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Concert Preview - Fall 1999.
is a way for us to introduce the ensemble to new people. It offers the
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Monday, September 27, 1999
New York Art Ensemble
Concert Preview - Fall 1999
Boogie-Woogie-Woogie was written on the occasion of the 1000th victory of the New York Yankees over the Boston Red Sox. If you listen carefully you may hear the crack of a bat as well as the footsteps of giants: Rizzutto, Pesce,
Di Maggio, Williams, Mantle and Yaz, Reggie and Pudge.
What links these four poets of A Leave Taking? The obvious: a country and a century, and the fact that they wrote love lyrics. Their biographies are a rich compound of high jinks, adventures, and scandals; of charisma and self-deception. The usual bohemian artist fodder of drugs, alcohol, carnality, and other forms of excess was there in abundance. Whatever damage they did to themselves and to those around them, what remains is what they created. These poems are a distillation of that lived experience--but of imagined experience too. How much of each no longer matters.
Three Pieces for Violin & Piano I have always been interested in melding “popular” and “serious” musical material together, and of the three this piece leans most toward the popular side. Piece #3 contains elements of boogie-woogie (A), Latin jazz (B), and slower espressivo material (C). So in that sense, one could experience the form of the music as ABCABCA. In the finale, the music is designed to use both written notation and a few verses of improvised “boogie” to drive the piece to a conclusion.
Boogie-Woogie-Woogie (1998) Edmund Cionek
Steve Gossling, piano
A Leave Taking (1996) Jared Beynon
1. May
2. When we two parted
3. Lines
4. Autumn Idleness
David Parsons, baritone;
William Lewis, piano
Three Pieces for Violin & Piano (1998) Preston Stahly
#3 Vivace q = 200
Todd Reynolds, violin;
Steve Gossling, piano
Ukrainian Institute of America, 2 East 79th Street, NYC
Steve Gossling is currently finishing his doctoral degree in piano at Juilliard. He has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, among others, and has recorded with such labels as CRI, Decca, Mode and New World Records. His skill as a pianist has earned him a Sony Elevated Standards Fellowship and the Mennin Prize for Excellence in Music.
Baritone David Parsons has performed over sixty leading roles at opera houses throughout North America and Europe. He has appeared in concert with the Boston Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Aspen Music Festival Orchestra, Richmond Symphony, Evansville Philharmonica, and Springfield (Mass.) Symphony.
William Lewis has served as assistant conductor of the Central City Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Lake George Opera, Opera Omaha, and Texas Opera Theater. Most recently he performed at the American Embassy in Hamburg, Germany and the prestigious Wexford Festival in Ireland.
Todd Reynolds is an improvising composer and a solo interpreter of new music. In New York, he works extensively with the Bang On A Can organization and countless other composers and artists. He has appeared and/or recorded with such artists as Graham Nash, Wayne Shorter, John Cale, Dave Liebman, Joe Jackson, Marcus Roberts, Steve Coleman, Uri Caine, and Anthony Braxton. Todd currently is appearing with Bernadette Peters, playing and dancing as the onstage fiddler in Annie Get Your Gun on Broadway. In addition, he is the assistant conductor for both the Steve Reich Ensemble and the Walter Thompson Orchestra, and has released one CD with his acoustic jazz trio, Subject To Change.
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