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 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.

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.

A BEETHOVEN FINALE

A Camera Lucida Special Presentation
Monday, June 10, 7:30pm
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: TBA

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