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VOX NOVUS NEWSLETTER - New Music for the 21st Century
> REVIEW: New Music for Double Reeds by Joseph Bohigian
> POSTCARD: Pagliacci Male
Vox Novus Calendar
>Composer's Voice MaD Circle
ANNOUNCEMENTS
> RESULTS: Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame:Homage to Bach (second set)
with Maksim Velichkin
OPPORTUNITIES
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Pagliacci Male
Pagliacci Male
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The works of Italian composer Ruggero Leoncavallo are little known save for
his opera Pagliacci ("Clowns"), which was an instant hit when it premiered
in 1892. But it nearly wasn't. Leoncavallo initially titled the opera
Pagliacci Male, or "Evil Clowns," after a gothic horror story of the same
name by Bram Stoker, the novelist who would later pen Dracula. But even for
late 19th century Italian opera goers who enjoyed a good on-stage beheading
or two, the plot was chillingly gruesome. It traced the unspeakable acts of
Moe, Larry, and Bloodbath, three clowns who triple-handedly caused a spike
in incidents of coulrophobia worldwide. Faced with negative music criticism,
Ruggero withdrew the opera and rewrote the libretto himself. The rest is, of
course, storia pagliaccio.
<http://www.davidgunn.org> David Gunn
<http://www.davidgunn.org> David Gunn
www.DavidGunn.org
New Music for Double Reeds
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New Music for Double Reeds
The International Double Reed Society, NYU, and Circles and Lines presented
the concert "New Music for Double Reeds" on August 6th at Subculture in NYC.
The first set featured six world premieres, including the premiere of
Fifteen Minutes of Fame: Robert Botti.
This concert was part of the 43rd annual International Double Reed Society,
hosted by NYU. The IDRS worked with Circles and Lines, a young composers
consortium which strives to provide an eclectic and accessible array of
contemporary classical music, to present a night of new music for double
reeds. Members of Circles and Lines include Angelica Negron, Conrad Winslow,
Noam Faingold, Eric Lemmon, and Dylan Glatthorn. Each member of the group
had a work premiered at the performance, showing off the wide variety of
styles in which each member writes.
One of the highlights of the concert was Conrad Winslow's Tone Riddles, a
bassoon duo performed by Rebekah Heller and Adrian Morejon. Winslow's work
consists of four relatively short movements in which some aspect of the
music is fixed and other things are left up to the performer. Each movement
had it's own interesting character that set it apart from the rest and made
the piece fun to listen to. The indeterminacy of the piece was handled with
great care by Heller and Morejon and resulted in an engaging experience for
the listeners.
Another highlight was Angelica Negron's Stereogram, performed by oboists
Robert Botti and Christa Robinson and bassoonists Gina Cuffari and Adrian
Morejon. The piece was accompanied by video made by Don Miller which
featured colorful, throbbing shapes matched to the pulse of the music. The
video added a nice visual element to the piece, but sometimes distracted
from the music. Fortunately, the video was projected on a screen in the
upper corner of the stage and could easily be ignored if it became
distracting. The music itself featured long, sustained notes and static,
repeated patterns layered over each other which moved in and out of the
overall texture. This layering created waves of sound which washed over the
audience and created a meditative mood.
Fifteen Minutes of Fame
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The world premiere of Fifteen Minutes of Fame: Robert Botti presented
fifteen one minute works on the theme of New York City. Each piece was
written by a different composer specifically for Botti and performed
consecutively. Following the mission of the Fifteen Minutes of Fame project,
Botti's performance featured fifteen very stylistically different works,
thus showing a wide sample of contemporary music being written today. Each
piece was performed with great finesse by Botti, but several stuck out among
the rest, including David J. Grossman's Cityscape, Bob Magnuson's City
Shadows, Douglas DaSilva's West 83rd Street Choro, and Nicholas O'Neill's
Intersection.
Upcoming Performances
Composer's Voice concert - MaD Circle
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MaD Circle at Composer's Voice
On August 10th MaD Circle Dance concert will feature the work of a wide
variety of composers and choreographers from around the world.
"it's on the edge of what's happening" -Brant Lyon, Great Weather for Media
This concert will be curated and directed by Erin Bomboy and Callie
Hatchett.
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Erin Bomboy is a dance writer, choreographer, and arts administrator whose
professional career has encompassed performing as a professional classical
ballet dancer and placing as a United States finalist in competitive
ballroom dancing. A graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the
Arts with a Master of Fine Arts in Dance, Erin held her first solo show, The
Public Decides, in conjunction with Composer's Voice in 2012.
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Callie Hatchett is a choreographer who has performed in the works of Deborah
Jowitt, Cherylyn Lavagnino, Sydney Skybetter, Thaddeus Davis, Charles
Weidman, and Terri Weksler. She has presented her choreography at Dancenow's
RAW Festival, NYC10, Music and Motion, the Bessie Schonberg Choreography
Intensive, and for Andalusia Ballet.
Listed as "One of the premier showcases for promising composers" by Time Out
New York, this performance includes works from a unique set of composers:
David Bohn, Remigio Coco, Marco De Boni, Jay Anthony Gach, Leonard Mark
Lewis, David Charles Meckler, Alon A Nechushtan, Norberto Oldrini, and
Gisela Alejandra Paterno, which reflect the curators' aesthetic and
experiences. These composers' works have been performed around the world in
North America, South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia by such ensembles as
N.E.C. Composers Orchestra, Radonfsky Quartet, RNCM Orchestra, Marcel Worms
Duo, Euphonique Saxophone Quartet, The Contemprorary String Quartet, Atar
Trio, and Musica Nova Orchestra.
The concert will feature the work of choreographers Callie Hatchett, Natalie
N. Johnson, Monica Hogan, Julie Halpin, Jonathan Balsa, Cole Mills, Jonathan
Breton, Lena Gilbert, and Nikki Nasto. Their work has been presented around
the world at Dancenow's RAW Festival, NYC10, Music and Motion, Andalusia
Ballet, Gibney Dance Center, Amalgamate Artist Series, NACHMO Showcase,
American Dance Festival, Ailey Citigroup Theater, CoolNY Dance Festival,
Xuzhou Concert Hall, Tianjin Concert Hall, Martha Graham Studios Theatre,
Aaron Davis Hall, and more. Each choreographer was assigned a piece of music
written specifically for this project based on the outmoded forms of Tango
and Waltz and challenged to revitalize it for a new generation.
Founded in 2001 by Robert Voisey, the Composer's Voice Concert Series has
had more than 100 concerts in New York City. Works are chosen from a wide
range of contemporary composers and performed by dedicated musicians devoted
to new music. The series has presented the works of hundreds of living
composers from around the world. Concerts are held two times a month in the
afternoon on the second and last Sundays of most months. The performances
are recorded and archived to further promote the new music, performers, and
composers. Audio, video, scores, and programs can be found on the Composer's
Voice website. www.ComposersVoice.com
The Composer's Voice Concert Series is a collaboration between Vox Novus and
Jan Hus Church. Performances are short chamber concerts held at Jan Hus
Church and are an opportunity for contemporary composers to express their
aesthetic and personal voice.
Composer's Voice Concert Series
Sunday, August 10th at 1:00 pm
Jan Hus Church
351 East 74th Street, New York, NY 10021
Free admission
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Fifteen Minutes of Fame
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Announcing results for the second set of
Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame: BACH
with Maksim Velichkin
Vox Novus called for one-minute pieces with an Homage to BACH theme written
for cellist Maksim Velichkin. This is the second set of 15 works to be
selected from his original call and will be performed at Brand Library.
The theme of this Fifteen Minutes of Fame, an Homage to Bach; are works be
based on, developed from, and otherwise related to the pitches BACH. Serving
as a uniting factor for all 15 compositions.
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Maksim Velichkin has been active as a solo performer, chamber and orchestra
musician, both locally and throughout the world. Mr.Velichkin has appeared
as a soloist with Uzbekistan National Symphony, Duquesne Contemporary
Ensemble, American Youth Symphony, as well as Torrance, Westchester,
Southeast and Bellflower orchestras. He has toured extensively to Europe,
Asia, North and South America and Australia with the prestigious Verbier
Chamber and Verbier Festival Symphony Orchestras.
Cellist Maksim Velichkin, violinists Jackie Suzuki and Adriana Zoppo will be
performing. Mr. Velichkin will be premiering a second
Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame Homage to Bach set with 15 new composers (the first
set was premiered at Brand Library on May 4). Also music by George N.
Gianopoulos, Elliott Goldkind, Blair Whittington and more!
".the pieces are performed in quick succession and each has a character of
its own, the audience is treated to a kaleidoscope of styles; in turn
textural and tonal, avant-garde and neo-romantic... the entire smorgasbord
of contemporary idioms was playing a game of musical chairs, so to speak,
and the effect was thrilling. " - Damjan Rakonjac, Artificialist
Works selected for this Fifteen Minutes of Fame include:
BACH Fughetto for solo cello... Martha Bishop,
BACH Fractal by Jim Dalton,
Fire and Brimstone by Bobby DeLisle,
aBACHeosis by Michelle M. Dewhirst,
1685 by Rolando Gori,
Bachiolage by Vera Ivanova ,
Homage to BACH by Charles Knox,
Improvisation on the theme BACH by Arkady Luxemburg,
BACH frame by David Meckler,
Ebb and Flow by Vasilis Mouskouris,
What's in a name? by Hinse Mutter,
"BACH" cello suite #2 by Nathan Nau,
In the Name of BACH by Akmal Parwez,
Three voices BACH by Fabio Monzu Rosselli, and
A Musing on BACH by Phil Taylor
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_Bach_II/> You can find more information here
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Bach_II/
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