GroupMuse: A Baroque Trilogy: Part 1
Greetings!
Robert Warner and Coleman Itzkoff are thrilled to present a recital of Baroque music for Cello & Harpsichord, recorded in New York City in the lovely St. John's in the Village. Centering around the three Bach Gamba Sonatas, Robert and Coleman will explore the wide wonderful world of music for cello and harpsichord, spanning over three recitals. We had a blast preparing and recording these pieces, some of which are hidden gems of the repertoire.
Please join us for this live virtual event and hang with us during the pre- and post-concert Zoom session! (Pre-concert Zoom ~7:45 PM EDT, Concert Premiere ~8:00 PM EDT, Post-concert Zoom ~ 8:45 PM EDT)
Looking forward to seeing you there! :~)
Program:
J.S. Bach: Praeludium, BWV999
Luigi Boccherini: Cello Sonata No.3 in G major
J.S. Bach : ‘Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ’
Domenico Scarlatti: Cello Sonata No. 1 in D minor
J.S. Bach: Gamba Sonata No.1 in G major, BWV 1027
Beethoven Triple Concerto with Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (cancelled)
Maestro Louis Langrée & the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra perform Bernstein, Tower, and Beethoven’s Triple Concerto in 3 performances. Soloists are Coleman Itzkoff (Cello), Christina Nam (Violin), and Awadagin Pratt (Piano). Contact for more information.
Building 'Broken Theatre': Residencies at Mass MoCA & LaMaMa Theater
Broken Theater is a pioneering live-stream performance event, where Dance Theater intersects with Cinema. Multiple storylines collide and diverge within a single structure, on a single evening. Relationships are dissected in real time—bringing forth questions about what we believe in and what we stand for. Utilizing myriad spaces in the iconic NY theater La MaMa as well as the awe-inspiring spaces of Mass MoCA, an incredibly gifted cast of actors, dancers, singers, and musicians will be captured in multiple- camera format and presented via choice-based audience interface.
Groupmuse: Chausson & Faure
Dear friends,
I am pleased to introduce this premiere of many dimensions! Recorded at Oktaven AudiO studio in Mt. Vernon, New York, where many Grammy-nominated recordings have been made and released on a variety of record labels, the audio and video quality of this recording will be some of the best on this stream series with additional footage that you don't want to miss! This isn't just like a concert - it's like going to see a film production while being able to eat, drink, react, and make comments with your fellow attendees! Here are some of the unique aspects of this event:
Firstly, I am happy to collaborate with musicians from New York, Boston, and Paris, in which you will see Marisa Gupta, Coleman Itzkoff, and Geneva Lewis return to the world of virtual Groupmuses! I am so happy to be joined also by violinist Stephanie Zyzak and violist Marta Lambert, also Groupmusers, who will make their appearances in the Chausson.
Secondly, this premiere will feature an arrangement of the Poème, a beloved work usually for violin and orchestra. This chamber ensemble version is rarely programmed, especially in the United States.
Thirdly, the exploration of the Fauré involves looking at the score with the composer's editorial markings which have not made its way into any published editions. It changes our musical approach, and has been a fun experience. We are excited to share this with you. I am also making a concert debut on viola. Come for the viola jokes in the Zoom session!
Although this is not a live performance, it is a live broadcast that the musicians will join to watch and discuss. In keeping with the high quality live-streams from this summer's past with Mackenzie Melemed and others, the musical experience of this broadcast will be no less (perhaps even greater!) in quality. I hope you will join us for this very special premiere. See you there!
Sincerely yours,
Max Tan
Baroque Recital
Coleman Itzkoff, cello
Robert Warner, Harpsichord
Program
Prelude, BWV 999
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)
Arranged, ItzkoffSonata in G major, G.5
Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805)Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 639
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)
Cello Sonata No. 1 in D minor
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
Gamba Sonata No.1 in G major, BWV 1027
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)
Groupmuse: Schumann & Chausson Trios
Welcome back to apartment 4D where we've brought to you seven different violin-piano duo recital programs!
As Mackenzie travels for concerts in Finland, I'm happy to present piano trios with two incredible friends. Introducing: Marisa Gupta, a pianist based in Paris who concertizes throughout Europe and the United States, and Coleman Itzkoff, a cellist based in New York engaged in many solo and chamber music concerts who will start his Artist Diploma at Juilliard this fall!
This program will feature the Schumann Six Canonic Studies for Organ, op. 56, and the Chausson Piano Trio, op. 3. The Schumann op.56 has been transcribed for many different instrumentations and will be first on this program. This arrangement by Theodor Kirchner for piano trio is an under-programmed gem; the work has enchanted countless composers including Debussy, Bizet, and others. The Chausson Piano Trio is a beauty of its own. Chausson's works, although sounding French, are often described as a mix of Franck and Wagner. This luscious and provocative piece is a hearty experience for the ears, not to be missed!
Continuing the tradition of presenting beautiful repertoire that is not traditionally programmed, I hope you will join us as we continue our musical broadcasting from New York. Mackenzie will be returning in September and we intend to continue our series of livestreams into the fall!
See you soon.
YellowBarn 2020: Season Finale
While we are not able to gather our entire Yellow Barn family this year, we have created a series of Summer Artist Residencies, allowing some of our musicians to be here as representatives of the whole. The first residency program in this country for professional musicians, Yellow Barn’s Artist Residencies offer an unforeseen model for this time.
The first performance will take place on what would have been our opening night together, July 10th.
PROGRAM
John Cage (1912-1992) Solo for Voice 43 from Song Books (1970)
Lucy Shelton
Philippe Hersant (b.1948) In The Dark (2006)
Yasmina Spiegelberg, clarinet
Dimitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) Seven Romances on Poems of Alexander Blok, Op.127 (1967)
Tony Arnold, soprano; Mark Steinberg, violin; Coleman Itzkoff, cello; Seth Knopp, piano
Osvaldo Golijov (b.1960) Tenebrae (2002)
Lucy Fitz Gibbon, soprano; Yasmina Spiegelberg, clarinet; Adelya Nartadjieva, Alice Ivy-Pemberton, violins; Mark Steinberg, viola; Coleman Itzkoff, cello
James MacMillan (b.1959) Angel (1993)
Seth Knopp, piano
This program is performed without intermission and is approximately 60 minutes in length.
YellowBarn 2020: Concert #8
While we are not able to gather our entire Yellow Barn family this year, we have created a series of Summer Artist Residencies, allowing some of our musicians to be here as representatives of the whole. The first residency program in this country for professional musicians, Yellow Barn’s Artist Residencies offer an unforeseen model for this time.
The first performance will take place on what would have been our opening night together, July 10th.
PROGRAM
John Cage (1912-1992) Solo for Voice 22 from Song Books (1970)
Lucy Shelton
Georges Aperghis (b.1945) Récitation No. 9 for Female Voice (1978)
Elaine Daiber, soprano
Liza Lim (b.1966) Inguz (1966)
Yasmina Spiegelberg, clarinet; Coleman Itzkoff, cello
John Cage (1912-1992) Solo for Voice 23 from Song Books (1970)
Anthony Marwood and Walter Van Dyk
Matthew Aucoin (b.1990) Dual (2015)
Coleman Iztkoff, cello; Lizzie Burns, double bass
Philippe Manoury (b.1952) Le livre des Claviers II (1987-88)
Ayano Kataoka, Eduardo Leandro, marimbas
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Partita No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1002 (1720)
Alice Ivy-Pemberton, Adelya Nartadjieva, violins
This program is performed without intermission and is approximately 60 minutes in length.
YellowBarn 2020, Composer Portrait: Mario Davidovsky
While we are not able to gather our entire Yellow Barn family this year, we have created a series of Summer Artist Residencies, allowing some of our musicians to be here as representatives of the whole. The first residency program in this country for professional musicians, Yellow Barn’s Artist Residencies offer an unforeseen model for this time.
The first performance will take place on what would have been our opening night together, July 10th.
PROGRAM
Mario Davidovsky (1934-2019)
Synchronisms No. 3 for Cello and Electronic Sounds (1964)
Coleman Itzkoff, cello
Synchronisms No. 6 for Piano and Electronic Sounds (1970)
Seth Knopp, piano
Synchronisms No. 9 for Violin and Electronic Sounds (1988)
Alice Ivy-Pemberton, violin
Synchronisms No. 11 for Contrabass and Electronic Sounds (2005)
Lizzie Burns, double bass
Synchronisms No.12 for Clarinet and Electronic Sounds (2016)
Yasmina Spiegelberg, clarinet
This program is performed without intermission and is approximately 60 minutes in length.
Marlboro 2020 Music Festival (CANCELLED)
After three weeks of daily rehearsals, Marlboro artists begin sharing the results of their in-depth collaborations with audiences. Public concerts are presented on Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons, and on two Friday evenings. The programs are selected from the 60-80 groups in rehearsal at any one time; only one-quarter of the more than 250 works explored during the summer can be included.
Each week, groups who feel that they have achieved especially successful results recommend their works for performance. As a result of this dynamic scheduling process, we do not know concert repertoire or personnel more than a week in advance. Yet, the performances provide exciting musical discoveries and represent the joyous spirit and dedication to excellence of the entire Marlboro Music community. The concerts can sell out quickly, so we urge you to reserve your seats as early as possible. Tickets for the 2021 Season will go on sale on March 1.
YellowBarn 2020: Concert #2
While we are not able to gather our entire Yellow Barn family this year, we have created a series of Summer Artist Residencies, allowing some of our musicians to be here as representatives of the whole. The first residency program in this country for professional musicians, Yellow Barn’s Artist Residencies offer an unforeseen model for this time.
The first performance will take place on what would have been our opening night together, July 10th.
PROGRAM:
Lei Liang (b.1972) Trans for solo percussion and audience (2013)
Eduardo Leandro, percussion
Anton Webern (1883-1945) Five Movements for String Quartet, Op.5 (1909)
Emma Frucht, Alice Ivy-Pemberton, violins; Roger Tapping, viola; Coleman Itzkoff, cello
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Elegy for Solo Viola (1930)
Roger Tapping, viola
Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) Bagatelles, Op.47 (1878)
Emma Frucht, Alice Ivy-Pemberton, violins; Coleman Itzkoff, cello; Seth Knopp, harmonium
Frederic Rzewski (b.1938) To The Earth (1985)
Eduardo Leandro, percussion
This program is performed without intermission and is approximately 60 minutes in length.
Creative Dialogue XII Online Concert
CREATIVE DIALOGUE XII Online Concert
Pieces written this week by participating Composers:
Edo Frenkel: Poetic Forms 1, for viola
Michael Kropf: Dima Neemanu, for violin
Aslıhan Keçebaşoğlu: Yakarış, for piano
Benjamin Morris: Órnes Carvings, for cello
and pieces by Kaija Saariaho and Magnus Lindberg
played by the participants:
Jixue Yang, Lambis Pavlou and Katelyn Vahala, piano
Tiffany Kang, Barak Schossberger and Raina Arnett, violin
Steven Tse, viola
Coleman Itzkoff and Shulamit Sarid and Hannah Collins cello
Concert followed by discussion.
Anssi Karttunen, Kaija Saariaho and Magnus Lindberg conceived Creative Dialogue together with Sibelius-Academy in 2008. The idea behind the Creative Dialogue is to inspire young performers and composers to engage in a dialogue that benefits not only the two parties but the music life in general. Performers and composers often study in the same institutions, but are seldom encouraged to find out how much they can to learn from each other. Apart from the immediate personal relations that result from such a dialogue, it will lead to a deeper understanding of how composer-performer friendships have affected the history of music.
YellowBarn 2020: Opening Night
On the evening of each Summer Residency performance, go to our homepage (www.yellowbarn.org) before 7:30 to tune into the concert stream broadcast. Program details, texts and translations, and program notes will be available to print in advance.
All Yellow Barn concert stream broadcasts are presented free of charge.
PROGRAM
Charles Ives (1874-1954) Piano Sonata No. 2 “Concord, Mass., 1840–60” (c.1911-15)
Gilbert Kalish, piano
Brief intermission
Stephen Coxe (b.1966) Entstehung Heiliger Dankgesang (Emergence of the Holy Song of Thanksgiving) (2020)
World Premiere
Alice Ivy-Pemberton, Emma Frucht, violins; Roger Tapping, viola; Coleman Itzkoff, cello; Eduardo Leandro, percussion
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) String Quartet in A Minor, Op.132 (1825)
Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit,
in der lydischen Tonart
(Holy song of thanksgiving of a convalescent to the Deity,
in the Lydian mode)
Alice Ivy-Pemberton, Emma Frucht, violins; Roger Tapping, viola; Coleman Itzkoff, cello
This program is approximately 90 minutes in length.
ERC presents Anna Akhmatova: The Heart is Not Made of Stone (CANCELLED)
nsemble for the Romantic Century
Written by Eve Wolf
Directed by Donald T. Sanders
Set & Costume Design by Vanessa James
Lighting Design by Beverly Emmons
Video Design by David Bengali
Featuring Ellen McLaughlin as Anna, and Jeremy Holm as Isaiah,
with Tommy Schrider, Kate Konigisor, Michael Lewis, and Robert Ian Mackenzie
TBD, violin
Coleman Itzkoff, cello
Zhenni Li, piano
“A dazzling musical and multimedia paean to human aspiration that will send you into the stratosphere. Head immediately to BAM.”
—The New York Times on ERC’s 2015 production of Jules Verne: From the Earth to the Moon
Set against the sweeping backdrop of twentieth-century Russia and featuring music by Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich, Akhmatova: The Heart Is Not Made of Stone tells of the meeting of two cultural giants: the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova and the British philosopher Isaiah Berlin. Tinged with romance and risk, their relationship had repercussions that plunged the two ever deeper into one of the darkest periods in human history.
Dilijan Concert #6 (CANCELED)
“listening with eyes: hommage a film”
Sunday, April 19, 2020, 3:00 PM
Ulikhanyan – Fantasy on T. Mansurian’s Film Music – World Premiere
Herrmann – Psycho Suite
Wagner – Prelude, Tristan und Isolde (Alik Barsoumian film) – World Premiere
Korngold – Sextet in D Major, Op. 10
Varty Manouelian, Movses Pogossian, Scott St. John, Sharon Wei, Antonio Lysy, Coleman Itzkoff, Phil O’Connor, VEM String Quartet, UCLA Camarades
Jupiter Chamber Players: American Goodies (CANCELLED)
April 6 American Goodies concerts at 2pm & 730pm
Stephen Beus piano
Abigel Kralik violin
Lisa Shihoten violin
Luosha Fang viola
Coleman Itzkoff cello
Vadim Lando clarinet
Randall THOMPSON Suite for oboe, clarinet, and viola ▪ 1940
▪ one of his favorite pieces, the scrumptious trio is distilled Americana, folk-flavored with echoes of old Western tunes and Yankee hymn themes
Born in New York City, Thompson earned his doctorate at the Eastman School of Music and taught at the Curtis Institute, University of Virginia, and Harvard University. He is best known for his choral works.
Marion BAUER Concertino Op. 32b ▪ 1943
▪ 3 short movements in a late Romantic idiom, with intense harmonies for oboe, clarinet, and string quartet ~ commissioned by the League of Composers
Born in Walla Walla, Washington, Bauer was Nadia Boulanger’s first American pupil. They traded lessons—English for music, and vice versa. She taught and lectured widely, including at Juilliard, and was the first woman faculty member at New York University. Most importantly, Bauer was a tireless promoter and supporter of American and modern music, exerting great influence in the development of American music in the first half of the 20th century.
Charles Griffes became her close friend after they met in 1917. Although their friendship was short (he died in 1920), their mutual respect and influence ran deep. After Griffes’s death, Bauer programmed his music on numerous lecture-recitals and helped to organize concerts of his music. She wrote that he “was one of the first to put into American piano music something of the elusive charm and color of French Impressionism.”
Charles Tomlinson GRIFFES Two Sketches on Indian Themes ▪ 1918 or 1919
▪ the first is based on a “Farewell Song of the Chippewa Indians” and the second is from a Hopi festival, being his impression of a Native American dance ~ by the most gifted of the American impressionists, for string quartet
Griffes was born in Elmira, New York. He studied in Berlin; and upon returning to the U.S. in 1907, he became the director of music studies at the Hackley School for boys in Tarrytown for 13 years, until his death at age 35 from influenza during the pandemic. Although the post gave him financial stability, it was “grim and unrewarding.”
Howard HANSON Concerto da Camera in C minor Op. 7 ▪ 1917
▪ penned in one fantasy-like movement for piano and string quartet by the 20-year-old, expressing a wide range of emotions and with audacious virtuosity
Born in Wahoo, Nebraska to Swedish parents, Hanson was Director of the Eastman School of Music for 40 years. During his tenure, he presented over 1,500 different compositions by more than 700 composers. John Gladney Proffitt notes that he “was the leading practitioner of American musical Romanticism.... Hanson dedicated his professional life to the encouragement, creation and preservation of beauty in music, believing it to be an art form possessing unique power to ennoble both performer and listener and, by extension, mankind.”
We are grateful to Sibley Music Library at the Eastman School of Music for providing a copy of the music for our performances.
Charles Wakefield CADMAN Piano Trio in D Major Op. 56 ▪ 1914
▪ an Elysian post-Romantic work by the “Most Popular Composer of 1930” ~ its use of ragtime elements in a classical composition is a first, anticipating the music of composers like Gershwin and Milhaud
Cadman did not teach. Born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, he was for a time the music editor and critic of the Pittsburgh Dispatch, and became a foremost expert on American Indian music. After he moved to Los Angeles in the 1920s, he helped found the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and wrote film scores, earning a reputation as one of Hollywood’s top film composers of the period.
Bach Around The Clock (CANCELLED)
Our day-long celebration wraps up with the ad-hoc Staunton Bach Orchestra , BATC Choir, and soloists, led by Paul Weber, offering a rousing finale of some beloved arias, duets, and chorales, including a complete performance of the landmark Cantata No. 131, considered Bach’s first cantata.
CANTATA SOLOISTS
Sheila Dietrich, soprano
Charles Humphries countertenor
Brian Thorsett, tenor
Christopher Short, bass
BATC CHAMBER CHOIR
Soprano
Sheila Dietrich, Autry Harper, Megan Sharp,
Kaitlyn Townsend, Jennifer Roe, Nancy Dennis
Alto
Charles Humphries, Adrianna Tam, Jonathan Schakel,
Narumi Sousa, Cecelia McKinley, Gayle Alderfer Fisher
Tenor
Brian Thorsett, Joel Vanderzee, Sam Johnson,
Aaron Reichert, Chris Mayfield
Bass
Christopher Short, Brian Sousa, Dwight McCall,
Marcus Hamilton, Jim Benedict, Ronald Gaykema
ORCHESTRA
Violin Principal: Nigel Armstrong
Violin 2: Rachel Wong
Viola: Andrew Gonzalez
Cello Principal: Coleman Itzkoff
Cello: Ana Abrantes
Double Bass: Samuel Suggs
Oboe & Oboe d’amore: Stephen Key
Bassoon: Suzanne Pattison
Continuo: Florence Jowers
Conductor: Paul Weber
Featured Soloist at Riverside Symphony Benefit Auction
Join us for an evening to support the orchestra’s acclaimed Concert Series and Music Memory program for New York City public school children.
Guest Principal w/Riverside Symphony Concert #1
P R O G R A M
MONTGOMERY Starburst
SCHUBERT Rondo for Violin and Orchestra in A major
HERMANN Psycho: A Narrative for String Orchestra
KORNGOLD Symphonic Serenade for String Orchestra in Bb major
N O T E S
Schubert’s ebullient violin showpiece is framed by up-and-coming American composer Jessie Montgomery’s vivacious opener and Bernard Herrmann’s 1960 Oscar-winning score for Psycho in concert version. This popular timepiece is answered by a rarely heard, nostalgia-tinged masterpiece by two-time Oscar winner Erich Korngold, a Viennese-American transplant who continued to compose in a “legit” vein long after his commercial success
AMOC Chamber at Union College
PAUL APPLEBY, tenor
MIRANDA CUCKSON, violin
COLEMAN ITZKOFF, cello
CONOR HANICK, piano
AMOC joins the Union College Concert Series season with a program of chamber music performed in the college’s historic Memorial Chapel. Tenor PAUL APPLEBY, violinist MIRANDA CUCKSON, cellist COLEMAN ITZKOFF, and pianist CONOR HANICK will perform a program featuring MATTHEW AUCOIN’s Merrill Songs for tenor and piano as well as arrangements of Berg’s Seven Early Songs by AMOC violinist and writer KEIR GOGWILT.
PROGRAM
AUCOIN / Merrill Songs
IVES / Piano Trio
BERG / Seven Early Songs (arr. for violin and piano)
BERG / Altenberg-Lieder
SCHUBERT / Schwanengesang (selections)
AMOC in concert at the Resnick Passlof Foundation
FEATURING
MIRANDA CUCKSON, violin
COLEMAN ITZKOFF, cello
EMI FERGUSON, flute
JONNY ALLEN, percussion
CONOR HANICK, piano
Kick off the new decade with AMOC! In this adventurous program, a quintet of musicians will perform music ranging from a classic by Charles Ives to newer pieces by Scott Wollschleger and Rob Honstein. The program also features a brand-new arrangement by Emi Ferguson of Matthew Aucoin’s piano études, created specifically for AMOC’s musicians.
Program to include:
MATTHEW AUCOIN, arr. EMI FERGUSON / Three Études
CHARLES IVES / Piano Trio
ROBERT HONSTEIN / UnwindSCOTT WOLLSCHLEGER / Secret Machines, Nos. 1 & 2
TICKETS / $32
Guest Principal Cello w/Riverside Symphony: Composer Reading
Witness the unveiling and live archival recording of five stunning new works—Andrew List, Ash Stemke, David Jason Snow, Martin Hebel, and SiHyun Uhm —selected from our recent National Composer Competition which brought in 114 submissions from across the United States. Meet and greet the attending composers following the event!
This reading is part of Riverside Symphony’s commitment to addressing the dearth of orchestral performance opportunities available to American Composers.
Admission is free but requires a reservation - Call today to reserve your spot!