We at the Robert and Carol
Morris Center for 21st Century Music are happy to be co-sponsoring Child’s Play for Adults, the opening concert of the 2012-2013 A Musical Feast season in the Peter &
Elizabeth C. Tower Auditorium of the Burchfield Penny Art Center, on Friday,
November 9, at 8:00 p.m. The evening will showcase members of Western New York’s
very own LehrerDance Company, who have been called "Stunning" by the Buffalo News, and "Breathtaking" by Dance Magazine, and are getting ready to
embark on their Russian tour next month. Mezzo-soprano and longtime
friend of the Center Julia Bentley will also be featured extensively throughout the concert, alongside pianist Kuang-Hao Huang. The concert has
an exciting program of music and dance works by John Cage, André Caplet, Edward
Lear, Oskar Morawetz, and Buffalo-based composer John Bacon.
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| Artistic Director: Charles Haupt, Prof. Ann Colley Jon Lehrer and LehrerDance Company |
The Buffalo Artvoice’s Jan Jezioro provides some background on Bacon’s piece, The (Electronic) Playground, which will appear in the concert’s program
notes, “While The (Electronic) Playground was composed in 2007 for a sound
improviser/performer, who may also be a percussionist, it may also be performed
by more than one artist, as in the case of this performance by the Fredonia
Faculty Percussion Quartet. The score is a colored time grid, with the colors
corresponding to the construction of the instrument, or means of sound
production. The musical ideas that are played on the instruments are the
performers' choice. The piece is titled The
‘Electronic’ Playground, if electronic sounds or electronic manipulation of
the sounds are used in a particular performance.”
Check out the complete press
release for Child’s Play for Adults
below, we look forward to seeing you there!
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| LehrerDance Company in action |
Child’s
Play for Adults
Enjoy a
slice of ‘Amblongus Pie’: Music, Dance, Verse and Song
The independent, cutting-edge musical group known as ‘A
Musical Feast’ launches its 2012-2013 season on Friday, November 9 at 8pm, co-sponsored by the University at Buffalo’s "Robert
and Carol Morris Center for 21st Century Music" in its home in the
acoustically superior Peter &
Elizabeth C. Tower Auditorium of the Burchfield Penny Art Center. With this program, which features a decidedly
high whimsical content, ‘A Musical Feast’ may well surpass its well-earned
reputation for presenting uniquely eclectic combinations of music from a very
wide range of eras, along with poetry and dance. Special guests for the concert
include the Chicago-based mezzo-soprano Julia Bentley and her collaborative
pianist Kuang-Hao Huang, along with the members of the LehrerDance Company,
the finest interpreters of modern dance in Western New York, just prior to
their Russian tour this December.
This event is focused on celebrating the undying
spirit of childhood, both in children and adults, and also honors the
bicentennial of the birth of the English author, illustrator and poet Edward
Lear (1812-1888), best remembered for well-loved examples of nonsense poetry
and prose. SUNY Distinguished Professor Ann C. Colley is the literary advisor
for this event which will include Julia Bentley offering her own interpretation
of examples from Lear’s ‘Nonsense Cookery’ including recipes from his 1870
‘Nonsense Gazette’, such as “Take 4 pounds (say 4 1/2 pounds) of
fresh Amblongusses, and put them in a small pipkin.”
This year also marks the centennial of the birth of composer
John Cage (1912-1992), a genuine American maverick, who, it is safe to say,
never lost the spirit of childhood during his long and very influential career.
Cage’s 1942 work, Four Dances was
originally composed for wordless tenor voice, prepared piano, handclap and
percussion. The piece was subsequently re-titled Four Dances, and this rare performance of the re-titled work by
mezzo-soprano Julia Bentley and pianist Kuang-Hao Huang will feature an
original choreographic interpretation by the LehrerDance
Company.
Bentley and Huang will also perform three other
sets of songs, including Cage’s Songs for Contralto and Piano, an early work from 1938 based on
the poetry of the iconoclastic American poet ee cummings, as well as French composer André
Caplet’s 1919 work Trois Fables de Jean de la Fontaine,
a setting of texts by the French Renaissance fabulist Jean de la Fontaine
(1621-1695). Rounding out the vocal portion of the program will be an area
premiere performance of Czech-born Canadian composer Oskar Morawetz’s 1984 work, Souvenirs
of Childhood, based on poetry from Robert Louis Stevenson’s beloved collection
A Child's Garden of Verses. Also on the program, appropriately
enough, Buffalo-based composer John Bacon will perform his 2007 work “The
Electronic Playground” with the
Fredonia Faculty Percussion Quartet, Kay Stonefelt, Tiffany Nicely. Matthew
Wilson, percussion and electronics.
Tickets: $20; Burchfield Penny members/students: $10. Phone:
878-6011. Information: www.amusicalfeast.com, or: www.BurchfieldPenny.org
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