PROGRAM NOTE O The Chimneys is a setting of five poems by Nelly Sachs, the great German-Jewish 1966 Nobel Prize co-winner in literature, whose writing concerned itself almost entirely with the subject of the holocaust. Composed in 1969, the work was my personal way of saying, through my own art, ‘do not forget’. I selected…
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PROGRAM NOTE The title Fault Line is a metaphor for the volatility of human existence. Underneath even the most seemingly orderly of lives, fault lines lie, at times totally invisible on the surface, yet capable of erupting with the power to shutter and change all. Fault Line may be heard as a journey of a…
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program note Concerto da Camera II is a work for six instruments which may be further grouped into three separate entities: clarinet, string quartet, and piano. In this combination, chosen by the work’s commissioning organizations (the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in conjunction with Mount Holyoke College), lies the work’s first challenge. While pairings…
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Abraham Stokman (piano) (2) Alan Feinberg (piano) (3) Albany Records (4) Alice Tully Hall (NYC) (2) American Academy & Institute of Arts and Letters Composers Award Recording (2) André Emelianoff (cello) (2) Arthur Fagen (conductor) (2) Bowling Green Philharmonia (2) Bridge Records (3) Carnegie Hall (5) 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) James Kallembach (conductor) (2) Jerusalem Music Center (2) Koch International Classics (2) Laura Flax (clarinet) (4) 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) University of Chicago (8)
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