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Follow on Google News | Midwinter Sounds -- February 19 at 3 PM in New York City!The North/South Chamber Orchestra under the direction of its founder Max Lifchitz premieres works by three generations of composers hailing from Cuba, Italy and the US. Anne Marie Ketchum will be the guest soprano soloist.
The concert will start at 3 PM and will take place at the auditorium of Christ & St. Stephen’s Church (120 West 69th St) in Manhattan. Admission is free. The featured composers will be in attendance and will be happy to meet with the public during intermission and after the performance. They will be available for interviews and may be contacted through the North/South office at ns.concerts@ North/ For further information about North/South Consonance’s activities, including upcoming concerts and recordings, please visit http://www.northsouthmusic.org. ------------------------------------------------------------ ABOUT THE COMPOSERS AND THEIR MUSIC The program will open with the first performance of Torre del Guado (2011), a single-movement work by the Italian composer Ada Gentile (b. 1947). The work was written while visiting the resort town of Torre del Guado near Florence during the fall. Its simple direct musical language evokes the tranquility and beauty of the Tuscan countryside. One of Italy’s most important living composers, Ms. Gentile studied with the late Godoffredo Petrassi at the Academia di Santa Cecilia. Her Cantata per la Pace (Peace Cantata) for chorus and orchestra -- commissioned by the Vatican to mark the Jubilee 2000 — has been performed throughout Europe, Russia, Korea and Brazil. While in New York, Ms. Gentile will be lecturing about her music at the Manhattan School of Music and Columbia University. Victor Kioulaphides will be represented on the program by his New York Moments, a recently completed four movement work inspired by everyday life in New York. He writes that the work is a “dual tribute to the one and only city that never sleeps, and to the spectacular musicians who set its lights ablaze with their dazzling skill and brilliant artistry.” The titles of the four movements are: Times Square, Central Park, Tugboat on the Hudson, and Grand Central. Born in Athens, Greece in 1961, Kioulaphides came to New York in 1979 to train at the Manhattan School of Music and The Juilliard School. A much sought-after double bassist, he received the Pablo Casals Award and the Harold Bauer Award. His chamber and orchestral works have been performed throughout Europe, Japan, and South America. The first half of the concert will conclude with El Cucalambé by Yalil Guerra (b. 1973; Havana, Cuba). Born into a family of musicians —his parents are the well-known Cuban folk-music duo Rosell y Cary — Guerra won the 1990 Classical Guitar Competition held in Krakow, Poland before moving to Madrid, Spain where he attended the Royal Conservatory of Music Queen Sofia. Since 1999, Guerra has resided in Los Angeles, CA where he is active in the film and television industries having composed and arranged numerous sound tracks for Univision, Telefatura and Canal 41 Miami. In 2010 he was awarded a Brandon Fradd Fellowship by the Miami-based Cintas Foundation while his album Old Havana was nominated for a Latin Grammy. In three movements, Guerra’s colorful and virtuosic work explores the musical fusion between Spanish and West African elements that make Afro-Caribbean music so unique. Its title makes reference to the 19th century Cuban poet and patriot Juan Cristobal Nápoles Fajardo (1829-1862) who published under the Afro-Cuban pseudonym El Cucalambé. Known throughout the Caribbean for his décimas (poems with 10 sentences), Nápoles Fajardo sought to portray typical Cuban scenes while employing the sounds of Afro-Cuban speech. Quasi-programmatic, each movement of Guerra’s work is inspired by different events related to the history of the island. The first movement is titled Goodbye Cadiz; the second Slaves at Sea, and the third Ebony Woman. Aurelio de la Vega’s Recordatio (Recollection) The concert will conclude with the four-movement Serenata Concertante by Harold Schiffman (b. 1928; Greensboro, NC) a composer whose music has been described by the press as “well crafted, lyrical and communicative....worthy of repeated hearings.” A student of Roger Sessions and Ernst von Dohnanyi, Schiffman’s compositions have been performed throughout the US and Europe. Between 1959-84 Schiffman taught at Florida State University in Tallahassee and founded its acclaimed New Music Festival . He writes that the music of Serenata Concertante demands “concerto- # # # A non-profit organization devoted to the promotion, performance and recording of music by living composers. End
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