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Bochum Welcomes CoriglianoJohn Corigliano’s passport is getting quite a bit of use in recent months. Having summered inLondon as a guest of the BBC Proms for the UK premiere of his Concerto for Violin and Orchestra(“The Red Violin”), and in Tuscany as composer-in-residence at the Tuscan Sun Festival, the compos-er jets off again next month — this time to Germany where he begins a season-long celebration of hismusic with Steven Sloane and the Bochum Symphony.

“As our composer-in-residence,” shares Sloane, “we are proud to take this great opportunity not onlyto develop our ongoing relationship with him but also to get to know him better as a person.” The25 November opening concert of his residency features the orchestral song-cycle Mr. Tambourine

Man in its German premiere. Sloane con-tinues, “Although John and his music arealready well known in Germany andEurope, we hope that our collaboration will further heighten awareness of his compositions. We alsointend to demonstrate the great diversity of his [music] in performing not only his large-scale symphonicworks but also his film music and smaller orchestral works.” With seven concerts programmed fromNovember through March, the residency highlights performances of The Mannheim Rocket,Phantasmagoria and The Pied Piper Fantasy.

In our increasingly shrinking world, cultural dividesbetween the East and the West are finding newmeeting grounds in the arts which bring our worldscloser together. This month, two Chinesecultural arts festivals — one in the “old”world and one in the “new” — feature theworks of musical ambassadors BrightSheng and Tan Dun.

The RoyalConcertgebouwsponsors a musi-cal feast with its“AmsterdamChina Festival.”The festival spot-lights Tan’smusic with theKronos Quartetand pipa player WuMan presenting GhostOpera; a screening offilms he has scored; and

Tan’s own performance with the Flemish RadioOrchestra of Orchestral Theatre II: Re and The Map.

The Concertgebouw Orchestra participates with theEuropean premiere of Bright Sheng’s marimba con-certo Colors of Crimson, performed by soloist Colin

Currie.

Eyes will also be on Washington,DC, where the Kennedy Centeroffers up “The Festival of China,”which highlights both composers’orchestral works in concert withthe Shanghai Symphony. Tan’svoice is also represented in theworlds ofchambermusic anddance.

Speaking ofdance, John

Tavener receives a nod, asShen Wei Dance Arts stagesthe ballet “Folding,” which ischoreographed to the compos-er’s The Last Sleep of theVirgin.

All Things China Bright ShengColors of Crimson 20'Marimba; 2(pic).2(ca).2(bcl).2(cbn)/3220/timp.2perc/pf.hp/str

Tan DunGhost Opera 41'pipa; 2 vn, va, vc

Orchestral Theatre II: Re 18'Bass; audience; 0+3pic.2+ca.2+bcl.2/4.3Dtpt.3.1/4perc/pf.hp/str (twoconductors)

The Map: Concerto for Cello, Video, and Orchestra 55'Cello; 2(2pic).2(ca).1+Ebcl(bcl).1+cbn/2221/4perc/hp/str and video

John TavenerThe Last Sleep of the Virgin 20'2vn, va, vc, handbells

John CoriglianoConcerto for Violin and Orchestra (“The Red Violin”) 38'violin; 3(2pic,afl).2.2(bcl).2(cbn)/4.2([pictpt]).3.1/timp.4perc/pf(cel).hp/str

Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan 36'Text: Bob DylanSoprano (amplified);3(2pic).3(ca).3(Eflat+bcl).asx(barsx).3(cbn)/4.4.2+btbn.1/timp.3perc/pf.hp/str

“It’s a wonderful honor to be giving theEuropean premiere [ofSheng’s Colors ofCrimson]...the music[has] color, subtlety,and shimmeringintensity...As for thesolo marimba writing,the composer hassought a new level ofdexterity and the con-trapuntal challengesmake for a superb vir-tuoso display.”

— Colin CurrieColin Currie

Steven Sloane conducts the Bochum Symphony

photo courtesy Bochum Symphony

photo by Ben Phillips

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An Antheil Love Affair

“I’m crazy about Antheil. His music is madcap, charming and wonderfullyAmerican. But for a handful of pieces, his works are little known.” Thusdeclares Miller Theatre executive director George Steel. On 7 October,pianist Guy Livingston joins Daniel Spalding and the Philadelphia VirtuosiChamber Orchestra at Miller to reintroduce to American audiences three for-gotten scores of George Antheil: Piano Concerto No. 2 — in its Americanpremiere; Dreams Ballet, and Serenade No. 2 for Chamber Orchestra. Steelcontinues, “For afew years now, I’vebeen speaking withGuy about presentinga portrait concert here at MillerTheatre, and recently Daniel and I havebeen talking about the same thing. It’s a three-way love affair for Antheil’smusic.” The concert offers the second performance of both Dreams Ballet andSerenade No. 2, which haven’t been played since their premieres. The pro-gram repeats in Philadelphia on the 9th.

Piano Concerto No. 2 premiered in Paris on 12 March 1927, as part of thepopular series “Concerts Golschmann,” presented by the brothers VladimirGolschmann, conductor, and pianist Boris Golschmann. Written after Balletmécanique, this work evidences Antheil’s change in compositional style as hehimself called it “neoclassic.” After returning to the US in the early thirties,Antheil wrote a series of ballets for Georges Balanchine and the AmericanBallet. Dreams Ballet was first performed on 5 March 1935 conducted bySandor Harmati. Antheil noted of this work “We are trying, in Americanstyle and spirit, to revive the Diaghilev tradition.” Antheil’s Serenade No. 2was premiered on 26 February 1950 by the Los Angeles Chamber Symphony.Composed as a companion work to his Serenade for String Orchestra, it illus-trates the composer’s gift and imagination for creating mosaic, block-likestructures featuring America-inspired melody and energetic orchestration.

Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra

photo:Julia Rubio“The composition of Apotheosis of This Earth was motivated by the present desper-ate stage of mankind and its immense problems with everyday killings, war, hunger,extermination of fauna, huge forest fires, and critical contamination of the wholeenvironment. Man’s brutal possession and misuse of nature’s beauty — if continuedat today’s reckless speed — can only lead to catastrophe.”

Karel Husa was struck by the chaos of the world around him in 1970. As a com-poser, he knew that his instrument for change was his music. The result was hisApotheosis of This Earth, a 25-minute “what if” that highlights the potential self-

destruction of the planet.

The three movements, in versions forboth wind band and orchestra, high-light the Earth as it spins throughtime. In the first movement, the Earthis seen as a point of light in the uni-

verse, building to the second movement, bringing us in close to the destructionthat we have brought upon ourselves. The final movement offers some catharsisand hope — the possibility that we will not destroy ourselves.

It is striking that Husa’s comments could easily be made today, conjuring upimages of killings, war, hunger, and other man-made ills that could scarcely havebeen imagined 35 years ago. Look at a newspaper, turn on the TV. Have we ful-filled Husa’s dire predictions of the future?

(Re)View: Husa, Apotheosis of This Earth

“It speaks directly from the heart to the heart. It is a work of terrifyingintensity, a prolonged scream of anguish.”

– Irving Lowens, The Star and News, Washington DC, April 16, 1973

“A stark musical depiction of the shameless way man has used andabused our planet for his own selfish ends. Husa succeeds in project-ing his dour message with gripping force.” – John Schneider, Atlanta Journal, March 19, 1976

“Apotheosis of This Earth has everything -power, passion, mysticism, even peace andecology”

– Richard Freed, High Fidelity/Musical American,July 1973

“Cataclysmic in impact, designed with a mas-ter orchestrator’s highest cosmic energies”

– Theodore Price, Rochester NY Democrat andChronicle, April 8, 1972

Karel Husa is currently the composer-in-residence in East Lansing, MI,and will be featured in the same capacity at the University of Louisville inNovember of this year. He turns 85 on 7 August 2006.

Karel Husa Apotheosis of This Earth 25'band version: SATB [optional];4(pic).33+Ebcl+acl+bcl[Bbcbcl].2asx+tsx+barsx.2+cbn/444+2bar.1/timp.4perc/db

chorus and orchestra version: SATB Chorus;4(pic).3+ca.3+bcl.2+cbn/4441/timp.perc/str

“George Antheil’s music has wit,humor, and is always full of

fabulous colors.” — Daniel Spalding

Dmitri ShostakovichJazz Suites Nos. 1 and 2Overture on Russian and Kirghiz ThemesFestive Overture Novorossiisk ChimesNational SymphonyOrchestra of Ukraine/Kuchar Brilliant Classics SACD 7096

Dmitri Shostakovich Jazz Suites

…[Shostakovich] created the two Jazz Suites, sequences of short, light pieces in dance rhythms to beperformed by ensembles like the [Soviet] State Jazz Orchestra…The Second Jazz Suite begins and endswith sprightly marches. The music is energetic and brilliant…The heart of the Second Jazz Suite is aseries of three waltzes. The third [waltz]…moves gracefully and with a seductive lilt, but the hauntingtheme, in the minor, has a mournful quality and is indelible to the memory — hear it once and it’swith you for good…The Overture on Russian and Kirghiz Themes and the Festive Overture are both state-sponsored pieces written for specific occasions…the pieces [are] lively and entertaining…NovorossiiskChimes is another occasional piece, a setting of the song “Fire of Eternal Glory”…It is beautifullydone…Performances throughout the program are highly charged…It’s fun to play and delightful to lis-ten to and should have a place in any Shostakovich collection.

— Ung-aang Talay, Bangkok Post (Andante.com)

Andnow:

Rob Kapilow spent his summerhard at work on a new music-lis-tening guide for Simon &Schuster. But, lurking in the backof his mind was the fact that with50 appearances for 2005-06, this

is his busiest season ever.

On 5 October, Kapilow goes toCerritos, CA with his interactiveeducational program “What Makes It Great?” and starts off a coast-to-coasttour of this perennial favorite, which focuses on a variety of composers fromBeethoven to Shostakovich — including an all-Mozart program at AliceTully Hall, where Kapilow is the only artist to be granted his own personalconcert series at Lincoln Center. “FamilyMusik” at Boston’s Celebrity Seriescelebrates its tenth anniversary with six concerts, and opens this month with aperformance of Kapilow’s Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham. This year, Kapilow

takes bothevents north of

the border topresent their

Canadian premiereswith new program-

ming targeted toteenaged and young

adult audiences.

Kapilow heads to big-skycountry on 29 October for

the Helena Symphony’s open-ing concert of his orchestral narrative Summer Sun, Winter Moon. The workwas commissioned by the Carlsen Center to honor the Lewis and ClarkBicentennial, and was premiered last year by the Kansas City Symphony andsubsequently performed by co-commissioners Saint Louis Symphony andLouisiana Philharmonic. Kapilow set the story through the eyes of the NativeAmerican experience. He traveled to the American Blackfeet Tribe inMontana for inspiration which resulted in a fruitful collaboration with tribemember Darrell Kipp as librettist.

Somehow, Kapilow still finds time to conduct. On 11 December, he leadsthe Toronto Symphony in a Holiday concert of his settings of Chris vanAllsburg’s Polar Express and Elijah’s Angel.

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Kapilow!Water/ColorsPlace: New York City. Setting: the downtown new music scene. What fourwords come to mind? Answer: Bang On a Can, the festival founded by com-posers Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe. Increasingly, howev-er, their influence extends well beyond the Hudson, with a summer festival atMASS/MoCA (North Adams, MA) and performances of their music through-out Europe.

On 19 October, Gordon ponders the musical color wheel as the LuzerneSymphony introduces GreyPinkYellow. Commissioned for the orchestra’s bicen-

tennial, the work explores color in relation to consonanceand dissonance. Gordon explains, “Some people categorizesound very simply, dissonant or consonant. But, I think wecan hear them both simultaneously....Think of piano keys,they are black and white, but listeners also hear the notes

in between — the grey notes. And, like a full orchestra illuminates sound thesame way the sun (yellow) shines brightly on everything, melody is like thecolor hot pink—the eyes are drawn to it so the ears must listen...”

Also this month, Lang crosses thePond on the 29th for the LondonSinfonietta’s performance of hismultimedia work Writing on Water.Created in collaboration with film-maker Peter Greenaway, it wascommissioned by the famedLloyd’s of London insuranceagency to celebrate the 200thanniversary of the Battle ofTrafalgar. Written for ten players,

it premiered last month in a private concert and incorporates new Greenawayimages and his own libretto of sailing texts written by Shakespeare, Coleridge,and Melville. “What linksLloyds and Trafalgar,” Langobserves “is the perilousnessof being on the ocean andliving with the sea....The music features a lot of ‘shipwreck’ — it is wild, edgy,always moving forward, terrifying and ultimately very emotional.”

Next month, JuliaWolfe joins theguys in New York

City for the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s premiere of the fully staged versionof their multimedia opera Shelter.

Michael Gordon

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Recent visits to the New Orleans Opera and Louisiana Philharmonic forthe premieres of the New Orleans-inspired works — Pontalba (TheaMusgrave) and 03: This New, Immense, Unbounded World (RobertKapilow) — and Houston Grand Opera’s commissions — Salsipuedes(Daniel Catan) and Lysistrata (Mark Adamo) — have brought thetragedies of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita closer to home to those of ussafe in New York. G. Schirmer’s offer to donate music for concerts ben-efiting musicians affected by the storms has yielded responses fromensembles as far from the Gulf as Seattle and Minneapolis. Our heartsgo out to the victims and their families and we hope as the communitiesrebuild so too will their musical institutions.

“For the past ten years, Rob has single-handedly introduced a whole newgeneration of children to the wondersof classical music and dance. In amatter of minutes, he had 6-year-old ‘doubting Thomases’ eatingout of the palm of his hands andnow we have 16-year-old musicand dance lovers for life!” — Martha Jones, president,

Boston Celebrity Series

Sofia GubaidulinaThe Light of the End 25’

Gubaidulina’s new work, a sin-gle span of 25 minutes,….[requires] a vast orchestra,and her orchestral colors are extraordinary. Spacious, logical, repetitive, spare,communicative, describes this bleak — occasionally dancing — piece…Gubaidulina’s deep spirituality was profoundly conveyed.

— Annette Morreau, The Independent (London)

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Anniversaries1 Charles Ives

Emerson Overture (arr. David G. Porter) premiered 1998

1 Dmitri ShostakovichSymphony No. 12 premiered 1961

3 John CoriglianoCreations premiered 1984

4 Leon KirchnerToccata premiered 1956

6 William SchumanAmerican Festival Overture premiered 1939

7 Henry CowellSymphony No. 15 “Thesis” premiered 1961

8 Toru Takemitsu born 1930

9 Anthony DavisX: The Life and Times of Malcolm Xpremiered 1985

9 Roberto Sierra born 1953

10 Paul Creston born 1906

11 Sergei ProkofievSymphony No. 6 premiered 1947

12 Philip GlassThe Voyage premiered 1998

14 Kaija Saariaho born 1952

15 Peter Maxwell DaviesThe Jacobite Rising premiered 1997

16 Leon KirchnerMusic for orchestra premiered 1969

17 Peter LiebersonFire premiered 1996

19 Morton GouldInventions for Four Pianos and Orchestrapremiered 1953

20 Charles Ives born 1874

21 Malcolm Arnold born 1921

22 John HarbisonThe Most Often Used Chords premiered 1993

23 Richard DanielpourCelestial Night premiered 1997

24 Luciano Berio born 1925

24 Sofia Gubaidulina born 1931

25 Peter Lieberson born 1946

26 Gunther SchullerPiano Concerto No. 1 premiered 1962

27 Heitor Villa-LobosConcerto for Harmonica premiered 1957

28 William Grant StillAfro-American Symphony premiered 1931

29 Dmitri ShostakovichViolin Concerto No. 1 premiered 1955

30 Anthony DavisTales (Tails) of the Signifying Monkeypremiered 1998

31 Carlos ChávezToccata premiered 1947

Danny Elfman’s Serenada Schizophranapremiered in February. It receives its

second performance on October 2nd bythe Redwood Symphony (CA).

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Chávez (EMI) Sarabande from “TheDaughter of Colchis”New Brunswick ChamberOrchestra/Mark TrautNew Brunswick, NJ

Kernis (AMP) Musica CelestisMinnesota OrchestraMinneapolis,MN

Musgrave (NOV) Aurora Saint Paul ChamberOrchestra/N. KraemerSt. Paul, MN

Shostakovich (GSR) Symphony No. 5New Haven Symphony/Jung-Ho PakNew Haven, CT

Barber (GS) Adagio for StringsGlens Falls Symphony/Charles PeltzGlens Falls, NY

Elfman (AMP) Serenada SchizophranaRedwood Symphony/Eric KujawskyRedwood City, CA

Harbison (AMP) Three City BlocksUniversity of Maryland/Timothy FoleyCollege Park, MDTan Dun (GS) Concerto for StringOrchestra and Pipa Jeonju Symphony Seoul, KoreaSymphony of Zenshu/Isao MatsushitaTokyo, Japan

Glass (DUN) Orion ★★

(October 6 - 8)The Philip GlassEnsemble; Uakti; FodayMusa Suso, kora; MarkAtkins, didjerido; GauravMazumdar, sitar; AshleyMacIsaac, fiddle; Wu-man, pipa BAM Center for thePerforming Arts,Brooklyn, NY

Prokofiev (GSR) Romeo and Juliet(Excerpts)(October 6, 8, 11)New York Philharmonic/Charles DutoitAvery Fisher Hall, LincolnCenter, New York City

80th Birthday SeasonSchuller (MAR) Blue Dawn into White HeatUniversity of NorthCarolina at Greensboro/Kevin GeraldiGreensboro, NC

Corigliano (GS) Symphony No. 1(October 7, 8)National SymphonyOrchestra/Leonard SlatkinKennedy Center,Washington, DC

Schuller (MG) Blue Dawn into White HeatUniversity of Wisconsin atMadison/Gail JohnsonMadison, WI

Prokofiev (GSR) Symphony No. 5(October 8, 9)Houston Symphony/Eri KlasHouston, TX

Tower (AMP) Fanfare for the UncommonWoman, No. 2Oberlin College/Reynolds Oberlin, OH

Composer Portrait ConcertAntheil (GS) Dreams Ballet ★

Piano Concerto No. 2 ★★

Serenade No. 2 ★

Guy Livingston, pianoPhiladelphia VirtuosiChamber Orchestra/Daniel SpaldingMiller Theatre, ColumbiaUniversity, New York City

Shostakovich (GSR) Symphony No. 1(October 9)Vancouver Symphony Vancouver, WA

Tower (AMP) Fanfare for theUncommon Woman, Nos.1, 2 and 4Kokomo Symphony/Michelle LouerKokomo, IN

Tyzik (EMI) Hot Soul Medley(October 9, 10)Oregon Symphony/J.M. RussellPortland, OR

Brubeck (MAL) In Your Own Sweet WayLight in the Wilderness(Excerpts)Cincinnati Symphony/Erich KunzelCincinnati, OH

Harbison (AMP) AbrahamCincinnatti Conservatoryof Music/Earl RiversCincinnati, OH

Fortas Chamber MusicConcertsLieberson (AMP) Piano Quintet Peter Serkin, OrionQuartetKennedy Center,Washington, DC

Tan Dun (PPI)Fire RitualWong Oh-Yuen, huqinHong Kong ChineseOrchestra/Yan HuichangAvery Fisher Hall, LincolnCenter, New York City

Kirchner (AMP) Concerto for Violin,Violoncello, 10 Windsand Percussion New EnglandConservatory/Charles PeltzBoston, MA

Skalkottas (MG) Nine Greek Dances forWindsMiddle Tennessee StateUniversity Bands/Reed ThomasMurfreesboro, TN

Arnold (NOV) A Grand Grand OvertureMississippi Symphony/Crafton BeckJackson, MS

Harbison (AMP) Concerto for Viola(October 15, 16)Boston PhilharmonicOrchestra/Benjamin ZanderBoston, MA

Singapore InternationalFestivalHusa (AMP) Music for PragueOrchestra Pro Musica/Martin Fischer-DieskauVictoria Hall, Singapore

Salonen (CH) Gambit(October 15, 16)St. Louis Symphony/Michael ChristieSt Louis, MO

Chávez (GS) Sinfonia India (SymphonyNo. 2)Houston Symphony Houston, TX

Corigliano (GS) The Red Violin: Chaconnefor Violin and OrchestraNashua SymphonyNashua, NH

Kernis (AMP) Musica CelestisYale Symphony/T. ShimadaNew Haven, CT

Tilson Thomas (KON) AgnegramSacramentoPhilharmonic/Michael MorganSacramento, CA

Corigliano (GS) LiebesliedNew York Festival of SongMerkin Hall, New York City

Kernis (GS) Garden of Light (Excerpt)Minnesota OrchestraMinneapolis, MN

Lang (RP) Cheating, Lying, StealingArizona State University/Glenn HackbarthTempe, AZ

Lutoslawski (CH) Chain 1University of CincinnatiConservatory ofMusic/WintherCincinnati, OH

Shostakovich (GSR) Piano TrioYulia Ziskel, violin;Elizabeth Dyson, cello;Tatiana Goncharova, pianoMerkin Hall, New YorkCity

Corigliano (GS) Symphony No. 1Barber (GS) Violin ConcertoItzhak Perlman, violinNational Symphony/Leonard SlatkinLos Angeles, CA

Gordon (RP) GreyPinkYellow ★★★

(October 20, 22)Luzerner SinfonieOrchesterLuzerne, Switzerland

Harbison (AMP) The Most Often UsedChordsBuffalo Philharmonic/Robert FranzBuffalo, NY

Corigliano (GS) The Red Violin: Chaconnefor Violin and OrchestraToledo Symphony/Chelsea Tipton IIToledo, OH

Kernis (AMP) Simple SongsNew Music New HavenNew Haven, CT

Schnittke (GSR) Concerto No. 3 for Violinand Chamber OrchestraNorthwestern University/Victor YampolskyEvanston, IL

Still (NOV) Afro-American SymphonyBaton Rouge Symphony/Timothy MuffitBaton Rouge, LA

Adamo (GS) Little Women(October 22, 23)Michael La Tour, stagedirector; Opera Moda/Anna BennewegChicago, IL

McPhee (AMP) Tabuh-Tabuhan(October 22 - November 3)American Ballet TheatreNew York City

Menotti (GS) The Consul(October 22 - 25)Opera Boston/Gil RoseBoston, MA

Shostakovich (GSR) Symphony No. 11, "TheYear 1905"(October 22, 23)San Diego Symphony/Gerard SchwarzSan Diego, CA

Chávez (CAR) Fuga H-A-G-CString Quartet Nos. 1 - 3Southwest ChamberMusicNorton Simon Museum,Pasadena, CA

Corigliano (GS) Symphony No. 1National SymphonyOrchestra/Leonard SlatkinDavis, CA

Kernis (AMP) Musica CelestisPlymouth Philharmonic/Steven KaridoyanesPlymouth, MA

Schoenberg (GS) Chamber Symphony No. 2(October 23)WestchesterPhilharmonic/David CarpWhite Plains, NY

Lang (RP) Sweet AirNew EnglandConservatory/Steven DruryBoston, MA

Corigliano (GS) Circus Maximus(Symphony No. 3 forLarge Wind Ensemble)(October 28)University of North Texas/Eugene MiglianoDenton, TX

Gubaidulina (GSR) Offertorium for Violin andOrchestra(October 28, 29)Gidon Kremer, violinSan Francisco Symphony/Kurt MasurSan Francisco, CA

Chávez (GS) Sinfonia India (SymphonyNo. 2)Puerto Rico Symphony/Elena HerreraSan Juan, PR

Schnittke (GSR) Concerto for Viola andOrchestra Adelphi UniversityGarden City, NY

Thomas (GS) In My Sky At Twilight Bowling Green StateUniversity/E. Freeman BrownBowling Green, OH

G. Schirmer Selected Performances October ’05

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Rodríguez (ALH) A Gathering Of AngelsGreater Dallas YouthOrchestra/RichardGiangiulioDallas, TX

Corigliano (GS) Gazebo DancesFort Wayne Philharmonic/Edvard TchivzhelFort Wayne, IN

Kapilow (GS) Summer Sun WinterMoonHelena Symphony/Allan R. ScottHelena, MT

Lang (RP) Writing On Water (collabo-ration with filmmaker PeterGreenaway) London Sinfonietta/Jurjen HempelLondon, England

Musikhøst 2005Thomas (GS) memory: Swells ★★

The Scandanavian GuitarDuoDenmark

Tan Dun (GS) Elegy: Snow in JuneMusikpreis de StadtDuisburg prize/Duisburg, Germany

Thomas (GS) Love SongsNew York Virtuoso Singers/Harold RosenbaumMadison AvenuePresbyterian Church,New York City

Sheng (GS) Nanking! Nanking!University of Michigan/Bright ShengAnn Arbor, MI

Thomas (GS) a circle around the sunMoon JigWalden Chamber PlayersDobbs Ferry, NY

Corigliano (GS) Gazebo Dances for BandTexas ChristianUniversity/Bob FrancisFort Worth, TX

Sørensen (WH) The Weeping White Room ★★

Members of the ChicagoSymphony/Ludovic MorlotChicago, IL

Menotti (GS) The MediumThe Telephone (October 8, 9, 15, 21, 22)Estonian NationalOpera/Erki PehkTallinn, Estonia

Gubaidulina (GSR) Hommage a T.S. EliotMembers of the SaintPaul Chamber OrchestraSt. Paul, MN

Ives (AMP) Symphony No. 3, "TheCamp Meeting" Metropolitan Symphony/William SchrickelSt. Paul, MN

Thomas (GS) PulsarHirono Oka, violinPhiladelphia, PA

Ives (AMP) Washington's Birthday Orchestre d'AuvergneClermont Ferrand

Sallinen (NOV) A Solemn Overture (KingLear)Portland Symphony/T. ShimadaPortland, ME

Stravinsky (GS) Jeu de cartesNew EnglandConservatory/Ludovic MorlotBoston, MA

Thomson (GS) Louisiana Story:Orchestral SuiteDrake University/John CanarinaDes Moines, IA

Chávez (CAR) Fuga H-A-G-CString Quartet Nos. 1 - 3Southwest ChamberMusicColburn School ofPerforming Arts, LosAngeles, CA

Kapilow (GS) Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggsand Ham (Orchestral)Grand Rapids Symphony/John VarineauGrand Rapids, MI

This month, the EstonianNational Opera mounts six

performances of Gian CarloMenotti’s opera The Medium.

October 9Tan Dun - Ritual Fire Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra/Yan Huichang

October 17Sheng - PostcardsShanghai Symphony/Chan XieyanTan Dun - The MapShanghai Symphony/Tan Dun

October 21, 22Tavener - "Folding," Choreographyafter Last Sleep of the VirginShen Wei, choreographer;Guangdong Modern Dance Company

October 27Tan Dun - Eight Colors for StringQuartet (Excerpts)Ying Quartet

Amsterdam China FestivalAmsterdam, Netherlands

October 2Tan Dun - Ghost OperaWu Man, pipa; Kronos Quartet

October 5Tan Dun - Circle with FourTrios, Conductor And AudienceNieuw Ensemble/Ed Spanjaard

October 6, 7Sheng - Colors of Crimson ★★

Colin Currie, percussion; RoyalConcertgebouw Orchestra/David Robertson

October 7Tan Dun - Screening of FilmScores

October 10Tan Dun - The Map, OrchestralTheatre IIFlemish Radio Orchestra/Tan Dun

Festival of ChinaKennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC

Joan Tower’s Made in Americapremieres on 2 October by CharlesPeltz and the Glens Falls Symphony(NY). Her ground-breaking commissionwas highlighted at the ASOL’s annualJune conference, where Tower (secondfrom left) posed with Glens FallsSymphony representatives executivedirector Robert Russoff (left), presidentSue Ford (near right), and second vice-president Alan Redeker (right).

October 2- World PremiereGlens Falls Symphony/Charles PeltzGlens Falls, NY

October 8Holland SymphonyHolland, MI Stow Symphony/Darrell MusicStow, OH

October 11Williamsport Symphony/Robin FountainWilliamsport, PA

October 15Garden State PhilharmonicLakewood, NJ

Pine Bluff Symphony/Charles James EvansPine Bluff, AR

October 22Vermont Symphony/Jamie LaredoBurlington,VTPlymouth Philharmonic/Steven KaridoyanesPlymouth, MAThe Olde York Road Symphony/Paul SeibertElkins Park, PA

October 22, 23Reno Chamber Orchestra/Joan TowerReno, NV

October 30Omaha Area Youth Orchestra/Aviva SegallOmaha, NE

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Novello composer Tarik O’Regan is this year’s Research Affiliate at the Yale Institute ofSacred Music, where he will lecture as part of the choral and composition seminars andcompose a commissioned piece for the Yale ScholaCantorum. O’Regan has previously served fellowshipsin the US at Harvard and Columbia Universities. Hisother current happenings include: the Los AngelesMaster Chorale’s January 2006 performance ofDorchester Canticles at Walt Disney Concert Hall,and the February release (Koch InternationalClassics) of an all-O’Regan choral CD (produced byJohn Rutter) with Tim Brown conducting the Choirof Clare College, Cambridge.

In the works are new pieces for the Helsinki MaleVoice Choir, London Mozart Players, National Youth Choir, London SpitalfieldsFestival, and Lincoln Cathedral.

O’Regan at Yale

Fact: Home of the Vikings.

Fact: Slightly less than twice the size of Massachusetts.

Fact: The land of The Little Match Girl, Thumbelina andThe Ugly Duckling.

Fact: The high employment rate is primarily due to the largenumber of women in the workforce.

Fact: Home of Hans Christian Andersen

We’re talking about Denmark, of course, and in the contem-porary music arena, Denmark’s making waves abroad with apair of concerts featuring North American premieres.

Our neighbor to the North starts things off in Victoria,British Columbia when, on 23 October, Aventa New Musicfeatures an evening of first performances of works by PeterBruun, Svendt Hvidfelt Nielsen and Anders Nordentoft.“We are very excited about this event,” notes music directorWilliam Linwood. “Danish music and musicians have had amajor impact on our ensemble. Aventa’s first experience withDanish music was Bent Sørensen’s Shadowland. This workmade such an impression on both our members and ouraudience…Last spring, I had the opportunity to travel toCopenhagen and meet with several composers and…[after-wards] was able to plan what we hope will be a very specialconcert. It’s excellent music and we are grateful for theopportunity to bring it to our audience.”

On the 31st, the second continental premiere takes place on“mischief night” when ensemble members of the ChicagoSymphony present Bent Sørensen’s The Weeping White Room.Programmed as part of the orchestra’s MusicNOW series,Augusta Read Thomas — the CSO’s Mead-composer-in-residence — chose this work because “Bent Sørensen’s com-position is an exquisitely beautiful work — one of great sen-sitivity, nuance and power.” Given the bewitching title, Sørensen shares, “As usual thetitle came first. But where is that room? And what is it? Who is weeping? I am not sure!”

Danish Firstsphoto by Suzanne Jansen

Bent SørensenThe Little Mermaid 24’

…The LittleMermaid is aHans ChristianAndersen bicente-nary evocation ofthe famous fairytale (a symbol ofDenmark itself)and the author’sown lovelorn life…Sørensen counterpoints the harrowing story —a soprano represents the mermaid — with extracts fromAnderson’s diary, sung by a tenor, but the main narration falls tothree groups of girls’ voices…The effect was as if a Christmas carolhas been analyzed into its harmonic spectra and reconstituted inglassy, glissandoing orchestral half-tones…It was a true poem insound, and the most striking new work of the season so far.

— Paul Driver, The Sunday Times

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Danish National Radio Symphony/Dausgaard

12 August 2005; BBC Proms, London, England

World Premiere

Peter Bruun

Anders Nordentoft

Svendt Hvidfelt Nielsen

Bent Sørensen

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Reviews

Kaija SaariahoAile du songe 18’

We’re only two weeks into thenew Atlanta Symphony Orchestraseason and already we might haveheard the performance of the year.

…principal flutist Christina Smith hummed, whirred, spat, recitedFrench Symbolist poetry, and not least, played a hauntingly gor-geous flute in Kaija Saariaho’s Aile du songe, a 2001 flute concertoby one of Finland’s most esteemed composers…The “Wing of theDream” comes in two parts, “Aérial” and “Terrestrial.” Theimagery is drawn from a collection of poems, Oiseaux, by Saint-Jean Perse. The music, like the poems, contemplates the mysteryof birds in flight rather than chirping birdsong.

Musically, the first section evokes the American desert Southwest.The flute opens with languid upward scales across two octaves…The harp rolls out dreamy fog, punctuated by the rattlesnakesound of crotales…At one point the cellos and basses provide therumble of faraway thunder. Yet the music is almost still…

The solo flute and orchestra interact much more in the second sec-tion, and the mood grows jittery. In an ear-catching effect, thescore asks the flutist to vocalize words as she blows the notes. Firstit's pips and whoops and then, near the end, snatches of poetry…

Saariaho’s cool modernist aesthetic…[is] never coddling, but nei-ther is it unfriendly. Like the natural world, it simply exists apartfrom our expectations.

— Pierre Ruhe, Atlanta Journal Constitution

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Correction Notice: The title sponsor of Joan Tower’s Made inAmerica is the Ford Motor Company Fund, with major supportfrom the National Endowment for the Arts.

Mark AdamoLittle Women (Opera in Two Acts) 120’

…I can’t think of another opera that begins toportray family life so vividly and in such deepdimension…Adamo wraps it all up in a com-pelling rhythmic and harmonic flow that gives an uncommonly complex scene a bigcontour you can hold in your mind…Bits of counterpoint crop up and harmoniesconverge at cadences, but mostly the voices sing in lively exchanges. This isn’t justrecitative or droning arioso. Adamo writes singing lines…so it expands on characterand resonates emotionally…Adamo’s wordplay can be brilliant, and we want to getto know these people…We learn more about them every time they sing, and that’swhy the opera engages from start to finish.

Even by sky-high Skylight standards, this is an extraordinary cast…Coached, natural-ly, by Adamo the stage director, their actingappears artless. You don’t think about itduring the show — you’re just watchingthese people live their lives…Adamo tells it

right.

— Tom Strini,

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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New Publications

Hans AbrahamsenConcerto for Piano and OrchestraNacht und TrompetenStratificationsAnne Marie Abildskov, pianoBIT20 Ensemble/VolkovDanish National Symphony/DausgaardDa Capo CD 8226010

Recent Recordings

Carlos Chavez“Chavez, Volume 3”Cantos de México Cuatro de Melodías Tradicionales Indias

del EcuadorLamentaciónesToccata for PercussionTres ExágonosOtro Tres ExágonosXochipilliSouthwest Chamber MusicCambria CD 8852

Magnus LindbergKRAFTPiano ConcertoMagnus Lindberg, pianoToimii EnsembleFinnish Radio Symphony/SalonenOndine ODE 1017-2

Per NørgårdMorgenmyteMorgen-MeditationMytisk Morgen2 NocturnerUt RosaWie Ein KindJens Schou, bass clarinetAres Nova Copenhagen/VetöDa Capo CD 6220510

Alleluia from “Brazilian Psalm”50485896

Four Songs50486045

No Longer Very Clear50482931

“Gramophone Good CD & DVD Guide”

These excerpts are just a smalltaste of the new 2006Gramophone Classical GoodCD & DVD Guide. Edited by contemporary music scholarDavid Roberts and distributed by the Music Sales Group, this19th edition of the Guide (initially published in 1923) remainsan essential listening reference for music lovers. Compiled from“Gramophone Magazine,” the Guide features over 3500 up-to-date reviews of CDs and DVDs (along with alternate recom-mendations), as well as a host of extras that appeal to the newlistener as well as the seasoned audiophile. New this year is astep-by-step guide to downloading MP3 files, which joins theGuide’s critically praised Suggested Basic Library listing; musichistory review; composer biographies (drawn from Grove’sConcise Dictionary of Music), and a ratings system for recom-mended repertoire and performances of exceptional distinction.

Violin ConcertoGian Carlo MenottiJennifer Koh, violinSpoleto Festival Orchestra/HickoxChandos CHAN 9979

Gian Carlo Menotti’s lyrical Violin Concerto [is] one of his most popular instru-mental works…Hickox draws from the Festival Orchestra [a] warmly persuasivereading...[in a] powerfully convincing committed performance....The vigorousfinale features a jaunty main theme and ends with virtuoso fireworks rounding off apiece that deserves resurrecting not just on disc but in the concert-hall too.

The young composer writes with a sure hand…The brilliance of the work seldomdiminishes and its texture, though cast in a modern mold, is soft and warm.

— Alice Eversman, News of Music, Washington Post

Fall and ResurrectionJohn TavenerPatricia Rozario, soprano; Michael Chance, countertenorMartyn Hill, tenor; Stephen Richardson, bassBBC SingersSt. Paul’s Cathedral ChoirCity of London Sinfonia/HickoxEtcetera DVD KTCD 109

This could be called Tavener’s Creation, an oratorio-likeaccount of the Biblical tale beginning with the represen-tation of primordial Chaos. It takes the story much furtherthan Haydn....But, like Haydn’s, this is a warmly maturework, epitomizing its composer’s style and personali-ty....Tavener’s richly exotic textures are beautifully evokedby Hickox and his forces....If you like Tavener, you neednot hesitate.

Dmitri ShostakovichJazz Suites Nos. 1 and 2National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine/KucharBrilliant Classics CD 7096

New to our rental library is a wind band version of CharlesIves’ The Alcotts. Transcribed by Jonathan Elkus, the arrange-ment was premiered on 12 December 1998 by the United StatesMarine Band, conducted by Timothy Foley. The Alcotts is thethird movement fromIves’s Second PianoSonata.

Jean Berger/arr. Tom AndersonAlleluia from “Brazilian Psalm”SATB AccompaniedScore 50485896 $1.70SAB AccompaniedScore 50485935 $1.70SSA AccompaniedScore 50485936 $1.70

André PrevinFour SongsTenor and pianoScore 50486045 $9.95

Joan TowerNo Longer Very ClearPiano solo: contains pieces “Holding a Daisy,” “Or Like A…An Engine,” “Vast Antique Cubes,” and “Throbbing Still”Score 50482931 $16.95

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Review

Opening bars from Joan Tower’s Made in America.Premiere: 2 October 2005; Glens Falls Symphony,

Charles Peltz conducting. Glens Falls, NY. Copyright © 2005 by Associated Music Publishers, Inc.(BMI) New York, NY. International Copyright Secured.

All Rights Reserved. Used by permission.

ReviewsCarols Chávez“Chávez Project Volume 3”

From a distance, Mexico is the source ofmany beautiful things and the source ofmuch chaos…The third of four CambriaCD’s by Southwest Chamber Music and theTambuco Percussion Ensemble devoted toChávez’s chamber pieces shows a composersmoothing and ordering Mexican art’s moreardent impulses. All the elements ofMexico’s eruptive beauties are here. Indeed,much of this music is for timpani and per-cussion. But Chávez, who died in 1978,managed musical composition…shrewdlyand elegantly…Everything in this collectionis attractive…Chávez had a distinct place inmid-20th-century musical history, and theserecordings help us remember it.

— Bernard Holland, New York Times

Cuatro Melodías Tradicionales indias del Ecuador,

Lamentaciónes, Cantos de México Cantos de México,

Otros Tres Exágonos, Toccata for Percussion

Tambuco Percussion Ensemble

Southwest Chamber Music

Cambria CD 8852

Peter Maxwell DaviesNaxos Quartets Nos. 3 and 4, “Children’s Games”

Following the success of Peter Maxwell Davies’sfirst two “Naxos Quartets”, the third and fourthin the series are fully up to the standard estab-lished at the start of this unique project. This ismature music full of emotional power, intellec-tual rigor and fascinating aural perspectives,especially in its quieter moments…these [are]uncompromising quartets…The immediacyand understanding of [the Maggini Quartet],expressed by tonal richness, perfect techniqueand musical sensitivity of the highest order,pulls one into Maxwell Davies’s difficult musicwith an almost hypnotic force. Irresistible.

— David Hart, Birmingham Post

Maggini Quartet

Naxos 8.557397

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