Women in Music Festival
2010 Festival Concert Schedule and Repertoire
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2010 Concert Schedule and Repertoire
2010 Composer Biographies
Festival Concert Schedule and Repertoire
Monday, March 22 at Noon – Life in perspective…
Main Hall
Guest poet: Laura D. Nolasco, author of poetry cycle Ariadne of the Freezing Rains/Ariana de las lluvias heladas
“Špilberk” for two marimbas (5’) – Carrie Magin
Tomasz Arnold & Carrie Magin, marimbas
Eight Doodles for Two Horns (5’) – Mary Ann Tilford
II. Frog Mountain Horn Call
III. Water Used to Flow Here
IV. Elephants Dancing
VI. Hillbilly Horns
Mirella Gable & Sarah Sutherland, French horns
Baroque divas (6’)
Per la piu vaga e bella – Francesca Caccini
Spesso per entro al petto – Barbara Strozzi
(both arranged by Arne Dørumsgaard)
Meredith Achey, soprano
David Fisk, piano
Psalm (5’) – Grace Vamos
Andrew Barnhart, Lisa Caravan,
Abigail McHugh, Keiko Forrey-Ying, cellos
The Phoenix Cycle (on text by Susan Morehead) (10’) – Loretta Jankowski
I. First Try
II. Rainstorm
III. Phoenix
Debra McKinney, soprano & Se-Hee Jin, piano
From Foldings(6’) – Hannah Lash
Interstice: Recall
Sean Connors, glockenspiel & found object tree
A Perspective (10’) – Angelique Poteat
I. Tabula Rosa
II. Numb
III. Symbiosis
Catherine Branch, flute; Katelyn Westergard, violin; Albert Kim, piano
Jazz has gotta be kept real (6’)
What Jazz Is – Whitney Marchelle
God Bless the Child – Billie Holiday
Whitney Marchelle, voice & piano
Chris Northington, bass
Tuesday, March 23 at Noon – Travel in your ears…
Nazareth College, Wilmot Hall
Guest poet: Kathleen Nicastro, local poet, artist, writer of fiction, creative non-fiction, and owner/artist of studio art company The Alchemist of Sand
From Colors of Earth and Sea (6’) – Kristen Shiner McGuire
I. Sea
Kristen Shiner McGuire, marimba
Toccata for solo piano (6’) – Emma Lou Diemer
Elaine Vuong, piano
Three Songs (7’) – Amy Beach
Take, O Take Those Lips Away (William Shakespeare)
My Sweetheart and I (Felix Bovet)
Ah, Love but a Day! (Robert Browning)
Soo Yeon Kim, soprano & James Douthit, piano
Chanson et Passepied (4’) – Jeanine Rueff
Kaillie Enser, saxophone & Linda Boianova, piano
Ba Ban (8’) – Chen Yi
Beverly Smoker, piano
Sonata (10’) – Erzsébet Szönyi
Allegro con moto
Lento
Vivace giocoso
Julia Shulman, double bass & Dina Volkova, piano
Four Miniatures for Orchestra (5’) – Nancy Pettersen Strelau
Nazareth Chamber Orchestra
Nancy Strelau, conductor
Tuesday, March 23 at 8:00 pm – All-Diemer Concert
Christ Church
Guest poet: Iris Miller, has been published in various anthologies and literary journals, including Nimrod and The South Carolina Review
Little Suite for Organ (6’)
Randall Harlow, organ
Were You There (3’)
Jeff Kempskie, organ
Elegy for Organ Duet (10’)
Margaret Harper & Chelsea Barton, organ
Hymn to sing along: Let Us Hope When Hope Seems Hopeless
Three Poems by Oscar Wilde (10’)
I. Under the rose-tree’s dancing shade
II. Could we dig up this long-buried treasure
III. Out of the mid-wood’s twilight
Choristers from Christ Church, Third Presbyterian, and
Lakeside Presbyterian
Stephen Kennedy, director
Elinor Freer, piano
Bell Song for guitar (5’)
Petar Kodzas, guitar
Dance, Dance my Heart (5’)
Choristers from Christ Church, Third Presbyterian, and
Lakeside Presbyterian
Stephen Kennedy, director
Elinor Freer, piano
Annie Stevens, percussion
Valet will ich dir geben (St. Theodulph) (5′)
Ryan Enright, organ
Quartet on Themes by Howard Hanson (10’)– premiere
Carmen Lemoine, flute;
Maria Razka, violin
TBA, cello
Fantasie for organ (7’)
John Allegar, organ
(Hymns for audience to sing along)
DR. DIEMER WILL MEET AND GREET, AS WELL AS SIGN MUSIC & CDS
AFTER THE PERFORMANCE. (Wilder Hall, Christ Church)
Wednesday, March 24 at Noon – When heart matters…
Miller Center Atrium
Guest poet: Pia Liptak, violinist and author of the poetry collection Tulips and Sycamore (2009)
From Lili (10’) – Amanda Jacobs & Lindsay Baker
Tableau One: At Bellomont
Members of Eastman Opera Theater:
Lily: Gabrielle Guidi
Society: Helen Zhibing Huang, Alexander Turpin
Piano: Gerald Lee
Smoke-Flowers Fall (7’) – Tonia Ko
Yoshiko Arahata, piano
From I Never Saw Another Butterfly (10’) – Lori Laitman
I. The butterfly
II. Yes, That’s the Way Things Are
IV. The Garden
V. Man Proposes, God Disposes
Michelle Murphy Debruyn, soprano
Amy Griffiths, saxophone
(Hear)t (10’) – Rachel Seah
World premiere
I. Shards of Time
II. Denial
III. Chasing the wind
Graciela Arguedas & Monica Lee, piano
From love. songs (e.e. cummings) (10’) – Jocelyn Hagen
I. burn
IV. I love you so much (most beautiful darling)
V. I carry your heart
Eileen Strempel, soprano
Sylvie Beaudette, piano
Peace Country (8’) – Christine Donkin
I. Trees Dancing in the Wind
II. Rain on the Window
III. In Summer
IV. Orange Lullaby
V. Snowstorm
Christina Dinella (#1-3) & Marissa Balonon-Rosen (#4-5), piano
Thursday, March 25 at 12:15 – Soliloquies and dialogues…
Washington Square Series, First Universalist Church
Guest poet: Tricia Asklar is a lecturer in the English Department at Nazareth College and is published in numerous literary journals, most recently Poet Lore and Red Wheelbarrow.
Pièces en la mineur (9’) – Mademoiselle Bocquet
I. Prélude
II. Allemande
III. Sarabande
IV. Sarabande et autre façon
V. La Polonoise
Christopher Wilke, lute
From Sketches for Piano op. 15 (6’) – Amy Marcy Beach (arr. by Beach)
III. Dreaming
Talia Dicker, cello & Lisa Raposa, piano
Gaia (6’) – Ellen Lindquist
Kisten Jermé, cello
Soliloquy for violin, cello & piano (10’) – Shulamit Ran
Sini Virtanen, violin; Scott Lykins, cello; Eun Mi Ko, piano
Cowboy Songs (7’) – Libby Larsen
I. Bucking Bronco
II. Lift Me Into Heaven Slowly
III. Billy the Kid
Glenda K. Brayman, soprano & Gordon Porth, piano
Friday, March 26 at Noon – On wings of words…
Location:
Optics Performing Arts Series, Munnerlyn Atrium, Robert B. Goergen Hall for Biomedical Engineering and Optics, University of Rochester
Guest poet: Wanda Schubmehl, curator of the Genesee Reading Series for Writers and Books and clinical social worker
D’un matin de printemps (5’) – Lili Boulanger
Yixuang Song, violin & Priscilla Yuen, piano
Kokopeli (4’) – Katherine Hoover
Catherine Branch, flute
Two Lullabies (10’) – Jocelyn Hagen
I. My bed is a boat (Robert Louis Stevenson)
II. All the Pretty Horses (Traditional American)
Joy (Sara Teasdale)
Eastman Women Chorus
Sarah Frook, conductor
Bryan Holten, piano & Heather Chan, violin
Caprice Finnois (10’) – Johanna Eränkö
World premiere
Sini Virtanen, violin
From Prelude, Allegro & Pastorale (10’) – Rebecca Clarke
I. Prelude
II. Allegro
Dana Huyge, viola & Dena Orkin, clarinet
Feng for Woodwind Quintet (10’) – Chen Yi
I. Introduction
II. Rondo
Vasilia Winds:
Carmen Lemoine, flute
Euridice Alvarez, oboe
Victor Chavez, clarinet
Heather Wagner, bassoon
Leslie Hart, French horn
