PALIMPSEST

THE MUSIC OF ELLIOTT CARTER

PALIMPSEST, the department's graduate performance ensemble, celebrates the music of Elliott Carter, who died November 5, 2012, at the age of 103. Curated by Aleck Karis, conducted by special guest Donald Palma, and featuring soprano soloists Alice Teyssier and Tiffany DuMouchelle, the program includes Carter's Double Trio, Triple Duo, Hiyoku, and A Mirror on Which to Dwell, as well as UC San Diego composer Rand Steiger's Elliott's Instruments and the world premiere premiere of Stephen Lewis' Colla Voce. Musicians are Leah Asher (violin), Judith Hamann (violincello), Calvin Price (trumpet), Eric Starr (trombone), Kyle Blair (piano), Leah Bowden (percussion), Batya MacAdam-Somer (violin), Rachel Beetz (flute), Curt Miller (clarinet), Jonathan Hepfer (percussion), Samuel Dunscombe (clarinet), Christine Tavolacci (flute), Jonathan Davis (oboe), Todd Moellenberg (piano), Ryan Nestor (percussion), Jennifer Bewerse (cello), and Scott Worthington (bass).

Through the generosity of Dean Seth Lerer, this event is free to the UCSD Community.

A concert of electronic works by groundbreaking composer and computer music researcher, John Chowning. Included in the program, Voices (2005) will feature esteemed soprano, Maureen Chowning, for whom the piece was written.

John Chowning, a graduate and longtime professor of music at Stanford University, is famous for his discovery of the FM synthesis algorithm and for his work as founder and director of Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA).

At 5:30 p.m. the artists will present a FREE lecture/demonstration showing the development of 4-channel spatial illusions—spatialization— and how that led to the discovery of FM synthesis, followed by the 8:00 p.m. Concert.  Guests attending the symposium are welcome to remain for the concert, gratis.

5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. - Sound Synthesis and Perception: Composing from the Inside Out (and a bit of history)
8:00 p.m. - Concert

Soprano Sharon Chang will perform songs exploring the progression of life and love. Starting with an innocent, quirky outlook on life, then looking at the emotions of lost and unrequited love, and finishing with an acquired mischievous and bold attitude to what life has to offer.

Tenor Shannon Johnson will perform a selection of songs highlighting man-made relationships.  His program begins with an arrangement of the popular folksong How Can I Keep From Singing by Richard Walters, Charles Ives’ setting of the hymn At The River, and Total Eclipse from George Frideric Handel’s oratorio “Samson” as a trio of songs addressing humankind’s relationship with God.

Interpersonal relationships are also examined, as Ivor Gurney’s languid Sleep, Margaret Bonds’ soulful setting of the Langston Hughes poem Minstrel Man, and Benjamin Britten’s realization of Henry Purcell’s I attempt from love’s sickness to fly conclude the program.
 

A few words to sing...
Soprano Tiffany Du Mouchelle performs a program celebrating women's voices, life, love, and song. Throughout the ages women's voices have been repressed.  Those who have found the strength to speak against their repression have often faced exile or even death.  Beginning in the Middle Ages we hear the troubadour Rudel's song about courtly love in Saariaho's Lonh, Chaucer's description of the Wife of Bath and her views on marriage from Trimble's Four Fragments from the Canterbury Tales, and the voice of Hildegard of Bingen as she sings her devotion to love and God in Viñao's Hildegard's Dream.  Returning to the present day, the physicality of vocal repression is explored through Berio's Sequenza III:
Give me a few words for a woman
to sing a truth allowing us
to build a house without worrying before night comes.
William Harvey's song cycle Speaking for the Afghan Woman illuminates words of women who's voices have been caged in contemporary society:  poems by Afghan female poets, including Bahar Saeed and Parwin Pajwak who were forced into exile along with Nadia Anjuman and Menna Keshwar Kamal who were both murdered in response to their words being heard.  The program concludes with Only by Feldman, as an elegy to those who suffer in silence.

Tiffany Du Mouchelle will be joined by Rachel Beetz, flute; Kyle Adam Blair, piano;  Todd Moellenberg, harpsichord;  Ariana Warren, clarinet.

Under the direction of Ken Anderson, the UCSD Gospel Choir, performs in Mandeville Auditorium.

Classical Indian ragas performed by students of sitar master Kartik Seshadri.

SINGERS and CHOIRS

Under the direction of Phil Larson, Singers and Choirs of from UCSD's 95C and 95K ensembles perform.

Xavier Beteta, piano, in concert with violinist Ercole Salinaro.

The duo will perform works by Beethoven, Pugnini-Kreisler, Paganini, Ponce, and Gardel.

An evening of original compositions by undergraduate composer Samara Rice. Pieces for toy piano, bowed piano ensemble, string quartet, solo violin, and more performed by talented members of the UCSD music community.

Under the direction of Kamau Kenyatta, the popular 95JC returns!  Featuring an ensemble performing a variety of diverse compositions, including pieces written and arranged by student musicians, instrumentation includes voice, violin, saxophones, rhythm section and afro-latin percussion.

Under the direction of David Medine, the UCSD Chamber Orchestra performs in the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall.

Under the direction of Robert Zelickman, the Wind Ensemble returns to Mandeville Auditorium!

UCSD computer music graduate students present original music in this year's three-concert computer music series, featuring original experimental works for performers and live electronics.  The concerts contain highly diverse material utilizing custom software, home-made electronics, re-purposed technology, computer graphics, and sculptural sound objects, as well as traditional instruments and recorded sound.

LA JOLLA SYMPHONY & CHORUS: EARTH / PEACE

David Chase conducts  Three great 20th-century composers contemplate peace – global, personal, spiritual. Britten begins the program with a work inspired by his intense pacifism. Schoenberg paints a picture of mankind evolving from a murky past to a bright future based on “Peace on Earth.” We conclude with one of Vaughan Williams’ greatest choral-orchestral works based on the war poetry of Walt Whitman and excerpts from the Bible.

Special Guests: Mary Jaeb, soprano; Dean Elzinga, bass-baritone

LA JOLLA SYMPHONY & CHORUS: EARTH / PEACE

David Chase conducts  Three great 20th-century composers contemplate peace – global, personal, spiritual. Britten begins the program with a work inspired by his intense pacifism. Schoenberg paints a picture of mankind evolving from a murky past to a bright future based on “Peace on Earth.” We conclude with one of Vaughan Williams’ greatest choral-orchestral works based on the war poetry of Walt Whitman and excerpts from the Bible.

Special Guests: Mary Jaeb, soprano; Dean Elzinga, bass-baritone

A BEETHOVEN FINALE

A Camera Lucida Special Presentation
Charles Curtis, cello
Reiko Uchida, piano

The Myriad Trio: Che-Yen Chen, viola; Demarre McGill, flute;
Julie Ann Smith, harp

Camera Lucida program:
BEETHOVEN: Seven Variations on "Bei Maennern welche Liebe fuehlen"
BEETHOVEN: Sonata in A Major for Cello and Piano, Op. 69

Myriad Trio program:
JAN BACH: Eisteddfod
BEETHOVEN/ARR. MAAYANI: Serenade, Op. 25 (Arr. for Flute, Viola and Harp)

Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano (1946-48) by John Cage (70 min.)