"A wakeup call for the new season"*
October 6 - November 9, 1998
sponsors of Sonic Boom Seven
ticket information
Miller Theatre at Columbia University
Broadway and 116th St NYC
- continuum®
- Da Capo Chamber Players
- Newband
- New York New Music Ensemble
- Speculum Musicae
Tuesday, October 6 at 8PM
New York New Music Ensemble
how war yore maggies?
NYNME plays two contemporary masters -- DONALD MARTINO: His Pulitzer-Prize winning Notturno (1973) is a classic you need to know, and has been described as "nocturnal theatre of the soul." MATTHEW ROSENBLUM, a student of Martino, whose how war yore maggies? (1998) uses spoken texts of James Joyce and tempered and altered tunings to weave a fantasia of classical, jazz, rock and world music. PLUS!: Martino's Trio for violin, clarinet and piano, his Sad Songs for viola and piano, and Rosenblum's Circadian Rhythms for cello, piano and percussion. Mr. Martino and Mr. Rosenblum will be present at the concert.
Saturday, October 24 at 8PM
Continuum®
Arvo Pärt -- mystical minimalist
Continuum® introduced New Yorkers to Arvo Pärt, the Estonian-born visionary, long before he became a European recording sensation. Take advantage of the opportunity to experience Pärt's transcendent music, much of it rarely heard in live performance. Continuum® brings back two works written for directors Cheryl Seltzer and Joel Sachs -- Sarah was 90 Years Old and Hymn to a Great City for two pianos -- and performs his monumental Stabat Mater, for vocal soloists and strings, and other chamber/vocal pieces: Spieqel im Spiegel, Ein Wallfahrtslied (Psalm 121), Mozart-Adagio, Psalom, and selected piano music.
Sunday. October 25 at 8PM
Da Capo Chamber Players with Elizabeth Keusch. soprano
Rasa -- Chamber Music Opera by Shirish Korde
World Premiere
Jasmine, a young Indian woman, evolves through a series of dramatic identities arising from her husband's murder, her rape by a ship´s captain, rebirth "in the images of dreams," to her eventual life as the wife of a professor in America. Rasa abounds in exuberant, mischievous, and sensuous scenes, with musical evocations of Asia: Vedic chant, Tuva song, and Balinese and North Indian influences. Rasa has been developed especially for Da Capo, in an unusual form involving staging for the instrumentalists as well as singer and dancers. The libretto, by Shirish Korde and director Lynn Kremer Babcock, is based on the 1989 novel by Bharati Mukherjee, Jasmine.
Tuesday, October 27 at 8PM
Speculum Musicae with Lucy Shelton, soprano
Elliott Carter at 90!
Celebrate with us the continuing work of this great American master. Three premieres and a classic. Shard (1997) for solo guitar, Luimen (1997) for trumpet, trombone, harp, vibraphone, mandolin and guitar; Tempo a Tempi (1998) for voice, violin, English horn and bass clarinet; and the Double Concerto (1961) for harpsichord, piano and two chamber orchestras. Rounding out the program is the seldom heard song cycle Of Challenge and of Love (1994) and Tell Me where is Fancy Bred, for voice and guitar (1938).
Monday, November 9 at 7pm
Newband
The WinterGarden
World Financial Center, 200 Liberty Street
"The Last Laugh" (silent, 35mm, 1924)
Live score by Dean Drummond (1996)
(Admission free, note early curtain and location)
From the great age of German experimental film, a silent landmark from director F. W. Murnau, best-known for "Nosferatu." "The Last Laugh" showcases Murnau's amazing use of lighting, glass doorways and mirrors, as well as a single moving camera to create magnificent spatial effects. The eclectic score incorporates conventional instruments, Drummond's own inventions, and the unique collection of instruments created by Harry Partch "to evoke the roller coaster ride of the film in a universal way without reference to time or place."
Shown in 35mm with live accompaniment by Newband.
For individual ticket information, call Miller Theatre at 212-854-7799. For more information on the series, call the SONIC BOOM Hotline at 212-674-5142
Single tickets; $15 (students/seniors $7.50, on day of performance only). Tickets are available at the Miller Theatre box office. You can order tickets for the whole series here.
Kathryn Bache Miller Theater is conveniently located right at the 116th St. stop on the Broadway No. I and 9 subways, at the No. 104 bus stop, and a short distance from the No. 4 and 5 buses.
Co-Presented by the New York Consortium for New Music and Miller Theatre of Columbia University
Sonic Boom Seven is funded in part by the Greenwall Foundation
*the village Voice
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