Calendar
William Albright
October 20, 1944 – September 17, 1998
This year Marks celebrates William Albright with publication of Whistler (1834-1903): Three Nocturnes for Organ, previously unpublished. Edited by Douglas Reed.
Dinner at Eight
Music by William Bolcom. Libretto by Mark Campbell. Based on the play by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber.
Set in Depression-era Manhattan, the Kaufman–Ferber play revolves around an ill-fated dinner organized by Millicent Jordan, a society hostess labeled “vapid” by the playwrights themselves. In the week preceding the party, Millicent’s husband, Oliver, is diagnosed with a fatal heart disorder and discovers that his struggling shipping line has become the object of a hostile takeover; their daughter Paula’s lover (dissipated matinée idol Larry Renault, also an invitee) stages a theatrical suicide; the guests of honor, an English lord and lady, blow off the engagement and decamp for Florida; and the cook’s pièce de résistance, a much-hyperbolized lobster in aspic, comes crashing to the kitchen floor… Based on the witty and biting depression-era play by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber.
David Agler, Music Director
The Emerson Quartet joined by pianist Shai Wosner performs, for the composer’s 80th birthday, a work he composed in commemoration of Isaac Stern’s 80th birthday. The Piano Quintet (#1) was premiered in 2000 by the Emerson Quartet with Stern, and with pianist Jonathan Biss.
Dinner at Eight
Music by William Bolcom. Libretto by Mark Campbell. Based on the play by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber.
Set in Depression-era Manhattan, the Kaufman–Ferber play revolves around an ill-fated dinner organized by Millicent Jordan, a society hostess labeled “vapid” by the playwrights themselves. In the week preceding the party, Millicent’s husband, Oliver, is diagnosed with a fatal heart disorder and discovers that his struggling shipping line has become the object of a hostile takeover; their daughter Paula’s lover (dissipated matinée idol Larry Renault, also an invitee) stages a theatrical suicide; the guests of honor, an English lord and lady, blow off the engagement and decamp for Florida; and the cook’s pièce de résistance, a much-hyperbolized lobster in aspic, comes crashing to the kitchen floor… Based on the witty and biting depression-era play by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber.
David Agler, Music Director
Dinner at Eight
Music by William Bolcom. Libretto by Mark Campbell. Based on the play by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber.
Set in Depression-era Manhattan, the Kaufman–Ferber play revolves around an ill-fated dinner organized by Millicent Jordan, a society hostess labeled “vapid” by the playwrights themselves. In the week preceding the party, Millicent’s husband, Oliver, is diagnosed with a fatal heart disorder and discovers that his struggling shipping line has become the object of a hostile takeover; their daughter Paula’s lover (dissipated matinée idol Larry Renault, also an invitee) stages a theatrical suicide; the guests of honor, an English lord and lady, blow off the engagement and decamp for Florida; and the cook’s pièce de résistance, a much-hyperbolized lobster in aspic, comes crashing to the kitchen floor… Based on the witty and biting depression-era play by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber.
David Agler, Music Director
The New York Virtuoso Singers conducted by Harold Rosenbaum, commissioners of this work
Dinner at Eight
Music by William Bolcom. Libretto by Mark Campbell. Based on the play by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber.
Set in Depression-era Manhattan, the Kaufman–Ferber play revolves around an ill-fated dinner organized by Millicent Jordan, a society hostess labeled “vapid” by the playwrights themselves. In the week preceding the party, Millicent’s husband, Oliver, is diagnosed with a fatal heart disorder and discovers that his struggling shipping line has become the object of a hostile takeover; their daughter Paula’s lover (dissipated matinée idol Larry Renault, also an invitee) stages a theatrical suicide; the guests of honor, an English lord and lady, blow off the engagement and decamp for Florida; and the cook’s pièce de résistance, a much-hyperbolized lobster in aspic, comes crashing to the kitchen floor… Based on the witty and biting depression-era play by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber.
David Agler, Music Director
Dinner at Eight
Music by William Bolcom. Libretto by Mark Campbell. Based on the play by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber.
Set in Depression-era Manhattan, the Kaufman–Ferber play revolves around an ill-fated dinner organized by Millicent Jordan, a society hostess labeled “vapid” by the playwrights themselves. In the week preceding the party, Millicent’s husband, Oliver, is diagnosed with a fatal heart disorder and discovers that his struggling shipping line has become the object of a hostile takeover; their daughter Paula’s lover (dissipated matinée idol Larry Renault, also an invitee) stages a theatrical suicide; the guests of honor, an English lord and lady, blow off the engagement and decamp for Florida; and the cook’s pièce de résistance, a much-hyperbolized lobster in aspic, comes crashing to the kitchen floor… Based on the witty and biting depression-era play by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber.
David Agler, Music Director
David Ward-Steinman
November 6, 1936 – April 14, 2015
Bass Trombone Concerto — world première
Lätzsch Trombone Festival 2018
The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra
Christian Lindberg, conductor
Randall Hawes (Detroit Symphony), bass trombone
December 15, 2018
Muziekcentrum, Wilmersberg Zaal
Enschede, The Netherlands
Discover the Wild (Overture for Orchestra)
Eastern Regional High School Orchestra
Toshiyuki Shimadi, conductor
January 5, 2019
Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts
University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut
Christopher Dragon, conductor
Steve Metcalf and Nick Recuber, bass
Abby Raymond, e-flat clarinet
By popular demand, our fantastic tribute to Arthur Fiedler and the Boston pops returns with a fresh and fun evening featuring the ever-animated Christopher Dragon on the podium to provide an animated performance in honor of Arthur Fiedler! Colorado Symphony bassists Steve Metcalf and Nick Recuber take the stage in Giovanni Bottesini’s duet, Passione Amorosa, clarinetist Abby Raymond performs William Bolcom’s Little Suite of Four Dances, and there’s even more music that will have you loving this concert tribute to the dynamic sound of Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops!
Loren Mach, marimba
The Sound of Nature
Heinrich Biber Sonata Representativa in A Major
George Crumb Mundus Canis for Guitar and Percussion
Evan Hause Fields for Marimba
Kurt Rohde credo petrified for Two Cellos
Clarice Assad The Lumerians for Two Cellos, Percussion, and Cello Choir WORLD PREMIERE
Left Coast presents works celebrating the natural world, including Evan Hause’s Fields, and George Crumb’s A Dog’s Life. And for the premiere of a concerto by Clarice Assad for two cellos and percussion, Left Coast is joined by a cello choir. Assad’s The Lumerians concerns water, climate change and the natural world.
Open seating. Please join us for a pre-concert lecture; details forthcoming.
Artists
Anna Presler, violin
Tanya Tomkins, cello
Leighton Fong, cello
Michael Goldberg, guitar
Loren Mach, percussion
and featuring a cello choir
Matilda Hofman, conductor