2001-02 da capo season at a glance

Sunday, November 11, 2001 5 PM - 10 PM
SONIC BOOM: Beyond the Speed of Sound

Da Capo plus seven other new music groups and special guests join forces for a festival of premieres.

Knitting Factory New York
74 Leonard Street

Da Capo guests
Paul Sperry, tenor
Stephen Gosling, piano
Renée Jolles, violin
Meighan Stoops, clarinet

Shulamit Ran	Private Game
Harold Meltzer	Exiles (NY Premiere) Written for the Da Capo Chamber Players
Penka Kouneva	*Climbing the Ladder of Unraveling Rope Commissioned by the Da Capo Chamber Players with a grant from Meet the Composer
Eugene Lee	Western Wind (NY Premiere)
Louis Karchin	*Fanfare/Pavane

*World Premieres

Tuesday, January 22, 2002 8:00 pm
Merkin Concert Hall
129 West 67th Street

LANDSCAPES AND LOVE SCENES

Guest artists
Lucy Shelton, soprano
Reneé Jolles, violin

JOSEPH SCHWANTNER (b. 1943)	Wind, Willow, Whisper.... (1980) (Written for the 10th Anniversary of the Da Capo Chamber Players)
Ms. Spencer, Ms. Sternberg, Ms. Jolles, Mr. Emelianoff, Ms. Moore
AARON JAY KERNIS (b. 1960)	Love Scenes (1987) (Written for André Emelianoff)
Ms. Shelton, Mr. Emelianoff
Intermission
ELLIOTT CARTER (b. 1908)	Esprit rude/Esprit doux (1985)
Ms. Spencer, Ms. Sternberg
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE (b. 1934)	Nine Settings of Lorine Niedecker (2000)
Ms. Shelton, Mr. Emelianoff
ANDRÉ PREVIN (b. 1929)	Vocalise (1966)
Ms. Shelton, Mr. Emelianoff, Ms. Moore
JONATHAN HARVEY (b. 1939)	The Riot (1993)
Ms. Spencer, Ms. Stoops, Ms. Moore

Notes on the Program

Monday, March 4, 2002 8:00 Pm
Miller Theatre
Broadway & 116th Street

MY TWENTIETH CENTURY

Guest artists
Robert Black, double bass
Nick Danielson, violin
Lois Martin, viola

Martin Bresnick	*My Twentieth Century World Premiere, a project of Chamber Music America's "Musical Celebration of the Millennium"
Iannis Xenakis	AKEA
Judith Weir	I broke off a golden branch
Michael Gordon	ACDC (New York premiere)
Nicholas Maw	Flute Quartet

The concerts of the Da Capo Chamber Players are made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts. They are also made possible with private funds from the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Amphion Foundation and generous individuals.

The SONIC BOOM Festival is produced by the New York Consortium for New Music.

Upcoming da capo recordings

Recently released!
Louis Karchin, American Visions - Two Songs on Poems of Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Written for the Da Capo Chamber Players with support from the Research Challenge Fund of New York University
Recorded with guests André Solomon-Glover, baritone; Stephen Gosling, piano; Pablo Rieppi, percussion; and Louis Karchin, conductor.