Jupiter String Quartet Gives World Premiere

The Jupiter is a particularly intimate group, consisting
of violinists Nelson Lee and Meg Freivogel, violist Liz Freivogel (Meg’s older
sister), and cellist Daniel McDonough (Meg’s husband, Liz’s brother-in-law).
Now enjoying their 19th year together, this tight-knit ensemble is firmly
established as an important voice in the world of chamber music. The New
Yorker writes, “The Jupiter String Quartet, an ensemble of eloquent
intensity, has matured into one of the mainstays of the American chamber-music
scene.”
On August 6, the Jupiter will give the world premiere of
composer Michi Wiancko’s To Unpathed Waters, Uncharted Shores, a new commission
for them by Bay Chamber Concerts with the Krannert Center for the Performing
Arts, alongside Beethoven’s monumental String Quartet No. 15 in A minor,
Op. 132. The new work was commissioned in celebration of the 60th anniversary
of the founding of Bay Chamber Concerts as well as Maine’s Bicentennial, and is
paired with Beethoven’s music in honor of the 250th anniversary of the
composer’s birth.
For more information, visit www.jupiterquartet.com
--Christina Jensen, Jensen Artists
What's Streaming: Classical / Theater (Week of August
3–9)
Monday, August 3 at 6:30 p.m. MT (one-time-only viewing)
Sun Valley Music Festival: Gala performances by Audra
McDonald, Kelli O’Hara, and Brian Stokes Mitchell.
Tuesday, August 4 at 2:00 p.m. CT
Tulsa Opera’s “Staying Alive” continues with soprano Sarah
Coburn.
Tuesday, August 4 at 6:30 p.m. MT (one-time-only viewing)
Sun Valley Music Festival: Reich, Golijov, Mozart, Handel,
and The Beatles, for strings and percussion.
Thursday, August 6 at 6:30 p.m. MT (one-time-only viewing)
Sun Valley Music Festival: Mason Bates’s Mothership
and Beethoven’s “Spring” Sonata.
Thursday, August 6; Friday, August 7; and Saturday, August
8 at 5:30 p.m. PT
Miró Quartet concludes live-streamed Beethoven cycle with
late quartets and Grosse Fuge.
Saturday, August 8 at 6:30 p.m. MT (one-time-only viewing)
Sun Valley Music Festival: Family Concert Inspiring Duos.
Sunday, August 9 at 6:30 p.m. MT (one-time-only viewing)
Sun Valley Music Festival: Daniil Trifonov in recital.
Minnesota Orchestra at Home
--Shuman Associates
Notable Encounters Online - Dvorak Bass Quintet
Today we are pleased to introduce a four-episode Notable
Encounter Online exploring the Bass Quintet in G major by Antonin
Dvorak. In this first episode, Scott Yoo discusses how the addition of a double
bass affects a musical ensemble.
On behalf of our Board of Directors, our artists, our
staff, and our hundreds of volunteers, we thank you for staying home and helping
to slow the spread of COVID-19. We will perform for you live in our favorite
venues— and some new ones as well— when our local and state officials deem
safe.
In the meantime, we have prepared some new Notable
Encounters Online for you to enjoy from the comfort of your own home. Recently
a few of our artists came together safely with music director Scott Yoo to
prepare Brahms’s Second String Sextet and Dvorak's Bass Quintet.
For the next several days, we will send you a daily
episode to illuminate the genius behind these masterpieces. We will conclude
with a complete performance of each work at the end of the week.
You may view all past Notable Encounters Online here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpI84aVMZC_JMcvmgm1PMyAEKlyuY0cLK
--Scott Yoo, Music Director, Festival Mozaic
American Composers Orchestra Announces New Commissions
and Virtual Premieres
American Composers Orchestra (ACO) announces Volume 3 of
Connecting ACO Community, featuring seven commissions to be premiered online on
Sundays at 5pm ET between August 2 and October 4, 2020, for a ticketed audience
on ACO’s YouTube Channel. Each session includes a live conversation with the
featured composer and performer(s), hosted by ACO Artistic Director Derek
Bermel or ACO President Edward Yim, in addition to the performance.
ACO initiated Connecting ACO Community in response to the
coronavirus pandemic crisis and since launching it on April 19 has created
twelve brand new pieces by twelve composers, written for twelve solo performers
plus the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, through the program. Previously commissioned
composers include Ethan Iverson, Shara Nova, Vicente Hansen Atria, Sakari Dixon
Vanderveer, Gity Razaz, Yuan-Chen Li, Joseph Pereira, Karena Ingram, Krists
Auznieks, Lembit Beecher, and Alejandro Basulto Martinez.
Volume 3 includes seven more commissions and premieres,
and features four soloists, two duos, and a sextet of musicians from ACO.
Commissioned composers and performers for this installment include Tanner
Porter composing for cellist Eric Jacobsen and vocalist Aoife O’Donovan;
Vincent Calianno composing for trombonist Mike Seltzer; Wynton Guess composing
for pianist Aaron Diehl; Amina Figarova composing a flute duo for ACO orchestra
musicians Susan Palma Nidel and Laura Conwesser; Dawn Norfleet composing for
vocalist Clarice Assad, voice; Guy Mintus composing for violinist Kelly
Hall-Tompkins; and Brian Nabors composing for a sextet of ACO Musicians
(violinist Debbie Wong; violist Sandy Robbins; cellist Gene Moye; bassoonist
Harry Searing; flutist Diva Goodfriend Koven; and harpist Susan Jolles).
August 2, 2020 – October 4, 2020
Online world premieres streaming live on Sundays at 5pm ET
$5 tickets available here:
https://americancomposers.networkforgood.com/events/22348-connecting-aco-community-volume-iii-festival-pass
More information here: bit.ly/ACOConnectVol3
Watch Connecting ACO Community Volumes 1 and 2 on ACO’s
YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqToHsgaez-t3iuWx42eG8pcmQTdazOuf
--Maggie Stapleton, Jensen Artists
Arranging Songs That Sound Pro
When you pick up a lead-sheet for a song, it looks pretty
sparse, doesn’t it? I imagine you wonder, ‘what do I do with it?’ I also
imagine that you pick up already arranged versions of songs, right? The problem
is they don’t sound all that wonderful, and some are difficult to play. Have
you found that to be true?
The four videos in this post take a song and show several
ways to create arrangements that are not only surprisingly easy but indeed,
sound ‘pro’. It shouldn’t take you but a short time to get the idea of the
arrangements, then start to practice them. I think you will be excited at what
you can do with a minimum of effort… work smart, not hard!
In addition, you will be learning the language of music
that can be used directly in the classics because you will have a working
knowledge of the different chord identities with their characteristic
intervals. Not hard!
But please, if you haven’t already, get your copy of
‘Learning the Language of Music… with Bach’ in my last post and continue to
work with the videos in that post. It will be a life-changing experience since
you will be learning things you never learned previously. The companion videos,
‘Rudiments’ are a must! I have avoided ‘theory’ like the plague in all posts!
Full information here:
https://thepianoprofessor.com/2020/07/29/improvisation-the-better-way-to-learn-the-language-of-music/
--Ralph Hedges, Chopin Piano Academy
HAUSER Performs from Dubrovnik, Croatia
HAUSER now shares the third installment in his “Alone,
Together” concert series, this time taking fans to the historic old town of
Dubrovnik for a special solo performance amongst the city’s stunning scenery.
“Alone, Together--From Dubrovnik” is now streaming globally on HAUSER’s
official YouTube channel. With cinematic views of the city and surrounding
Adriatic Sea, HAUSER’s latest performance includes a mix of classic
compositions as well as his renditions of popular themes from film and
television titles.
The repertoire fittingly includes a nod to “Game of
Thrones,” much of which was filmed within the medieval walls of Dubrovnik’s old
town, with HAUSER performing his rendition of the series’ well-loved theme song
from the iconic Fort Lovrijenac. The latest in his series of “Alone, Together”
performances, the event arrives on the heels of HAUSER’s previous concerts
filmed in an empty Pula Arena in Croatia and the beautiful Krka Waterfalls
National Park – watch HAUSER’s recent concerts here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdVkHRu3zRbJvd6VxF31HlgiNCf0mhtrQ
--Larissa Slezak, Sony Music
Episode 3 of SOLI's new Summer video series,
"Moments of SOLIcitude"
Don't miss Episode 3 of SOLI's new summer video series
Moments of SOLIcitude on YouTube Premieres featuring an original work composed
and performed on Bass clarinet by SOLI's Stephanie Key with Sound Design and
mixing by Jason Murgo.
Inspired by the prints by American artist Mary Bonner and
the words of President Barack Obama, this project was created for McNay Art
Museum's '100 Years of Printmaking in San Antonio' exhibit in 2018. Stephanie
was inspired to create this original music in response to Marry Bonner's
powerful print Fighting Bulls and inspirational text from President Barack
Obama's acceptance speech on November 6, 2012.
The episode premiered Wednesday, July 29.
--SOLI Chamber Ensemble
New Century Announces 2021 Season
Music Director Daniel Hope and New Century Chamber
Orchestra announced today a 2021 season that includes two San Francisco Bay
Area subscription weeks in February and April.
Returning to the stage for the first time since January
2020, New Century will present a reduced season highlighted by the world
premiere of a new work for piano and string orchestra by Chinese composer Tan
Dun at Stanford University’s Bing Concert Hall, featuring Ukrainian pianist
Alexey Botvinov; an evening of orchestral works in honor of Mozart’s birthday
showcasing American violist Paul Neubauer and Daniel Hope in the composer’s Sinfonia
Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra in E-flat Major, K. 364; and a
selection of string orchestra masterworks including Bloch’s Conceto Gross
No. 1 and Dvorák’s Serenade for Strings in E Major, Op. 22 as well
as George Gershwin and Kurt Weill song suites arranged by Paul Bateman.
In addition to performances in Berkeley, San Francisco and
Marin, New Century will be at the Green Music Center in Sonoma and a debut
appearance at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Los
Angeles.
For more information, visit https://www.ncco.org/ebrochure
--Brenden Guy PR
Festival de Lanaudière Connected: Charles
Richard-Hamelin Gives the Finale
Festival de Lanaudière unveils its surprise concert,
scheduled for August 9: an exclusive recital by pianist Charles
Richard-Hamelin, filmed at the Musée d'art de Joliette. The pianist will
perform Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonatas Nos. 13 and 14, Op.
27 – which includes the famous “Moonlight Sonata” – as well as Frédéric
Chopin's 24 Preludes, Op. 28.
“I am very pleased to be performing live again in my
hometown. Festival de Lanaudière is one of the events and places in the world
where I have experienced some of the best moments of my career,” remarked Mr.
Richard-Hamelin, whose last concert dates back to early March.
For Artistic Director Renaud Loranger, “It is only fitting
to close our virtual edition with a unique concert given by one of the finest
musicians from the region.”
For complete information, visit
https://www.lanaudiere.org/en/
--France Gaignard, CN2 Communication
Orli Shaham's MidWeek Mozart - Piano Sonata No.16
Pianist Orli Shaham's MidWeek Mozart features a different
complete Mozart piano sonata each week. This week enjoy Sonata No.16, K.
545 in its entirety, available to stream for free beginning Wednesday, July 29.
"The C major sonata is the first big classical sonata
that most piano students learn. Mozart wrote this in a didactic way with all
the fingerwork, technique, and getting around the keyboard with arpeggios,
trills, and scales – it’s all in there," says Ms. Shaham about Sonata
No.16.
Watch here: https://orlishahammozart.com/
--Gail Wein, Classical Music Communications
Arlen Hlusko as the New Bang on a Can All-Stars Cellist
Bang on a Can announces Canadian cellist Arlen Hlusko as
the newest member of the Bang on a Can All-Stars. Hlusko has been performing
with the All-Stars throughout the 2019-20 season and now joins the group as the
permanent cellist.
Bang on a Can Co-Founders and Co-Artistic Directors
Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe, welcome Hlusko by saying,
"We're thrilled to introduce the dynamic cellist Arlen Hlusko as the
newest member of the Bang on a Can All-Stars. Her spectacular playing and
commitment to community engagement wowed us all!"
Hlusko’s first official performance as an All-Star will be
Saturday, August 1, 2020 at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA as part of Bang on a
Can & Friends, two nights of live-in person music on July 31 and August 1.
She’ll perform a solo work - Michael Gordon’s Light is Calling - as well Louis
Andriessen's Workers Union and Thurston Moore's Stroking Piece #1 with the
All-Stars.
More about Bang on a Can & Friends, including program
info, performer bios, and COVID-19 safety information, is available at
friends2020.bangonacan.org.
--Maggie Stapleton, Jensen Artists
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Announces CMS
FRONT ROW: National
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS)
announces a new digital initiative to enable local chamber music venues to
bring its outstanding series of digital chamber music concerts, CMS: FRONT ROW,
to audiences around the country. That not only brings the concerts to new
audiences, it also gives local presenters a tool they can use to stay in touch
with their audiences while concert halls in the U.S. and Canada remain
shuttered.
For more information, visit
https://www.chambermusicsociety.org/on-tour/cms-front-row-national/
--Beverly Greenfield, Kirshbaum Associates
PARMA Summer 2020 Call for Scores
PARMA Recordings is pleased to present our Summer 2020
Call for Scores. We are currently accepting submissions for Armenian Symphony
Orchestra, Live Orchestral Performance. Performing Artist: The Armenian State
Symphony Orchestra
One selected work will be performed live via the PARMA
Live Stage.
Studio recording and release: Selected scores will be
recorded and commercially released by PARMA Recordings. For these recording
options, the submitter is responsible for securing funds associated with the
production and retains all ownership of the master and underlying composition.
Grammy Award-winner Brad Michel (PARMA’s Senior Producer, North America) is
available to produce approved sessions.
Works for soloists, duos, Ttios, quartets, or quintets.
Recording locations: Boston, MA / The Czech Republic.
Works for full or chamber orchestra.
Recording Artist: The Grammy Award-winning Nuremberg
Symphony Orchestra.
The deadline for all submissions is August 14, 2020.
Interested in submitting your work? Visit our website for more information:
https://www.parmarecordings.com/call-for-scores/
--PARMA Recordings