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“This boy is a miracle of playing.”

André Previn first encountered theSlovakian bass virtuoso RomanPatkoló after he won a scholarshipfrom the Anne-Sophie MutterFoundation, which supports youngmusicians. He then heard Patkolóperform in recital at theBeethovenhaus in Bonn and,following discussions with Ms.Mutter, decided to write a concertofor them both, commissioned byMutter’s Foundation, and designedspecifically to showcase the talentsof the younger artist. This month,Previn takes to the Symphony Hallpodium on 19 April to lead theBoston Symphony in the worldpremiere of his new DoubleConcerto for Violin, Contrabass, andOrchestra, featuring Mutter andPatkoló, and dedicated to bothsoloists.

With this Double Concerto, Previnhas composed a work that not onlyreflects the amazing capabilities ofboth artists, but one in which eachvoice complements the other. Giventhe small concert repertory for thedouble bass, Previn’s DoubleConcerto is an immensely importantaddition that highlights this mostdistinctive instrument. Subsequentperformances follow on the 20th,21st, and 24th.

Double Strings at the BSOCatán’s ‘Caribbean Airs’“I was born in Mexico, but my earliest recollections are always accompanied bythe sound of Cuban music.” With this, Daniel Catán introduces his newest

work Caribbean Airs,which premieres on 26April by the PacificSymphony. Carl St.Clair conducts thethree-movement workfor percussion quartetand orchestra.

Catán continues,“During the late 1940sand early 50s manyCuban musicians

moved to New York and Mexico. Caribbean music became immensely popular.New dance halls opened every season and they regularly had a Caribbean bandplaying to dance-crazed couples….Not everybody could go to the clubs, of

course, so radio stations and records solved the problem by taking the musicinto people’s homes and workplaces. It was impossible not to be influenced bythis music and its contagious beauty.

“I have been a devotee of this music the whole of my life. Its rhythms andinstrumentation have always fascinated me. But after studying it in detail, I’vebecome a huge admirer of it: the complexity and at the same time the precision

with which it is composed are quiteextraordinary…” Cast in the form of atraditional three-movement concerto,the soloists are required to improvise in

addition to the notes indicated in the score. “This was standard practice in thebaroque and classical eras,” Catán notes. “The two outer movements are fastand highly rhythmical. The middle movement is more meditative and melodic.My main concern was to write memorable melodies to the subtle rhythmicpatterns that breathe life into them. I hope you enjoy listening to this piece asmuch as I enjoyed writing it. And if you find your hands or feet beginning totwitch rhythmically without your permission, please do not stop them.”

credit: Tumi Music, c/o Music Sales Film and TV

Double Concerto for Violin,Contrabass, and Orchestra 23'

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Writing this piece has been quite a challenge…[but] it has put me back intouch with music I love. And then, as if it wasn’t enough, it has taken me toclubs on a regular basis in order to get those rhythms flowing naturallythrough my body as well as through my ears. What a treat! Who would haveguessed that doing research could be so enjoyable!

— Daniel Catán

photo courtesy, Boston Symphony

photo:Tina Tahir, courtesy: Boston Symphony

Roman Patkoló

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From April 12-14, 2007, the Berlind Theater at Princeton University presentsthe world premiere of Alexander Pushkin’s 1825 play Boris Godunov, withchoral and instrumental music written for it by Sergei Prokofiev. This

premiere, presented in a new Englishtranslation by Antony Wood,highlights Prokofiev’s 1936 score

which was composed to accompanythe artistic vision of innovative Russian theater director Vsevolod Meyerhold.However, for political reasons, his production was never mounted. In 1939,Meyerhold was arrested and shot in 1940. His vision for Pushkin’s playlanguished during and after the Stalinist era. Tim Vasen directs these fourperformances.

Until now, Prokofiev’s score has never been used for a live performance withPushkin’s play. The score contains 24 sections and features a myriad of musicalallusions: Eastern and Western military music, drunken singing, ballroomdances, a reverie, and an ethereal amoroso. Prokofiev framed these passageswith their emotional inversions: a widow’s lament, a sing-along for blindbeggars, three behind-the-scenes choruses, and four songs of loneliness.

Boris Godunov, Op. 70a 45'Chorus; 2.1.2.tsx.1/4.4.2.bhn.2/perc/hp.pf/str

Pushkin Meets Prokofiev

photo: Denise Applewhite

Year of Rumi2007 is the “Year of Rumi,” as declared by theUnited Nations Educational, Scientific andCultural Organization. UNESCO recognizes the800th birth anniversary of this Islamic scholar,philosopher and mystical poet, who through hiswritings advanced the ideas of tolerance, rea-son, and the quest for knowledge. Rumi’s deepfaith permeates his works which are consideredmasterpieces of Persian culture, and continue tobe relevant today as they address issues con-cerning the global condition of mankind. Rumi’sinspiration can be found in number of works byMusic Sales Group composers. Below is a listof those works directly inspired by this pro-found spiritual thinker.

Richard DanielpourIn the Arms of the Beloved (2001) 28'Violin, cello; 3(afl,pic).2.3(bcl).2/3220/timp.3perc/pf(cel).hp/str

Philip GlassSymphony No. 5, “Requiem, Bardo,Nirmanakaya” (1991) 101'S, Mz, T, Bar, B; Children’s & mixed choirs2+pic.2.2+Ebcl.bcl.2/4.3.2+btbn.1/4perc/hp.pf/str

Aaron Jay KernisSimple Songs (1991) 20'S and orchestra/ensemble

Chamber orchestra version:1(pic).100/1000/perc/hp/str Ensemble version: fl(pic), ob, hn, perc, hp, str5tet

Augusta Read ThomasRumi Settings (2001) 9'Violin, viola [or] violin, cello

John TavenerHymn of Dawn (2002) 70'S, Bar; violin, flute;perc.hp/str(min8.8.5.5.2)

Innocence (1994) 30'S, T; SATB chorus;Cello, organ; handbells

Lament for Jerusalem (2002) 50'S, CT; chorus and orchestra/ensemble

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The Veil of the Temple (2002) 2'40''[or All Night Vigil 7 Hours]S; Boys’ Choir; SATB chorus;duduk/3hn.2tpt.tbn+btbn/Tibetan horn/timp.3 temple bowls (high, medium,low).tam.tbells/org.indian harmonium

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

photo: © Shahriar Shahriari, 1998, Vancouver,Canada; 1999-2005, Los Angeles, CA

Set design model: Princeton University School of Architecture

Augusta Read ThomasPrairie SketchesRumi SettingsSix Piano EtudesBubble: Rainbow — Spirit LevelCalisto EnsembleART CD 19952002

...striking in concept, texture and timbre.

...Poetry often inspires [her], as the four Rumi Settings for violin and cellovividly reflect....[Her] Six Piano Etudes [are] piquant and mysteriousexplorations of rhythm, motion and keyboard colors. Thomas achieves akaleidoscope of shapes and shading with clusters, terraced dynamics andmyriad other devices.

In [the] orchestral works...Thomas shows a keen ability to employ texts inpassionate, unyielding settings. The brief Bubble: Rainbow — Spirit Levelis an apt 95th-birthday present for Elliott Carter. The disc’s eponymous work,Prairie Sketches, places a solo soprano in shimmering relationships with a smallinstrumental ensemble…

— Donald Rosenberg, Gramophone.

Review

Leon KirchnerString Quartet No. 1 (1949) 20'String Quartet No. 2 (1958) 19'String Quartet No. 3 (1966) 16'String Quartet No. 4 (2006) 13' — New York premiereOrion String QuartetChamber Music Society of Lincoln Center7 March 2007, New York City

...[Kirchner’s] First Quartet [seems] awash in the sound world and harmonicidiom of Bartok....With its industrious contrapuntal writing, harmonicastringency, sometimes jazzy restlessness and spaciously ruminative lyricism, themusic has a personal voice that is hard to describe but impossible tomiss....While indebted to Schoenberg, the Second Quartet comes across likesome confident modern-day American composer’s ingenious riff on a Neo-classical Schoenberg quartet....With its sci-fi touches, the taped element thatKirchner incorporates into this Third Quartet [uses] the taped sounds tocomplement the strings in an organic, boldly episodic and formidable work.The new quartet, a stunningly tumultuous and compact piece of just 12minutes, synthesizes many elements of Kirchner’s language.

— Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times.

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“I look into this heroic figure’s inner world. I thereforehave no use for additional characters.” The figure thatcomposer Grigori Frid speaks of is the heroine of hisopera The Diary of Anne Frank, which goes up thismonth at the Long Beach Opera (CA). Artistic andGeneral Director Andreas Mitisek stages and conductssoprano Ani Maldjian in three performances of thisWest Coast premiere in Long Beach and West LosAngeles.

“Anne Frank as an opera [is an] inspiring story,” Mitisek observes. “Music addsa new dimension to Anne Frank’s written diary that is not reachable by wordsalone. Frid [created] a moving, mesmerizing work…[and] focused on AnneFrank’s emotional life…The story’s emotional content equally takes intoaccount the tragedy of the events and [her] poetical expressive strength. For ourperformances, we take [the audience] to parking garages to create a moreintense experience — notsimply a performance.Parking garages are practicaltransitional spaces forstorage, not places for living,just like Anne’s hiding placeand the concentration campswere places for storage, notplaces to live.” The garage-space settings also featurepaintings and writings bylocal teenagers, as theyexpress their thoughts aboutthe many messages ofFrank’s diary.

‘Anne Frank’ in Long Beach

The Diary of Anne Frank 60'Soprano;

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Composer Julia Wolfe and filmmaker Bill Morrison have created Fuel, a newmultimedia project that premieres in Hamburg on 26 April. Ensemble Resonanzgives the first performance at Kaispaicher B, a former warehouse which soon re-opens as an international maritime museum, in a program with also featuresJohn Adams’s Shaker Loops.

Wolfe elaborates. “Fuel takes its inspiration from many sources — both soundand visual: the whir of incessant mechanisms, the loading and unloading of ships,

the sway and creaking of docks, transportation by truck and train, the sweat ofhuman energy, and the power source of the sun.”

Wolfe and Morrison weave a tapestry of images and music with fierce andpropelling energy. The film uses a variety of original source material shot in

America and in Hamburg — a bustling internationalshipping hub. Like all ports, Hamburg relies on thestandardized shipping container as its medium ofcommerce. Fuel presents these containers as ametaphor for world commerce, communication, andglobalization of world markets.

Julia Wolfe’s ‘Fuel’

April Encore: The New York premiere of Wolfe’s My Beautiful Scream — herconcerto for string quartet and orchestra — takes place this month as theKronos Quartet joins the Brooklyn Philharmonic led by Stefan Asbury.

photo: © Meladina, 2004Grigori Frid

photo: Stefan MalzkornEnsemble Resonanz

Fuel 20'string orchestra

Shaker Loops 25'string orchestra

ReviewsAndré PrevinA Streetcar Named DesireStein Winge, stage directorTheatre an der Wien; ViennaSymphony/Edwards28 February 2007Theatre an der Wien,Vienna, Austria

Nothing in Previn’s work seems artificial, instead it seems evolved. He did notscrimp on motives: from the very start a train signal in the orchestra, quite a fewlove and longing motives. The romantic craftsmanship, the repetition of motivesmakes the work vivid, not old-fashioned....Previn grips the audience...

— Wiener Zeitung

Previn put Tennessee Williams’ famous play to music with nervous, flickering, one-moment-piercing, the next-moment-melting music, out of which the voiceseffectively break through or rise and blossom out. A masterful accomplishment!

— Kronenzeitung

A Streetcar Named Desire 2 hours, 45 minutes Libretto by Philip Littell,

based on the play by Tennessee Williams2S, 2Mz, 2T, 2Bar; 3 non-singing roles;

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photo: Theatre an der WienTheatre an der Wien’s 2007 production of ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’

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13 April"Almost Human"Lang (RP) World to ComeTalbot (CH) Motion DetectorTan Dun (GS) FeigeMaya Beiser, celloUniversity of California, Davis, CA

On 29 April, Esa PekkaSalonen brings the LosAngeles Philharmonic toLincoln Center for the NewYork premiere of his work‘Helix.’ Last month,Salonen presented the USpremiere at LA’s WaltDisney Concert Hall.photo: © KASSKARA

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Stepping Stones premiered 1993

3 Daniel Catán born 1949

4 Henryk Mikolaj Górecki Symphony No. 3 “Symphony of Sorrowful Songs” premiered 1977

Henryk Mikolaj Górecki born 1933

5 Charles IvesSymphony No. 3 premiered 1946

6 Andrew Imbrie born 1921

André Previn born 1930

7 Augusta Read ThomasFinal Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour premiered 2005

Yehudi WynerCommedia premiered 2003

8 Aaron Jay KernisNew Era Dance premiered 1994

Bright ShengThree Songs premiered 1999

9 Samuel BarberKnoxville Summer of 1915 premiered 1948

Aullis Sallinen born 1935

10 Gabriela Lena FrankGhosts in the Dream Machine premiered 2005

11 Peter LiebersonAh premiered 2002

Sergei Prokofiev born 1891

13 Morton GouldSymphony No. 4 (Symphony for Band)premiered 1952

Richard DanielpourA Child's Reliquary premiered 2000

14 Avner Dorman born 1975

Leon KirchnerLily premiered 1977

17 Sofia GubaidulinaThe Light of the End premiered 2003

18 Miklós Rózsa born 1907

21 John HarbisonFour Psalms premiered 1999

John McCabe born 1939

23 Augusta Read Thomas born 1964

Joan TowerViolin Concerto premiered 1992

21 Peter Maxwell DaviesNaxos Quartet No. 6 premiered 2005

25 Giya KancheliNight Prayers premiered 1992

26 Robert KapilowCity Piece: Shuttlecocks premiered 1996

Bright ShengTibetan Swing premiered 2002

29 Duke Ellington born 1899

Sofia GubaidulinaTwo Paths premiered 1999

30 Ellen Taaffe Zwilich born 1939

Anniversaries

Kurka (EWM) The Good SoldierSchweik(April 8, 9)Olivier Desbordes, stagedirectorGrand Theatre de Dijon/Thierry WeberDijon, France

Prokofiev (SIK) String Quartet No. 2Sheng (GS) String Quartet No. 3Formosa QuartetNew School UniversityNew York City

Barber (GS) Prayers of KierkegaardThe Washington Chorus/David HayesWashington, DC

Chávez (EMI) Xochipilli (An ImaginedAztec Music)Pacific Symphony/Enrique Diemecke

Kapilow (GS) Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggsand HamMemphis Symphony/David Loebel

Previn (GS) I Want Magic Bowling Green StateUniversity/Emily Freeman Brown

Tavener (CH) Little Requiem for FatherMalachy LynchNorth Carolina MasterChorale/Alfres Sturgis

G. Schirmer Selected

Kirchner (AMP) Piano Trio No. 2Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson TrioCarnegie HallNew York City

Schnittke (SIK) Violin Sonata No. 1Daniel Hope, violinSebastian Knauer, pianoLincoln CenterNew York City

Bainbridge (NOV) Four Primo Levi SettingsWyner (AMP) Trapunto JunctionSequitur New Music New York CityCorigliano (GS) Fern HillYale Institute

Frid (GSR) The Diary of Anne Frank (April 17, 19)Long Beach Opera/Andreas Mitisek

Kirchner (AMP) Trio No. 2Trio CavatinaNew York City

Weill (GS) Down in the Valley(April 17 - 19)Oosterilicht CollegeNieuwegein/BellaardHolland

Penderecki (EMI) Threnody (To the Victimsof Hiroshima)Ithaca College/Jeffery Meyer

Shostakovich (GSR) Lady Macbeth of theMtsensk DistrictAmazonas Filarmonica/Luis Fernando MalheiroBrazil

Frank (GS) Leyendas ���(Version for Percussionensemble)Indiana UniversityPercussion EnsembleBloomington, IN

Dorman (GS) Piano Sonata No. 2 Alon Goldstein, pianoWest Palm Beach, FL

Harbison (AMP) Mirabai SongsDebbie Lefton. sopranoIthaca College/Salley Lamb

Rodríguez (GS) A Colorful SymphonyCedar Rapids Symphony/Timothy Hankewich

Volans (CH) Leaping DanceOberlin College/Timothy Weiss

Harbison (AMP) But Mary Stood �Danielpour (AMP) Oratio PauliMusgrave (NOV) Wild Winter IITavener (CH) In MemoryNew York Virtuoso Singers/Harold Rosenbaum

Centennial ConcertWilder (SHA) New York City

Salonen (CH) Helix �Los Angeles Philharmonic/Esa-Pekka SalonenNew York City

Corigliano (GS) The Red Violin: SuiteChappaqua Orchestra/Michael Shapiro

Lutoslawski (CH) Concerto for OrchestraOregon Symphony/Carlos Kalmar

Scenes from AmericanOperaAdamo (GS) LysistrataMenotti (GS) The Saint of BleeckerStreetPrevin (GS) A Streetcar Named DesirePeabody Conservatory

Wargo (GS) The Music ShopL’Opera National du Rhinand Jeunes Voix duRhin/Vincent MonteilMulhouse, France1

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Corigliano (GS) The Ghosts of Versailles(April 1, 2)University of Houston/Peter Jacoby

Harbison (AMP) Canonical AmericanSongbookPeninsula Symphony/Geoffrey GallegosLos Altos, CA

Mechem (GS) TartuffeUniversity of Arizona/Thomas Cockrell

Schnittke (GSR) String TrioWalden Chamber PlayersUtica, NY

Tan Dun (PPI) Crouching Tiger Concerto Shepherd School ofMusic/Thomas HongTilson Thomas (KON)Street SongLancier Brass EnsembleLondonWallin (CH) The Age of Wire andStringMonday Evening ConcertsLos Angeles

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13 AprilSchuller (MG) Blue Dawn into White HeatDouble Quintet for Wind and BrassQuintetsLines and ContrastsSymphony for Brass and PercussionU.S. Naval Academy/Gunther SchullerAnnapolis, MD

Premiere TourDanielpour (AMP) River of Light (In Memory of Isaac Stern)Sarah Chang, violin; Ashley Wass, piano1 AprilScottsdale, AZ3 AprilUniversity of California Santa Barbara5 AprilSaratoga, CA7 AprilUniversity of California Berkeley

10 April �Carnegie Hall, New York City

14 April ��Istanbul, Turkey

18 April ��Dublin, Ireland

21 April ��Lisbon, Portugal

Premiere TourSheng (GS) Sweet May Again Edgar Meyer, doublebassEmanuel Ax, piano

17 April: Nashville, TN ���19 April: Englewood, NJ20 April: New York City �23 April: Washington, DC

Augusta ReadThomas’s‘Words of theSea’ receivesits French pre-miere thismonth by theOrchestreNationalBordeauxAquitaine.

photo: Dan Rest

On 27 April, the RidgeTheater, Trio Medieval, andMusikfabrik present theAustrian premiere of‘Shelter’ — Red Poppycomposers Michael Gordon,David Lang, and JuliaWofle’s acclaimed multi-media theatre piece.

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Barber (GS) Violin ConcertoOrkest der Lage LandenKampe, Belgium

Tan Dun (GS) Eight Memories inWatercolorYongmei Hu, pianoWeill Recital Hall, New York City

Lang (RP) StreetNew EnglandConservatory WindEnsemble

Prokofiev (GSR) Boris Godunov (April 12 - 14)Princeton University/Michael Pratt

Stravinsky (GS)Concerto in E-flat —“Dumbarton Oaks”(April 12 - 14)Atlanta Symphony/Robert Spano

Wargo (GS) The Music Shop(April 12, 14)Les Jeunes Voix du Rhin/Vincent MonteilStrasbourg Opera,Strasbourg, France

Corigliano (GS) Circus Maximus(Symphony No. 3)University of Kansas/John Lynch

Corigliano (GS) The Red Violin: SuiteTyzik (EMI) The Great Westerns SuiteLubbock Symphony/Morihiko Nakahara

Adams (AMP) The Chairman Dances Norwegian Broadcasting/Ole Kristian RuudNorwayGould (EMI) Spirituals for OrchestraHilton Head Symphony/Mary Woodmansee GreenKernis (AMP) Musica Celestis Santa Barbara Symphony/Nir Kabaretti

Tan Dun (GS) Death and Fire: Dialoguewith Paul KleeHamburg Symphony/Muhai TangGermany

Thomas (GS) Rumi Settingsmembers of the BrooklynPhilharmonic

Previn (GS) Double Concerto ���Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin; Roman Patkoló,bass; Boston Symphony/André Previn

Adams (AMP) HarmonielehrePhiladelphia Orchestra/Donald Runnicles

Harbison (AMP) Three City BlocksUniversity of Connecticut

Tan Dun (GS) Crouching Tiger Concerto Allentown Symphony

Tan Dun (GS) Out of Peking OperaNetherlands Philharmonic

Tan Dun (GS) The MapEssen Philharmonic/Tan Dun

Wolfe (RP) Tell Me EverythingHolland Symfonia

Frank (GS) Danza de losSaqsampillos ���Germany

Balada (GS) Homage to CasalsHomage to SarasateNational Symphony ofColumbia

Barber (GS) Medea 'Cave of the Heart'Chamber Orchestra ofBoston/David Feltner

Glass (DUN) HeroesPacific Northwest Ballet

Kernis (AMP) Musica Celestis Grand Rapids Symphony/Daniel Hege

Tan Dun (GS) The Intercourse of Fireand WaterWestsachsischesSymphony/Markus HuberGermany

Wolfe (RP) My Beautiful Scream �Kronos Quartet; BrooklynPhilharmonic/StefanAsbury

Antheil (GS) Ballet mécaniqueSaeko Ichinohe Dance Co.

Catán (AMP) Florencia en el AmazonasSuitePensacola Symphony

Lang (RP) Dance DropRelâchePhiladelphia, PA

Tan Dun (GS) Concerto for PizzicatoPianoDew Fall DropsWater MusicSanta Fe New Music

Tower (AMP) Made In AmericaWyoming Symphony

Corigliano (GS) The Red Violin: ChaconneMaria Bachmann, violinJon Klibonoff, pianoNew York City

Glass (DUN) In the Upper RoomPennsylvania Ballet

Tan Dun (GS) Song of Peace ��Malmo Symphony/Niklas Willen

Thomas (GS) Words of the Sea ��Orchestre NationalBordeaux Aquitaine/Kirill Karabits

Schuman (AMP) Symphony No. 5 New Jersey Symphony/Andrew Litton

Saariaho (CH) OrionSt. Louis Symphony/Robert Spano

Bainbridge (NOV) Music Space Reflection���London SinfoniettaManchester, UK

Whitbourn (CH) Annelies: The Anne FrankOratorio ���Westminster WilliamsonVoices/James JordonWestminster ChoirCollege

McPhee (AMP) Tabuh-TabuhanCalgary Philharmonic/Pierre Simard

Rodríguez (GS) Frida SuiteUniversity of Texas/Robert X. Rodríguez

Salonen (CH) HelixLos Angeles Philharmonic/Esa-Pekka SalonenNewark, NJ

Performances April ’07

Lindberg (CH) CorrenteThe Zankel Band/Oliver KnussenCarnegie HallSalonen (CH) Foreign Bodies(April 13, 16)Pittsburgh Symphony/Michael ChristieSheng (GS) Black SwanSyracuse Symphony/Daniel Hege

Schnittke (GSR) Concerto for Viola andOrchestraSarah Darling, violaNew EnglandConservatory/Joseph Silverstein

Stookey (AMP) The Composer is Dead(April 4, 5)Las Cruces Symphony/Lonnie Klein

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“I am overjoyed to resume my creative partnership with Chester Music.” Withthat said, on 14 January, Michael Nyman signed an exclusive publishingagreement with Chester Music Ltd., and re-established a long-standingcomposer-publisher relationship. “It is a huge pleasure to welcome Michaelback to Chester,” added James Rushton, Managing Director of Chester Music.“The music of Michael Nyman has established itself as one of the definingsound worlds of the international music scene over the past 30 years. Michael’senergetic quest for new challenges, collaborations and contexts in which tocreate music never ceases to amaze. We are very excited by the potential fornew projects over the coming years and look forward to supporting him viaour media and concert teams worldwide.”

Nyman’s return to Chester Music brings along the acquisition of his recentcatalogue, which includes the film score for “The Libertine” (starring JohnnyDepp); the chamber opera Love Counts (for the Almeida Theatre); and thepercussion concerto gdm, composed for soloist Colin Currie. Nyman recentlycreated his own recording label mnrecords, which features his acclaimedfilm scores to “The Piano;” “The Cook,the Thief, the Wife and her Lover;” and“Prospero’s Books,” as well as numerousconcert works including Six CelanSongs, Re Don Giovanni, and the operasMan and Boy Dada and Love Counts(released in March 2007). mn records isdistributed in the US by Naxos.

Nyman’s latest orchestral premiere— AHandshake in the Dark—premiered on8 March by the BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra at London’s BarbicanHall. The 30-minute piece is based on Iraqi poet Jamal Juma’s powerfulantiwar poem “Letters to my Brother,” which was written during the first GulfWar.

www.michaelnyman.com

www.mnrecords.com

Hot on the heels of the sold-out Metropolitan Opera world premiereperformances of The First Emperor, Santa Fe Opera presents the NorthAmerican premiere of Tan Dun’s 2002 opera Tea: A Mirror of Soul. This all-new production is directed by Amon Miyamoto, with scenic design by RumiMatsui, costumes by Masatomo Ota and lighting by Rick Fisher. The cast

includes Kelly Kaduce as Princess Lan andNancy Maltsby in the role of Lu.Lawrence Renes conducts. Tea opens on21 July, followed by five additionalperformances.

www.santafeopera.org/2007/tea.php

Tea in Santa Fe

Tea: A Mirror of SoulFull evening

S, C, T, Bar, B; B-Bar chorus; 3 solo percamp bfl(pic).bcl(Ebcl)/2Ctpt.2tbn/3 ripieno perc/2hp/str (8.8.6.6.4)

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Richard DanielpourRocking the Cradle 25’

No words are intoned in Richard Danielpour’sextraordinary new symphony work. They’re notneeded. Rocking the Cradle…speaks volumeabout the American composer’s impassionedviews on the war in Iraq…Danielpour’s scorecan be appreciated on a purely abstract level…The well-crafted, clear-cutstructure is supported by a vivid harmonic language expressed throughprismatic instrumentation…The net result is a valuable addition to theorchestral repertoire… Tim Smith, The Baltimore Sun

ReviewKaija SaariahoNotes on Light 20’

…the Finnish Saariaho has remained true to hermodernist convictions…Her Notes on Light forcello and orchestra, heard in its world premierewith the formidable Anssi Karttunen as soloist,gives more evidence of the finely judgedsonorities and command of instrumentalresources that set her above others…The five-movement, 20-minute work, which behavesintermittently like a concerto, began with ameandering movement that seems to function asa slow introduction, particularly given the movement that followed, a vigorouspiece full of virtuosic passagework for the soloist…

George Loomis, Financial Times (London)

World PremiereNotes on Light

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Boston Symphony/Saraste22 February 2007; Symphony

Hall, Boston, MA

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Shown above is a sample of Rumi Matsui’s set design of the Santa Fe Opera’s newproduction of Tea.

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Music and architecture. What is the common bond? Simon Bainbridge andcelebrated architect Daniel Libeskind explore this question with the 28 Aprilworld premiere of his latest work Music Space Reflection. Scored for 24 playersand electronics, grouped in four identical sextets, the work was conceived as apiece to be performed in a number of the architect’s international spaces.Libeskind’s design of Manchester’s Imperial War Museum North is the site forthe London Sinfonietta’s first performance, led by Diego Masson. The Londonpremiere quickly follows at Queen Elizabeth Hall on the 30th.

“My interest in Daniel Libeskind began withthe Jewish Museum in Berlin, andparticularly the Holocaust tower,” Bainbridgeshares. “I visited it before it opened, andwhen the door slammed behind me, shuttingme into that unheated space, the experiencewas incredibly powerful.” In 2004,Bainbridge met Libeskind and shared with him his vision for creating a new

work based on music and spatial relationships.Libeskind was eager to collaborate with him. “Myintention,” Bainbridge continues, “[was] to createa fluid, modular type of construction, where eachof the musical ‘building blocks’ corresponds to arecurring aspect of Libeskind’s architectural vision.The [work would be] a piece that can beassembled and reassembled in different, specificspaces, and although the same musical materialswill be common to all performances, thecontinuity and spatial layout will vary from placeto place…[I wanted to] relate new music to newarchitectural environments, where architecture andmusic can be fused into a unified concept ofsound and space. Music Space Reflection [is]devised so that it can be performed within theactual Libeskind spaces themselves, but also that

cutting-edge technology could be used to recreate these acoustic environmentswithin concert halls around the globe.”

Next fall, subsequent performances take place in Toronto at the Libeskind-designed Renaissance project at the Royal Ontario Museum, and inCopenhagen at the Royal Danish Academy.

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“Echoes”Classic Works TransformedJohn Harbison, arr.Rubies (after Thelonius Monk’sRuby My Dear)Aaron Jay KernisMusica CelestisBright Sheng, arr.Black Swan (after BrahmsIntermezzo, Op. 118, No. 2Seattle Symphony/SchwarzHear Music CD 159

Music Space Reflection

The Imperial War Museum North at Sunset.

World PremiereMusic Space Reflection 25’

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22 February 2007; Imperial WarMusic North, Manchester, England

Architecture is an acousticalreality. Most people think aboutit as something visual or spatial.But the sense of balance is inthe inner ear and orientation isthrough the ear. So theacoustics of a building—thesound of a space—is anincredibly important part of mywork. And the whole process ofarchitecture is also musical,both in its end characteristic andin its relationship to time.

— Daniel Libeskind

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Chester Music composer GabrielYared penned the score to FlorianHenckel’s 2007 Oscar-winning BestForeign Film “Das Leben undAnderen” (The Lives of Others).The film focuses on the horrifying,sometimes unintentionally funnysystem of observation in the formerEast Germany. Yared co-wrote themusic with Stéphane Moucha.

‘Ghosts’ in HoustonJohn Corigliano’s acclaimed opera The Ghostsof Versailles received three performances inMarch and April at the University of Houston inTexas.

The return of Ghosts to Houston was an encoreof the university’s initial production in 1998.

The Ghosts of Versailles 170'6 Sopranos, coloratura Soprano,

4 Mezzo-sopranos, 2 Altos, 5 Tenors, 3 Baritone, Bass-Baritone, 2 Basses, speaking role

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onstage players from pit orchestra: fl, ob, perc, vaBeaumarchais and MarieAntoinette in the Houston production of ‘Ghosts’

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Richard Danielpour River of Light 12'

During the worldpremiere of RichardDanielpour’s River ofLight…violinist SarahChang infused a seriesof high notes with suchluminous intensity thateach pitch seemed to glow withfeeling…That’s not surprising when youconsider River of Life was written for Changin memory of …her musical godfather,legendary violinist Isaac Stern…River ofLight is a compact 12 minutes…the slow,steady opening was especially affecting,with gently piano passages that soundedlike ghostly chimes. The violin and pianophrases, played in unison, set the tone forthe sometimes tempestuous compositionthat makes the “River” a metaphor fordeath and transcendence.

Valerie Scher, San Diego Union Tribune

Review

World PremiereViolin and piano

Sarah Chang, piano;Ashley Wass, piano

18 March 2007;Copley Symphony

Hall, San Diego, CA

Excerpt from Daniel Catán’s Caribbean Airs. World premiere: 26 April 2007.Pacific Symphony, Carl St. Clair, conductor. Copyright © 2007 by AssociatedMusic Publishers. (BMI). New York, NY. International Copyright Secured. AllRights Reserved. Used by permission.

George AntheilDreamsPiano ConcertoNo. 2Serenade No. 2

The recordingand performanceon this CD areboth excellent…Two of thepieces on thisCD have neverbeen recordedbefore, and forthis reason alone the CD would be valuableto a fan of Antheil’s music. For someonewho only knows the Ballet mecanique, itmight be good to get to know the otherside of George Antheil—less brash,perhaps, less iconoclastic, but more subtleand at times beautiful.

Nathan Bibb, Sequenza 21.com

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