2009 Programs

 

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 11

  • 8 PM - Five College Composers’ Concert:

    • Eric Sawyer: Fundamentals
          Gary Smulyan, Salvatore Macchia
    • Donald Wheelock: Piano Variations
          Judith Gordon
    • David Sanford: Shaw Variations
          Linda Laderach, Kivie Cahn-Lipman, Larry Schipull
    • Daniel Warner: Five Songs on Poems of Sara Teasdale
          Peter W. Shea, Monica Jakuc Leverett
    • Bruce MacCombie: Elegy
          Elizabeth Chang, Michael Sussman, Astrid Schween, Judith Gordon

- 8 PM BRH Free -

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 12

  • 2 PM - An Afternoon of Premieres Featuring:

    • The winner of the Five College Composition Competition:
      Michael Romaniak: Sfumato
          Michael Sussman, Volcy Pelletier, Nadine Shank
    • The Violin Duo Project: newly commissioned works by Beggio, Biasutti, Macchia, Sawyer, Holmes, Stern, Tillis, performed by the UMass Violin Studio
    • - 2 PM BRH Free -

  • 7 PM - Panel Discussion by Eric Sawyer, Donald Wheelock, Charles Fussell, Lewis Spratlan, Robert Stern, Bruce Maccombie

  • 8 PM - Heritage Concert

    • Charles Fussell: Moonshine duo for Marimba and Double Bass
          Ayano Kataoka, Salvatore Macchia
    • Ronald Perera: Visions for two sopranos and chamber ensemble
          Karen Smith Emerson, Nina Moe, sopranos
          Lanfranco Marcelletti, conductor
    • Alvin Etler: Woodwind Quintet #1
          Avanti Wind Quintet featuring Christopher Krueger, Fredric T. Cohen, Michael Sussman,
          Stephen Walt and Laura Klock
    • Lewis Spratlan: Concertino for Violin and Chamber Ensemble
          Elizabeth Chang, violin
          Lanfranco Marcelletti, conductor

- 8 PM BRH Free -

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 13

  • 2 PM - Lecture, David Schneider

  • 3 PM - "The Hungarian Strain", Contemporary Hungarian Music

    • Gyorgy Kurtag: 14 Fragmente aus "Rückblick": Altes und Neues. Hommage à Stockhausen
          Eric Sawyer, Alissa Leiser, Eric Berlin, Salvatore Macchia
    • Bela Bartok: Contrasts
          Joel Pitchon, Michael Sussman, Elizabeth Joy Roe
    • Gyorgy Ligeti: Horn Trio
          Elizabeth Chang, Laura Klock, Judith Gordon

    • - 3 PM BRH Free -

  • Post Concert Reception