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October 11, 2000, 8:00 PM
Japan Society
Pacifica Mix
Dorothy Chang: BLOOM (1994)
Solo ‘cello Ushio
Torikai: AIR 4
Solo flute
Joan Huang: REMEMBERING SOUTH RIVER LAND (1999)
Piano trio
Gi Nyoung Lee: SANJO (1999)
Solo viola
PQ Phan: BEYOND THE MOUNTAINS (1995)
Clarinet, violin, ‘cello, piano
Kenji Bunch: SUITE FOR VIOLA AND PIANO
Viola, piano
Sunday, October 15, 2000
Carnegie Hall
Pacifica
From the Pacific Rim to the West Coast… Asian influences in American music.
Dennis Russell Davies, Conductor
Ursula Oppens, piano
MELISSA HUI: Common Ground
(U.S. Premiere)
CHINARY UNG: Inner Voices
P.Q. PHAN: When the Worlds Mixed and Times Merged
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
LOU HARRISON: Piano Concerto
January 21, 2001
Carnegie Hall
Berlin 1931
A re-creation of a program of American music introduced to German audiences 70 years earlier by the inimitable Nicolas Slonimsky.
Dennis Russell Davies, Conductor
ADOLPH WEISS: American Life
CHARLES IVES: Three Places in New England
CARL RUGGLES: Men and Mountains
COWELL: Synchrony
AMADEO ROLDÁN: Suite de “La Rebambaramba”
February 2, 2001 at 8:30 PM
Joe’s Pub
Derek Bermel & Peace by Piece
Old Songs for a New Man (1996-97)
Timothy Jones, baritone
Turning (1995)
Marilyn Nonken, piano
“Peace by Piece”
Derek Bermel, voice, keyboards, caxixi; Mat Deveau, drums; Bobby Roe, bass; Mark Tewarson, guitar
March 9, 2001; 8:30 PM
Joe’s Pub
Nong Rock
komungo and string quartet
Portrait
for komungo solo
Core
for komungo solo
EK for JC
for electric komungo solo
Quagmire
Jin Hi Kim, komungo
Reggie Workman, bass
Oliver Lake, Saxophone
March 11, 2001, 2:00 PM
New York Historical Society
Immigrant Voices
New York Concert Singers Judith Clurman, director
Susan Jolles, harp
Alan Muraoka, narrator
MAX HELFMAN: The Lady with the Lamp
MARIO CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: Cherry Ripe
IGOR STRAVINSKY: Ave Maria & Anthem
ERNST KRENEK: The Four Sweet Months
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG: Drei Volksliedsatze
ERNST TOCH: Geographical Fugue
CHEN YI (arr.): Fengyang Song
ALLA BORSOVA: Festive
PAOLA PRESTINI: Solitude
(World Premiere)
ALICE PARKER (arr.): Irish Folk Songs
March 18, 2001
Carnegie Hall
American music continually enriched by immigrant composers.
Dante Anzolini, Conductor
Leon Fleisher, piano
Jin Hi Kim, komungo
JIN HI KIM: Eternal Rock
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
TANIA LEóN: Desde…
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
LUKAS FOSS: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG: Variations for Orchestra
April 14, 2:00 PM
American Museum of the Moving Image
Hidden Hollywood
DAVID RAKSIN: Swing Low, Sweet Clarinet
BERNARD HERRMANN: Echoes
JOHN CORIGLIANO: Soliloquy
MIKLOS ROZSA: String Quartet No. 1
April 18, 2001
Whitaker New Music Reading Sessions
ACO’s annual round-up of the country’s most promising emerging composers.
April 19, 2001; 8:30 PM
Joe’s Pub
David Raksin: Hollywood Cabaret
David Raksin: SWING LOW SWEET CLARINET
Clarinet and string quartet
David Raksin: LAURA
Piano/vocal variations (David Raksin and Francis Thorne)
David Raksin: THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL
Clarinet and piano
Remainder
of the program TBA
April 7-8,15, 21, 2:00 PM
American Museum of the Moving Image
Hidden Hollywood (part 2)
Film screenings & discussion with composers
April 7: Philip Glass, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, Kundun
April 8: Royal Brown, film historian, Vertigo, Spellbound
April 15: composer Carter Burwell and sound designer Skip Lievsay, Barton Fink
April 15 (5:00 PM): Paul Chihara
April 21: David Raksin: Laura, The Bad and the Beautiful
April 22, 2001
Carnegie Hall
Hollywood composers from the studio heydays to today.
Dennis Russell Davies, Conductor
Scott Dunn, piano
BERNARD HERRMANN: Psycho Suite
DAVID RAKSIN: The Bad and the Beautiful
IGOR STRAVINSKY: Four Norwegian Moods
MIKLOS ROZSA: The Spellbound Concerto
DMITRI TIOMKIN: The Thing
PAUL CHIHARA: Clouds (…from out of the past)
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)