Imani Winds are also performing at Hollywood Bowl for 80th Birthday of Wayne Shorter. See http://www.hollywoodbowl.com/tickets/wayne-shorter-80th-birthday-celebration/2013-08-28
John Malveaux
Thursday, 1 August 2013
ImaniWinds.com
EVENT UPDATES & HIGHLIGHTS!
August 2, 6pm (CORRECTED TIME!), THE ZAFEER PROJECT: IMANI WINDS & SIMON SHAHEEN, Oud/Violin, Bryant Park, Free!
This concert is co-presented with Chamber Music America and features music inspired by the sights and sounds of the Middle East.
August 3, 9am - 8pm, SUMMER MUSIC SYMPOSIUM, Mannes College of Music, 150 W. 85th St., NYC, All Day Adult & Student Prices Available
Symposium Day is an annual special event at IWCMF, packed with esteemed artists, concerts, masterclasses, workshops, readings and exhibits. Culminating performance, 7pm, with members of Imani Winds and Friends.
August 4, 7pm, VISIONARIES: COMPOSERS OF GENERATION NOW!, Mannes College of Music, 150 W. 85th St., NYC, $10 suggested donation
Featuring original compositions by the Emerging Composers Program Fellows, performed by Festival participants.
August 5, 8pm, THE MUSIC OF JEFF SCOTT, Christ & St. Stephen's Church, 120 W. 69th St., NYC, $10 admission
Imani Winds very own French hornist, Jeff Scott, is featured as composer in this program of all original works for mixed ensembles and soloists.
August 6 & 7, 7pm, CHAMBER MUSIC CELEBRATION I & II, Christ & St. Stephen's Church, 120 W. 69th St., NYC, $10 suggested donation
Culminating concerts of IWCMF participants
August 7, 10am, FAMILY CONCERT SHORTS, The Juilliard School, Free!
A fun concert for children and families, featuring Festival participants.
August 7, 12pm, A TASTE OF ERIC EWAZEN, ECP composer in residence, The Juilliard School, $10 suggested donation
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Monday, 29 July 2013
Stanley J. Thurston
July 29, 2013
By: Patrick McCoy
In a press release this morning, the Washington National Cathedral announced the appointment of conductor Stanley J. Thurston as Artist in Residence. His appointment will be effective September 1. Thurston is highly regarded in the D. C. area and nationally as an outstanding conductor, pianist and arranger.
The cathedral's announcement was a part of its announcing of the 2013-14 concert series highlighting both the Cathedral Choirs under the direction of Canon Michael McCarthy and The Heritage Signature Chorale, which was founded and is conduced by Thurston.
Thurston has appeared as conductor on NBC’s Today Show and at such venues as Carnegie Hall and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He has performed with notable artists including Denyce Graves, Kathleen Battle, the Canadian Brass, and Wynton Marsalis. He was commissioned to compose a musical tribute for the 2009 Presidential Inaugural Prayer Service at the Cathedral, which he conducted during the service with President Barack Obama.
Sunday, 28 July 2013
Akin Euba (b. 1935), Nigerian Composer, Professor & Author, is featured at AfriClassical.com
Cosmas W. K. Mereku of The University of Education, Winneba, Ghana, writes in the Guest Book at AfriClassical.com on Sunday, July 28, 2013:
You have a fantastic website. What a great resource to teachers of musical composition like us who are trying our best to sustain classicism in our countries as well as on the continent where majority of our elite musicians (ethnomusicologists, music educators, traditional music performers, etc., alike) think classical music is foreign (a culture that was forced on the continent -Eurocentricism). Now my students will know how both Africans as well as those in the diaspora of African descend had contributed to this wonderful genre we aspire to nurture in Africa. After all, the melodic, harmonic and percussive qualities of our instruments make them a perfect vehicle for the expression of the multi-musicality African composers are striving to achieve in today¿s multi-lingual, multi-cultural and multi-interdisciplinary world of globalization.
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (1932-2004): A Celebration
Chicago Sinfonietta et al.
Paul Freeman, Conductor
Cedille 90000 087 (2005)
Martin Luther King Jr. 50thAnniversary Concert
‘SYMPHONY of BROTHERHOOD’
Music UNTOLD String Quartet
(Clavis Ballard-cello, Jennifer Lindsay-violin, Darrel Sims-violin, Joseph Taylor-viola)
Roy Harris (1898-1979) arrangement - The Star-Spangled Banner
Pianist Phoenix Park-Kim, Violinist Annelle Gregory
William Grant Still (1895-1978) arrangement - Here’s One(Talk about a child that do love Jesus)
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) arrangement - Deep River, op. 59 no. 10
Pianist Phoenix Park-Kim, Soprano Jumi Kim
Christoph Willibald Gluck(1714-1787) Paride ed Elena(Paris and Helen) / Paride(Paris):O del mio dolce ardor (Oh my sweet love)
Pianist David Rubinstein, Flutist Laurel Zucker
Julio Racine (b. 1945) Tangente au Yanvaloufor flute and piano
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (1932-2004) arrangement - Lil' Lite O' Mine / Sparklin for flute and piano
Pianist Richard Thompson, Bass-Baritone Mark Steven Doss
Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848) Lucia di Lammermoor / Enrico: Cruda funesta smania(A cruel terrible restlessness)
Pianist Phoenix Park-Kim, Soprano Jumi Kim
Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848) Lucia di Lammermoor / Lucia: Regnava Nel Silenzio (Reigning In Silent Darkness)
Pianist Polli Chambers-Salazar, Bass-Baritone Cedric Trenton Berry
Hall Johnson (1888-1970) arrangement - Ride on King Jesus
William Grant Still (1895-1978) Troubled Island / Martel: I Dream A World
Margaret Bond (1913-1972) arrangement - He’s Got The Whole World In His Hands
Intermission
Pianist Richard Thompson, Soprano Anita Johnson
Richard Thompson (b. 1954)I, Too, Sing America
Duke Ellington (1899-1974) Second Sacred Concert:
Heaven
T.G.T.T (Too Good To Title)
Almighty God
Pianist Phoenix Park-Kim, Cellist Kristen Yeon-Ji Yun
David Baker (b. 1931) Sonata for Cello and Piano, II. Blues (slow)
Cellist Kristen Yeon-Ji Yun
Coleridge Taylor-Perkinson (1932-2004) Lamentations: Black Folk Song Suite for cello solo, IV. Perpetual Motion
Pianist James Lent, Soprano Juliana Gondek
Charles Osborne (b. 1927) arrangement - Ki Eleicha
John Carter (1932-1981?) arrangement - Let Us Break Bread Together On Our Knees
Pianist Phoenix Park-Kim, Soprano Jumi Kim
Dong-Jin Kim (1913-2009)Cho-Hon (Invocation)
Pianist Polli Chambers-Salazar
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) Valse Suite: Three-Fours, Op 71
II. Andante
IV. Vivace
VI. Allegro assai
Pianist Richard Thompson, Bass-Baritone Mark Steven Doss
Louis Gruenberg (1884-1964) The Emperor Jones / Brutus Jones: Oh, Lawd Jesus, heah my prayer (Standin’ in de Need of Prayer)
J. Rosamond Johnson(1873-1954) arrangement - Go Down, Moses
Jacques Brel (1929-1978) Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris -If We Only Have Love-English Lyrics: Mort Shuman & Eric Blau
Pianist Phoenix Park-Kim, Soprano Jumi Kim
Joopoong Kim (b. 1958) Candlelight for Soprano(World Premiere)
Program Note:
This piece was composed to commemorate and honor the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., whose vision and leadership helped our society to advance towards greater civil equality for all. This piece attempts to capture the fragility of a candle’s flame, vulnerable to being extinguished by the slightest of winds. Yet with consistent care and protection, even this fragile flame can light the way in the darkest of times. Dr. King was that care and protection, kindling the fragile flame of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960’s. That flame grew stronger and brighter, and ultimately lit the way towards greater equality for the entire nation. This piece is, therefore, titled “Candlelight” to express Dr. King’s legacy.
The melody attempts to express the equality of all men and women through its harmonious sounds, while the vertical harmony of the accompaniment is structured as a dissonant chord, composed using the homophonic texture. We may have heard the phrase “The night is darkest before the dawn.” The interaction between the harmonious melody and inharmonic accompaniment represents the struggle and darkness that faced Dr. King and his followers during the Civil Rights Movement. Yet the piece concludes by reaching an overall harmony. This ultimate harmony represents not only the achievements of Dr. King’s vision, but also this composer’s hope that the advances in civil rights we enjoy today continue to strive so that Dr. King’s vision of equality for African-Americans extends to equality for all minority groups.
Saturday, 27 July 2013
Julio Racine is a Haitian composer, arranger and flutist who is featured at AfriClassical.com. He was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on February 4, 1945. He now lives in Louisville, Kentucky.
Although both are beautiful compositions, Flutist Laurel Zucker will substitute Tangente au Yanvalou for flute and piano by Haitian composer and flutist Julio Racine for Sonatina for flute and piano by Adolphus Hailstork during 50th Anniversary MLK Jr. 'SYMPHONY of BROTHERHOOD' Concert, Sunday, August 18, 2013, Zipper Hall-Colburn School, downtown Los Angeles.
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John Malveaux
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