The Center for 21st Century Music is excited to announce a residency by Irvine Arditti on March 6-10, 2022. He will be joined by the Slee Sinfonietta, conducted by Daniel Brottman, to perform David Felder's violin chamber concerto Jeu de Tarot 2.
Jeu de Tarot 2
Jeu de Tarot 2was commissioned by Ensemble Mise-En, with support from the New York State Council on the Arts. Like its predecessor, Jeu de Tarot (details below), the work is a violin chamber concerto based on selected cards from the Tarot. The work is scored for flute
(doubling), oboe (doubling), B-flat clarinet (doubling), F Horn, Bass
Trombone, Percussion, Harp, Piano (with sampler), violin, viola, cello,
contrabass, and the solo violin. The composition is in 6 movements, numbered 8-13, in this way contiguous with the first Jeu. The movements are:
The Chariot, from the Tarot
8. Death
9. Judgement/Resurrection
10. Temperance
11. The Wheel
12. The Tower
13. The Chariot
Student Composer Recordings
In addition, these four students will have works recorded:
With
this piece I wanted to combine the individual instruments into larger
meta-instruments and approach the piece as if I was writing for a
contemporary jazz combo. I was particularly inspired by the sounds of
Matana Roberts and her album “Coin Coin Chapter two: Mississippi
Moonchile”. I was also interested in a sound I was introduced to by
trombonists David Whitwell and Kalun Leung in which they used an
individual karaoke mic to generate feedback that could be controlled
with the left hand and the trombone. By using the trombone sound as a
type of filter, the sounds of the meta-instruments and the combo are
altered and replace each other.
"Path
of Earth" is one of the three pieces in my "Cosmic Trinity" series. The
trinity includes the Heaven, the Earth and the Mankind. This three
ideas form the skeleton of the Taoist philosophy about the universe. In
these pieces, I attempted to articulate the irresistible nature (force
majeure) of the universe with an entropic composition process derived
from the western scientific concept "entropy," a quantity of disorder in
a system.
(Richard) Ruixing Wang - TBA
Jeu de Tarot
Jeu de Tarotis a chamber violin concerto commissioned by Ensemble LINEA, and its conductor J.P Wurtz, with solo violinist
extraordinaire Irvine Arditti, and is dedicated to these musicians. The
work was composed in 2016-17, and is in seven movements. It is scored
for flute, doubling, oboe doubling, clarinet doubling, horn, percussion,
harp, and keyboard (piano, harpsichord, keyboard controller for
electronic samples), solo violin, violin (doubling mandolin optionally),
viola, cello, and contrabass.
The composition is in seven movements titled after seven selected
cards from the twenty-two major arcana of the Tarot deck. They are:
The Juggler
The Fool
The High Priestess
The Hermit
The Empress (Whorld)
The Hierophant
Moonlight
Performance:
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For fifty years, the Music Department at the University at Buffalo has maintained and nurtured a commitment to creative and performing artists at the forefront of contemporary music. The Robert and Carol Morris Center for 21st Century Music, founded and directed by composer David Felder in 2006, is built on this legacy, featuring the internationally renowned “June in Buffalo” festival, the Slee Sinfonietta Chamber Orchestra concert series, and the Guest Artist Series of performances, lecture presentations, and workshops. The Center for 21st Century Music is dedicated to the creation and production of new work upholding the highest artistic standards of excellence while simultaneously fostering a complementary atmosphere of creative investigation.
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