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SUMMARY:Chen Yi & Zhou Long Composer Talk
DESCRIPTION:CHEN YI & ZHOU LONG COMPOSER TALK \nDuring this talk\, Chen Yi & Zhou Long will discuss his work and creative process. Join us in Gibson Hall 101 for this conversation! \nAbout Chen Yi \nAs a prolific composer who blends Chinese and Western traditions\, transcending cultural and musical boundaries\, Dr. Chen Yi is a recipient of the Ives Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2001. She has been Lorena Cravens/Millsap/Missouri Distinguished Professor at the Conservatory of Music and Dance in the University of Missouri-Kansas City since 1998. She was elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2005\, and the American Academy of Arts & Letters in 2019. Read More. \nAbout Zhou Long \nZhou Long is internationally recognized for creating a unique body of music that brings together the aesthetic concepts and musical elements of East and West. Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for his first opera\, Madame White Snake\, Dr. Zhou also received the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award\, the 2012-2013 Elise Stoeger Prize from Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society. He has been two-time recipient of commissions from the Koussevitzky\, Fromm Music Foundations\, Meet the Composer\, Chamber Music America\, and the New York State Council on the Arts. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations\, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. In 2015\, Zhou Long and Chen Yi both were nominated the 58th Grammy Award. Read More.
URL:https://www.bowdoinfestival.org/event/chen-yi-zhou-long-composer-talk/
LOCATION:Gibson Hall 101\, Bowdoin College\, Brunswick\, ME\, 04011
CATEGORIES:Free Events,New Music
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SUMMARY:Highland Green Community Concert
DESCRIPTION:Calling all Highland Green residents! Join us for a wonderful afternoon of music featuring talented Festival Young Artists. Community concerts typically feature a variety of classical repertoire and last 45 minutes to 1 hour. \nJOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750)\nCello Suite No. 1 in G Major\, BWV 1007 \nI. Prelude\nII. Allemande\nIII. Courante \nJoshua Rhodes\, double bass\nJoshua is sponsored by Judy & Stephen Corson. \nSERGEI PROKOFIEV (1891-1953)\nRomeo and Juliet Suite [ARR. GILAD COHEN] \nI. Masks\nII. Juliet as a Young Girl\nIII. The Montagues and The Capulets \nIris Danek\, violin • Yang-Yang Liang\, viola • Megan Apostol\, harp \nJOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750)\nViolin Sonata No. 2 in A Minor\, BWV 1003 \nI. Grave\nII. Fuga\nIII. Andante\nIV. Allegro \nBoYun Li\, violin \nFELIX MENDELSSOHN (1809-1847)\nString Quartet No. 6 in F Minor\, Op. 80 \nIII. Adagio\nIV. Finale. Allegro molto \nCara Wunder\, Ryan Tully\, violin • Waverly Long\, viola • Christopher Kim\, cello \nThank you to Highland Green for hosting this concert.
URL:https://www.bowdoinfestival.org/event/highland-green-23/
LOCATION:Highland Green\, 7 Evergreen Circle\, Topsham\, ME\, 04086
CATEGORIES:Concert,Community Concerts,Free Events
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SUMMARY:Milhaud\, Pinto Correia\, Walker\, & Brahms
DESCRIPTION:DARIUS MILHAUD (1892–1974)\nSuite\, Op. 157b  \n\n Ouverture\n Divertissement\nJeu \n Introduction et final\n\nDerek Bermel\, clarinet • Sergiu Schwartz\, violin • Jon Nakamatsu\, piano  \nANDREIA PINTO CORREIA (b. 1971)\nNight Migrations  \nRenée Jolles\, violin • David Ying\, cello • Tao Lin\, piano  \nGEORGE WALKER (1922–2018)\nSonata for Cello and Piano  \n\n\n\n Allegro passionato\n Sostenuto\nAllegro\n\n\n\nDenise Djokic\, cello • Jeewon Park\, piano  \n— Intermission —  \nJOHANNES BRAHMS (1833–1897)\nString Sextet No. 1 in B-flat Major\, Op. 18   \n\n\n\n Allegro ma non troppo\n Andante ma moderato\nScherzo. Allegro molto — Trio. Animato \n Rondo. Poco allegretto e grazioso\n\n\n\nRobin Scott\, violin • Russell Iceberg*\, violin • Kirsten Docter\, viola • Steven Baloue*\, viola • Amir Eldan\, cello • Isaac Berglind*\, cello  \n  \n*Fellow \n  \nPROGRAM NOTES \n  \n  \nDARIUS MILHAUD \nSuite\, Op. 157b (1936) \nDarius Milhaud had little respect for boundaries of genre\, or of “high” and “low” art\, despite his highly conventional training at the Paris Conservatoire. With the onslaught of World War I\, which broke out as he was completing his studies\, Milhaud was dispatched not to the frontlines but to Brazil\, where he worked as an attaché for the foreign ministry’s propaganda division. The soundtrack of his travels made an indelible mark on his approach to composition. Experimental works like L’homme et son désir\, with its large percussion battery\, evoke rainforest noises\, while his more famous Saudades do Brasil and La Création du Monde pay hommage respectively to popular genres he experienced in Brazil and New York\, where he stopped over on his way back to France.  \nMilhaud saw no conflict in crossing over between\, say\, incidental music for the theater and chamber music for the salon — as he does in his Suite for clarinet\, violin\, and piano. The music for the Suite was originally composed to accompany the play\, Le Voyageur sans bagage (“The Traveler without Baggage”)\, written by Jean Anouilh in 1936. The play concerns Gaston\, a World War I veteran struck with amnesia\, who gradually apprehends\, to his own horror\, his destructive history; the music accompanied the final scene\, in which Gaston must decide whether to stay with his true family and face his past\, or pose as a member of one of many other families who lost boys in the war. Nor was Milhaud above an ironic reference\, in the final movement\, to the popular tune\, “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow” — which is itself an adaptation of an older French folksong\, “Malbrough s’en va-t-en guerre” (“Malbrough is off to the war”).\n \nProgram Note by Peter Asimov \n  \nANDREIA PINTO CORREIA \nNight Migrations (2017) \nNight Migrations takes as its point of departure the writings of Louise Glück (New York\, 1943)\, in particular the poem “The Night Migrations” from the poet’s Averno series. The composition’s structure consists of four nocturnal movements\, each of which features contrasting sections that are continually interspersed; mystical and dark music alternates with fleet\, darting episodes that emulate the flight of birds. \nNight Migrations was written for the Horszowski Trio and is dedicated with gratitude and admiration to composer John Harbison. This commission has been made possible by the Chamber Music America Classic Commission Program\, with generous funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund. \nProgram Note by Andreia Pinto Correia \n  \nGEORGE WALKER \nSonata for Cello and Piano (1957) \nGeorge Walker is one of the most distinguished American composers and pianists of the twentieth century. Born in Washington D.C.\, Walker took to the piano from the age of five\, at his mother’s encouragement. A stellar student who graduated from high school at age 14\, he did not follow\, as many expected he might\, in the footsteps of his father — a physician who had emigrated to the United States from the West Indies. Rather\, he went directly to Oberlin Conservatory to pursue piano and organ studies\, and proceeded from there to the Curtis Institute\, obtaining further diplomas in piano and composition.  \nThe trajectory of Walker’s career was shaped on the one hand by pervasive racism which closed doors to him that were available to classmates and colleagues — a topic Walker addressed candidly in interviews throughout his life — and on the other hand by his success and determination in breaking through many such barriers. Walker’s early achievements as a concert pianist\, including acclaimed appearances as a soloist with several American orchestras and several European tours\, proved short-lived; “a Black pianist playing classical music\,” he recalled his agent warning him; “we can’t sell you.” Walker found greater stability\, it turned out\, as a composer. He obtained a doctorate from the Eastman School\, and held academic positions at institutions including the New School\, Smith College (where he became the first Black tenured professor)\, and ultimately Rutgers\, where he was on the faculty from 1969 until 1992. He was at once prolific and meticulous\, engaging diverse modernist interlocutors from Berg and Stravinsky to Copland and Barber\, alongside (often discreetly embedded) homages to Black American music — spirituals\, blues\, Ellington. \nWalker himself wrote a short program note charting the structure of his Cello Sonata\, composed in 1957: \nThe principal theme of the first movement emerges from the ostinato figure in the piano accompaniment. Double stops in the cello part introduce the lyrical second theme. A vigorous closing section follows. A development section precedes a recapitulation of the expository material. The coda completes the classical sonata form evident in this movement. The slow second movement is structured in three sections. The second part contains a canonic dialogue between the piano and the cello. In the third movement\, the fugal exposition gives way to a jazz-like section that uses syncopated figures over an ostinato bass in the piano. The final statement of the fugal subject consists of note values one half of those used in previous statements. This precipitancy leads to a brief\, but exciting coda. \n  \nJOHANNES BRAHMS \nString Sextet No. 1 in B-flat Major\, Op. 18 (1859-1860) \nDespite trying his hand at string quartets during the 1860s\, the specter of Beethoven’s quartets continued to loom over the genre. Brahms would not feel satisfied with his attempts until 1873\, when he was nearly 40. String quintets\, meanwhile\, were the province of Mozart (in two viola configuration) and Schubert (in two cello configuration)\, and Brahms’s early attempts to compose string quintets would prove even more frustrating: his first essay in that genre was eventually reworked as his Piano Quintet\, and he would not venture another string quintet until the 1880s. \nHowever\, in contrast to quartets and quintets\, the string sextet offered unfamiliar ground\, with few precedents since the sextets of Luigi Boccherini over half a century prior. Young Brahms\, exceedingly conscious of music history and anxious about his place in it\, felt more confident experimenting with the larger\, less trodden ensemble. He composed this first example at the age of 27\, and a second one five years later. His success in these pieces can be measured by the litany of composers — including Dvořák\, Dohnányi\, Schoenberg\, Schulhoff\, and Strauss\, among others — who\, undaunted\, took up the form in turn. \nThe scope of the composition is vast. Brahms spins no end of new melodies\, including a theme in the style of a Viennese waltz which returns\, in quiet pizzicato\, to conclude the first movement. The second movement is a magisterial set of variations on a dolorous theme\, introduced first in the lower strings\, and then echoed with heightened intensity by the first violin. The third movement\, a Scherzo\, shows Brahms’s craft in displacing the strong beats of the meter\, while in the buoyant Trio (the middle section of the Scherzo)\, he instead displaces the tonal center from one phrase to the next. And in the Rondo Finale\, Brahms pits various subdivisions of the ensemble against each other\, introducing the main theme in the lower trio of instruments\, after which the upper trio are allowed to respond. \nProgram Notes by Peter Asimov
URL:https://www.bowdoinfestival.org/event/milhaud-pintocorreia-walker-brahms/
LOCATION:Studzinski Recital Hall\, 12 Campus Road S\, Brunswick\, ME\, 04011
CATEGORIES:Concert,Ticketed Events,Wednesdays,Livestream,New Music
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