Festival Concert Schedule and Repertoire
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Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Monday, March 26— Timeless Voices
Eastman School of Music Main Hall | Noon-1 p.m.
Poetry Reader: Friederike Seligman, Professor of Russian,
University of Rochester
Piano Quintet in f-sharp minor, op. 67 (8') — Amy Beach
I. Adagio-Allegro moderato
Margaret Leenhouts & Pia Liptak, violins
Olita Povero, viola
Kathleen Kemp, cello
James Douhit, piano
Two Lieder (5') — Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel
I. Gegenwart (Goethe)
II. Frühling (Eichendorf)
Joshua Fein, baritone
Zuzanna Szewczyk, piano
The Fisherman's Song (4') — Chen Yi
Maggie Lubinski, violin
Eun Mi Ko, piano
Mischief Moon (Caroline Thomes) (5') — Frances Copthorne*
Lady Night (Francesca Miller)
When Night Comes On (Elsie Fowler)
Tom Vendafreddo, tenor
Sophia Ahmad, piano
*Please visit the newly acquired Copthorne Collection and its special exhibit (mid-March 2007) at the Sibley Music Library.
Chaconne (1962) (9') — Sofiya Gubaydulina
Janneke Brits, piano
Songs of Desire (10') — Judith Weir
I. The Voice of Desire (Robert Bridges)
II. White Eggs in the Bush (anon. Yoruba)
III. Written on Terrestial Things (Thomas Hardy)
IV. Sweet Little Red Feet (John Keats)
Lynne McMurtry, mezzo- soprano
Alison d'Amato, piano
Midsummer Moon (5') — Rebecca Clarke
Lullaby and Chinese Puzzle (5')
AnyangoYarbo-Davenport, violin
Beata Golec, piano
Madam's Three Callers (5') — Betty Roe
I. Madam and the Census Man (Langston Hughes)
II. Madam and the Wrong Visitor (Hughes)
III. Madam and the Minister (Hughes)
3 Songs from the Poems of Marichiko(5') — Lori Laitman
I. I Sit At My Desk (Kenneth Rexroth)
II. You Ask Me (Rexroth)
III. Just Us (Rexroth)
Nadine Carey, soprano
Joan Kinsella, cello
Blue Window: After Marc Chagall (2005) (9') — Libby Larsen
I. Drama
II. Art
III. Dance
Antara Winds:
Diane Smith, flute
Judith Ricker, oboe
Margaret Quakenbush, clarinet
John Hunt, bassoon
Mary Hunt, horn
Joseph Werner, piano
Tuesday, March 27— Sirens' Voices
Miller Center Atrium | Noon-1 p.m.
Poetry Reader: Ruth Fleischmann-Colgan, Executive Director, Wilson Foundation
Pièces de Clavecin (7') — Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre
La Flamande
Rigaudons I, II
Chaconne
Janneke Brits, harpsichord
Plums (2') — Lori Laitman
I. To a Poor Old Woman
II. This is just to say
Anne-Marie Wilcox, mezzo-soprano
Christina Lalong, piano
Dreaming(Laitman) (3') — Lori Laitman
Kate Scally, soprano
Luke Massery, piano
The Secrets of the pool in the dark pine forests (4') —
Diana Burrell
Anyango Yarbo-Davenport, violin
Beata Golec, piano
Three Lieder (6') — Clara Wieck-Schumann
Liebeszauber, op. 13, no. 3 (Geibel)
Ich hab' in deinem Auge, op. 13, no. 5 (Rückert)
Er ist gekommen in Sturm und Regen, op. 12, no. 2 (Rückert)
Evangelina Leontis, soprano
Janneke Brits, piano
Light from the Cliffs (7') — Hilary Tann
Eun Mi Ko, piano
Shoreland (6') — Winnie Cheung
Jo Nardolillo, violin
Anna Gurfinkel, piano
Calendar Collection (6') — Judith Lang Zaimont
VI. June
VII. July
VIII. August
Beata Golec, piano
Elusion* (5') — Michaela Eremiasova
Jonathan Aaron Larson, viola
Marcus Macauley, piano
*World premiere
Music for Piano (6') — Franghiz Ali-Zadeh
Daniela Mineva, piano
Three Intermezzos for Double Bass and Piano (10') —
Anne Lauber
James Vandemark, double bass
Alexandra Nguyen, piano
Let It Be Me (8') — Indigo Girls
Who Knew — Pink
After Hours (co-ed a capella group from the University of Rochester)
Kate Scally, director
Oh, Boys! (5') — Saskia Apon
The High Falls Button Factory:
Whitney Chair, Amanda Logue, Cy Reynolds, trombones
Rick Stiles, bass trombone
Wednesday, March 28— All León Concert
Eastman School of Music Main Hall | Noon-1 p.m.
Poetry Reader: Brenda Tremblay, WXXI Radio and Television Host
Journey (1990) (6') (text by Etel Adnan)
Madeline Miskie, soprano
Andrea Reges, flute
Jennifer Ruggieri, harp
Momentum (1984) (8')
Greg DeTurk, piano
Atwood Songs (2007) (15')*
I. Notes toward a poem that can never be written
II. Memory
III. Eating Fire
IV. Habitation
V. Four Evasions
Eileen Strempel, soprano
Sylvie Beaudette, piano
*The Atwood Songs were commissioned thanks to the support of the Hanson Institute for American Music at the Eastman School of Music and The Colleges of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University.
Blue Maze (6') —Elizabeth Joan Kelly
Deidre Huckabay, flute/piccolo
Chester Howard, clarinet, bass clarinet
Patrick Ryan, violin
David Sedlins, cello
Jung Sun Kang, piano
Bob Pierzak, conductor
Indígena (1991) (8')
Ossia
Matilda Hofman, director
Thursday, March 29 — Ancient and New Voices
Schmitt Hall | Noon-1 p.m.
Poetry Reader: Margaret A. Catillaz, Esq., Harter Secrest & Emery LLP (Immigration Law Pioneer)
O pastor animarum(3') — Hildegard von Bingen
Columba aspexit (5')
The Hildegard Players
Honey Meconi, director
From the Twelve Choral Preludes on Gregorian Chant Themes, op. 8 (1947) (5')— Jeanne Marie-Madeleine Demessieux
I. Hosanna Filio David
II. Domine Jesu
III. Attende Domine
Edward L. Fandin, organ
Surface Tension(6') — Vera Ivanova
Duo Vio-LINK-oto:
Pia Liptak, violin
Ryoko Mizutani, koto
L'Astratto(9') — Barbara Strozzi
Evangelina Leontis, soprano
Manuel Minguillon Nieto, lute
Canyon Echo (10')— Katherine Hoover
I. Dance
II. Serenade
III. She Mourns
IV. He Returns
Sophia Gibbs Kim, flute
Petar Kodzas, guitar
Clouds* (5') — Beata Golec
Andrew Fuhrman, vibraphone
Jenny Lawless, marimba
*American premiere
Homage* (9') — Jung Sun Kang
Joo Soo Son, organ
Hyery Hwang, voice
*World premiere
Parallel Play (1998) (10')— Judith Lang Zaimont
I. Fanfare
II. Folksong
III. Folderol
Andrew Liebermann, soprano saxaphone
Barbara Lawson, alto saxaphone
Chi-Huan Wu, tenor saxaphone
Douglas O'Connor, baritone saxaphone
Thursday's Special Events
Friday, March 30— Poetic Voices
Eastman School of Music Main Hall | Noon-1 p.m.
Poetry Reader: Jean Howard, Chief of Staff, City of Rochester
Songs Are Thoughts (5') — Lavinia Kell Parker
Sadness of the Sea (6') — Sally Lamb
I. The Sadness of the Sea (Lydia Huntley Sigourney)
III. The Tide Rises (Longfellow/Anonymous)
Eastman Women's Chorus
Susan Conkling, director
Rudy deVos, piano
Lyric Sonatina for Bassoon and Piano (1972) (10') —
Jean Coulthard
I. Moderato Grazioso
II. Lento Semplice alle Canzone - Allegro Capriccioso
Peter Kolkay, bassoon
Alexandra Nguyen, piano
The Breeze at Night (8') — Erica Seguine
Mark Wolfram, trumpet
Seth Baldwin, alto saxophone
Thomas Lowery, tenor saxophone
Nick Finzer, trombone
Erica Seguine, piano
TBA, guitar
Scott Worthington, bass
Kate Gentile, drums
Toccata for Piano* (5') — Beata Golec
Beata Golec, piano
*World premiere
Röze ("Roses", from Arab poetry of the 10th century) (7') — Grazyna Bacewicz
Inna ("The Other", from Arab Poetry)
Boli mnie glowa ("My Heart Aches", G. Bacewicz)
Scroczka ("Magpie", folk text)
Julianna Sabol, soprano
Ida Trebicka, piano
Sonata for Piano and Violin (1947) (5') — Irene Britton Smith
I. Allegro Cantabile
Lynn Blakeslee, violin
Jean Barr, piano
A Tribute to Billie Holiday (10')
Karen Holvik, soprano
Tony Caramia, piano
Theme and Variations (10') — Rebecca Clarke
Wenqing Zhang, piano
Snow Dreams (9') — Joan Tower
Bonita Boyd, flute
Nicholas Golouses, guitar
Dr. Sylvie Beaudette, Festival Director
Sophia Ahmad, Assistant Director
Tania León's residency was made possible by the support of the University of Rochester, Rochester Institute of Technology, the Eastman School of Music, and The New York State Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.