38th Season 2008-09

September 15, 2008
Da Capo's JOAN
70th Birthday Portrait of Joan Tower

A founding member, and pianist with Da Capo for the first fifteen years, Joan Tower will join us for a festive evening of works by colleagues, former students, and of course Tower (!).

• Joan Tower Noon Dance
• Joan Tower Trio Cavany
• Tania León Alma
• Chen Yi Happy Rain on a Spring Night
• Sergei Tcherepnin Regenerations
• Conor Brown Cloud Forest (World Premiere,
  written for the occasion)

Guest Artists
Lois Martin, viola, Matthew Gold, percussion,Conor Brown, percussion and electronics, Matthew O'Koren, percussion

Tickets $20 ($10 students/seniors)

Da Capo's Joan will also be performed at Bard College
Sunday, September 14, 2008 3 PM
Olin Concert hall, Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Admission Free

An ecstatic celebration of musical giants Elliott Carter and Olivier Messiaen, born one day apart a century ago. Their music continues to mesmerize and inspire us with its poetic, metaphysical and dynamic power.

• Elliott Carter Tempo e tempi -- (for soprano, oboe, clarinet, violin and cello)
• Elliott Carter Enchanted Preludes -- (for flute and cello)
• Elliott Carter Four Zukovsky Songs -- (for soprano and clarinet) -- Second Performance
• Elliott Carter Esprit rude/Esprit doux (for Pierre Boulez) -- (for flute and clarinet)
• Pierre Boulez Sonatine -- (for flute and piano)
• Olivier Messiaen Quatuor pour la fin du temps -- (for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano)

Guest artists: Lucy Shelton, soprano Robert Ingliss, oboe

8pm Wednesday April 1, 2009 Bard College, Olin Hall

Da Capo's annual "Celebrate Bard" concert features faculty composers, other composers from the area, Bard alumni, and one (sometimes two) current students. It is thus a celebration of the creativity, imagination, continuing influence and vitality of the Bard music department.

Joan Tower, Amazon (1978) (flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano)

Kyle Gann, Kierkegaard, Walking (2007) (flute, clarinet, violin, cello)

Brian Fennelly, Sock Monkeys (2007) (for 2 flutes)

Casey Hale, of Another (2005) (violin, cello, piano)

Cameron Bossert, Lydia (2009) World Premiere (flute, clarinet, cello)

John Boggs, This Estranged Land (2008) (flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano) Guest artists: Tara Helen O?Connor, flute Steven Beck, piano

June 1, 2009, Merkin Concert Hall

• Hans Tutschku Winternacht+
• Anna Clyne Rapture
• Benjamin Broening Like Dreams, Statistics Are a Form of Wish Fulfillment*
• Richard Teitelbaum (new work)**
• Judith Shatin Spring Tides**
• Lydia Ayers Pearls**

+US Premiere *NY Premiere **World Premiere, written for da capo

Guest Artist: Matthew Gold, percussion

Merkin Concert Hall: 129 West 67th Street

Subscriptions: $40 ($25 students/seniors)

Single tickets: $20 ($10 students/seniors)

Merkin Concert Hall Box office: 212 501-3330

All programs are subject to change.

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 Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, Amphion Foundation, BMI Foundation, Hulbert Charitable Trust, Meet the Composer's JPMorganChase Regrant Program for Small Ensembles, the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, and generous individuals.