PROGRAM:
Dylan Glatthorn: Joy, (Piano, 3 Voices)

Eric Lemmon: Little Respite for flute and (lightly) Prepared Piano (Flute, Prepared Piano)

Conrad Winslow: Nearly Resolved Chords, (String Quintet & Electronics)

Pedro da Silva: Concertino Bulería, (Guitar and Strings)

Noam Faingold: A Knife in the Water, (Cello, Violin)

Angélica Negrón: "Drawings for Meyoko", (alto flute, viola/banjo, harp & electronics)

Lucía Caruso: Canção de Sintra, (4 Voices & Chamber Orchestra)

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Innovative and versatile violinist Anne Akiko Meyers performs selections from her newest release for E1 Records, “Seasons…dreams…” (out on September 28, 2010). Anchored by Beethoven’s “Spring” Violin Sonata, the album journeys through the seasons into reverie, and includes works by Debussy, Wagner, Fauré, Schnittke, and arrangements of standards such as Autumn in New York and Tenderly. Anne is joined on both the album and this performance by long-time collaborator, pianist Reiko Uchida.

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Internationally renowned pianist Marc-André Hamelin offers an intimate concert celebrating his newest Hyperion Records release – an album of his own compositions, “Marc-André Hamelin: Études.”

The evening also previews Hamelin’s stellar New York concert season, including December 2010 Carnegie Hall performances with Leif Ove Andsnes and the Risør Chamber Music Festival and his May 11, 2011 Piano Virtuoso Series recital in Zankel Hall.

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Program:
Stronghold, for 8 double basses (performed by Robert Black and the Hartt Bass Band)

LAD, for 9 bagpipes (performed solo with accompanying pre-recorded bagpipes by Matthew Welch)

Dig Deep, for string quartet (performed by the JACK Quartet)


Description:

The Music of Julia Wolfe
with Jack Quartet, Hartt Bass Band, and Matthew Welch (bagpipes)

Julia Wolfe, cofounder of Bang on a Can, comes to LPR with three passionate works for 8 double basses, string quartet, and bagpipes. Wolfe's music is distinguished by an intense physicality and a relentless power that pushes performers to extremes and demands attention from the audience. In the words of the Wall Street Journal, Wolfe has "long inhabited a terrain of [her] own, a place where classical forms are recharged by the repetitive patterns of minimalism and the driving energy of rock."

With Stronghold, for 8 double basses, Bang on a Can All-Star Robert Black and the Hartt Bass Band become a mega bass with wild harmonic rolls, soaring tunes, and an earthquake of low strings. In the relentless and breathless Dig Deep the ferocious JACK Quartet whip all 16 strings up to a frenzy, and in LAD, for multiple bagpipes, piper Matthew Welch builds dense walls of reedy sound that turn to a cacophony of gigs and reels.


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A Preview and CD Release of Philip Glass' New Violin Concert No. 2 ("The American Four Seasons," 2010)

-Praise for "The American Four Seasons":

Philip Glass’s new violin concerto, The American Four Seasons... was dignified and contained, even when the soloist launched into passionate flights of virtuosity, which was quite often.... Glass has a magical way of giving the merest twist to banality and ordinariness, which makes it interesting – the mark of classic art down the ages. As for the solo performance by Robert McDuffie, it was beyond praise, as cool, poised and heroically strong as a piece of Greek statuary.
—London Telegraph (April 19, 2010)

The first performance of the work – Violin Concerto No. 2, "The American Four Seasons" – was so spectacularly played by the new piece's muse, American violinist Robert McDuffie, at Roy Thomson Hall Wednesday night, that the event turned into one of the most exciting musical evenings of the year.
—Toronto Star (World Premiere Performance, Toronto, December 9, 2009)

This is the achievement of a mature composer, who has judiciously drawn on his standard musical vocabulary, and, at the same time, transcended it, creating a work of broader compositional and emotional complexity. At the hub of the concerto was violinist Robert McDuffie, who persuaded Glass to compose it and is clearly committed to the result. He performed with extraordinary ease and elan.
—Devner Post (American Premiere Performance, Aspen, July 24, 2010)

Listen: LSO Podcast about "The American Four Seasons"

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Program:

music of:
Michael Gordon: new work with the Young People's Chorus of New York City(world premiere)

Maria Schneider: String Quartet No. 1 (New York premiere)

Bryce Dessner

Missy Mazzoli

Aleksandra Vrebalov (world premiere)

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Program

music of:
Michael Gordon: new work (New York premiere)

Clint Mansell

J.G. Thirlwell

Dan Visconti


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