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"Be Glad Then, America!"
The winning compositions from our 3nd annual Choral Composition
Competition
2:00PM: Pre-concert discussion with the composers
Walter Hilse, organ
Location: St. Ignatius Episcopal Church, 552 West End Ave., entrance on 87th St., New York, NY 10024
Hear astounding new choral compositions
from some of America's finest emerging and established composers:
PROGRAM:
Two Honorary Mentions:
Ave Verum Corpus F. William Sherrill
Absalom Jeffrey Steven Cobb
3rd Prize:
Reaching Timothy Dwight Edwards
2nd Prize:
Seasons Such as These David Chaitkin
1st Prize:
Alma Redemptoris mater Ramin Amirarjomand
Plus a world premiere: Je Me Délace by Jenece Gerber
John Harbison: 70th Birthday Tribute
2:00PM: Pre-concert discusssion with John Harbison
Location: St. Ignatius Episcopal Church, 552 West End Ave., entrance on 87th St., New York, NY 10024
In this FIRST of many tributes to Mr. Harbison this year, hear ALL of his a cappella choral works PLUS a World Premiere written for the occasion.
John Harbison is one of America's most important artistic figures. His music is distinguished by its exceptional resourcefulness and expressive range. He has written for every conceivable type of concert performance, ranging from the grandest to the most intimate, pieces that embrace jazz along with the pre-classical forms. He is considered to be "original. varied, and absorbing - relatively easy for audiences to grasp and yet formal and complex enough to hold our interest through repeated hearings - his style boasts both lucidity and logic" (Fanfare).
PROGRAM:
Ave Maria
Wherefore I Put Thee in Remembrance
Beloved, Let Us Love Another
Ave Verum Corpus
O Magnum Mysterium - short version
O Magnum Mysterium - long version
Concerning Them Which Are Asleep
Communion Words
Veni Creator Spiritus
We Do Not Live to Ourselves
My Little Children, Let Us Not Love in Word
In Spiritu
Emerson
Evening
Charity Never Faileth
Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled
+ A world premiere written for this concert!
Charles Wuorinen: 70th Birthday Tribute
2:00PM: Pre-concert discussion with Charles Wuorinen
Location: St. Ignatius Episcopal Church, 552 West End Ave., entrance on 87th St., New York, NY 10024
Tickets: $20.  Students and Seniors: $10.
Mr. Wuorinen's compositions are marked by dazzling virtuosity, innovative formal design, and an outward exuberance that belies a controlled internal rigor. His music fuses Stravinskian physicality and punch with Schoenbergian structural principles. It reconciles and extends the great traditions of these two early twentieth century masters. Wuorinen's large corpus of significant work, and his willingness to explore in a profound way every important genre of Western music, makes his achievement a powerful compendium of late twentieth-century and early twenty-first century musical thought. His most important contribution may lie in the adapting of the highly sophisticated language of the twentieth century to the grand musical visions of those centuries preceding.
PROGRAM:
Missa Brevis
A Solis Ortu
Mass for the Restoration of St. Luke in the Fields
Two Lute Songs of Thomas Campion
Be Mery all that be Present
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