A Yale Guitar Extravaganza Comes To Carnegie 11/9
After opening its season with a sold-out concert at Le Poisson Rouge this month, YALE IN NEW YORK begins its Carnegie Hall series with "Yale Guitar Music Today" on Tuesday, November 9 at 8:00pm in Weill RecitAl Hall.
The guitar takes center stage as Benjamin Verdery-chair of the guitar department at the Yale School of Music and "one of the classical guitar world's foremost personalities" (Classical Guitar Magazine)-and a host of his most gifted students pay homage to an instrument that is both a favorite of the public and not always sufficiently exposed in concert halls. The composers-a who's who of distinguished winners of today's most towering prizes, including Pulitzers, Guggenheims, the Charles Ives Living Award, and a Grawemeyer- represent the best of three generations of Yale composers, from Ezra Laderman to David Lang to recent grad Samuel Adams.The eclectic program will feature world premieres by Jack Vees (electric guitar and tape), Kathryn Alexander (four guitars), Ezra Laderman (solo guitar), and Samuel Adams (electric guitar and percussion). It also includes guitar works by David Lang (two electric guitars), Aaron Jay Kernis (string quartet and guitar), Ingram Marshall (alto flute and guitar), Martin Bresnick (solo guitar), and Verdery's own work for eight guitars.Yale in New York presents "Yale Guitar Music Today" at Weill RecitAl Hall on Nov. 9
Ezra Laderman: "On Vineyard Sound," for solo guitar (world premiere)
Benjamin Verdery, guitar
Jack Vees: world premiere for solo electric guitar and tape
Benjamin Verdery, guitar
Martin Bresnick: "Joaquin Is Dreaming"
Ian O'Sullivan, '11 Mus.M, guitar
Ingram Marshall: "The Mentioning Of Love," for alto flute and guitar
Arash Noori, '12 Mus.M., guitar
Aaron Jay Kernis: "100 Greatest Dance Hits," for string quartet and guitar
Simon Powis, guitar
David Lang: world premiere for two electric guitars
Graham Banfield, '12 Mus.M. and Trevor Babb, '12 Mus.M., guitars
Samuel Adams: world premiere for guitar and percussion
Max Zuckerman, '11 Mus.M., guitar
Kathryn Alexander: world premiere for guitar quartet
Steffen Besser, '12 Mus.M., Noori, Alan Pawlowicz, '12 Mus.M., Hermelindo Ruiz, '12 Mus.M., guitars
Benjamin Verdery: "Give," for eight guitars (New York premiere)
O'Sullivan, Zuckerman, Besser, Babb, Banfield, Noori, Pawlowicz, Ruiz, guitars
UPCOMING YALE IN NEW YORK CONCERTS: Sunday, December 12, 2009 at 8:00PM in Zankel HallYale Percussion Group
Robert Van Sice, director
The virtuoso Yale Percussion Group-called "something truly extraordinary" by Steve Reich-
presents a dazzling and theatrical concert with works by Thierry de Mey, Steve Reich,
James Wood, and Mauricio Kagel.
YPG recently played in Central Park for the Make Music New York Xenakis festival,
and in Carnegie Hall as part of last year's Yale in New York series.Monday, February 28, 2011 at 7:30PM in Zankel Hall
"Concertante": rarely-performed twentieth-century concerti grossi
Yale Philharmonia Chamber Orchestra
Shinik Hahm, conductor
This program brings the acclaimed Yale Philharmonia into the intimate space of Zankel Hall
to focus on rarely-performed concerti grossi from the twentieth century.
The orchestra-with celebrated soloists David Shifrin, Ransom Wilson, and Frank Morelli-
will perform works by Ernest Bloch, Richard Strauss, Alberto Ginastera, and Frank Martin,
whose Second Ballade for flute, string orchestra, piano, and percussion
will receive its American premiere 70 years after its composition. Monday, April 25, 2011 at 8:00PM in Weill RecitAl Hall
"Stylus Fantasticus"
The Yale Baroque Ensemble
Robert Mealy, director
Seventeenth-century composer-violinists broke new ground with an inventive and flamboyant style called Stylus Fantasticus. Acclaimed baroque violinist Robert Mealy-"New York's world-class early music violinist" (The New Yorker)-directs the period instrument Yale Baroque Ensemble from the first violinist's chair in a program of extravagant and experimental music.
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