Texas Performing Arts Essential Series Presents RAMBUNCTIOUS: A FESTIVAL OF AMERICAN COMPOSERS AND DANCE

Under the artistic leadership of Donald Byrd, Spectrum Dance Theater has become the preeminent modern Dance Company of the Pacific Northwest. Byrd's body of work is varied and impressive, spanning more than four decades pushing the boundaries of movement and message.

Last season Byrd brought his racially charged piece The Minstrel Show Revisited to McCullough Theatre. This season Spectrum returns to showcase its boundary-pushing style with selections from its major work Rambunctious, set to American string quartet repertoire performed live by the New York-based Aeolus Quartet, who spent two years as the Butler School of Music's (BSOM) first graduate string-quartet-in-residence. The program will feature the world premiere of a newly-commissioned quartet by BSOM composer Yevgeniy Sharlat.

In addition to $10 tickets for primary, secondary, and college students, Texas Performing Arts is now offering a limited number of $12 tickets to active and retired military personnel for all 2016-2017 Essential Series performances (excludes Broadway and special engagements). A military ID is required. For a schedule of upcoming 2016-2017 season performances, please visitwww.TexasPerformingArts.org.

Rambunctious: A Festival of American Composers and Dance

Fanfare!

(Premiered May 15, 2014, Seattle)

Commissioned by an anonymous patron

Music: Charles Ives

Scherzo for String Quartet

Year Composed: 1903/04 First Publication: 1958

Cast: The Company

Solo/Duo

(Premiered May 15, 2014, Seattle)

Commissioned by Barbara Lewis

Music: Aaron Copland

Two Pieces for String Quartet

Year Composed: 1928 First Publication: 1958

Cast: Jaclyn Wheatley (solo)

Blair Jolly Eliot & Fausto Rivera (duo)

Septet

(Premiered May 15, 2014, Seattle)

Commissioned by The Evelyn Sharp Foundation

Music: Charles Wuorinen

String Quartet No. 2

Year Composed: 1979 First Publication: 1989

Cast: Alex Crozier, Madison Oliver, Emily Pihlaja, Sherman Wood

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Andrew Pontius, Mary Sigward, Fausto Rivera

"I from myself am banish'd"

(Premiered May 15, 2014, Seattle)

Commissioned by the Glenn H. Kawasaki Foundation

Music: Vincent Persichetti

String Quartet No. 2, Op. 24

Year Composed: 1944 First Publication: 2006

Cast: Alex Crozier, Emily Pihlaja, Andrew Pontius, Sherman Wood

August 1, 1966

(World Premiere)

Commissioned by Texas Performing Arts at The University of Texas at Austin

Music: Yevgeniy Sharlat

String Quartet No. 4

Year Composed: 2016

Cast: The Company