PROGRAM NOTE The Da Capo Chamber Players’ invitation to a group of composers/friends of the ensemble to write a short piece incorporating, in any way desired, the group’s name into its format, turned out to be an interesting challenge. Repetition is the essence of comprehensibility. But — Da Capo, today? While the initial temptation was…
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PROGRAM NOTE Fantasy Variations for solo cello is comprised of a theme and four variations. Aspects of the two main ideas appearing in the work’s opening are taken through a series of transformations. They are: (1) a brooding, introductory line which returns at several key points, straddling the blurred boundaries between elemental, raw sound and…
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Alan Feinberg (piano) (3) Albany Records (4) American Academy & Institute of Arts and Letters Composers Award Recording (2) Arthur Fagen (conductor) (2) Bowling Green Philharmonia (2) Bridge Records (3) Carnegie Hall (5) Chamber Music America Commissioning Program (2) Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (2) Charles Kondek (librettist) (2) Chicago Symphony Orchestra (3) Cliff Colnot (conductor) (3) Composers Recording Inc. (CRI) (4) Da Capo Chamber Players (6) Emily Freeman Brown (conductor) (2) Erato Records (4) Harold Rosenbaum (conductor) (2) Jerusalem Music Center (2) Laura Flax (clarinet) (4) Logan Center Performance Hall (Chicago) (2) Mary Stolper (flute) (3) Merkin Hall (NYC) (3) National Flute Association (3) New World Records (4) Orchestra Hall (Chicago) (2) Patricia Spencer (flute) (2) Peabody Trio (3) Shulamit Ran (piano) (2) Susan Reid-Parsons (mezzo soprano) (2) University of Chicago (7)
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