New Music Séance 2008
In contrast to the Other Minds Festival, created for living composers, the New Music Séance events juxtaposed music of the living with the creations of departed composers. The elegant tag line for the events, coined by Molly Mitoma of the OM Staff, said it best: “Summoning the spectres of musical forbears, channeling the spirits of their successors.” The historic Swedenborgian Church was the perfect venue to experience the co-mingling of past and present.
PROGRAM
CONCERT 1: Birds in Warped Time
Somei Satoh
Birds in Warped Time
Olivier Messiaen
Fantasy for Violin & Piano
Tan Dun
Eight Memories in Watercolor
Per Nørgård
Animals in Concert: Excerpts Nos. 1 & 2
Arthur Honegger
Le Cahier Romand
I à Alice Ecoffey
II à Jacqueline Ansermet
III à Miquette Wagner-Rieder
IV à Paul Bœpple
V à René Morax
Meredith Monk
St Petersburg Waltz
Lois V. Vierk
To Stare Astonished at the Sea
Grazyna Bacewicz
Stained Glass Window
Melodiya
Silvestre Revueltas
Three Pieces for Violin & Piano
Concert 2: Authentic Presence
Samuel Barber
Excursions, Op. 20
Olivier Messiaen
Eight Preludes (excerpts 1, 2, 5, 6)
Gabriela Lena Frank
Sueños de Chambi: Snapshots for an Andean Album: Excerpts Nos. 5, 6 & 7
Ingram Marshall
Authentic Presence
Alexander Scriabin
Five Preludes, Op. 74
Peter Garland
After the Wars
Jerome Kitzke
There Is a Field
Steed Cowart
Blackberry Winter
Jim Tenney
Rags
Dylan Mattingly
[untitled]
Concert 3: Tribute to Ruth Crawford
Henry Cowell
Whirling Dervish, The Sword of Oblivion, and selected piano works
Lou Harrison
Largo Ostinato to John Dobson
Dane Rudhyar
Tetragram No. 1
Johanna Beyer
Suite for Violin and Piano
Henry Cowell
Suite for Violin and Piano
Johanna Beyer
Dissonant Counterpoint
Ruth Crawford
Nine Preludes
Study in Mixed Accents
The Adventures of Tom Thumb
Sonata for Violin and Piano
