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sounds,NonsenseandNonsensesounds
April 15, 2000 at 7:30pm - Grant Recital Hall
Living Room Music (1940) - John Cage
I. To Begin
II. Story
III. Melody
IV. End
Benjamin Asriel, Troy Chang, Nicholas Freilich, Thomas Jerde, Inho Kim, Virginia Pierce, Nathan Stumpff: percussion/speech
Snake Charmer (1992) - Todd Winkler
I. Copy Cat
II. Snake Charmer
III. Ripples
Dan Restuccia: clarinet
Duos for Flutes, op. 34 (1973) - Robert Muczynski
1. Andante sostenuto
2. Allegro risoluto
3. Moderato
4. Allegro ma non troppo
5. Andante molto
6. Allegro
Thomas Jerde, Virginia Pierce: flute
Jumping Genes: A Tribute to Barbara McClintock (1999) - Elaine Bearer
Emily Schiff-Glenn: Dr. Barbara McClintock • Thomas Jerde: flute • Corey Byrnes: violin • Dan Restuccia: clarinet • Benjamin Asriel: trumpet • Troy Chang: cello
- intermission -
Prelude (2000) - Nathan J. Stumpff
Stephen Canon: tenor saxophone • Nathan Stumpff: piano
In C (1964) - Terry Riley
Brown New Music tutti:
Ju Dee Ang: violin • Benjamin Asriel: trumpet • Elaine Bearer: viola • Corey Byrnes: violin • Stephen Canon: tenor saxophone • Troy Chang: cello • Nicholas Freilich: mallets • Thomas Jerde: flute • Inho Kim: piano • Courtney Naliboff: trumpet • Long Nguyen: piano • Virginia Pierce: flute • Dan Restuccia: clarinet • Emily Joy Schiff-Glenn: soprano • Nathan Stumpff: pulse
composer biographies
John Cage (1912-1993) has “had a greater impact on world music than any other American composer of the 20th century,” according to the New Groves Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
Todd Winkler is a composer and multimedia artist on the faculty at Brown University, where he is Director of MacColl Studios for Electronic Music. His work explores ways in which human actions can affect sound and images produced by computers, in works for instruments and computer, interactive dance productions, and video installations. His music appears on recordings from Capstone Records, Whole>Sum Productions, MIT Press and ICMA. He has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Composers Forum, the Arizona State University Center for Studies in the Arts, Meet the Composer, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Rhode Island State Council of the Arts, and a Fulbright Fellowship.
Robert Muczynski (b. 1929) studied at DePaul University with Alexander Tcherpnin, and the Academy of Music in France. His gift for writing woodwind music earned him the Concours International Prize and a Pulitzer nomination. He was professor of composition and composer-in-residence at the University of Arizona from 1968 to 1988.
Elaine Bearer has often been called a "Renaissance Woman" because of her diverse interests and accomplishments. She is internationally recognized as both a composer of serious music and as a scientist. She studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris and has a Bachelor of Music from The Manhattan School of Music and Master of Music from NYU. She also holds a MD-PhD and is a licensed board-certified physician. At Brown, she is an Associate Professor in both Pathology and in Music. Bearer has had three premiers of new musical compositions, in addition to this one, in the last four months. A CD of Bearer's music, Bearer of Music (Albany Records) can be obtained through amazon.com. Before coming to Brown, Bearer was on the faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Among the awards she has received are grants from Meet the Composer, the Jaffe Foundation, the Rhode Island State Council for the Arts and the National Museum for Women in the Arts.
Nathan J. Stumpff ('02) was a junior Music concentrator at Brown University. Last spring, Nathan collaborated with choreographer Lauren Hale ('02) on opening and upward, a song cycle for chorus and chamber ensemble based on texts by e.e. cummings, performed by the Brown University Chamber Chorus, directed by Frederick Jodry, at the Spring Dance Concert in Stuart Theater. At Brown he has studied with Elaine Bearer and Gerald Shapiro, and in 1999 won the Margery MacColl Award for Musical Excellence . A graduate of Boston University Tanglewood Institute-Young Composers program, he studied with Dr. Richard Cornell and has participated in master classes with Sophia Gubaidulina, Lukas Foss and David Lang among others.
Terry Riley (b. 1935) received his MA in composition from the University of California, Berkeley. Like Steve Reich, much of his instrumental music stems from experiments with tape loop and phasing techniques.
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