2009-2010 Season

NOTE: Information for the 2010-2011 Season will be posted in August 2010 . . .
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Concert 3 – Saturday, April 10, 2010 @ 7:30 PM – Keller Hall

Chatter’s audience will enjoy hearing Daniel Ward as electric guitarist in Reich’s Electric Counterpoint. Zwilich is probably America’s most outstanding woman composer, whose Concerto for Trumpet will be performed exquisitely by New Mexico Symphony Orchestra Principal Trumpet John Marchiando. David Lang is another of Chatter’s favorite composers. Child is among the most impressive works from the late 20th century, taking its rightful place among the chamber orchestra oeuvre.

20TH CENTURY MASTERWORKS BY AMERICAN COMPOSERS

PAST PERFORMANCES IN THE 2009-2010 SEASON:

Concert 1 – Saturday, Feb 20, 2010 @ 7:30 PM – First Unitarian Church

The first work of this concert – I Wander Through Theresinstadt – characterizes this concert, with most of the music written by composers imprisoned there during WWII. Theresinstadt was the model Jewish internment camp to which the Nazis invited such entities as the International Red Cross to visit to try to counter what was actually happening to prisoners. The only positive outcome of this horror is the music and art created by the prisoners. David Felberg will be the soloist for the Schulhoff work. Golijov’s Tenebrae (2002) is included because it complements the rest of the repertoire so effectively. Golijov writes, “I realized that Tenebrae could be heard as the slow, quiet reading of an illuminated medieval manuscript in which the appearances of the voice singing the letters of the Hebrew Alphabet (from Yod to Nun) signal the beginning of new chapters, leading to the ending section, built around a single, repeated word: Jerusalem."

MUSIC OF THE HOLOCAUST – MOODS AND REFLECTIONS

Concert 2 – Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 7:30 PM – Keller Hall

John Adams, among the forefront of living American composers, is one of Chatter’s favorite composers. He received the Pulitzer prize in 2002, premiering a work with the NY Phlharmonic on the first anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center. In our concert, the title Road Movies is total whimsy, suggested by the “groove” in the piano part, which must be played in a “swing” mode. China Gates is one of Adams’ first mature works written in 1977 during a rainy season in northern California. His original and beautiful compositional style is obvious in his Son of Chamber Symphony. The quintet by Finnish composer Kalevi Aho is an impressive work with a unique combination of instruments. We welcome guest pianist Conor Llewellyn Hanick, hailed by the New York Times and Grammophone critics as 'a young Peter Serkin.'

CHAMBER MUSIC FROM FINLAND AND THE UNITED STATES