6/10/08
Festival 2008 Kudos!
We thank everyone who made this Festival happen, including all of the composers, performers, and our wonderful audiences for all five concerts. Please visit our myspace page for a look at more photos (and videos!) from the 2008 festival. I'm especially grateful to David Fulmer and Marc Williams, of Second Instrumental Unit (pictured above), and to our ACA staff, Daniel Cords, Paul Kerekes, and Liam Harte, for going beyond the calls of duty.
I wish you all a wonderful summer. -Gina Genova, General Manager, ACA
4/6/08
ACA Festival of American Music 2008
Where: Leonard Nimoy Thalia
at Peter Norton Symphony Space
2537 Broadway (at 95th St.)
New York, NY 10025
Concert Schedule:
Wednesday, June 4 at 7:30 PM
Thursday, June 5 at 7:30 PM
Friday, June 6 at 7:30 PM
Saturday, June 7 at 4:00 PM
Saturday, June 7 at 7:30 PM
Buy Tickets at: Symphony Space
Or Call: 212-864-5400
$15 per person $5 students
$ 50 Festival pass (all 5 concerts)
COMPLETE PROGRAM (subject to changes)
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Wednesday, June 4th, 7:30pm
Opening night
The New York Virtuoso Singers,
Harold Rosenbaum, Conductor
Mark Zuckerman, Two Browning Settings
Brian Fennelly, Soon Shall the Winter’s Foil
Robert Ceely, Five Contemplative Pieces
Gregory Hall, April
Jody Rockmaker, Yiddish Choruses
Louis Karchin, To the Stars
John Eaton, Duo
Edward Jacobs, When Time
Elliott Schwartz, Two Watterson Poems
Steven Gerber, Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought
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Thursday June, 5th, 7:30pm
Piano and Chamber Music
Marilyn Shrude, Memorie de luoghi
Nathan Bowen, Cassia
André Brégégère, Vol de nuit
Elliott Schwartz, Suite for Viola and Piano
Fred Cohen, Four Episodes
Anthony Lanman, Il dolce stile nuovo
Gregory Hall, The Waking
Joyce Hope Suskind, Meditations on War and Peace
Nicole Pantos, soprano; Naomi Drucker, clarinet; Christopher Bruckman, piano; Jeannie Im, soprano; Marijo Newman, piano; Marilyn Shrude, piano; Maria Sampen, violin; Elliott Schwartz, piano; Tawnya Popoff, viola; Kathy Tagg, piano; Asuka Yamamoto, clarinet; Justin Berrie, flute; Alexandra Zsaz Rutkowski, cello; Chern-Hwei Fung, violin; Adam Forman, percussion; Laurence Goldman, bass.
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Friday, June 6th, 7:30pm
String Quartets, Chamber music
Special Guests, the iO Quartet
Christina McGann, violin
Erik Carlson, violin
Elizabeth Weisser, viola
Christopher Gross, cello
Richard Brooks, String Quartet No. 3
Scott Winship, Habitual Patterns
Jan Gilbert, Of Heloise: Four Song Settings of the Poetry of Judith Infante
Lewis Nielson, How You Go
Robert Ceely, Two Pieces for String Quartet
Francis Kayali, Trio
John Eaton, String Quartet No. 2
Second Instrumental Unit, David Fulmer, violin;
plus: Nancy Ogle, soprano; Meredith Clark, harp; John Langford, percussion; Gabrielle Athayde, cello; Philipp Staudlin, saxophone; Alex Lipowski, marimba.
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Saturday, June 7th, 4:00pm
Blitzstein plus ACA/New York Women Composers, Inc.
Margarita Zelenaia, Homage, Suite for Clarinet and Violin
Lisa Hogan, Music for Trumpet, Marimba and String Quartet
Eleanor Aversa, Something Gleamed Like Electrum
Margaret Fairlie-Kennedy, Summer Solstice
Elizabeth Bell, Night Music
Beth Wiemann, Erie, on the Periphery
Marc Blitzstein, Cain (piano, world premiere of 1930 work),
Second Instrumental Unit, David Fulmer, violin; Marc D. Williams, conductor;
plus: Christopher Oldfather, piano; Ben Fingland, clarinet; Marilyn Nonken, piano; Michael Fennelly, piano; Peter Clark, baritone.
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Saturday, June 7th, 7:30pm
Raoul Pleskow, Piece for 8 Players
Joel Gressel, An Orderly Transition
Burton Beerman, Dialogue
Richard Cameron-Wolfe, A Measure of Love and Silence
Hubert Howe, Symphony No. 3 (II and III)
Robert Carl, A Clean Sweep
Harold Seletsky, Sonata for clarinet and piano
John Melby, In Darkness
Second Instrumental Unit, David Fulmer, violin; Marc D. Williams, conductor;
plus: Jane Schoonmaker Rodgers, soprano; Kevin Blysma, piano; Jacquelyn Familant, soprano; Keith Spencer, baritone; Elizabeth Brown and Robert Carl, shakuhachi; Robin Seletsky, clarinet; Kim Paterson, piano; Linda Larson, soprano; Patricia Sonego, soprano.
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