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Sunday, February 23, 2020
@ 7:30pm

General admission: FREE
Donation to: Westminster Presbyterian Church
724 Delaware Avenue Buffalo, NY 14209     716-884 9437
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“A Musical Feast”
Founder and Creative Director: Charles Haupt
General Manager: Irene Haupt


Program



Salvatore Andolina and Friends  
Salvatore Andolina, clarinet
Claudia Hoca, piano
Tiffany DuMouchelle, soprano
Philharmonic Quartet:
Diana Sachs, violin
Alan Ross, violin
Anya Shemetyeva, viola
David Schmude, cello

Sonata in E-flat, Op. 120 No.2 for clarinet and piano  
Johannes Brahms (1839-1897)
Allegro amabile
Allegro appassionato
Andante con moto
                                                   
Shepherd on the Rock
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Tiffany DuMouchelle soprano
Salvatore Andolina clarinet
Claudia Hoca piano

Intermission

Clarinet a la King
Eddie Sauter (1914-1981)
Salvatore Andolina, clarinet, 
Claudia Hoca, piano

Sextet for clarinet, piano, and string quartet (1988)
Dick Hyman (1927)
Allegretto
Andante
Allegretto
Allegro
Salvatore Andolina, clarinet
Claudia Hoca, piano
Diana Sachs, violin
Alan Ross, violin
Anya Shemetyeva, viola
David Schmude, cello

“Program is funded by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; administered by Arts Services Initiative of Western New York.””


Friday, November 8 – 2019
@ 7:30pm

Montante Cultural Center Canisius College,
2001 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14208
Call: (716) 888-2542 Canisius Fine Arts Dept
www.canisius.edu/artscanisius.
General admission tickets are $15,
$5 for students, faculty, and staff


Program

Sonata No. 2, TWV 40 : 102
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
I. Largo
II. Allegro
III. Affettuoso
IV. Vivace
Diane Hunger, soprano saxophone
Wildy Zumwalt, soprano saxophone


Après un rêve
GABRIEL FAURÉ (1845 - 1924)


Vocalise-Étude en forme de Habanera  
MAURICE RAVEL (1875 - 1937)


Brazileira from Scaramouche Suite (arr. N. Farny)
DARIUS MILHAUD (1892 - 1974)


Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano, op. Posthume
(Arr. for cello by C. Proske)
MAURICE RAVEL (1875 - 1937)
Natasha Farny, cello
Eliran Avni, piano


Seven Romances on Poems by Alexander Blok,
opus 127 (1967)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)

1. Song of Ophelia
2. Gamayun, the Bird of Prophecy
3. We Were Together
4. Gloom Enwraps the Sleeping City
5. The Storm
6. Secret Signs
7. Music

Tiffany Du Mouchelle  soprano,  Feng Hew  cello,
Shieh-Jian Tsai  violin,  Claudia Hoca  piano


Friday, Oct. 4- 2019 
Burchfield Penney Art Center
@  8pm
$ 20 General admission, $ 10 members,  $ 5 students  www.BurchfieldPenney.org at SUNY Buffalo State  1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo , NY 14222  878-6011 or burchfld@buffalostate.edu

Program

 Partita No. 5 in G major BWV 829 (1730)
J.S.Bach (1685-1750)
1. Preambulum
2. Allemande
3. Corrente
4. Sarabande
5. Tempo di Minuetto
6. Passepied
7. Gigue
Father Sean Duggan, Piano

I Never Saw Another Butterfly (1996)
 Lori Laitman (b, 1955)
1. The Butterfly
2. Yes, That’s the Way Things Are
3. Birdsong
4. The Garden
5. Man Proposes, God Disposes
6. The Old House
Tiffany DuMouchelle, Soprano
Wildy Zumwalt, Alto Saxophone
Poems by Pavel Friedmann, Koleba, Anonymous and Franta Bass

Suite for solo cello (1926) Gaspar Cassado (1897-1966)
1. Preludio-Fantasia
2. Sardana (Danza)
3. Intermezzo e Danza Finale
Feng Hew,Cello

Sonata No. 3 in g minor, BWV 1029 (14') 
J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
1. Vivace
2. Adagio
3. Allegro
Diane Hunger, Tenor saxophone
Father Sean Duggan, Piano



Saturday  May 18, 2019 @ 8pm
Program Notes


The Hayley-Laufer Duo
 
Drawn to the new, the audacious, and the complex, the Hayley-Laufer Duo challenges the boundaries of voice-and-piano composition by commissioning exciting young artists while cultivating a core repertoire of twentieth and twenty-first century masterworks. Their decade-long collaboration has brought them to the USA, Canada, Europe and South America, and traversed centuries of song repertoire with an emphasis on the electrifying music of today. The Hayley-Laufer Duo returns with a second concert collecting revolutionary contributions to the 21st-century art song repertoire. Featuring world premieres of works by Colombian composer Camilo Méndez, Venezuelan composer Freddy Flores Ávila, and Canadian composer Anthony Tan explore the outer reaches of the technical and expressive possibilities of the Lied genre. The program also features Jonathan Harvey’s monumental and mesmerizing Nachtlied, alongside newly minted works for soprano and piano by UB composers Matthew Chamberlain, Roberto Azaretto, and Ka-Shu (Kenneth) Tam.

Program

A Manual of Qualities (2016)*    Anthony Tan (b.1979)

Phoenix Hairpin I (2018)* Ka-Shu Tam (b. 1991)
Projection of historical images

Verfremdungen M (2) (2015-18)*  Roberto Azaretto (b. 1975)

Uslar/Gorong (2019)* Camilo Méndez (b. 1982)

Intermission

Nachtlied (1984)  Jonathan Harvey (1939-2012)
Nicole Caruana, dancer, choreographer  

Board Games.  (2109)*  Matthew Chamberlain (b. 1990)
*=world premiere

This performance is made possible by a  collaboration between A Musical Feast and UB's Creative Arts Initiative (CAI). It is the culmination of the artist Spring 2019 CAI residency. For information regarding other residency events see www.buffalo.edu/cai.

ABOUT THE CREATIVE ARTS INITIATIVE


The Creative Arts Initiative (CAI) is a university-wide initiative dedicated to the creation and production of new work upholding the highest artistic standards of excellence and fostering a complementary atmosphere of creative investigation and engagement among students, faculty, visiting artists, and the community.

Through its Artist-in-Residence program and its innovative, interdisciplinary offerings for students, CAI is raising the profile of UB and Buffalo in world of artistic expression and revitalizing our proud tradition as a leader in contemporary art.

DOROTHEA HAYLEY
Dorothea Hayley has been a soloist with the Vancouver Symphony, the Bourgas Symphony, the Allegra Chamber Orchestra and Ca-priccio Basel. She has performed in festivals such as the Happening Festival, Gulangyu Piano Festival, Performer’s Voice Symposium, New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival and the Atempo Festival of Caracas, and with organizations like the SMCQ, Chants Libres, CIRMMT, Codes d’accès, Vancouver New Music, the Little Chamber Music Series That Could and the Land’s End Ensemble. Dorothea recently completed an artist residency at the Banff Centre, and was a visiting artist at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music. Dorothea holds a Doctor of Music degree from Université de Montréal, and teaches voice at Vancouver Community College. She is the Artistic Co-Director of the Blueridge Chamber Music Festival.

MANUEL LAUFER
Manuel Laufer has presented world premieres at Merkin Hall, Le Poisson Rouge, Bang on a Can, June in Buffalo, and Festival Atem-po (Caracas and Paris). He has concretized extensively playing contemporary chamber music, performing canonic works by compos-ers including Babbitt, Cage, Crumb, Lachenmann, and Xenakis in addition to newly commissioned repertoire. His solo work champions modernist voices from his native Venezuela, placing particular emphasis on composer Diógenes Rivas. “Also an enthusiastic performer of traditional repertoire, Manuel has performed with orchestras on both sides of the Atlantic, and appears yearly in the Blueridge Chamber Music Festival. He holds degrees from McGill University and University of California, Irvine, and received a Ph.D. in Piano Performance from NYU Steinhardt, where he currently serves as Director of Collaborative Piano.”

NICOLE CARUANA
Nicole Caruana, performer/choreographer at UANA DANS, was born in Clarence, New York, a community just outside of Buffalo, in 1996. Her parents enrolled her in local jazz classes to facilitate her blissful restlessness. She began her formal training at The Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College under the direction of Nelly van Bommel. To further her studies, she has attended San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, London Contemporary Dance School, The American Dance Festival, Arts Umbrella Summer Dance Intensive, B12 Workshops, and has studied Gaga intensively in Tel Aviv. She has most recently performed the works of Ohad Naharin and Doug Varone. In 2016 she was in creative process for a new work by LeeSaar The Company and an immersive theater production “All That I Can” by Punchdrunk company members. In 2017, UANA DANS was established as Nicole’s creative home and outlet to share choreographies at home and abroad. Her work “arba” was awarded first prize at The International Competition for Choreographers in Hannover, Germany. Since the company’s inception, they have been invited to perform in Germany, Denmark, Spain, Greece, and New York. She is excited to be commissioned to create new works for Scapino Ballet in Rotterdam, and Canadian Contemporary Dance Theater in Toronto as part of their 2019 season.

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Friday October 5th 2018 @ 8pm

Program

Italian Concerto in F major, BWV 971 (1735)
JS Bach (1685-1750)

1. Allegro
2. Andante
3. Presto
Father Sean Duggan piano 

Sonata in G major BWV 1021*
J.S. Bach (1685 – 1750) 10 min
Arranged for saxophone and piano
1. Adagio
2. Vivace
3. Largo
4. Presto
Diane Hunger alto saxophone   Father Sean Duggan  piano

Chaconne for solo viola, from Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004,
J.S. Bach (1685 – 1750)
David Rose viola


INTERMISSION


Timepiece for alto saxophone and pre-recorded music  
Cindy McTee (b. 1953)
Diane Hunger alto saxophone

Praeludium in C sharp major J.S. Bach (1685 – 1750)
Wildy Zumwalt   soprano saxophone
Diane Hunger alto saxophone

Bach Gamba Sonata No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1027
J.S. Bach (1685 – 1750)

1. Adagio
2. Allegro ma non tanto
3. Andante
4. Allegro moderato
Father Sean Duggan piano
David Rose viola 

Cantata 179 V J.S. Bach (1685 – 1750
Tiffany DuMouchelle soprano
Diane Hunger Wildy Zumwalt alto saxophone  
Ron Martin piano

Friday, February 2, 2018 @ 8PM

Program Notes

Poetry by Pablo Neruda: Coleccion Nocturna

Coleccion Nocturna for clarinets, piano and 4-channel tape, is a work of haunting isolation and nostalgia that is loosely based on the Neruda poem of the same name. It is a set of five "variations" on what Felder calls, "a wholly self-contained musical object" from his older piano work called Rocket Summer. The "theme" never seems to be presented clearly in its entirety, but what is clear is that diatonic fragments are heard trying to poke their way through five contrasting, modernistically surreal textures. The variations mirror a kind of electrifying tension as well as a crystallization of emotions, 19 minutes of foremost constantly changing musical perspectives, which despite the technical demands speak with an extraordinary directness.
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Friday, April 13, 2018 @ 8 PM

Second Sonata for violin and piano Charles Ives 1874,-1954
I. Autumn
II. In the Barn
III. The Revival
Claudia Hoca, piano
Charles Castleman, violin

Sonata in G minor for Cello and Piano, Op. 19
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
I. Lento - Allegro moderato - Moderato
II. Allegro scherzando
III. Andante
IV. Allegro mosso – Moderato
Claudia Hoca, piano
Arie Lipsky, cello

Friday May 12, 2017

Hildegard's Dream (1994) Alejandro Vinao (b.1951)
Tiffany Du Mouchelle soprano
Paul Hembree, electronics

Sonata No. 2, Op. 19 (Sonata-Fantasy). Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
I. Andante
II. Presto
Dmitri Novgorodsky, piano

Tzigane Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
David Colwell, violin Dmitri Novgorodsky, piano


Intermission


Justice: The Songs (1999-2016) by Roger Reynolds (b. 1934)
Tiffany Du Mouchelle soprano
Steve Solook percussion
Paul Hembree live electronics

$20/$10 Burchfield Penney members. Student's 5.-Phone: 878-6011 or visit:
.burchfieldpenney.org

Justice:
Written for actress, soprano, percussionist, multichannel computer sound and real-time surround sound, "Justice" is based on the Greek tragedy of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon. The text was adapted from "Aeschylus and Euripides." All three performers-actress, soprano and percussionist - portray aspects of Clytemnestra's character as she contemplates her husband's return from the Trojan War and his subsequent death at her hand in retribution for the death of their daughter, Iphigenia.

JUSTICE is a musical/dramatic presentation of Clytemnestra's primary scenes from my text: The Red Act (itself drawn from plays of Euripides and Aeschylus). The whole is divided into three parts:

I] Sacrifice centers on Agamemnon's decision to kill Ipghigenia in order that the Greek fleet be freed to sail on to Troy and exact its revenge for the abduction of Helen. Clytemnestra is at first incredulous, but gradually accepts this inevitability and warns Agamemnon of dire consequences.

II] Absence portrays Clytemnestra's emotions during her husband's ten years away, and the conflicting responses that his return arouses in her.

III] Nightmare and Judgement is the longest part. It addresses both the murder of Agememnon and also Clytemnestra's proud defiance as she portrays what she has done and why.
-Roger Reynolds

In the original conception of this work, Clytemnestra was conceived as a tripartite being, performed by actress, soprano, and percussionist. The actress lines most directly articulated and closely related to speech, the soprano a lyrical extension of those lines, and the percussionist further amplifying and articulating the thoughts, words and actions of the actress and soprano. Here, in Justice Arias, the actress and soprano roles are fused together, but the compositional divisions are still present in the various forms of articulation.
-Tiffany Du Mouchelle

Friday February 3, 2017 8pm
Saturday February 4, 2017  8pm

Artistic Director:  Charles Haupt
Executive Director: Irene Haupt

"A Musical Feast," in collaboration with the Burchfield Penney Art Center and the University at Buffalo Creative Arts Initiative, presents:

The Faust Project: A Staged Reading with Live Music of Goethe's Faust

Adapted and Directed by Neil Wechsler
Original Score by Nathan Heidelberger
Vincent O'Neill as Mephistopheles
David Oliver as Faust
Kurt Guba (Multiple Roles)
Josephine Hogan (Multiple Roles)
Emlyn Johnson, flute
Megan Kyle, oboe
David Wegehaupt, saxophone
Katie Weissman and Erica Snowden, cello
John Smigielski, percussion
Matthew Chamberlain, conductor

A staged reading with live music of selected scenes from both parts of Goethe's Faust. Director Neil Wechsler has adapted the scenes, condensing Goethe's original work into an eighty-minute presentation. Nathan Heidelberger has composed a new chamber score, playing off the rich history of Faust-inspired music. The scenes encompass the entire arc of Goethe's masterpiece to capture the pitfalls, triumphs, and ambiguities of human striving.

Tickets: Call 716-878-6011

$10 Burchfield Penney members $20 "not yet" members
& 5.- students
 

Friday October 14, 2016

Program Notes

Black (2008) Marc Mellits (1966)
Diane Hunger Wildy Zumwalt Alto Saxophones

Kinderszenen , Op.15 (Scenes from Childhood)
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Jonathan Golove, cello Amy Williams,

Kreisler's Coat for cello and piano (2011) Jonathan Golove (b.1966)
Jonathan Golove, cello Amy Williams , piano

Cello Solo, Opus 31 Egon Wellesz (1885-1974)
Jonathan Golove cello

INTERMISSION

Syrinx (1913) Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
(originally for flute)
Wildy Zumwalt, Alto Saxophone

Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 3 in C minor, Op. 45 (1887)
Edvard Grieg (1843 –1907)
I. Allegro molto ed appassionato
II. Allegretto espressivo alla Romanza
III. Allegro animato - Prestissimo
David Colwell violin , Dmitri Novgorodsky piano

Friday May 13, 2016 @ 8:00pm

Program Notes

"Nocturne" (1911) Lili Boulanger (1893-1918)
Claudia Hoca piano Jonathan Golove cello

Three Pieces (Trois pièces) for cello and piano (1914)
Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979)

Poeme, Op. 25, (1896) Ernest Chausson.(1855-1899)
Claudia Hoca piano, Charles Castleman violin

Intermission

Praxis (2016) Moshe Shulman (1978)
Moshe Shulman bandoneon, Jonathan Golove cello

Friday, February 12, 2016 @ 8pm

PROGRAM NOTES

Partita in A minor J.S.Bach
Allemande (1685-1750)
Corrente
Sarabande
Bourée angloise
Lindsey Goodman, flute

Forever and Sunsmell (1942)
Tiffany Du Mouchelle, soprano
Stephen Solook, percussion

Recitation #11 and #13 (1977-1978)
Georges Aperghis (b. 1945)
Tiffany Du Mouchelle, soprano

Cineshape 4 (2015) Amy Williams  (b. 1969)
Amy Williams, piano


Intermission


Two Preludes (from: The Well-Tempered Clavier) J.S. Bach
Amy Williams, piano

4 Lieder Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
Er ist gekommen – (1841) op. 12, no. 2
Liebst du um Schönheit – (1841) op. 12, no. 4
Sie liebten sich beide - op. 13, no. 2, (1842)
Mein Stern (1848)
Tiffany Du Mouchelle, soprano
Amy Williams, piano

Breath (2001) Stuart Saunders Smith (b. 1948)
Tiffany Du Mouchelle, soprano
Stephen Solook, percussion

First Lines (2006) Amy Williams
Lindsey Goodman, flute
Amy Williams, piano

Friday November 13, 2015 @ 8pm
Burchfield Penney Art Center Fall Launch Festival

Friday May 8, 2015 @ 8 PM
Program Notes

Friday, March 14 2014@ 8 PM

Program Notes

A Very Short Trumpet Piece (1986) Morton Feldman (1926-1987) Daniel Bassin, trumpet

Clapping Music for Two Performers (1972) Steve Reich (1936)
John Bacon, Tom Kolor

Partita No. 5 in G major BWV 829 (1730) J.S.Bach (1685-1750)

Preambulum
Allemande
Corrente
Sarabande
Tempo di Minuetto
Passepied
Gigue
Dmitri Novgorodsky, piano


Intermission


Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 49 (1839) Felix Mendelssohn (1809 – 1847)
Molto Allegro agitato
Andante con molto tranquillo
Scherzo. Leggiero e vivace
Finale. Allegro assai appassionato
Sheh-Jian Tsai, violin Feng Hew, cello Dmitri Novgorodsky , piano

Benefit Concert for pianist Claudia Hoca
Friday, September 27 2013 at 7:30 PM
With the Camerata di Sant' Antonio,
Christopher Weber, Music Director

Friday, October 11, 2013 @ 8PM
FOR TICKETS:
http://www.burchfieldpenney.org/events/event:10-11-2013-8-00pm-a-musical-feast/

Program Notes

Liaison (2013) Concept: Megan Beugger (1987)
Choreographic Collaboration: Melanie Aceto and Megan Beugger


Performer: Melanie Aceto
Design and construction: Tom Tucker and Gary Casarella
Premiered June 8th at "June in Buffalo" University at Buffalo

Reflets dans l'eau (1905) (5') Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

Five Finnish Folksongs (c. 1917) (5'30") Oskar Merikanto, arr. (1868-1924)
I Hear My Love Call From Afar
One Rose Has Grown In The Valley
At The First Light Of Morn
Fair Maid, Thou Grewest Up
Do Not Cry, Dear Mother Robert Berkman, pianola


Notturno, Op. 32, No. 1 (1857) (7' 50") Friedrich Grützmacher (1832-1903)

Jonathan Golove, cello; Robert Berkman, pianola


"In Defence (2012) Moshe Shulman ( 1978)
tape, video by Moshe Shulman
Moshe Shulman viola
Melanie Aceto, Choreographer and performer


INTERMISSION


Piano Rag Music (1919) (3') Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

Bashraf Bagdadi (c.1922) (3'45") Alexander Maloof (1886-1968)

Robert Berkman, pianola

A Gitte Nacht der Kolli ind dem Chusen (c. 1922) (4'15")
Samuel A. Perlstein (1884-1936)
Jonathan Golove, cello; Robert Berkman, pianola

Study No. 3b, from Boogie Woogie Suite (1948) (5') Conlon Nancarrow (1912-1997)

Valses nobles et sentimental (1911) (14') Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

Robert Berkman, pianola
 

Peter & Elizabeth C. Tower Auditorium Burchfield Penney Art Center
at SUNY Buffalo State 1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo , NY 14222
878-6011 or burchfld@buffalostate.edu

For the NAMM Oral History project. You can see the result at
www.namm.org/library/oral-history/bob-berkman
 

Friday, November 8 2013 @ 8PM
BIRTHDAY CONCERT FOR
Dr. David Felder

SUNY Distinguished Professor, Birge-Cary Professor in Music Composition, Director, Center for 21st Century Music, June in Buffalo; Artistic Director, Slee Sinfonietta Chamber Orchestra

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Program
Program Notes

Another Face (1987) David Felder
Yuki Numata Resnick, violin

TweenerB (1991; 2013) David Felder
(world premiere) Tom Kolor, percussion

November Sky (1992) David Felder
for flute doubling piccolo, alto, and bass flutes
Emi Ferguson, flute
Commissioned by N.E.A. and Rachel Rudich

BoxMan (1986; 2013) David Felder (1953)
(world premiere of the version for horn) Adam Unswurth, horn

Intermission

Two Songs from the Third Watch (2013); a preview performance)
Insomnia (poem by Dana Gioia) David Felder
BuffaloEvening (poem by Robert Creeley)

flutes, Emi Ferguson, Jean Kopperud, clarinets,
Yuki Numata Resnick, violin, Virginia Barron viola,
Lauren Radnofsky cello,
Tom Kolor, percussion, piano/celeste, Oliver Hagen
Ethan Herschenfeld, bass voice
Dan Bassin, conductor

Shamayim (2006-8) Music by David Felder, image by Elliot Caplan