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Sonic Boom 2002: World Series

"...considered by some to be the country's leading festival of contemporary music."
-- The New Yorker

Sunday, October 20, 2002
4-10 p.m.

The Knitting Factory
74 Leonard Street
New York City

Admission: $10

MAIN SPACE PROGRAMS

4:00 (Israel) Continuum ®

  • Joel Sachs and Cheryl Seltzer, Co-Directors

Betty Olivero (b. 1954): Serafim (World premiere)
Benjamin Yusupov (b. 1962 ): "Et ma Sheratziti"
Tzvi Avni (b. 1927 ): Leda and the Swan
Ruben Seroussi (b. 1959 ): "Ce discret charme..." - Hommage à Buñuel
Hagar Kadima (b. 1957): Sounds

5:15 (China) ModernWorks

  • Madeleine Shapiro, Director/cello
  • Dawn Avery, cello
  • Eliot Bailen, cello
  • Matthew Goeke, cello
  • Judith Kellock, soprano
  • Chen Tao, Chinese bamboo flutes
  • Xu Ke, erhu

James Mobberley (b. 1954): Balancing Act (World premiere)
Ma Shui-long (b. 1939): Idea and Image
Lawrence Moss (b. 1927): Three Chinese Songs (NY premiere)
Yang Yong: River Songs

6:30 (U.S./Vietnam) Newband

  • Dean Drummond and Stefani Starin, Co-Directors

Elizabeth Brown (b. 1953): Acadia
tôn-thât tiêt (b. 1993), niệm
Dean Drummond (b. 1949): Precious Metals and Mars Face

7:45 (Russia/Belarus)
Da Capo Chamber Players

  • Meighan Stoops, clarinet
  • Patricia Spencer, flute
  • Lisa Moore, piano (On leave 2002-03)
  • André Emelianoff, cello
  • James Rio, tenor
  • Nadia Moussa, dancer
  • Margaret Kampmeier, piano
  • Victor Schultz, violin
  • David Bowlin, violin
  • Lois Martin, viola
  • Daniel Mallon, riq
  • Alla Borzova, conductor

Vladimir Tarnopolski (b. 1955), Impression-Expression III (1996)
for piano, flute, clarinet and string trio
Alla Borzova (b. 1961 ): Majnun Songs

9:00 (France) New York New Music Ensemble

  • Jayn Rosenfeld, flute
  • Jean Kopperud, Clarinet
  • Laura Frautschi, Violin
    (guest artists)
  • Christopher Finckel, Cello
  • Stephen Gosling, Piano

Pierre Boulez (b. 1925 ): Sonatine
Tiberiu Olah (b. 1928), Sonate (1980) For clarinet
Philippe LeRoux (b. 1959 ): Continuo(ns)

KNIT ACTIVE

4:30 and 5:10 - Bridget Kibbey, harp

Elliott Carter (b. 1908 ), Bariolage (Part 1 from "Trilogy", 1992)
Luciano Berio (b. 1925), Sequenza II (1963)

7:30 and 8:10 - Michael Lipsey, percussion

Art Kreiger (b. 1945), Joining Hands

9:00 and 9:40 - Ethel (string quartet)

  • Ralph Farris, viola
  • Dorothy Lawson, cello
  • Todd Reynolds, violin
  • Mary Rowell, violin

John King (b. 1953), Hardwood
Phil Kline (b. 1957), Svarga Yatra
Julia Wolfe (b. 1958 ), Dig Deep

OLD OFFICE

Groups in Main Space will repeat selected pieces from their main programs (works TBA).

Admission: $10

  • Tickets available at the Knitting Factory Box Office,
    weekdays from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.,
    weekends from 2 p.m. to 11 p.m.; or
    by calling 212-219-3006 weekdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., weekends from 2 to 4 p.m.;
    or online at www.knittingfactory.com.

Sponsored by the New York Consortium for New Music
Underwritten by The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.
 

Media sponsor:

WNYC 93.9 FM / AM 820

New York State Council  on the Arts

Festival producer: Ed Greer, Stonefly Productions
Festival administrator: Bruce Hodges