and percussion, Leo Kraft aims to make the percussion part as melodic as possible,
creating a partnership of the two instruments. He is past President of the American
Music Center
and is Professor Emeritus of the
Aaron Copland
School of Music at Queens
College as well as Distinguished-Composer-in-Residence
from 1989 to 1992, at NYU. The
Reverie and Dance by Dana Dimitri Richardson is in two parts
that express the contrasting moods of the title, dreamy contemplation followed
by a call to action whose irregular meters owe a debt to Balkan folksong. His
music has been broadcast over more than 70 radio stations in the U.S. and Greece
including WNYC and ERT, Athens,
where he spent three years teaching music theory. During that period he became
a member of the Greek Composer’s Union. In
2009, his article Syntonality: A new
System of Harmony
was published in the first issue of the SCI online theory
journal.

 

(just)
music
is a flute and
percussion duo that was formed by two graduates of SUNY Purchase in a Brooklyn basement in 2009. Alice Jones (flute) and Cesare
Papetti
(percussion) have performed in New York City at Symphony Space, the Look and
Listen Festival, the Composers Now! Festival, and the Tank as well as across
Europe and China. As a founding member of Spindrift Percussion Group, Barrett Hipes continues to commission
chamber and solo works from composers around the world including Lukas Ligeti
and Martin Bresnick, among others.

 

The concert, which is produced by the Long Island
Composers Alliance, is one of 15-20 concerts a year that are mounted on Long
Island and in New York City showcasing the talent of Long Island chamber music
composers and the virtuosity of the top flight musicians who perform their
compositions.

 

The Long Island Composers Alliance was founded in 1972
by Marga Richter & Herbert Deutsch. Since that time, over 300 concerts have
presented some 1500 new works by more than 100 composers. LICA remains the only
organization devoted exclusively to the presentation, preservation and
promotion of performances of original serious music by composers living and
working on Long Island. Our annual Music By and For Students concert has become the
model for two student composition competitions now offered to students
throughout the state by the NY State School Music Association. Incorporated in
1975, LICA has been funded by various organizations and foundations including
The Nassau County Office of Cultural Affairs, The Suffolk County Office of
Cultural Arts, Huntington Arts Council, Hempstead Cultural Arts Center, Wantagh
Arts Council, Nassau County Re-Grant Programs for the Arts, NY State Council on
the Arts, Maldeb Foundation, Puffin Foundation, Prof. Edgar H. Lehrman Memorial
Foundation, Key Bank, Chase Manhattan Bank, Independence Savings Bank,
Citibank, and the Brooklyn Borough President's Office.

 

CONTACT: Dana Dimitri Richardson,
Publicity Director, 516-599-3472, [email protected]  (underscore between richardson and dana)