American Music Center ‘Letter of Distinction’ in honor of significant contributions to the field of new American Music, 2010 New York State Governor’s Arts Award, 2001

Winner of Chamber Music America/ASCAP Programming Awards for 1988-89, 1991-92, 1994-95, 1996-97 American Composers Alliance 'Laurel Leaf' Award, 1994

S o c i e t y N e w s 43rd season 2014-15 e-mailed to the listserve and available on the Society’s web site VOLUME 30, NO. 2, January 2015

THE PURCHASE OF MANHATTAN

by BRENT MICHAEL DAVIDS

with libretto by JOSEPH BRUCHAC

The revised/expanded version of POM was premiered Nov. 20, 2014 at Marble Collegiate Church, NYC, the site of the so-called ‘purchase’ in 1626. This was presented by the Lenape Center with support from Intersections International. The Society for New Music partnered with these organizations, since the premiere of the original version took place Nov. 10, 2013 in Syracuse. The Syracuse premiere was a collaboration with SNM, S.U. Arts Engage, La Liga, and Syracuse Symposium/Syracuse Humanities Center, with support from an IDEAS Implementation grant.

Many of the same Syracuse musicians, and 3 of the Native Singers performing, were from the Hendricks Chapel premiere of Nov. 2013. Berlin/Rosen provided PR on behalf of Marble Collegiate Church and it was terrific. Here is the link for the NY Times article, but there were many more, plus lots of radio & TV interviews. For details: www.purchaseofmanhattan.com

The Sale of Manhattan, Retold From a Native American Viewpoint By JAMES BARRON NOV. 18, 2014

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/19/arts/music/the-sale-of-manhattan-retold-from-a-native-american-viewpoint.html?_r=0

POM was commi-ssioned by the Lenape Center in Manhattan with support from the Collegiate Church of NY and funded in part by the

Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian’s Expressive Arts program, the Indian Arts Research Center of the School for Advanced Research with support from the Ronald and Susan Dubin Artist Fellowship, the Native Arts & Culture Foundation’s Artist Fellowship, & ongoing support from Sharon Doty Davids.

2014-15 season highlights

The 2014-15 winter season began with Upstate Treasures at the Everson Set. 21, featuring music by Israel winner John Liberatore, ‘Doctuh’ Mike Woods, Charles Fussell, Sam Pellman, Doug Cuomo, and Jonathan Pieslak. There was a New York Times review of the Pieslak CD that appeared simultaneously, but the SNM audience heard this music live at the Everson played by none other than Rob Auler, an Upstate treasure.

Of Jonathan Pieslak: 'Shards: Piano Music of Jonathan Pieslak,' Corinna da Fonseca Wolheim wrote in The New York Times, "This beautiful recording of the piano music of Jonathan Pieslak (Albany CD), played with extraordinary rhythmic clarity and expression by the pianist Robert Auler, spans extremes. . . . But what comes through in the title track and in the 11 movements that make up “American Atmospheres” is above all an assured, instantly communicative musical language, fluidly and lovingly rendered by Mr. Auler.“

Rob Deemer’s music for the classic silent film Safety Last!, a collaboration with the Syracuse Interna-tional Film Festival and LeMoyne College, was reviewed on John Herr's blog Oct. 8 – “And the feature, Harold Lloyd's classic 1923 Safety Last, with a score written & conducted by Rob Deemer, who led a [Society for New Music] 7tet of musicians. Lloyd's onscreen antics & the perfectly-matched music brought the near-capacity crowd to their feet.”

Nov. 2 featured the world premiere & second performance of Zhou Tian’s commissioned Morning after the Deluge. In addition to music by Pulitzer winner Zhou Long, and Guo Wenjing, Dan Asia’s Amichai Songs were beautifully sung by Eastman faculty member Robert Swensen, who had premiered the cycle. The program concluded with the second performance of Rob Deemer’s SNM commissioned Cantos, with video by Courtney Rile. A real winner!

On Nov. 9, music by Dexter Morrill, Sam Pellman (premiere), Zhou Long & Guo Wenjing was performed before a large, enthusiastic audience at Hamilton College.

Pulitzer winners Steve STUCKY & Joseph SCHWANTNER Rome prize Arthur LEVERING

Stoeger Prize David LIPTAK Guggenheim & Ives Prizes

Jorge Villavicencio GROSSMANN Stucky, Schwantner Liptak, Levering

Musicians:

Kelly Covert Emily DiAngelo John Friedrichs Ida Trebicka Sar Strong Ann McIntyre Kit Dodd Greg Wood Rob Bridge

Guest artists:

TONY ARNOLD ALISON d’AMATO

Grossmann, Arnold

2:30 PM SUNDAY JANUARY 25, 2015 Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY

Comments from SNM’s audience:

“In this age of distressing fine arts cutbacks and the deceit

of ‘drive-thru’ culture, the Society is truly unique. Thanks

for empowering all who love the arts in CNY and so far

beyond.”

Live new music & dance along the Erie Canal

Composers:

Marco ALUNNO, David H. DAVIES Kevin ERNSTE, Mark OLIVIERI Nic SCHERZINGER, Rob VOISEY

Choreographers:

Candy Aguilera, Alexandra Beller Lisa Fagan, Hanni Schwarzlander Cheryl Johnson, Cynthia Williams

4PM SATURDAY FEB. 7, 2015 St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral Syracuse, NY

Also:

7:30pm Feb. 9 Houghton College, Houghton, NY

8pm March 28 Smith Opera House, Geneva, NY

1pm April 12 Jan Van Hus Auditorium, NYC

Cheryl Johnson

Candy Elise Nic Scherzinger Hanni Schwarzlander, David H. Davies, Kevin Ernste

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Feb. 5, 8pm Chapel Hobart-William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY

Music by Mark Olivieri D = RxT, 2014

Jonathan Pieslak Shard, 2008

Sam Pellman Recursive Fury, 2014

Douglas Cuomo Slowly she turns, 2010

Krzysztof Penderecki Cadenza, 1987

Marc Mellits Paranoid Cheese, 2001

Katherine Hoover Winter Spirits, 1997

Dana DiGennaro, Blagomira Lipari

Arvilla Rovit, Rob Auler

Rob Bridge, Sam Pellman

Feb. 25, 12:30pm Utica College Library Concourse Utica, NY

The music of Tyler Ogilvie and Arvo Part for horn, echo horn, electronics, multimedia and film

March 29, 3:30pm Colgate University Chapel Hamilton, NY

WORLD MUSIC Music by Bela Bartok Contrasts, 1938

Olivier Messiaen Louange a l’Éternité de

Jesus, 1942 (from Quartet for the End of Time)

Lou Harrison Varied Trio, 1987

Douglas Cuomo Slowly she turns, 2010

Zhou Tian Morning after the Deluge,

2014 (3rd perf.) commissioned by SNM

Ann McIntyre, Blagomira Lipari

Kit Dodd, Greg Wood, John

Friedrichs, Sar Strong, Rob Bridge

“Not only masterfully crafted but a true masterpiece” —Classical Voice of New England

COMPOSERS NIGHT OUT !

The Society for New Music’s annual fundraiser this

year will be held on Thursday May 14, 2015 and linked

with the American Composers Forum’s National

Composer Night Out (NCNO) in celebration of their 40th

anniversary. ACF is coordinating a nation-wide series of

events that will be connected through a Google Hangout

and Twitter.

SNM’s concert gala event will feature world

premieres of short works written by CNY based and/or

CNY linked composers, accompanied by food, of course.

Tying this local event into the national event will allow

SNM to showcase the talent in the Central New York

community as well as highlight the national reach of the

Society.

Composers throughout the United States will be

connected physically and virtually in a tapestry of events

designed to raise awareness and foster a sense of

community for the

composers and others who

create new music in their

area. SNM’s fundraiser will

be part of an ACF Musical

Paper Chain and be

included on ACF’s

interactive map to showcase

all of the activities and help

promote them to the public.

Composer Chris Cresswell will be the point

person for this event, coordinating with the Benefit

Committee, chaired by Diana Brownlie. Former SNM

commissioned composers, Israel winners, and Upstate

New York composers will be invited to write 2-5 minute

works to be premiered at the May 14th gala.

Society for New Music’s Mission Statement:

Founded in 1971, the Society’s purpose is to act as a catalyst for the continued growth of the CNY musical community by

1. commissioning and recording new works by regional composers 2. advocacy, e.g. Society News & Fresh Ink 3. featuring guest composer/performers alongside regional composers 4. providing regional musicians an opportunity to perform the music of their peers in order to gain new skills and techniques 5. encouraging young composers via the Israel Prize, Rising Stars, Young Composers Corner, and workshops 6. bringing new music to as broad an audience as possible, through recordings, performances, broadcasts, the weekly Fresh Ink program on WCNY and on the web

Brian M. Israel Prize Winners 2014 John Liberatore*, Michael Boyman+, HM: Ross

Scott Griffey & JunYi Chow 2013 Juan Pablo Contreras*, Amit Gilutz +, HM: Ross Scott Griffey,

Nathan Heidelberger, Eric Allen

2012 Ted Goldman*, Joseph Nathaniel Rubinstein+ HM: Justin Paul Jaramillo, Brandon Luis Ridenour, Haralabos Stafylakis, & Amit

Menachem Gilutz

2011 Thomas Healy*, Bret Bohman+ HM: Thomas Arthur Murphy, Jessica Lynn Rudman & Evan Antonellis 2010 Matthew Gilbertson*, Chris Rogerson+ HM: Lembit Lepasaar

Beecher & Evan Antonellis 2009 David Crowell*, Samson Young+ HM: Elizabeth Lim, Evan

Antonellis & Matthew Barson

2008 Baljinder Singh Sekhon II*, Eleanor Aversa+, Andy Akiho*; HM: Dillon Kondor, Gity H. Razaz, Daniel Wohl, Scott Wollschleger,

Sheridan Seyfried, Sundar Subramanian, David Salvage

2007 Nicholas Omiccioli* & Eric Nathan+ HM: Eleanor Aversa, Gity Razaz, Shogo Samata, Ryan Carter, Jeff Myers

2006 Christopher Doll *, Ryan Gallagher + HN: John Paul Brabant,

Chris Rogerson, Robert Singley 2005 Patrick Castillo*, Eric Schwartz + HM: Christopher Tignor

2004 Adam Schoenberg *, Jesse Wright-Fitzgerald+ HM: Vera Ivanova,

Peter Kim & John Arrigo-Nelson 2003 Evan Johnson*, Philip Rothman+

2002 Huang Ruo

2001 Winnie Wing-Yee Cheung 2000 Mark Dennis McConnell

1999 Rob Paterson

1998 Damon Lee 1997 Derek Bermel; HM: Ann Lathan

1996 Yuzuru Sadashige

1995 Anna Weesner 1994 Michael Sidney Timpson

1993 Sally Lamb; HM: David Lefkowitz

1992 Michele Frida Green; HM: David Lefkowitz 1991 Kent Marks; HM: Nolan Gasser

1990 Alton Howe Clingan; HM: Sean MacLean

1989 Betsy L. Schramm; HM: Stephen Taylor 1988 Ronn Yedidia

1987 Christopher Keyes; HM: Robert C. May & Jeremy Beck

1986 Donald Sloan; HM: Linda Bouchard & Lowell Liebermann 1985: Matthew Harris; Honorable Mention: Michael Torke, Dan May

* SNM winner +NY Federation of Music Clubs winner

Please check the individual composer’s website for updates,

or the Society for New Music’s website.

ISRAEL WINNERS UPDATE

Dramatic music by living composers was heard

on an SNM program at OCC Sept. 19th, part of the Arts

Across Campus series. Featured was former Israel winner

Juan Pablo Contreras’s very moving Silencio en Juarez,

2011, plus music by Zhou Long, Guo Wenjing, and

Sam Pellman (with video). The attentive audience was a

healthy mix of students and the general public.

Nicholas Omiccioli won the Boston New Music

Initiative and will have his push/pull, 2014 performed at

the Lilypad in Boston April 16, 2015.

Recently awarded First Prize by the prestigious

Luxembourg International Composition Prize, Huang Ruo

has been cited by the New Yorker as “one of the most

intriguing of the new crop of Asian-American composers.”

He is working with Candace Chong on an opera, The

Weeping Camel. Ms. Chong was also the librettist for his

successful opera, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen.

CAZ COUNTERPOINT 2015

The Cazenovia Counterpoint committee has been making plans for the 2015 festival, the 35th season of new music in the historic village. The dates are:

July 15 – 25, 2015 A special feature will be a month-long interactive

sound/sculpture installation at Stone Quarry Art Park -Hilltop Pipe Dreams. This collaborative project involves visual artists, composers, sound designers, and performers, led by Steve Carpenter, Edward Ruchalski, Rob Bridge, and Lorne Covington.

These 100 organ pipes, varying in size from 7’ to 6”, would be grouped among the trees and the large bronze Rodger Mack sculptures there in the permanent collection (all the Mack sculptures are related to music).

The pipes can be struck with various mallets to produce soft sounds. A tape of those sounds, plus the ambient natural sounds, will be used as the basis for music to perform with live musicians during Family Arts Day.

Some of the pipes will have sensors placed inside them, read by a laptop via infrared sensors. In addition to making sounds by striking the pipes, people's movements will trigger tones from the pipes.

Visitors to the park during July will be invited to sketch the installation, write poetry, record the sounds for a brief composition, then invited to share their creative efforts during Family Arts Day at the Park on July 25.

The 100 acre Art Park is #2 on National Geographic's Top 10 Sculpture Parks & Trails.

Once again opera will be performed at Caz Theater, the old opera house in the village. Michael Torke’s Strawberry Fields will be directed by Victoria King, performed by professionals, aspiring singers & chamber ensemble.

Rising Stars lunch hour concerts will return to St. Peter’s Episcopal. These SRO programs feature young prize-winning performers and composers, and include premieres of works written especially for these gifted musicians.

Young Composers Corner, in connection with Cazenovia Public Library, will take place the first week of the festival. High school and middle school students who wish to compose music in any style are invited to join these mentoring sessions, then have their completed works performed by SNM musicians during Family Arts Day.

There will be concerts of music by Malcolm Lewis, Joan Tower, young composer and Syracuse native George Nick Gianopoulos, and others. Also back is the successful Writers Corner series, in cooperation with the Syracuse Downtown Writers Group.

Regional Arts Exhibit at various venues in the village during the month of July. Art Exhibit Reception and Gallery Walk with artist demonstrations & live new music.

From Syracuse: “You should be so proud of Cazenovia

Counterpoint. What you have accomplished is amazing.”

SNM presents music inspired by an ancient Mayan goddess, Hell’s Kitchen and rice bowls, for chamber ensemble and 6 percussionists!

Robert Xavier RODRIGUEZ Xochiquetzal, 2014 (NYS premiere – 2nd performance) Lou HARRISON Varied Trio, 1987

Rob PATERSON Hell’s Kitchen, 2014

2:30 pm Sunday MARCH 8, 2015

Recital Hall, Onondaga Community College, Syracuse, NY

Kelly Covert, John Friedrichs, Blagomira

Lipari, Greg Wood, Sar Strong, Rob Bridge

Chelsea Catalone, Bennett Coughlin

Mikaela Derby, Michael Pitzeruse

Nick Shafer, Jimmy Spagnola

The music of guest composer & former Israel winner

Rob Paterson will be featured on the

ARTS ACROSS CAMPUS

March 6 11:15am

Storer Auditorium Onondaga Community College, Syracuse, NY

“ Paterson’s score showcased an excellent musical vocabulary

and flowed beautifully . “ (I Care if You Listen, May 2014, NYC)

The Society receives requests each year re:

membership. The Society is not a membership organization,

because there is no staff to service the needs of members --

only Board members who donate time & energy to promote

new music and inform the general public about that music &

those creating it.

Society News, a part of that outreach, is published

twice each season by the Society, a 501 C 3 organization. The

Board asks that interested persons either subscribe to one of

the Society’s series, or send a donation to support on-going

activities. Both are greatly appreciated. A copy of the latest annual financial report is available on

request from the Society or from the Office of the NYS Attorney

General, Charities Bureau, 120 Broadway, NY, NY 10271.

Brian M. Israel Prize – 2015

The Society for New Music

& the NY Federation of Music Clubs sponsor the annual

Brian M. Israel Competition open to composers in New York State

born on or after May 1, 1985

Two awards of $750 & $250 plus performances on the 2015 - 2016 season.

May 1, 2015 deadline. SASE

1. Anonymous submission. The composer’s name is not to

appear anywhere on the manuscript itself, nor on any accompanying

recording. A composer may submit only one work.

2. Online registration. Go to this online form to provide

required information: http://tinyurl.com/y9u55mm.

3. Works should be concert music for one to seven

performers, in any combination of instruments, tape, and/or solo

voices. Choral music will not be considered.

4. The Society for New Music assumes no responsibility

for the safety of the submitted materials. Materials will be returned

only if accompanied by SASE and sufficient postage.

5. Submissions not complying with the rules of the

competition will be disqualified, as will scores not meeting minimum

professional standards of notation.

For guidelines: http://academics.hamilton.edu/music/spellman/Israel_Prize.pdf

For other questions, contact: Spellman@Hamilton.edu

Society News print edition has been

discontinued, unless you request a hard

copy. To receive your copy via e-mail,

sign up on the web site, or email

snm@societyfornewmusic.org. You

may also request a PDF via e-mail.

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SNM COMMISSIONED COMPOSERS

Greg Levin Roberto Sierra

Earl George Malcolm Lewis

Howard Boatwright Augusta Read Thomas

Franklin Morris Zhuang Liu

George Rochberg Dana Wilson

Brian Israel Robert Keefe

Richard Wernick Christopher Hopkins

Nicholas D'Angelo Rob Smith Continental Harmony

Robert Palmer Elizabeth Alexander

Burrill Phillips Ping Jin

Steven Stucky Dan Trueman

Christopher Rouse Marc Mellits

Ron Caltabiano Nicolas Scherzinger

Ann Silsbee Sally Lamb McCune

Harris Lindenfeld Robert Morris

Sam Pellman Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez

Dexter Morrill Edward Ruchalski

James Willey Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon

Daniel S. Godfrey Mark Olivieri

Joseph Downing ‘Doctuh’ Michael Woods

Paul Brantley Gregory Wanamaker

Melinda Wagner Rob Deemer

Syd Hodkinson Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann

David Liptak Zhou Tian

(For updates, go to the Society for New Music’s website

or the individual composer websites.)

COMMISSIONED COMPOSERS UPDATE

DANIEL GODFREY’s Chamber Music America

commissioned work will be performed by the Cassatt

Quartet at the Chamber Music America Conference in

NYC in January.

MALCOLM LEWIS died

Dec. 15 in Ithaca, NY,

following a lengthy illness.

He was born in 1925 in

Cuba, NY, & earned his BS,

BM and MM degrees at

Ithaca College. He con-

tinued his studies at

Juilliard, NYU & Eastern

Montana. At Cornell he

studied with Robert Palmer. Mac taught at Ithaca

College for 26 years until his retirement in 1988. Lewis

received numerous Meet the Composer awards, as well

as commissions for works in various media, including his

Society for New Music commission. He wrote for solo

instruments, voice, ensembles, band, orchestra and

chorus. His music has been performed throughout the

U.S., Canada and in Europe, and is published by Trom-

bone Assoc. Needham/Dorn, Augsburg and Ensemble

Musie (Lyceum Press). Recordings are available through

Redwood, MMC and Golden Crest.

Malcolm’s music was performed regularly over

the years by SNM, in addition to his commissioned work,

which was included on the 5-CD set of music by 29

commissioned composers on innova.

Malcolm was also an accomplished visual artist,

gourmet cook, art connoisseur, history buff & raconteur.

At the families’ request Steve Heyman and Neva

Pilgrim performed at the Dec. 20th celebration of his life

at the Unitarian Church of Ithaca, in addition to Sar

Strong via CD. In lieu of flowers, the family asked that

donations in Mac’s memory be made to the Society for

New Music, Ithaca Unitarian Church, or Gadabout in

Ithaca.

DEXTER MORRILL’s music was featured on a

Society for New Music concert at Hamilton College,

Clinton, NY on Nov. 9th. The well-attended Wellin Hall

concert also included works by SAM PELLMAN, one

being the premiere of his Recursive Fury with video.

Music by Zhou Long & Guo Wenjing completed the

program - a bit of 'drama', sound explorations of the

planets, plus terrific performers.

ROBERTO SIERRA’s Sinfonia #4, recorded by

the Nashville Symphony on Naxos, is up for a Grammy.

STEVEN STUCKY’s The Classical Style received its

NYC premiere in Dec. The New York Times review was

glowing: We’re Nothing but Busts, Mozart. Busts! ‘The

Classical Style,’ an Opera Buffa at Zankel Hall By ANTHONY

TOMMASINI DEC. 5, 2014

Highlights of the review: “This scene at the bar got

a big laugh from the delighted audience that packed Zankel Hall on Thursday night for the New York prem-iere,

a witty operatic entertainment of the sort that doesn’t get

written very often. Now, admittedly, “The Classical Style”

will be best appreciated by a niche audience, those who

know enough to enjoy the humor of turning the harmonic

relationship between the tonic, dominant and sub-

dominant chords (and yes, a mezzo-soprano soon

appears in the scene as Subdominant) into a comic drama

about an interdependent threesome.

The inspiration for this 70-minute piece was the

seminal 1971 book “The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart,

Beethoven,” by pianist and scholar Charles Rosen. Those

three composers are characters in the opera, along with

Rosen, who died at 85 in 2012 and surely would have

loved this piece.

Mr. Stucky has written a pastiche score, though

with mystical modernist stretches and spiky, charged

episodes. There are evocations galore and many direct

quotes from Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and more. The

score could easily have been clunky and obvious, but Mr.

Stucky’s music is subtle, sly and vividly colorful.”

Join SNM on TWITTER @cnynewmusic

https://www.facebook.com/SocietyForNewMusic

SNM BOARD MEMBER/PERFORMER News

At the August 2014 SNM board meeting, the

following were invited to join the board: George S.

Bain, Dr. Leslie Kohman, composer Beth May, plus

student reps Kaziah White, graduate student at S.U.,

Alex Ganes, undergrad composer at S.U. (2nd year).

This season for the first time, SNM has added

high school composer reps to the board, partly at their

request, so they could see how new music works from

the inside out. They are: Gregg Welcher, HS senior at

Baldwinsville HS, and Sachin Schukla, sophomore at

Fayetteville-Manlius.

Percussionist Mike Compitello, also one-half of

New Morse Code, will perform at the CMA Conf. in NYC.

On Aug. 22 SNM performed a program at Upstate

Golisano Children’s Hospital which was open to patients,

families & broadcast on the hospital’s local TV channel.

Music by Ralph D’Mello, David McBride, Douglas Cuomo,

Petar Christoskov and an arrange-ment by Rob Bridge of a

Shona Traditional tune was performed. Following the

program a few of the children tried out the instruments

and the sounds they could make in a mini-instrument

petting zoo.

Travis Newton’s series of podcasts, MAKING ART

WORK, featured an interview with Neva Pilgrim Nov.

30. Neva is host and producer of WCNY Classic FM's

"Fresh Ink." She is also a noted soprano, voice teacher and

artist-in-residence at Colgate University. Neva is a

longtime performer and supporter of new music, and a

founding member of the Society for New Music, with

which she continues to be very active. Neva and Travis

discussed the important role of the Society for New Music

in the community, tips for grant writing, and much more.

The interview is also available in streaming audio

at http://www.wcny.org/radio. And, of course, tune in

every Sunday at 2 PM for the latest in contemporary music

on "Fresh Ink"!

Composer/sound artist Christopher Cresswell,

Cazenovia native & S.U. alum, is starting up a composi-

tion studio to teach lessons. Anyone looking to study

composition privately should contact Chris via his web

site. He can offer lessons both in person and via Skype, so

it is open to students wherever they are located. There is a

link on his website for those interested in lessons.

www.chriscresswellmusic.com Twitter: GrizwaldMusic

JT Lee has put together a 5-minute video on the

Society for New Music’s premiere production of Charles

Lupia’s THE UGLY DUCKLING (Caz Counterpoint 2011,

directed by Gerard Moses. You can view it on JT's Youtube

channel: Jaytea36

This footage was taken from the staged world

premiere of the children's musical, The Ugly Duckling,

set in the Adirondacks a little west of Lake George, over

a year in the early 2000s, & based on Hans Christian

Andersen's folk tale.

Board member Richard Fields, Education

Coordinator, has arranged for 2 composers in the

Syracuse City schools: Beth May at LeMoyne

Elementary on the north side, and Diane Jones at Ed

Smith in the Syracuse University area. Check the website

for progress and August Society News for a final report.

Blogs of note . . . . Join the discussion . . .

Melinda Johnson – http://blog.syracuse.com/arts/

Diane Jones - http://composerjones.wordpress.com/

David Abrams - http://blog.cnycafemomus.com/

From our performers and audience:

From a Rising Star: “(you) preserved the beauty of

collaborative theater . . . working on your opera was a life-changing event for me as a performer and a person. Not only did we perform an amazing show, but I was able to witness first-hand the wonderful effect theater has on a community.”

From Jamesville: “Thank you so much for giving me

numerous opportunities this summer!” (Rising Star)

From Virginia: “Thank you for all that you have done over the

years as a champion of music of our time.”

The Society for New Music is funded in part by grants from

the Copland Fund, NYS Council on the Arts, with the support

of Gov. Cuomo & the NYS Legislature, Alice M. Ditson Fund of

Columbia University, the Richard Shineman Foundation

(Oswego), Amphion Foundation, Gladys Krieble Delmas

Foundation, Syracuse Sounds of Music Assoc., Inc., John Ben

Snow Foundation, Jim & Juli Boeheim Foundation, County of

Onondaga, administered by CNY Arts, Richard Mather Fund, &

private donations.

From SNM’s audience and critics:

From Rochester: “great group!” (Nov. 2, 2014 concert)

From Baldwinsville: “ it (Nov. 2 concert) was spectacular.”

From Syracuse: “ Rob's (Deemer) score was marvelous.”

From a visiting composer: “As many have observed,

Syracuse is fortunate to host a new music ensemble of such integrity.”

F R E S H I N K 2015 19th season

Sundays at 2pm on WCNY-FM

91.3 (Syracuse), 90.9 WJNY-FM (Watertown) & 89.5

WUNY-FM (Utica) or worldwide on the web at WCNY.org.

Programs are drawn from CDs sent to the Society & from composers,

performers & recording companies around the world. Submissions

welcome. Produced by Neva Pilgrim with generous assistance from

Classic FM staff: Details at: www.societyfornewmusic.org

Jan. 4 VISIONARY MUSIC MSR Haskell Small Visions of Childhood, 2011 Naxos Kenneth Fuchs (b. 1956) Falling Trio Composer Zhou Tian Night-Shining White, 2014

Red Trees, Wrinkled Cliffs , 2012 Centaur Libby Larsen Song Jan. 11 DRAMATIC MUSIC Mirari Eric Nathan Spires Innova Peter Van Zandt Lane Hackpolitick: the donning of masks Albany Jonathan Pieslak Shard (Rob Auler) Jan. 18 ALL-AMERICAN MUSIC MSR Wm. Averitt Afro-American Fragments Naxos K. Fuchs String Qt. No. 5 (American) PM Tadeusz Kasdatti By Gaslight Jan. 25 DRAMATIC MUSIC, Part II Arts House Maria Newman Sonata for piano “A Maskil of David” ACD Per Norgard Momentum/Cello Concerto No 2

Albany Jonathan Pieslak Prednisomnia Feb. 1 AMERICAN ATMOSPHERES (Super Bowl) Albany J. Pieslak American Atmospheres Centaur Regina Baiocchi e.e. cummings Songbook

Composer Persis Parshall Vehar The Four Directions Feb. 8 ON THE NATURE OF THINGS Albany R.X. Rodriguez De Rerum Natura, 2013 Albany J. Pieslak bhakti (1), unburdening Centaur J. Cloud this is the garden: colors come & go

MAM Jean Felix Mailloux Calliope, 2013 Feb. 15 AN AMERICAN STORY Arts House Maria Newman The Complete Ballet: Emma McChesney, Traveling Saleswoman

PM Roland Szentpali Pearls Feb.22 FRAGMENTS Ceora Robert Muczynski Fragments Ceora S. Revueltas Cinco Canciones Para Ninos MAM Jean F. Mailloux Dans la Tete de M. Sakamoto

Ecstatic Michael Torke selections Miami Grands Innova A. Berne selections Self Referentials, II March 1 FANTASIES, FURIES & TROLLS Centaur CD Jocelyn Hagen: love songs Ecstatic CD Michael Torke selections Miami Grands SNM perf. Sam Pellman Recursive Fury (Premiere) SNM perf. Dexter Morrill Fantasy, 2013 March 8 BETWEEN SUNSETS Centaur CD Hilary Tann Between Sunsets Ceora CD Jenni Brandon Spider Suite Ecstatic CD Michael Torke selections Miami Grands SNM perf Zhou Long Pianogongs, 2005 March 15 DRAMATIC MUSIC SNM perf. Guo Wenjing Drama, 1995 (1, 5 & 6) BIS CD Andrew Smith Kyrie: Cunctipotens Genitor

BIS CD Richard Rodney Bennett A Colloquy with God

BIS CD Gabriel Jackson (b. 1962) Ite Missa Est BIS CD Jackson Hill Ma Fin est mon Commencement

MSR CD Pierre Jalbert (b. 1967) Toccata, 2001 SNM perf. John Liberatore She rose & let me in, 2013

Navona CD Alex Freeman Night on the Prairies March 22 SPRING SONGS Centaur CD Christine Donkin 3 Cummings Songs MSR CD Colin Mawby By the waters of Babylon MSR CD Peter Hurford Litany to the Holy Spirit MSR CD Christopher Theofanidis All Dreams begin with the Horizon, 2007 MSR CD Jeffrey Holmes Continuum, 2012 March 29 MERCY ENDURES ACD CD Arne Nordheim Tenebrae/Concerto MSR CD Malcolm Archer My Song is Love Unknown

MSR CD Claude Means Savior, like a Shepherd

MSR CD Justin Merritt Chaconne: Mercy Endures

MSR CD Harald Genzmer Sonate for tpt & Orgel April 5 PRAYERS REMAIN FOREVER MSR CD Jeffrey Holmes Herald Emeritus Fanfare MSR CD Patrick Schulz Fanfare for tpt & organ, 2012

BR CD Anne Van Schothorst When we were trees

Starkland Martin Bresnick Ishi’s Song, 2012 Going Home–Vysoke, My Jerusalem, 2010 Prayers Remain Forever, 2011

April 12 Classic FM MEMBERSHIP DRIVE

Call in with your membership, renewal or upgrade Famous guests, new CDs autographed & great music. Classic FM is there for you 24/7, so please be there for the station now . . . . . 315-451-926 Or pledge online at WCNY.org & specify Fresh Ink. April 19 ENCHANTED GARDENS MSR CD Richard Danielpour Enchanted Garden, 2009

MSR CD Jean-Francois Michel Suite pour brass, 1994

Navona Chris Arrell Narcissus/echo April 26 21st CENTURY MUSIC Navona Eric Nathan Wing over Wing, 2011 SNM perf. Marc Mellits Paranoid Cheese, 2001 SNM perf. Jonathan Pieslak (b. 1974) Shard, 2008 SNM perf. ‘Doctuh’ Mike Woods Libations, 2011 SNM perf. Douglas Cuomo Slowly she turns, 2010 BR CD Anne Van Schothorst Let Her Go May 3 MOVING ON

Starkland Martin Bresnick A Message from the

Emperor, 2010 (Mike Compitello & Ian Rosenbaum)

BR CD Anne Van Schothorst Raven’s Departure

SNM perf. Tyler Ogilvie Zero Point; laugh;

ber• serk• er (w/Icelandic folksong The Raven)

NCD CD Erich Stem Moving On, 2012

May 10 CHILD’S PLAY (Mother’s Day)

FR CD Adam Schoenberg Bounce, 2013

FR CD James Matheson Cretic Variations

Potenza Cd Nathan Daughtrey Coming Home, 2013

May 17 Ethereal Waves

NCU CD Diego Vega Divertimento, 2008

FR CD Adam Schoenberg Picture Etudes, 2013

Potenza CD Stephen Barr Ethereal Wave, 2010

Potenza Cd Nathan Daughtrey Spitfire, 2013

May 24 DYNAMIC DUOS

MSR CD Randall E. Faust Horn Call; Fantasy on

“Von Himmel Hoch”, 2001

LP Classics Braam van Eeden (b. 1989) Sonata

FR CD Tom Flaherty Airdancing, 2013