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Thursday, October 30, 3 pm: Convocation and Composition Forum
The 2008 FOCUS Festival will launch officially with a Convocation and Composition Forum with Dr. Chen and moderated by Drs. Loris Chobanian, Professor of Composition and Guitar; and Beth Hiser, Assistant Professor of Music Theory.
Friday, October 31, 8 pm: Student Contemporary Music Ensemble “l(a”
The first concert of FOCUS will be the student music ensemble “l(a,” named after the famous poem by e.e. cummings. The concert will be broadcast live on WCLV 104.9 FM or www.wclv.com. Founded in 2005 by Sean Kleve, a percussionist at the Conservatory, l(a is dedicated to the performance of music not typically included in the classical canon, with preference given to contemporary music from the past 40 years.
After a couple of dormant years l)a was revived in 2008 by Matthew Sharrock, a percussion performance major and now a senior. Matt serves the group as its Music Director. “I’m really excited about working with Dr. Chen, who has experienced so much in her life. She will give us a perspective that we can’t get in Western culture,” he says. He and the group are approaching their performance as penultimate professionals, staging four complete rehearsals and a dress rehearsal. “We want to be thoroughly prepared to have a good result,” adds Matt. So dedicated is the ensemble that, after their course work and jobs, they are only able to start rehearsing after 10 p.m. Matt is also encouraging the ensemble to study elements of traditional Chinese music.
Repertoire:
And Legions Will Rise by Kevin Puts
Concerto for Trumpet and Five Players by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
Sparkle by Chen Yi
Shuo by Chen Yi
Wu Yu by Chen Yi
Matt Sharrock and William Tackett conducting
Saturday, November 1, 2 pm: Composition Master Class
Selected student composers from Baldwin-Wallace and other area colleges will share their compositions with Chen Yi for her comments and suggestions. Open to the public
Saturday, November 1, 8 pm: Large Ensembles Concert
The centerpiece of FOCUS is the Large Ensemble concert, which will showcase several of Dr. Chen’s noted folks songs, poems, choruses and suites. Other high points of the evening will be an address given by Dr. Chen, as well as the conferring of an Honorary Degree upon her by B-W President Dick Durst.
Repertoire:
Chinese Poems for Six Girls Choruses (1999)
Up the Crane Tower (by Wang Zhi-huan)
Picking the Seedpods of the Lotus (Folk Song of the South)
Night Thoughts (by Li Po)
Chile Song (Folk Song of the North)
The Cataract of Mount Lu (by Li Po)
From A Set of Chinese Folk Songs for choir, arranged and translated by Chen Yi (1994)
Mayila (Sinkiang Folk Song)
Jasmine Flower (Jiangsu Folk song, Mo Li Hua)
Awariguli (Sinkiang Love Song)
Diu Diu Deng (Taiwanese Folk Song)
Baldwin-Wallace Motet, College and Women’s Choirs
Dirk Garner conducting
Suite from China West
Introduction
Meng Songs
Zang Songs
Miao Dances
Baldwin-Wallace Symphonic Wind Ensemble
Dwight Oltman conducting
KC Capriccio
Baldwin-Wallace Symphonic Wind Ensemble, College Choir and B-W Singers
Melvin Unger conducting
Duo Ye
Baldwin-Wallace Symphony Orchestra
Dwight Oltman conducting
Chinese Folk Dance Suite for Violin and Orchestra
Lion Dance
Yang Ko
Muquam
Baldwin-Wallace Symphony Orchestra
Dwight Oltman conducting
Julian Ross, Violin
Sunday, November 2, 4 pm: Faculty Chamber Music Concert
Featuring B-W Conservatory faculty performances of Chen Yi's chamber music as coached by Dr. Chen Yi.
Repertoire:
Xian Shi
Louise Zeitlin, viola; Josh Ryan, percussion; Sungeun Kim, piano
Sound of the Five for Solo Cello and String Quartet
Lusheng Ensemble
Echoes of the Set Bells
Romance of Hsiao and Ch’in
Flower Drums in Dance
Regina Mushabac, cello; Chul In Park and Amber Dimoff, violin; Alexandra Vago, viola; Heidi Albert, cello
Tunes From My Home
Introduction
Nostalgia
Happiness
Tibetan Tunes
Du Mu
Dui Xie
Elysian Trio: Julian Ross, violin; Merry Peckham, cello; Robert Mayerovitch, piano
As in a Dream
Two Songs for Soprano, Violin, and Cello
I remember many times…
Last night fine rain…
Nanette Canfield, soprano; Julian Ross, violin; Regina Mushabac, cello
Feng for Woodwind Quintet
Introduction
Rondo
CO5: Marisela Sager, flute; Jeffrey Rathbun, oboe; Daniel McKelway, clarinet; Barrick Stees, bassoon; Jesse McCormick, horn
For information about the 2008 FOCUS Festival, call Margaret Swendseid, Coordinator, FOCUS and Bach Festivals, at 440/826-8070; or email mswendse@bw.edu.
The FOCUS Festival is generously funded by Cuyahoga County residents through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture.
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