Women in Music Festival
2008 Festival Concert Schedule and Repertoire
Festival Concert Schedule and Repertoire
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Monday, March 24 — All Van de Vate
Eastman School of Music Main Hall | Noon-1 p.m.
Poetry Reader: M.J. Iuppa, Writer-in-residence and Director of the Arts Minor Program, St. John Fisher College
Cantata for Women’s Voices, 1979 (19′)
Voices (James Joyce)
Nightlong, Daylong, and the Sweet Nightingale (12th-century Provençal)
Faces (Walt Whitman)
The Little Old Women (Charles Baudelaire)
Tears (Walt Whitman)
Eastman Women’s Chorus
Susan Conkling, director
Jamie Jordan, soprano; Korin Kormick, mezzo-soprano
Twelve Pieces for Piano on One to Twelve Notes, Vol. II, 2001 (19′)
Jung Sun Kang, piano
Songs for the Four Parts of the Night, 1986(8′)
Poetry by the Owl Woman (Papago Indian)
- In the blue night
- In the dark I enter
- I can see spirit-tufts of white feathers
- In the great night
- I am going to see the land
- The dawn approaches
- The morning star
Lauren Iezzi, mezzo-soprano
Jeffrey LaDeur, piano
A Long Road Traveled: Suite for Viola and String Quartet*, 2007 (20′)
- Tempo rubato
- Adagio expressivo
- Allegro
- Poco triste
- Allegro vivo
John Graham, viola and the Ying Quartet:
Timothy and Janet Ying, violin; Phillip Ying, viola, and and David Ying, cello
*World premiere. Commissioned thanks to a grant from the Hanson Institute for American Music.
Monday’s Special Events
Tuesday, March 25 — The root of it all
Miller Center Atrium | Noon-1 p.m.
Poetry Reader: Claudia Stanek, founder and owner of Poetic Effect and founding member of Just Poets
Due luci ridenti (6′) — Settimia Caccini
Siddharth Dubey, voice and Tabitha Boxerman, piano
Scenes from a Jade Terrace, 1988 (9′) — Alexina Louie
(Commissioned by Jon Kimura Parker)
- Memories in an Ancient Garden
Naomi Woo, piano
from Four Sonnets by Pablo Neruda, 2006(8′) — Judith Cloud
Sonnet XVII: from Mañana (Morning)
(I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz)
Sonnet XLV: from Melodia (Afternoon)
(Don’t go far off, not even for a day)
Eileen Strempel, soprano
Sylvie Beaudette, piano
Hildegard’s iPod*, 2008 (7′) — Jung Sun Kang
*World premiere, commissioned by Lynn Blakeslee in honor of the eleven women full professors of the Eastman School of Music
Lynn Blakeslee, violin
Kathleen Bride, harp
Prairie Girl, circa 1955-1967, 2008* (10′) — Susan Stoderl
*World premiere
- Boundaries
- High Noon on the Prairie
- Playing Grownup
- Peaceable Kingdom
- Sunday at the Movies
Ann Marie Wilcox-Daehn, mezzo-soprano
Lisa Raposa, piano
Etudes for Piano, 1956 (5′) — Grażyna Bacewicz
Etude no. 3
Etude no. 8
Beata Golec, piano
La Mandrágora (The Mandrake), on a text by N. Machiavelli, 1992 (10′) — Marta Garcia Renart
La vida es breve
El que no prueba amor
Cualquira se da cuenta
Tan dulce es el engaño
Dulce noche
Karen Holvik, soprano
Beryl Garver, piano
From Barn Dances, 2001 (5′) — Libby Larsen
I. Forward 6, Back 8
Anne Harrow, flute
Alice Mayer, clarinet
Howard Spindler, piano
Tuesday’s Special Events
Wednesday, March 26 — Between Earth and Sky
Eastman School of Music Main Hall | Noon-1 p.m.
Poetry Reader: Patricia Roth Schwartz, Instructor at Writers & Books, member of Just Poets, and published by Foothills
Minimal Talk*, 2007 (4′) — Beata Golec
Douglas Prosser, trumpet
Beata Golec, piano
Air and Angels (text by John Donne), 2007 (5′) — Jennifer Bellor
Quinn Patrick, mezzo soprano
Reuben Blundell, conductor
Sara Ballance and Wendy Toh, violins
Andrew McManus, viola and Michael Kaufman, cello
Haley Bang, flute and Isabel Kiu, clarinet
Megan Bledsoe, harp and Stephanie Titus, piano
Valse Descant, 1968 (3′) — Margaret Sutherland
- Allegro inquieto
- Lento e sostenuto
- Allegro ostinato
Darryl Coote, piano
Sonata, 1997 (8′) — Helen Gifford
- Allegro inquieto
- Lento e sostenuto
- Allegro ostinato
A Tribute to Marian McPartland (10′)
Ambiance, 1970
A Delicate Balance, 1972
In the Days of Our Love, 1979 (words by Peggy Lee)
There’ll Be Other Times, 1957 (words by Margaret Jones)
Karen Holvik, voice
Tony Caramia, piano
Nothing Forgotten, 1997 (10′) — Hilary Tann
Based on Jordan Smith’s A Lesson from the Hudson River School (1848)
- Andante maestoso “as if the granite were / some half-forgotten spirit”
- Allegretto “all the light caught forever in the pine boughs / bound between the stone and current”
- Andante recitativo-Larghetto flessibile “the mesh of branches, root, and sky”
Ruth Marie Ballance, violin
Jared Ballance, cello
Beata Golec, piano
from Try Me Good King: Last Words of the Wives of Henry VIII, 2001 (10′) — Libby Larsen
III. Jane Seymour
II. Anne Boleyn
V. Katherine Howard
Aubrie Willaert, soprano
Anne Kissel Harper, piano
from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (7′) — Amanda Jacobs & Lindsay Warren Baker
The Portrait Song, 2007
I Can’t Resist a Red Coat, 2004
Fine Eyes, 2002
Lindsay Warren Baker, vocal
Amanda Jacobs, piano
Wednesday’s Special Events
Thursday, March 27 — A Pipe Can Dream…
Schmitt Hall | Noon-1 p.m.
Poetry Reader: Wynne McClure, published by Foothills, Palettes & Quills, and Tamafyrhyr Poetry
Répons pour le Temps de Pâques, 1962-63 (7′) — Jeanne Demessieux
Edward Landin, organ
In Memoriam, 1995 (4′)— Jeanne Joulain
Randall Harlow, organ
Mirrors (3′) — Kaija Saariaho
Llef (3′) — Hilary Tann
Wires & Pipes Duo:
Sara Traficante, flute
Kirk Starkey, cello
from Cinq Choral Préludes pour Orgue op. 2*, 1995 (6′) — Margaretha Christina de Jong
Veni redemptor gentium
O filii et filiae
Eunyoung Kim, organ
Sonata in One Movement(7′)— Libby Larsen
Michael Unger, organ
Fantasy on a Red Wheel Barrow, 2007 (7′)— Megan Bledsoe
Megan A. Bledsoe, harp
Prelude for Organ: Elegy for Departed Friends, 2002 (6′) — Nancy Van de Vate
Brett Judson, organ
Opus I, 1921 (10′) (animated film by Walter Ruttmann) — music by Eryn Bauer
Deidre Huckabay, flute
Elizabeth Spector, oboe
Isabel Kim, clarinet
Eryn Bauer, bassoon
Sophia Goluses, French horn
Alba, 2000 (8′)— Marie Bernadette Dufourcet-Hakim
John A. Morabito, organ
Thursday’s Special Events
Friday, March 28 — I lost, I danced…
Eastman School of Music Main Hall | Noon-1 p.m.
Poetry Reader: Kitty Jospé, FL and ESOL Teacher, member of Just Poets, currently working on the MFA in Creative Writing- Poetry from Pacific University
Suite for French Horn, Tuba & Piano: Dancing with Myself*, 2008 — Barbara York
*World premiere
Andrew Smith, tuba
Gretchen Snedeker, horn
Lost Queens*, 2008 (5′) — Tonia Ko
*World premiere
Sarah Franz, voice
Stephania Romaniuk, voice
Fotina Naumenko, voice
Shade of Falling Leaves*, 2007 (8′) — Michaela Eremiasova
Video installation by Jean Detheux
*World premiere
The Eastman Triana:
Anyango Yarbo-Davenport, violin
Julianne Kirk, clarinet
Yin Zheng, piano
Night Dances, 1997 (8′) — Ruby Aspinall
- Twilight
- Moonlight
- Dying Night
Vanessa Young, harp
Variationen über ein Thema von Robert Schumann op. 20, 1853 (10′) — Clara Wieck Schumann
Jan Won Choi, piano
Ballad, 2007 (9′) — Erica Seguine
Nick Finzer, trombone
Hannah Picasso-Hobin and Neil Gopal, violins
Miriam Oddie, viola and Greta Parks, cello
Jeremy Siskind, piano
Jesse Breheney, bass and Dave Tedeschi, drumset
Sifting Through the Ruins*, 2005 (10′) — Libby Larsen
III. Don’t look for me anymore (from the “wailing wall” at Grand Central Station)
– Alicia Vasquez; September 14, 2001
IV. Untitled – Anonymous; text taken from photos by Martha Cooper of shrines and messages around NYC
V. Someone Passes – Texts taken from photos by Martha Cooper of shrines and messages around NYC and also by Ted Barrigan, posted near City Hall
Pamela Kurau, soprano
Melissa Matson, viola
Joseph Werner, piano
*The complete performance of Sifting Through the Ruins will get its Rochester premiere on Sunday, March 30 at 7:30 pm in the ChamberMusic@RochesterUnitarian Series. The concert, called “An Evening of Voice and Viola,” will be held at the First Unitarian Church of Rochester, 220 Winton Road.
Friday’s Special Events
Dr. Sylvie Beaudette, Festival Director
Tiffany Ng, Assistant Director
The 2008 Women in Music Festival and Nancy Van de Vate’s residency are sponsored by: The Hanson Institute for American Music at the Eastman School of Music; the departments of Chamber Music, Composition, Piano, Voice, and Woodwind-Brass-Percussions, as well as the Eastman All-Events Committee, and the Dean of the Eastman School of Music.
