THOMAS OBOE LEE: Departed Feathers Music
Premieres and
performances: 2008-2009 season
September 13, 2008
Piano duo "Tetsu & Masaki" performs TOL arr. of George Gershwin's
"He Loves And She Loves" at Piano Art Salon in Tsukishima,
Chuou-Ku, Tokyo.
September 13 & 14, 2008
The Tallahasee Ballet performs "Morango." Choreography by Gerri
Houlihan set to TOL's "Morango ... almost a tango." Featured
dancers: Cristina Suarez and Stefan Zubal. Live performance by a
string
quartet: Rang Hee Kim, Megan Oswalt, Sally Burton and Jayoung Kim.
October
14, 2008.
Annual TOL jazz concert in Gasson Hall at Boston College,
Chestnut Hill,
Massachusetts. "Music by Antonio Carlos
Jobim" featuring TOL on flute, Alex Brown on piano, Daniel Durham
on bass and Mark Walker on drums.
November
9 & 11, 2008
Performance of "I Never Saw Another Butterfly" by soprano Shelly
Gislason, clarinetist Adrian Wright and pianist Amy Hendricks at St.
Patrick's Church in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada.
February 8, 2009
Performance of "Persephone and the Four Seasons" (2006 - third movement
Adagio only) by BSO oboist Keisuke Wakao and the Wellesley Symphony
Orchestra
at MassBay Community College in Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts.
Max Hobart, music director.
February 15, 2009
Premiere performance of "Septem Verba Christi in Cruce" (2008) for a
cappella SATB chorus by the Boston Collegiam in Gasson Hall, Boston
College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Daniel Gostin, music
director. Also on the program: premiere performance of the
revised version of "Piano Quintet" (2008) by the Lexington Symphony
Chamber Players.
February
24, 2009
Premiere performance of the
revised version of "The Flowers of Terezín" (2004, rev. 2008) by
the students at Boston Arts Academy in the Higginson Room at Symphony
Hall in Boston, Massachusetts. Jeff Colby, music
director. Julia Carey, piano.
March 21 & 22, 2009
Premiere performance of string orchestra version of "Seven Steps To
Heaven" by the Montpelior Chamber Orchestra at Montpelier College of
Fine Arts in Montpelior, Vermont. Music Director, Victor
Rosenbaum. Also on the program: Haydn's "Drumroll" Symphony and
Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3. Mana Tokuno, piano solo.
April 19, 2009
Premiere performance of "Variations on a Mennonite Hymn" (2009) for two
sopranos and violin solo. Joan Yogg and Lara Secord-Haid,
sopranos; Yumi Man, violin. The Tavern Club, 4 Boylston Place,
Boston,
Massachusetts.
May 22, 2009
Premiere performance of "... bisbigliando ..." (2009) by harpist Ina
Zdorovetchi and Boston Modern Orchestra Project in Jordan Hall, Boston,
Massachusetts. Gil Rose, music director.
June 12, 2009***
Premiere performance of "Emerald
Necklace ... The Story of Frederick Law Olmsted" for narrator and
chamber
orchestra by the Boston Landmarks Orchestra at the TAJ Boston, 15 Arlington
Street, Boston, Massachusetts. Charles Ansbacher,
music director; Rick Burnes, narrator.
June 18, 2009
Chenango Summer MusicFest 2009 presents "Canções e
Sambinhas" for cello and piano at St. Mary's Church in Hamilton, New
York. Dennis Parker, cello, and Steven Heyman, piano. Other
works on the program by Milhaud, Nazareth, Mignone, Almeida and
Mendelssohn.
***Additional performances of "Emerald Necklace ... The Story of
Frederick
Law Olmsted" with Maestro Charles Ansbacher and the Boston Landmarks
Orchestra.
July
26, 2009, at 6 PM Pinebank Promontory, Jamaica Pond,
Boston, Massachusetts.
August 5, 2009, at 9 AM &
10:30 AM Boys and Girls Club of Dorchester, Blue
Hill Club, Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts.
August 7, 2009, at 9 AM & 11 AM
Boys and Girls Club of Boston, Yawkey Club, Roxbury, Boston,
Massachusetts.
August
9,
2009, at 6 PM Dorchester Park, Dorchester, Boston,
Massachusetts.
September
2, 2009, at 7 PM Hatch Shell on the Esplanade at
Charles River in Boston, Massachusetts.
Michael Dukakis, narrator.
Pilobolus performs
"Symbiosis," a dance work choreographed by
Michael Tracy to
TOL's "Morango ... almost a tango," at the following locations:
January 20, 2009 in Meridian, Mississippi.
January 28, 2009 in Tucson, Arizona.
January 31, 2009 in La Jolla, California.
February 3, 2009 in Bellingham, Washington.
February 5, 2009 in Olympia, Washington.
February 18, 2009 in Elmira, New York.
February 20 & 21, 2009 in Hartford, Connecticut.
February 24 & 25, 2009 in Asheville, North
Carolina.
May 5 to 17, 2009 in Australia.
May 22 to June 7, 2009 in Brazil.
Premieres
and
performances: 2007-2008 season
September 14, 15 & 16, 2007
Intermezzo presents the world premier performances of "The Inman
Diaries" (2007) at the Tower Auditorium Theater, Mass College of Art,
621 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts.
Libretto by Jesse
J. Martin based on the life and writings of Arthur Crew Inman and a
play by Lorenzo DeStefano.
John Whittlesey,
artistic director.
James
Busby, music director.
Andrew Ryker, stage
director.
William A. Fregosi,
set/lighting designer.
Cast of nine singers/actors:
Ray Bauwens, tenor - Arthur Crew Inman, Back Bay diarist
Gale Fuller, mezzo - Evelyn Inman, his wife
John Whittlesey,
baritone - Doctor Cyrus Pike, his doctor
Cheryl Nancarrow, soprano - Flossie, a reader/talker
Kristen
Watson, soprano - Kathy, a reader/talker
Joei Marshall Perry, soprano - Ella, a reader/talker
Erica Brookhyser, mezzo -
Therese, a reader/talker
Jason
McStoots, tenor - Billy,
handyman at Garrison Hall, friend and confidante to Arthur
Sepp Hammer, baritone - Otto ten Broek, valet and chauffeur to Arthur
Seven-piece chamber ensemble:
Bb clarinet - Kathy Matasy
Harp - Franziska Huhn
Percussion - Don Holm, Jr.
Violin - Peter Stickel
Viola - Philip Rush
Cello - Jonathan Bumstead
Double bass - Chuck Grainger
September
27, 28, 29 & 30, 2007
Tapage (a tap duo: Mari Fujibayashi
&
Olivia Rosenkrantz) dances to "Morango ...
almost a tango" with the Cuarteto Latinoamericano at the Forum
Universal de Las Cultural in Monterrey, Mexico. Also
included in the program are works by Astor Piazzolla, Silvestre
Revueltas, Roberto Sierra, and others.
September
28 & 30, 2007
Premiere performance of "Piano Concerto ... Mozartiana" (2007) by
pianist Robert Levin and the
Boston Classical Orchestra at Faneuil Hall, Quincy Market in Boston,
Massachusetts. Steven Lipsitt, music
director. "Piano Concerto ... Mozartiana" was commissioned by
Larry and
Deborah Chud for Robert Levin. Also on the program: Tchaikovsky's
Orchestral Suite No. 4 ... "Mozartiana" and Mozart's Piano Concerto No.
25 in C Major.
October
9, 2007. 8PM
Annual jazz concert at Boston College: "Jazz Tunes by Post-bop
trumpeter Lee Morgan (1938-72)." TOL, flute, with pianist Adam
Birnbaum and the Fringe - tenor
saxophonist George Garzone, bassist John Lockwood and drummer Bob
Gullotti - in Gasson Hall at Boston College, Chestnut Hill,
Massachusetts.
November
10 & 11, 2007
Performance of "I Never Saw Another Butterfly" by soprano Shelly
Gislason, clarinetist Adrian Wright and pianist Amy Hendricks at St.
Patrick's Church in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada.
February 4, 2008
Brett Shuster premieres "Chorões Brasileiros" (2007) for
trombone and
piano at the School of Music, Univeristy of Louisville, in Louisville,
Kentucky.
February 21, 2008
Chieh Huang and Theresa Yurkevicz perform "Eight Tarot Cards for Madam
Rubio" at the
Boston Conservatory in Seully Hall, Boston, Massachusetts.
March 16, 2008
Pilobolus performs "Symbiosis" - a dance work choreographed by Michael Tracy to music by George Crumb,
Arvo Pärt and TOL's "Morango ... almost a tango" in
the Staller Center at SUNY Stony Brook, Long Island, New York.
April 3, 2008, 7 p.m.
Premiere performance of Piano Quintet (2008) by Tammy Lum and the
Formosa Quartet at Nyack College in Nyack, New York.
May 6,
7, 8 & 9, 2008
Pilobolus performs "Symbiosis" - a dance work choreographed by Michael Tracy to music by George Crumb,
Arvo Pärt and TOL's "Morango ... almost a tango" at
Her Majesty's Theatre in Adelaide, Australia.
May 22, 23 & 24, 2008
Massachusetts Philharmonic Orchestra premieres "Symphony No. 7 ...
Roman Holidays" (2008). Jonathan Cohler, music director. (Postponed until fall 2008)
June 13, 2008; 12 noon
Premiere performance of HDT's "Walden, opus 123" (2008) by tenor Ray
Bauwens
and the Lexington Symphony Chamber Players at the First Parish Church
in Lexington, Massachusetts.
June
17, 2008
Pilobolus performs "Symbiosis" - a dance work choreographed by Michael Tracy to music by George Crumb,
Arvo Pärt and TOL's "Morango ... almost a tango" at
Wolf Trap in Vienna, Virginia.
June
30, 2008
July 7, 8, 10, 15, 16, 19, 23, 25 & 26, 2008
Pilobolus performs "Symbiosis" - a dance work choreographed by Michael Tracy to music by George Crumb,
Arvo Pärt and TOL's "Morango ... almost a tango" at
the Joyce Theater in New York City, New York.
August 27, 2008
Boston Landmarks Orchestra performs "Mambo!!!" in the Hatch Shell at
the Esplanade in Boston, Massachusetts. Charles Ansbacher, music
director.
Premieres and
performances: 2006-2007 season
October
13, 2006; 8 p.m.
Hawthorne String Quartet premieres "String Quartet No. 10 ... The
Berkshires" at the Lenox Club in Lenox, Massachusetts. Also on
the program works by Haydn, Dvorak and Takemitsu.
October
19, 2006; 8 p.m.
TOL performs with the Pierre Hurel Trio in a concert of jazz standards
in
Gasson Hall at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.
November
14, 2006; 8 p.m.
Hawthorne String Quartet repeats "String Quartet No. 10 ... The
Berkshires" in Gasson Hall at Boston College,
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Also on the program works by
Haydn and Dvorak.
January 5, 2007
Pilobolus performs "Symbiosis" - a dance work choreographed by Michael
Tracy to TOL's "Morango
... almost a tango" - at the Strand Theater in Dorchester,
Massachusetts. Other particpants in this Bank of America
Celebrity Series "Dance Across The City at the Strand" include the
Boston Ballet, Boston Arts Academy and the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater.
March
3, 2007
Pianist Tammy Lum premieres Twenty-nine Fireflies Book V, Four Pieces,
xxvi-xxix (2002) at Nyack College in Nyack, New York. Also on the program
"American Treasures" are works by Albright, Copland, Crumb, Gershwin,
Gottschalk, Grainger, Hovhaness, Kirchner, MacDowell, Mason, Piazzolla
and Sousa.
March 7, 2006
Tammy Lum repeats March 3rd program at the University of Hong Kong in
Kong Kong..
March 12, 2007
Tammy
Lum repeats March 3rd program at Shenzhen Art School in Shenzhen, China.
March
16, 2007
Lydian String Quartet performs "Morango ... almost a tango" at the
Center for the Arts in Natick, Massachusetts. Also on the program
are works by Heitor Villa-Lobos, Joaquin Turina and Maurice Ravel.
March 17, 2007
Lydian String Quartet repeats program from March 16 in Slosberg Music
Center at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.
March
25, 2007
European premiere of "Stabat Mater 2002" by the Madrigaalkoor Petrarca
at the "het Oude Willibrorduskerkje" in Waalre, the Netherlands.
March
31, 2007; 8 p.m.
Musica Sacra performs "Mechthild von Magdeburg: Minnelieder an got"
(2005) at the First Congregational Church in Cambridge,
Massachusetts. Mary Beekman, music director.
April
1, 2007; 8 p.m.
Musica Sacra performs "Mechthild von Magdeburg: Minnelieder an got"
(2005) at the First
Unitarian
Church in Providence, Rhode Island. Mary Beekman, music director.
March
31 & April 1, 2007
Ballet Gamonet premieres "Recitations" - a ballet choreographed by
Jimmy Gamonet De Los Heros with music by Georges Aperguis, Arvo
Pärt, JC
Espinoza and TOL's "Punk Funk" movement from "Seven Jazz Pieces" at
the Broward Community College Bailey Concert Hall in Davie, Florida.
April
13 & 14, 2007
Ballet Gamonet repeats "Recitations" - a ballet choreographed by
Jimmy Gamonet De Los Heros with music by Georges Aperguis, Arvo
Pärt, JC
Espinoza and TOL's "Punk Funk" movement from "Seven Jazz Pieces" at
the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, Florida.
April
26, 2007
Marimbist Piero Guimaraes and violinist Helene
Piccazio perform "Marimolin" in Amanick-Goldstein Hall at
Lynn University, Boca Raton, Florida.
May 4,
2007
Marimbist Piero Guimaraes and violinist Helene
Piccazio perform "Marimolin" in Amanick-Goldstein Hall at
Lynn University, Boca Raton, Florida.
May
29, 2007
Tapage (a tap duo: Mari Fujibayashi
&
Olivia Rosenkrantz) dances to "Morango ...
almost a tango" with the Cuarteto Latinoamericano at the
Théâtre du Pays de Morlaix in Morlaix, France. Also
included in the program are works by Astor Piazzolla, Silvestre
Revueltas, Roberto Sierra, and others.
June 1st, 2007
Tapage and Cuarteto Latinoamericano repeat program from May 29th at ACB
Scène Nationale in Bar Le Duc, France.
NB: Pilobolus performs
"Symbiosis," a dance work choreographed by
Michael Tracy to
TOL's "Morango ... almost a tango," at the following locations in
September 2006 - August 2007:
September
9, 2006 at the Ridgefield Playhouse in
Ridgefield, Connecticut.
September 12, 2006, at the Lousiana State University Union Theater in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
September 14, 2006, at College of William and Mary in
Williamsburg, Virginia.
September 30, 2006, at the Nazareth College Arts
Center, Nazareth College in Rochester, New York.
October 1 & 3, 2006, in Ciudad Juárez,
Chihuahua, Mexico.
October 14, 2006, at the State Theatre in New
Brunswick, New Jersey.
October 17, 2006, at the Paramount Theater in
Charlottesville, Virginia.
October 20, 2006, at the Bucknell University Weis Center for the Performing
Arts in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
October 22, 2006, at the State Street Theatre in
Minneapolis, Minnesota.
October 25, 2006,
at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D.C.
November 17, 18, 19 & 20, 2006, in Santiago, Chile.
November 23, 24, 25 & 28, 2006, in São Paulo and Belo
Horizonte, Brazil.
December 8, 9 & 10, 2006, at the Schubert Theatre in Boston, Massachusetts.
January 26, 2007, at the State Theatre Light in
Winter Festival in Ithaca, New York.
January 28, 2007, at the Procter's Theater in
Schenectady, New York.
January 30, 2007, in St. Etienne, France.
February 3 & 4, 2007, in Chateauroux, France.
February 6 & 7, 2007, in Rueil Malmaison, France.
February 16, 2007, at the Cerritos Center for the
Arts in
Cerritos, California.
March 6, 2007, at the University of Colorado
Macky
Auditorium in Boulder, Colorado.
March 8, 2007, at the Vilar Center for the Arts
in
Beaver Creek, Colorado.
April 24, 2007, in Saarlouis, Germany.
April
26, 2007, in Erfurt, Germany.
April
28, 2007, in Schweinfurt, Germany.
April
29, 2007, in Minden, Germany.
April
30, 2007, in Bremerhaven, Germany.
May 11, 2007, in Bologna, Italy
May 29, 2007, in Sophia, Bulgaria
June 1 & 2, 2007, in Washington, CT
July 17, 20, 21, 25 & 28, 2007, at the Joyce Theater in New York
City
August 2, 3, 6 & 9, 2007, at the Joyce Theater in
New York City
Premieres and performances:
2005-2006 season
August 30, 2005
Tapage (a tap duo: Mari Fujibayashi &
Olivia Rosenkrantz) and Cuarteto Latino Americano perform "Morango ...
almost a tango" (1983) at Teatro Helénico in Mexico City, Mexico.
August
31 and September 1, 2005
Tapage (a tap duo: Mari Fujibayashi &
Olivia Rosenkrantz) and Cuarteto Latino Americano perform "Morango ...
almost a tango" (1983) in Sala Miguel Covarrubias at Universidad
Nacional Autónomo de México in Mexico City, Mexico.
September 30, 2005; 8 p.m.
Tapage (a tap duo: Mari Fujibayashi &
Olivia Rosenkrantz) and members of the Ethel Quartet perform "Morango ... almost a
tango" (1983) at the New York City Center Fall for Dance Festival.
Also on the program: Molissa Fenley, Alvin Ailey American Dance
Theater,
New York City Ballet and Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre.
October 29, 2005; 8 p.m.
Premiere performance of "Mechthild von Magdeburg: Minnelieder an got" (2005) for chorus, string
quintet and harp, at the Society for Ethical
Culture in New York City, New York. Commissioned by the
Foundation for Universal Sacred Music. Artistic Director and
Founder, Roger Davidson.
November 1, 2005; 8 p.m.
Premiere performance of string septet "Seven Steps to Heaven" (2002)
with the Hawthorne String Quartet and guests in Gasson Hall at Boston
College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Also on the program:
Tchaikovsky's "Souvenir de Florence." "Seven Steps to Heaven"
was commissioned by MusicWorks in the Berkshires.
November 4, 2005; 7 & 9:30 p.m. shows
Lydian
String Quartet performs A.C. Jobim movement from "Seven
Jazz Pieces" and "Morango ... almost a tango." Sol y Canto and
the Lydian String Quartet collaborate in a cross-genre program of
original compositions and new arrangements of Cuban son, Puerto Rico
bomba and other Latin
American styles at the New Deal Jazz Club, Cambridge Multicultural
Center,
41 Second Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
November 6, 2005; 2 p.m.
Granite State Opera presents a preview of scenes from Act One of "Oscar
Wilde ... An Opera in Two Acts" with libretto by Paul Hodes at
the home of Colin and Paula Cabot, Sanborn Mills Farm, in Loudon,
NH. More details to follow.
November 13, 2005; 3 p.m.
Wellesley Symphony Orchestra performs fourth movement from "Symphony
No. 5 ... Utopia Parkway" (2003) at MassBay Community College in
Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts. Max Hobart, music director.
Also
on the program: Jean Sibelius' "Symphony No. 2 in D."
January 22, 2006; 3 p.m.
The
Granite State Opera presents a workshop
performance of Act One of "Oscar Wilde ... An Opera in Two Acts" with
libretto
by Paul Hodes at the Concord Community Music School in Concord, New
Hampshire.
Baritone David Kravitz will sing Oscar; other cast members will
be
announced later.
February 11, 2006
Nancy Zeltsman performs "Prelúdios ... Comidas Típicas
Brasileiras" for solo marimba at University of South Florida Magic
Marimba Festival in Tampa, Florida.
February 19, 2006; 2:30 p.m.
Bassoonist Jeffrey Lyman performs "Yo Picasso" (2005 woodwind version)
in Katzin Concert Hall at Arizona State University School of Music,
Tempe, Arizona.
February 21, 2006
Nancy Zeltsman performs "Prelúdios ... Comidas Típicas
Brasileiras" for solo marimba in Gantner Concert Hall at University of
Wisconsin-Eau Claire in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
March
4, 2006
Nancy Zeltsman performs "Prelúdios ... Comidas Típicas
Brasileiras" for solo marimba at Del Mar College Percussion Festival in
Corpus Christi, Texas.
March 12, 2006; 4 p.m.
Nancy Zeltsman performs "Prelúdios ... Comidas Típicas
Brasileiras" for solo marimba in Seully Hall at the Boston Conservatory
of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.
April 23, 2006; 3 p.m.
Performance of "The Flowers of Terezín" with an inter-faith
choir and members of the Berkshire Lyric Theater at the Lenox Memorial
Middle and High School Auditorium in Lenox, Massachusetts. Music director Robert Blafield
and pianist Joe Rose.
April 24, 2006; 8 p.m.
Performance
of "The Flowers of Terezín" with women of the Vocal Chamber
Ensemble and Skidmore College Community Choir in Filene Recital Hall at
Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. Music director Janet McGhee and
pianist Patricia Hadfield.
April 30, 2006; 3 p.m.
Premiere performance of "Oboe Concerto ... Persephone and the Four
Seasons" (2006) by principal oboist Andrew Price and the Civic
Symphony Orchestra of Boston in the Fine Arts Center at Regis College
in Weston, Massachusetts. Max Hobart, music director. Also on the program: Camille
Saint-Saëns' Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor and Gustav Mahler's
Symphony No. 1
in D ... "Titan."
May 12 & 13, 2006
Gamonet Ballet performs a new ballet by Jimmy Gamonet de los Heroes
with music from Henryk Mikoloj Gorecki's Symphony No. 3 and TOL's
"Pierrot's Dream," second movement of ART: arias & interludes, at
the Gusman Center for the
Performing Arts in Miami, Florida.
May 20 & 21, 2006
Repeat performances by the Gamonet Ballet of the new Jimmy Gamonet de
los Heroes ballet with music from Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki's Symphony No.
3 and TOL's "Pierrot's Dream," second movement of ART: arias &
interludes, at
the Bailey Concert Hall in Davie, Florida.
June 3, 2006; 8 p.m.
Lydian String Quartet performs "Seven Jazz Pieces" (1990-91) at
Slosberg
Hall, Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. Also on the
program:
works by Mozart, Beethoven and Mendelssohn.
June 12, 2006
Carson P. Cooman performs "Chorale-Fantasy" for solo organ at Trinity
Episcopal Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
August 1, 2006; 8 p.m.
Nancy Zeltsman performs "Prelúdios ... Comidas Típicas
Brasileiras" for solo marimba at the Zeltsman Marimba Festival in
Seully Hall at the Boston Conservatory of Music in Boston,
Massachusetts.
NB: Pilobolus performs
"Symbiosis," a dance work choreographed to
"Morango ... almost a tango," at the following locations in
October 2005 - July 2006:
Carbondale, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
MassMoCa in North Adams, Massachusetts
Tel Aviv, Israel
Haifa, Israel
Jerusalem, Israel
Seattle, Washington
Newberry, South Carolina
San Rafael, California
Durango, Colorado
Rome, Italy
Forli, Italy
Hasselt, Belgium
Arnheim in the Netherlands
Zaandam in the Netherlands
Apeldoom in the Netherlands
Tilberg in the Netherlands
Gouda in the Netherlands
Hengelo in the Netherlands
Kerkrade in the Netherlands
Delft in the Netherlands
Sittard in the Netherlands
Den Haag-Lucent in the Netherlands
Ijmuiden in the Netherlands
Breda in the Netherlands
Eindhoven in the Netherlands
Amstelveen in the Netherlands
Amersfoort in the Netherlands
Venlo in the Netherlands
Drachten in the Netherlands
Zoetermeer in the Netherlands
Den Helder in the Netherlands
Alphen an der Rijn in the Netherlands
Hoofdorp in the Netherlands
Doetinchem in the Netherlands
Goes in the Netherlands
Alkmaar in the Netherlands
Thun. Switzerland
Basel, Switzerland
Zürich/Pully, Switzerland
Olten, Switzerland
Lugano, Switzerland
Bilbao, Spain
Santander, Spain
Zaragoza. Spain
Ridgefield, Connecticut
Joyce Theater, New York City, New York
Premieres
and performances: 2004-2005 season
September 10, 11*, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18*, 20, 21, 2004 [*Matinee & evening
performances.]
Australian Ballet dances to
string-orchestra version of "Morango ... almost a tango " with
Orchestra Victoria in Melbourne, Australia. Choreography by
Nicolo Fonte.
October 23, 2004; 7:30 p.m.
Premiere
performance of "Symphony No. 6 ... The Penobscot River" (2004) by the
Bangor Symphony Orchestra and Chorus at the Bangor Auditorium in
Bangor, Maine. Xiao-lu Li, music director; Ludlow Hallman, Dennis Cox and
George Redman, choral directors. Also participating in this
premiere, the Robinson Ballet Company.
November 14, 2004; 5 p.m.
Tapage ( tap duo: Mari Fujibayashi & Olivia Rosenkrantz) and
Quatuor Stanilas collaborate and perform "Morango ... almost a tango"
(1983) and "Seven Jazz Pieces" (1990-91) at Auditorium de la
Louvière in Epinal, France.
November
20, 2004; 8:45 p.m.
Tapage ( tap duo: Mari Fujibayashi &
Olivia Rosenkrantz) and Quatuor Stanilas collaborate and perform
"Morango ... almost a tango" (1983) and "Seven Jazz Pieces" (1990-91)
at Théâtre de Lunéville in
Lunéville, France.
November 21, 2004; 2 p.m.
Premiere performance of "Symphony No. 5 ... Utopia Parkway" (2003) - In celebration of the 100th
Anniversary of Joseph Cornell's birthday - by maestro Max Hobart and the
Civic Symphony Orchestra of Boston in Jordan Hall, Boston,
Massachusetts. Also on the program: Chopin's "Piano
Concerto No. 2 in F minor." Michael Lewin, soloist.
November 21, 2004; 5 p.m.
Tapage ( tap duo: Mari Fujibayashi &
Olivia Rosenkrantz) and Quatuor Stanilas collaborate and perform
"Morango ... almost a tango" (1983) and "Seven Jazz Pieces" (1990-91)
at Espace St. Laurent in Pont à Mousson, France.
December 3, 4*, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11*, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18*, 20, 21,
22, 2004 [*Matinee & evening performances.]
Australian Ballet dances to string-orchestra version of "Morango ...
almost a tango " with Orchestra Victoria in Sydney, Australia.
Choreography by Nicolo Fonte.
December 18, 2004; 2 p.m.
First performance of "Shepherd, Show Me How To Go" for string orchestra
at Holiday Pops concert by Max
Hobart and the Civic Symphony Orchestra of Boston at Regis College,
Weston, Massachusetts.
December 19, 2004; 3 p.m.
First performance of revised version
of "Christmas Cantata" (2001) for mezzo-soprano, SATB chorus, 2
trumpets, 2 trombones, timpani and organ, at the First Congregational
Church in Blue Hill, Maine. John Ward, Minister of Music and
Music Diirector.
January 16, 2005
Musicworks in the Berkshires present excerpts from "The Visconti-Sforza
Tarot Cards, opus 66 ... Twenty-two salon pieces for two pianos, opus
66" (1996) at the Berkshire Music School in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
Virginia Eskins and Vitus Baksys, pianists.
February 11, 2005
Max Hobart and the Civic Symphony Orchestra of Boston perform the
fourth movement, "Allegro ... à la
Can-Can," from "Symphony No. 5 .... Utopia Parkway" (2003) at the
"Spring POPS Concert" in the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
February 13, 2005
Premiere performance of "Concerto for Orchestra" (2005) by Jonathan
Cohler and the Brockton Symphony Orchestra at the Brockton High School Nelson Fine Arts Auditorium in
Brockton, Massachusetts. Also featured on the program:
Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.
February 17, 2005; 10:40 a.m.
school assembly.
Premiere performance of "The Flowers of Terezín" by the Windsor
School Small Chorus at the Windsor School in Boston, Massachusetts.
Lisa Taillacq, music director.
February 21, 2005
Premiere of woodwind version of "Yo Picasso" (1997) for flute, Bb
clarinet, bassoon and piano, with bassoonist David Sogg and friends at
the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
February 25, 2005
Repeat performance of "Concerto
for Orchestra" (2005) by Jonathan Cohler and the Brockton
Symphony Orchestra in Jordan Hall, Boston, Massachusetts. Also featured on the program: Stravinsky's Rite of
Spring.
March 6, 2005; 7 p.m.
Second performance of "The Flowers of
Terezín" by the Windsor School Small Chorus at the Windsor
School in Boston, Massachusetts. Lisa Taillacq, music director. Also on the program:
Vivaldi's "Gloria."
March 14, 2005
Third performance of "The Flowers of
Terezín" at the Norton Center for the Arts, Center College, in
Danville, Kentucky. Part of Terezín Chamber Music
Foundation Holocaust symposium: Exhibition and performance focusing on
art and music in Terezín.
April 1, 2005; 7 p.m.
Premiere performance of "Prelúdios ... Comidas Típicas
Brasileiras" for solo marimba by Jonathan Singer
at David Friend Recital Hall, Berklee College of Music, Boston,
Massachusetts. Also on the program: "Eight Tarot Cards for Madam
Rubio" with Mr. Singer and Pius Cheung.
April 18, 2005
Performance of first movement from "Symphony No. 5 ... Utopia
Parkway" (2003) by music director Susan Deaver and the C.W. Post
Symphony Orchestra at the Tilles Center of the Performing Arts, C.W.
Post campus of Long Island University, in Brookville, New York.
May 1, 2005
Performance of "Symphony No. 5 ... Utopia Parkway" (2003) by maestro
Irving Ludwig and the Lansdowne Symphony Orchestra at the Upper Darby
Performing Arts Center, Upper Darby High School in Drexel,
Pennsylvania.
May 11,
2005
The Royal Ballet of Flanders performs "Slightly Sinful" - a ballet
choreographed by Danny Rosseel to "Morango ... almost a
Tango" - in the Grand Auditorium of the Macao Cultural Centre in Macao.
Also on the program: works by William Forsythe and Nicolo Fonte.
June 24, 2005
Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Chamber Music Series "Jazz meets Classic" present "Seven Jazz Pieces"
(1990-91) for string quartet at Maybach-Saal in Heilbronn, Germany.
June 25 & 26, 2005
Two performances of choral movements from "Symphony No. 6 ... The
Penobscot River" (2004) by the Bangor Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in
Millinocket and Bucksport, Maine. Maestro Xiao-lu Li, music
director.
June
28, 29, July 1 &
3, 2005
Mari Fujibayashi & Olivia Rosenkrantz, tap-duo Tapage, perform "Morango ... almost a
tango" (w/ recording) at the Joyce Theater in New York City, New York.
July 8 & 9, 2005; 8 p.m.
Premiere performance of "Pluto ... Lord of the Underworld" (2005) by the Boston Landmarks Orchestra at the Boston Common, Boston,
Massachusetts. Maestro Charles Ansbacher, music director. Also featured on the
program: Gustav Holst's "The Planets," and Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5
in C minor, opus 67."
July 17, 2005; 4 p.m.
Virginia Eskin performs selections from "Twenty-nine Fireflies for solo
piano" (1977-2002) at Monadnock Music, Peterborough Town House Series,
in Peterborough, NH. Also on the program: works by Beethoven,
Mozart, Schumann, MacDowell, Liszt and Chopin.
NB: Pilobolus performs
"Symbiosis," a dance work choreographed to
"Morango ... almost a tango," at the following locations in
October 2004 - June 2005:
Providence, Rhode Island
Chicago, Illinois
East Lansing, Michigan
Flint, Michigan
Maui, Hawaii
Honolulu, Hawaii
Hilo, Hawaii
Kahilu, Hawaii
Malibu, California
Escondido, California
Stamford, Connecticut
Durango, Colorado
Tucson, Arizona
Austin, Texas
Fort Wayne, Texas
Madison, Wisconsin
Lexington, Virginia
Jacksonville, Florida
Lake Worth, Florida
Reykjavik. Iceland
Fulda, Germany
Fredrichhaffen, Germany
Loerrich, Germany
Furth, Germany
Macau Cultural Centre in Macau
York, Pennsylvania
Princeton, New Jersey
Portland, Oregon
Carmel, California
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Interlochen, Michigan
Premieres and performances:
2003-2004 season
September 27, 2003
Jeffrey Kahane conducts "Forró" (1998) with the Los Angeles
Chamber Orchestra at 8 p.m. in Alex Theatre in
Glendale, California. Also on the program:
works by J.S. Bach and Franz Joseph Haydn.
September 28, 2003
Repeat performance of "Forró" (1998) by the LACO at 7 p.m. in Royce Hall, UCLA,
Westwood, California.
September 28, 2003; Sunday morning service prelude.
Premiere performance of "Shepherd, Show Me How To Go" (2003) for solo
organ by Carson P. Cooman at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Central
Square, 838 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
October 5, 2003; Sunday morning services - Offertory Voluntary
Robin Gratz performs "Shepherd, Show Me How to Go" (2003) at Zion
Evangelical Lutheran Church in North Manchester, Indiana.
October 19, 2003; Sunday at 7 p.m.
Iridescence Flute and Harp Duo - Jan Vinci and Karlinda Caldicott -
performs "Waltzes, opus 101" (2002) at the State Street Presbyterian
Church in Schenectady, New York.
October
20, 2003; Monday at 8 p.m.
The Blasis Concert Series present a repeat performance of "Waltzes,
opus 101" (2002) by the Iridescence Flute and Harp Duo
at the Hyde Collection Museum in Glens Falls, New York.
October 20, 2003; Monday at 8 p.m.
Jazz Concert featuring standards and original
compositions by T. O. Lee and members of Departed Feathers : Lee on
flute, Jeff Kalindo on trombone, Brad Hatfield on piano, Bruce Gertz on
bass, and Grover Mooney on drums in Gasson Hall, Boston College,
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.
November 2, 2003; Sunday at 3:30 p.m.
The Isis Duo - Amy Thomas and James Pinkerton - performs "Waltzes, opus
101" (2002) for flute and harp at Christ Church in Olde Towne
Alexandria, Virginia.
November 8, 2003; Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
Festival Ballet Providence presents Colleen Cavanaugh's "Demeter's
Tears" at the company's East Side studios on 825 Hope Street
in Providence, R.I. "Demeter's Tears" is a choreographic work for six dancers set to the TOL four-movement work, "Piano Trio No. 1"
(1994; rev. 2000) for violin, cello and piano.
November 13, 2003; Thursday at noon.
Pegasus Plus Quartet performs "Seven Jazz Pieces" (1990-91) at Ohlone
College Music Building in Fremont, California. Also on the program: Haydn String Quartet Opus
64, No. 6 in E-flat Major, and Shostakovich String Quartet No. 1, Opus
49.
November 15, 2003; Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
Repeat performance of Colleen Cavanaugh's "Demeter's Tears" at the Festival Ballet Providence East Side studios
on 825
Hope Street in Providence, R.I. See details above for November
8.
November 16, 2003; Sunday at 4 p.m.
Repeat performance of "Seven Jazz Pieces" (1990-91) by Pegasus Plus Quartet at the Unitarian Universalist Church in
Palo Alto, California.
November 17, 2003; Monday at 7 p.m.
Repeat performance of "Seven Jazz Pieces" (1990-91) by Pegasus Plus Quartet at Crystal Springs United
Methodist Church in San Mateo, California.
December 9, 2003
Sally Pinkas and Evan
Hirsch perform selections from "The Visconti Sforza Tarot Cards ...
Twenty-two salon pieces for two pianos, opus 66" (1996) at Bulgaria
Hall in Sofia, Bulgaria.
December 10, 2003
Repeat performance of
selections from "The Visconti Sforza Tarot Cards ...
Twenty-two salon pieces for two pianos, opus 66" (1996) by Sally Pinkas
and Evan Hirsch at Plovdiv Music Academy in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
December 10, 2003; Wednesday at 7 p.m.
Premiere performance by the Brockton Symphony Orchestra of the TOL arr. of Sylvester B. Grant's "Brocktonian
Two-Step" (2003) at the Brockton High
School Nelson Fine Arts Auditorium in Brockton, Massachusetts.
January 19, 2004
Quatuor Stanislas performs "Morango ... almost a tango" (1983) and
"Seven Jazz Pieces" (1990-91) with tap dancers, Olivia Rosenkrantz and Mari
Fujibayashi, at Salle Poirel in Nancy, France. Also on the
program: works by Revueltas, Piazzolla and Ibarra.
January 24, 2004
Repeat program by Quatuor Stanislas and tap dancers,
Olivia Rosenkrantz and Mari Fujibayashi, at the theater "Le trait
d'union" in Neufchateau, France.
February 8, 2004; Sunday at 3:30 p.m.
Premiere performance of "Clarinet Concerto ... Sounds of the Islands"
(2003) by the Brockton Symphony Orchestra
with Jonathan Cohler, music director and clarinet soloist, at the Brockton High School Nelson Fine Arts
Auditorium in Brockton, Massachusetts. Also featured on the
program: works by Revueltas, Marquez and de Falla.
February 8, 2004; Sunday at 2 p.m.
Violinist Sabrina Ann Berger performs classical and commissioned works
on a Zeta 5-String Electric Violin and Acoustic Violin at the Upper
Saddle River Library in Upper Saddle Lake, New Jersey. Program
includes music by J.S. Bach, Rohan Leach, Thomas Oboe
Lee, Lorenzo Sorbo, Alex Shapiro and Robert Stern.
February 28, 2004
Dutch premiere performance of "I Never Saw Another Butterfly" (1991) for mezzo-soprano, Bb clarinet and piano in Den
Bosch, the Netherlands. The performers are, respectively, Sylvia
Schlüter, Nancy Braithwaite and Oane Weirdsma.
March 7, 2004
Repeat performance of "I Never Saw Another Butterfly" (1991) for mezzo-soprano, Bb clarinet and piano in Bunnik,
the Netherlands, featuring the same performers.
March 7, 2004; 11 a.m.
Percussionist Colin Currie improvises along as the Marsden Quartet
performs "Morango ... almost a tango" in St. Catherine's College
Chapel, Cambridge, UK. Also on the program, works by
Hartmann, Haas, Per Norgard and Reich.
March 21, 2004; Sunday at 3 p.m.
Ya-fei Chuang performs "Twenty-nine Fireflies for solo piano, Book IV, seven
pieces, xix-xxv" (2002) in the Berkshires as part of the MusicWorks
concert series.
March 21, 2004; Sunday at 3 p.m.
Violinist Sabrina Ann Berger performs classical and
commissioned works on a Zeta 5-String Electric Violin and Acoustic
Violin at Teaneck Public Library in Teaneck,
New Jersey. Program includes music by J.S. Bach, Rohan Leach,
Thomas Oboe Lee, Lorenzo Sorbo, Alex Shapiro and Robert Stern.
March 29, 2004; Monday at 8 p.m.
Boston premiere performance of "I've Got The Munchies" (2001, rev.
2004) for violin, viola, Bass clarinet, and vibraphone in Gasson Hall,
Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Performers: Krista
Reisner, Kate Vincent, Gary Gorczyca & Robert Schulz.
April 25, 2004; Sunday at 2 p.m.
Ives Quartet plays "Morango ... almost a tango" at the Florence Gould
Theater of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, CA. Also
included on the program, "Latin Flair," are works by Joaquin Turina,
Luigi Boccherini, Aaron Jay Kernis and William Grant Still.
April 30, 2004; Friday at 8 p.m.
Ives Quartet plays "Morango ... almost a tango" at St. John's
Presbyterian Church in Berkeley, CA. Same program as April 25.
May 1, 2004; Saturday at 8 p.m.
Ives Quartet plays "Morango ... almost a tango" at Le Petit Trianon
Theater in San Jose, CA. Same program as April 25.
May 2, 2004; Sunday at 4 p.m.
Ives Quartet plays "Morango ... almost a tango" at First Congregational
Church in Palo
Alto, CA. Same program as April 25.
May 12, 2004; Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.
Carson P. Cooman premieres
"Chorale-Fantasy, opus 79a" (2003) for solo organ in
Memorial Chapel at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
May 14 & 15; Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.
Moving West Repertory Dance Theater presents "Music & Dance -
Partners in Time" at Performing Arts Center of MetroWest, 140 Pearl
Street, Framingham, Massachusetts. Featured on the
program: "Waltzes, opus 101" (2002) for flute and harp.
May 16, 2004; Sunday at 2 p.m.
Violinist Sabrina Ann Berger performs classical and
commissioned works on a Zeta 5-String Electric Violin and Acoustic
Violin at the River Vale Free Public Library in River Vale, New Jersey.
Program includes music by J.S. Bach, Rohan Leach, Thomas Oboe
Lee, Lorenzo Sorbo, Alex Shapiro and Robert Stern.
July 21, 2004; 8 p.m.
Nancy Zeltsman and Jack Van Geem perform "Eight Tarot Cards for Madam
Rubio" (1997) as part of the Zeltsman Marimba Festival 2004 in Seully
Hall, the Boston Conservatory at 8 the Fenway, Boston, Massachusetts.
NB: Pilobolus performs
"Symbiosis," a dance work choreographed to
"Morango ... almost a tango," at the following locations in
September 2003 - August 2004:
Athens Festival, Greece
Centro de Bellas Artes Luis A. Ferré, Puerto Rico
Kent, Connecticut
Rockford, Illinois
Wichita, Kansas
Guasave, Mexico
Culiacan, Mexico
Mazatlan, Mexico
Fort Collins, Colorado
Greeley, Colorado
Davis, California
Amherst, Massachusetts
Fairfield, Connecticut
Queens, New York
Hartford, Connecticut
Birmingham, Alabama
Clearwater, Florida
Morristown, New Jersey
Lexington, Kentucky
Council Bluffs, Iowa
Whitewater, Wisconsin
Iowa City, Iowa
Foligno, Italy
Bologna, Italy
Jesi, Italy
Padova, Italy
Legnago, Italy
Rockport, Maine
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Joyce Theater, New York City
Hartford, Connecticut
Lake Placid, New York
Westhampton. New York
Premieres and performances:
2002-2003 season
September 19, 2002; 8 p.m.
Daniel Stepner perfroms "Chôros, opus 61" (1994-95) in Paine
Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Also featured on the
program are works by Bela Bartok, Mario Davidovsky, John Harbison, and
Augusta Read Thomas.
October 15, 2002
Petersen Quartet performs "Morango ... almost a tango" (1983) at Herzog
Friedrich August Sall in
Wiesbaden, Germany. Also featured on the program:
Beethoven's String Quartet Opus 59, No. 2, and Brahms Clarinet Quintet
with Ib Hausemann.
October 18, 2002; 8 p.m.
Premiere performance of Colleen Cavanaugh's choreographic work,
"Demeter's Tears," to the four-movement work, "Piano Trio No. 1" (1994;
rev. 2000) for violin, cello and piano, in Roberts Hall Auditorium,
Rhode Island College, Providence, R.I.
October 19, 2002; 7:30 p.m.
Bruce Polay conducts "Forró" (1998) with the Knox-Galesburg
Symphony Orchestra at the Orpheum Theater in Galesburg, IL. Also
featured on the program are works by Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 and
Moeran's Cello Concerto.
October 20, 2002; 4 p.m.
Bart Feller and Victoria Drake give premiere performance of flute and
harp duo, "Waltzes, opus 101" (2002), in Saint Peter's Episcopal Church
at 346 West 20th Street in Chelsea, New York City. Also featured on the program are
works by Bach, Hue, Carter and Feld.
January 31, 2003; 2:30 p.m.
Hawthorne String Quartet performs "Morango ... almost a tango" (1983)
at "prelude concert" in Symphony Hall, Boston, MA. Also on
the program: David Post's Second String Quartet.
February 2, 2003; 3 p.m.
Hawthorne String Quartet
performs "Morango ... almost a tango" (1983) at Jorge Hernandez
Cultural Center in the South End, Boston, MA. Also on the program: David Post's
Second String Quartet.
February 2, 2003; 3 p.m.
World premiere performance of "Stabat Mater 2002" for SATB chorus and
organ by Pierre Massé and the Ecclesia Consort of New England in
Saint Mary's Chapel, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA.
February 9, 2003; 7:30 p.m.
Repeat performance of
"Stabat Mater 2002" for SATB chorus and organ by
Pierre Massé and the Ecclesia Consort of New England at the
Church of the Blessed Sacrament in Providence, R.I.
February 12, 2003; 3 p.m.
Performance of the "Visconti Sforza Tarot Cards, opus 66 ... Twenty-two
salon pieces for two pianos" (1996) by Robert Levin and Ya-fei Chuang
at the Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
March 9, 2003; 2 p.m.
Performance of "Seven Steps To Heaven" (2002) by the Hawthorne String
Quartet and students from the Project STEPS program in Symphony Hall,
Boston, MA.
March 30, 2003; 2 p.m.
World
premiere performance of "The New England Transcendentalists: Emerson,
Hawthorne, Alcott &
Thoreau" (2003) by the Hawthorne String Quartet at the Hevreh, 270
State Road in Great Barrington, MA. Also featured on the
program: quartets by Charles E. Ives and Hans Krasa.
March 31, 2003; 8 p.m.
Premiere performance of "Twenty-nine Fireflies for solo piano, Book IV,
seven pieces, xix -xxv" (2002) by Ya-fei Chuang; Boston premiere of
"Waltzes, opus 101" by Julia Scolnik, flute and alto flute, and Judy
Saiki, harp, in Gasson Hall, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA.
April 8, 2003; 8 p.m.
Repeat performance of "The New England Transcendentalists: Emerson,
Hawthorne, Alcott & Thoreau" (2003) by the Hawthorne String
Quartet, in Gasson Hall, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA. Also
featured on the program: quartets by Charles E. Ives and Hans Krasa.
April 25 & 26, 2003; 8 p.m.
Two
performances of Colleen Cavanaugh's choreographic work, "Demeter's
Tears," to the four-movement work, "Piano Trio
No. 1" (1994; rev. 2000) for violin, cello and piano, by the Island
Moving Company at the Joyce Soho on Mercer Street, NYC.
May 4, 2003; at 2 p.m.
Sabrina Ann Berger performs "Chôros, opus 61" (1994-95) on
her e-violin at the Ft. Lee Public Library at 320 Mian Street in Ft.
Lee, N.J.
May 9, 2003
Petersen Quartet performs "Morango ... almost a tango" (1983) at the
Schwetzingen Festival in Schwetzingen, Germany. Also featured on
the program: works by Steve Reich, Erwin Shulhoff and Pavel Haas.
June 23 - 28, 2003; 8 p.m.
Pilobolus Dance Theatre and the St. Lawrence String Quartet perform
"Symbiosis," which is set to Thomas Oboe Lee's "Morango ... almost a
tango" (1983) at the Joyce Theater in New York City, NY.
July 12, 2003, at 8 p.m.; Boston Common, Boston, MA.
July 13,
2003, at 6 p.m.; Chandler Pond Park, Brighton, MA.
July 18, 2003, at 7 p.m.; Adams National Historical Park, Quincy, MA.
July 19, 2003, at 6 p.m.; The Tabernacle, Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vinyard,
MA.
July 20, 2003, at 2 p.m.; Compagnone Common, Lawrence, MA.
Premiere performances of "Mambo!!!" (2003) by Charles Ansbacher and the
Boston Landmarks Orchestra.
NB: Pilobolus performs
"Symbiosis," a dance work choreographed to
"Morango ... almost a tango," at the following locations in
October 2002 - August 2003:
Gainesville, Florida
Clemson, South Carolina
NJPAC in Newark, New Jersey
St. Louis, Missouri
Crawfordsville, Indiana
Bloomington, Indiana
Cincinnati, Ohio
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Palo Alto, California
Billings, Montana
Anchorage, Alaska
Greenvale, New York
Purchase, New York
Decorah, Iowa
Cedar Falls, Iowa
Atlanta, Georgia
Knoxville, Tennessee
Decatur, Alabama
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
Sarasota, Florida
Corregio, Italy
Fano, Italy
Mestre, Italy
Lucca, Italy
Lecce, Italy
Rome, Italy
Joyce Theater, New York City
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Premieres and performances: 2001-2002 season
October 1, 2001; 8 p.m.
Jazz Concert
featuring standards and original compositions by T. O. Lee and members
of Departed Feathers : Lee on flute, George Garzone on tenor, Brad
Hatfield on piano, Bruce Gertz on bass, and Grover Mooney on drums in
Gasson Hall, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.
October 16, 2001; 8 p.m.
Composers
Showcase in Gasson Hall at Boston College featuring two works by Thomas
Oboe Lee. Violinist Daniel Stepner performs "Chôros, opus
61" (1994-95). Violinist Biliana Voutchkova, pianist Heng-Jin
Park Ellsworth, and cellist Rafael Popper-Keizer perform "Piano Trio
No. 1" (1994, rev. 2000). Also part of the program are works by
Margaret McAllister and Ralf Gawlick.
October 18, 2001
Evan Hirsch
and Sally Pinkas perform selections from "The Visconti-Sforza Tarot
Cards, opus 66 ... Twenty-two salon pieces for two pianos" (1996)
in Glazunov Hall at the St. Petersburg State Conservatory in St.
Petersburg, Russia.
November 6, 2001; 8 p.m.
Boston
premiere of "Hancock Shaker Village" by Deborah Leath Rentz and the
Hawthorne String Quartet in Gasson Hall, Boston College, Chestnut Hill,
MA. Program will also include works by Joseph Haydn and Ned Rorem.
November 9, 2001; 8 p.m.
Petersen
String Quartet performs "Morango ... almost a tango" at the Library of
Congress in Washington, D.C. Also included in the program are
works by Haydn, Schulhoff and Pavel Hass.
November 16, 17 & 18, 2001
World premiere
performances of "I've Got the Munchies" (2001) for two violins, bass
clarinet and vibraphone, at the Catholic Church in Ketchikan, at the
Sheet'ka Kwaan Naa Kahidi in Sitka, and at the Northern Light Church in
Juneau, Alaska. Work commissioned by Cross Sound Festival 2001.
November 25, 2001
James David
Christie premieres "Toccata, Adagio and Fugue" for solo organ as part
of a concert celebrating the installation of a brand new organ at St.
Mary's Our Lady of the Isle Church on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts.
December 16, 2001; 10 a.m.
Premiere
performance of "Christmas Cantata" for soprano solo,
SATB chorus, brass quartet, organ and timpani, by music director John
Finney, organist James David Christie, and the Choir at Wellesley Hills
Congregational Church.
Work commissioned by John Finney and James David Christie for the
Wellesley Hills Congregational Church.
January, 10, 2002; 8 p.m.
Carson Cooman
premieres "Fantasia" (2001) for solo organ in the Appleton Chapel of
Memorial Church, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Additional performances in the spring and summer of 2002 in Rochester,
NY; Waterville, ME; and Toronto, Canada.
February 11 & 14, 2002; 8 p.m.
Two
performances of "The Visconti-Sforza Tarot Cards, opus 66 ...
Twenty-two salon pieces for two pianos" (1996) by Evan Hirsch and Sally
Pinkas in Gasson Hall at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA; at the
Hopkins Center Center for the Arts Spaulding Auditorium, Dartmouth
College, Hanover, NH. Also on the program: Sergei
Rachmaninoff, Peter Child and William Bolcom.
April 7, 2002; 3 p.m.
Performance of
"Mass for the Holy Year 2000" by music director John Finney and the
Heritage Chorale at Trinity Chapel on the Newton campus of Boston
College, Newton Centre, MA. Featuring soprano, Peggo Horstmann
Hodes; and alto, Deborah Rentz Moore.
Apr. 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, & 20, 2002
Nicolo
Fonté, a member of Nacho Duato and Compañia Nacional de
Danza, choreographs a new ballet to "Morango ... almost a tango."
Eight evening and matinee performances by the Pacific Northwest Ballet
at Mercer Arena in Seattle, WA.
May 10 (afternoon & evening), 13,
18 & 19, 2002
Five
performances of "Seven Jazz Pieces" (1991) by the Ives Quartet in
California at University Theater, U.C. Riverside, the James S. Copley
Auditorium at San Diego Art Museum; COPIA, The American Center for Wine
Food & the Arts in Napa; the Florence Gould Theater in San
Francisco, and the First Congregational Church in Palo Alto.
May 19, 2002; 3 p.m.; pre-concert talk, 2 p.m.
MusicWorks,
formerly Richmond Performance Series, presents Lucy Lin and Mark Ludwig
in a performance of "Voilà!!! Seven movements for violin
and viola" at the Richmond Congregational Church in Richmond, MA.
May 28, 2002; 8 p.m.
Sally Pinkas
performs selections from "Twenty-nine Fireflies for solo piano"
(1977-2002) at Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College,
Hanover, NH. Also on the program: Rachmaninoff's "Etudes-Tableaux
Op. 39" and Schubert's "Sonata in A Major, D. 959."
June 4 at 2 p.m., June 7 & 8 at 8 p.m.
Music at
Eden's
Edge presents Maria Benotti, violin, and Jennifer
Badger, viola, in a performance of "Voilà!!! Seven
Movements for violin and Viola" at the North Shore Unitarian
Universalist Church, 323 Locust St, Danvers, MA; at Hammond
Castle Museum, 80 Hesperus Ave, Gloucester, MA; at King Hooper Mansion,
8 Hooper St., Marblehead, MA. Also on the program: Ives Piano
Trio and Brahms C Minor Piano Quartet.
July 23, 2002
Carson P.
Cooman performs “Fantasia for solo organ” at Rochester Christian
Reformed Church in Rochester, NY.
July 29, 2002
Premiere
performance of “Seven Steps To Heaven” for string septet by members of
the Hawthorne String Quartet, Project STEP students and bassist
Lawrence Wolf at the Hancock Shaker Village in Hancock, MA.
July 30, 2002
Repeat
performance of “Seven Steps To Heaven” for string septet by members of
the Hawthorne String Quartet, Project STEP students and bassist
Lawrence Wolf at Tanglewood, as part of the annual Tanglewood on Parade
event in Lenox, MA.
August 15, 2002
Carson P.
Cooman performs “Fantasia for solo organ” at Colby College in
Waterville, ME.
August 17, 2002; 8:15 PM
Performance of
concerto for flute and orchestra, "Flauta Carioca" (2000), by Bart
Feller at the annual National Flute Association convention at the
Washington Hilton and Tower in Washington, D.C.
September 1, 2002
Carson P. Cooman performs “Fantasia for solo
organ” at Webster Presbyterian Church in Webster, NY.
NB: Pilobolus performs
"Symbiosis," a dance work choreographed to
"Morango ... almost a tango," at the following locations in
September 2001 - July 2002:
Santa
Fe, New Mexico
Detroit, Michigan
Richmond, Virginia
Germantown, Tennessee
Keene, New Hampshire
West Point NY,
The
Hague in the Netherlands
Zoetermeer in the Netherlands
Tilburg in the Netherlands
Zaandam in the Netherlands
Drachten in the Netherlands
Amstelveen in the Netherlands
Gouda in the Netherlands
Eindhoven in the Netherlands
Amhem in the Netherlands
Amsterdam in the Netherlands
Utrecht in the Netherlands
Lisbon in Portugal
Burlington, Vermont
Conway in Arizona
Lawrence in Kansas
Salt Lake City, Utah
Durham, North Carolina
Joyce Theater, New Tork City
Premieres and performances: 2000-2001 season
September 15, 2000; 7:30 p.m.
Andrew Wolf
Concerts present "Works of Composer Thomas Oboe Lee" at the All Newton
Music School in West Newton, MA.
Program: "I
Will Never See Another Butterfly," "Dark Angels," "Chôros, opus
61," "Yo Picasso," and excerpts from "The Visocnti-Sforza Tarot Cards,
opus 66."
Deborah Leath Rentz, mezzo-soprano
Paulette
Bowes, Bb clarinet
Daniel
Stepner, violin
Scott
Woolweaver, viola
Mark Simcock,
cello
Sally Pinkas,
piano
Evan Hirsch,
piano
Jennifer
Elowsky, piano
October 3, 2000; 8 p.m.
Jazz Concert
featuring standards and original compositions by T. O. Lee and members
of Departed Feathers : Lee on flute, George Garzone on tenor, Brad
Hatfield on piano, Bruce Gertz on bass, and Grover Mooney on drums in
Gasson 100 at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA.
Oct. 29, 2000; 3 p.m.
New Jersey
Symphony Orchestra Third "Sound Investment" Event: First
performance of two movements in ten-player chamber version of "Flauta
Carioca" by principal flutist Bart Feller and members of the New Jersey
Symphony Orchestra at Seabras Restaurant in Newark, N.J.
November 26, 2000; 4 p.m.
Civic Symphony
Orchestra of Boston First "Sound Investment" Event: First performance
of musical setting of Rupert Brooke's poem, "The Soldier," and premiere
performance of "Love Songs" by Peggo Horstman Hodes at All Newton Music
School, 321 Chestnut Street, in West Newton, MA.
January 21, 2001
James Barnes
conducts "Cavatina Cavadini" for wind ensemble at Kutztown University
in Kutztown, PA.
February 4, 2001; 4 p.m.
Civic Symphony
Orchestra of Boston Second "Sound Investment" Event. Featuring Peggo
Horstman Hodes, soprano, and Peggy Senter, piano, at Regis College in
Weston, MA. Program will include the first two songs from the
Symphony: a musical setting of poems by Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen
for soprano and piano. A song cycle of JacK Kerouac poems, "Jack
and the blues," will conclude the program.
February 12, 2001
West Coast
premiere performance of "Eight Tarot Cards for Madam Rubio" for two
marimbas by Jack Van Gees
and Nancy Zeltsman in Hellman Hall at the San Francisco Conservatory in
San Francisco, CA.
February 21, 2001
Lydian String
Quartet performs "Morango ... almost a tango" at the Regatta Bar in
Cambridge, MA.
February 27, 2001; 8 p.m.
Boston
premiere performance of "Eight Tarot Cards for Madam Rubio" for two
marimbas by Jack Van Gees and Nancy Zeltsman in Seully Hall at the
Boston Conservatory in Boston, MA.
March 4, 2001; 3 p.m.
Premiere
performance of "Symphony No. 4, opus 90 ... War and Peace" by Max
Hobart and the Civic Symphony Orchestra of Boston in Jordan Hall, New
England Conservatory of Music, Boston, MA. Featured
soloist: Peggo Horstman Hodes, soprano. Also on the program:
"Roman Carnival Overture" by Hector Berlioz, and "Violin Concerto, op.
77" by Johannes Brahms featuring violinist Joseph Silverstein.
March 8, 2001
Premiere
performance of "29 Fireflies, Book III, Seven Pieces,
xii-xviii" (1998, rev. 2000) by Robert Levin, pianist, at University of
California at Santa Barbara. Also
on the program: "D-major sonata D850/op 53" by Franz Schubert, and
"Prelude, Chorale and Fugue" by Cesar Frank.
March 13, 2001
Repeat
performance of "29 Fireflies, Book III, Seven Pieces, xii-xviii" (1998,
rev. 2000) by Robert Levin, pianist, at Amherst College. Also on
the program: "D-major sonata D850/op 53" by Franz Schubert, and
"Prelude, Chorale and Fugue" by Cesar Frank.
March 14, 2001
Repeat
performance of "29 Fireflies, Book III, Seven Pieces, xii-xviii" (1998,
rev. 2000) by Robert Levin, pianist, at Alumnae Hall, Brown University,
Providence, Rhode Island. Also on the program: "D-major sonata
D850/op 53" by Franz Schubert and "Prelude, Chorale and Fugue" by Cesar
Frank.
March 15, 2001
Juli Brooks,
marimba, and Miki Shimmei, violin, play "Marimolin" in Seully Hall at
the Boston Conservatory in Boston, MA.
March 22, 23, 24, 25 & 27, 2001; 8
p.m., except on Sunday, 3 p.m.
Premiere
performances of "Flauta Carioca," a flute concerto,
by Zdenek Macal and the New jersey Symphony Orchestra in Englewood,
Princeton, Red Bank, Morristown and Newark, New Jersey. Featured
soloist: Bart Feller, principal flutist, NJSO. "A Sound
Investment" project supported in part by the Mellon Foundation.
Also on the program:
"Piano Concerto No. 26, Coronation," by W. A. Mozart and "Symphony No.
5" by Ludwig van Beethoven.
April 1, 2001
Ives String
Quartet plays "Morango ... almost a tango" in a program including works
by Bela Bartok and Felix Mendelssohn in Noe Valley, CA.
April 7 & 8, 2001; 8 p.m.
Maestro Harvey
Benstein and the Contra Costa Chamber Orchestra
perform West Coast premiere of "Symphony No. 1 ...Fallen Angels" in Los Angeles,
CA. Also on the program: Canteloube's "Songs of the
Auvergne," and Beethoven's "Symphony No. 4 Op.60 in Bb Major."
May 11, 2001
Ives String
Quartet plays "Morango ... almost a tango" in a program including works
by Wolfgang A. Mozart, Charles E. Ives and Felix Mendelssohn at
the Rockport Opera House in Rockport, ME.
May 27, 2001
Premiere
performance of "Violà!!! Seven movements for two violas"
by Patricia McCarty and Ronald Wilkison in Studio 104 at
the School for the Arts, Boston University. Commissioned by the
Epstein family to honor the 75th birthdays of
Jean and Herb Epstein.
July 1, 2001
Premiere
performance of "Hancock Shaker Village" for mezzo-soprano and string
quartet commissioned by the Shaker Village in Hancock, MA.
Featured performers: Deborah Leath Rentz and the Hawthorne String
Quartet.
July 7, 2001
Robert Levin
performs "29 Fireflies, Book III, Seven Pieces, xii-xviii" (1998, rev.
2000) in a program including works by Mozart, Brahms and Franck at
Helmut Rilling's Oregon Bach Festival in Eugene, OR.
July 9, 2001
Performance of
"Eight Tarot Cards for Madam Rubio" for two
marimbas by Jack Van Gees and Nancy Zeltsman at Princeton
University, Princeton, N.J.
August 9, 2001
Wind River 4 performs "Morango ... almost a tango" in
a program including music by Villa-Lobos, Ginastera, d'Rivera and
Piazzolla, at the Grand Teton Music Festival in Jackson Hole, WY.
NB: Pilobolus performs
"Symbiosis," a dance work choreographed to
"Morango ... almost a tango," at the following locations in
March - July 2001:
Fairfield, Connecticut
Durham, North Carolina
Joyce Theater, New York City
Premieres and performances:
1999-2000 season
September 26, 1999; 4 p.m.
Boston
Conservatory Chamber Players play "Morango ... almost a tango" (1983)
at First and Second Church in Boston, MA.
October 12, 1999; 8 p.m.
Jazz Concert
featuring standards and original compositions by T. O. Lee and members
of Departed Feathers : Lee on flute, George Garzone on tenor, Brad
Hatfield on piano, Bruce Gertz on bass, and Grover Mooney on drums in
Gasson 100 at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA.
October 13, 14, 15, 16 & 17, 1999
Maximum Dance
Company performs "Slightly Sinful, " choreographed by Danny Rosseel of
the Royal Ballet of Flanders to the Kronos Quartet recording of
"Morango ... almost a tango" (1983) in Miami, FL.
November 14, 1999; 2 p.m.
The Hawthorne
String Quartet premieres "Berkshire Country Day School Fugue" (1999) at
the Berkshire Country Day School in Lenox, MA.
January 13, 2000; 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Jazz gig at
"The Good life" in downtown Boston featuring Lee on flute, Brad
Hatfield on piano, Paul Beaudry on bass, and Grover Mooney on drums.
January 26, 2000; 8 p.m.
Deborah Leath
Rentz and the Hawthorne String Quartet premiere
"Tantric Psalms" (1997, rev. 1999) in Gasson Hall at Boston College,
Chestnut Hill, MA.
March 19, 2000
Members of
the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra perform "Yo Picasso" in the Octagon
Hall, College of Saint Elizabeth, Florham Park,
NJ.
April 1, 2000
Premiere
performance of "Children's Suite, opus 81" by
Katie Wang, Heather Carmichael and Lauren Schnare at the Rivers School
in Weston, MA.
April 15, 2000
Andrés
Díaz and Judith Gordon premiere "Canções e
sambinhas" (1996) for cello and piano in Oneanta, NY.
April 15, 2000; 8 p.m.
John Finney
and the Boston College University Chorale premiere "Mass for the Holy
Year 2000" at Trinity Chapel on the Newton campus of Boston College.
April 16, 2000
Deborah Leath
Rentz and the Hawthorne String Quartet performs
"Tantric Psalms" (1997, rev. 1999) alongside Haydn's "Seven Last Words"
in Richmond, MA.
April 25, 2000; 8 p.m.
Andrés
Díaz and Judith Gordon perform "Canções e
sambinhas" (1996) for cello and piano in Gasson Hall at Boston College
in Chestnut Hill, MA.
May 14, 2000; 3 p.m.
Max Hobart,
Judith Ross and the Wellesley Symphony Orchestra premiere "Pastorale"
(2000) for harp and chamber orchestra at Mass Bay Community College in
Wellesley Hills, MA.
June 4, 2000
World premiere
performance of "Symphony No. 3 ... Portraits in Jazz" (2000), a
Continental Harmony/American Composers Forum Commission, by the
American Jazz Philharmonic at the Cerritos Center for the Performing
Arts, in Cerritos, CA.
July 29, 2000
Repeat performance of "Symphony No. 3 ... Portraits
in Jazz" (2000) at the Henry Mancini Institute in Royce Hall, UCLA, Los
Angeles, CA.
Premieres and performances: 1998-99 season
October 6, 1998
Jazz Concert
at Boston College featuring standards and original compositions by T.
O. Lee and members of Departed Feathers : Lee on flute, George
Garzone on tenor, Brad Hatfield on piano, Bruce Gertz on bass, and
Grover Mooney on drums.
October 18, 1998
Scott
Woolweaver performs viola version of "Chôros, opus 61" (1994-95)
in Gasson Hall at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA.
October 21, 1998
Boston
premiere of "Jack and the blues" (1997) by soprano Peggo Horstman Hodes
and pianist Peggy Senter in Gasson Hall at Boston College, Chestnut
Hill, MA.
October 24, 1998
Moving West
Repertory Dance Theater presents a choreograhic performance of
"Visconti-Sforza Tarot Cards ... Twenty-two Salon Pieces for Two
Pianos" (1996) featuring the Reed Sisters at Newton South High School
in Newton Center, MA.
October 25, 1998*
Premiere
performance of "Septet, opus 77 ... Variations on a Shaker Tune" (1998)
by members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Ozawa Hall at
Tanglewood, Lenox, MA.
November 12, 1998
Performance of
"Seven Jazz Pieces" (1990-91) by the Hawthorne
String Quartet at Saint Mary's Chapel, Boston College, Chestnut Hill,
MA.
March 10, 1999
Aura, the new
music ensemble at University of Houston, performs "SEPTET ...
Variations on a Shaker Tune" (1998) at the Moores Opera House on the
University of Houston campus in Houston, Texas.
April 10, 1999
U. S. premiere
of "Yo Picasso" (1997) by BSO clarinetist Thomas Martin, BSO violist
Mark Ludwig, BSO cellist Sato Knudsen and Randall Hodgkinson at Saint
James Church in Great Barrington, MA.
April 15, 1999
Performance of
"I Never Saw Another Butterfly" (1991) by Deborah Leath Rentz, Ian
Greitzer and Ya-fei Chuang at the "Holocaust and the Arts" Conference,
Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA.
April 16, 1999
Performance of
"Yo Picasso" (1997) by BSO clarinetist Thomas Martin, BSO violist Mark
Ludwig, BSO cellist Sato Knudsen and Randall Hodgkinson at a "prelude
concert" in Symphony Hall in Boston, MA.
April 18, 1999
Performance of
"Yo Picasso" (1997) by BSO clarinetist Thomas Martin, BSO violist Mark
Ludwig, BSO cellist Sato Knudsen and Randall Hodgkinson at the Zionist
Baptist Church in Boston, MA.
May 3, 1999
Performance of
"Seven Jazz Pieces" (1990-91) by the Hawthorne
String Quartet at Casa Mozart in Harajiku, Japan.
May 7 & 9, 1999*
Premiere of
"He Loves And She Loves ... G. & I. Gershwin" (1999 arr. for two
pianos) by Randall Hodgkinson and Leslie Amper as part of Gershwin
Celebration and Stravinsky's Les Noces with David Hoose
and the Cantata Singers in Jordan Hall, Boston, MA.
May 8, 1999
Performance of
"Seven Jazz Pieces" (1990-91) by the Hawthorne
String Quartet at ART SPACE 'O' in Tokyo, Japan.
May 8, 1999*
Premiere performance of "Jubilatus" (1999) by the
Wellesley Symphony Orchestra in Houghton Chapel at Wellesley College,
Wellesley, MA.
Premieres and performances: 1997-98 season
October 6, 1997
Jazz Concert at Boston College featuring standards and original
compositions by T. O. Lee and members of Departed Feathers : Lee
on flute, George Garzone on tenor, Brad Hatfield on piano, Bruce Gertz
on bass, and Grover Mooney on drums.
October 19, 1997
Robert Levin and Ya-Fei Chuang perform Visconti-Sforza Tarot Cards ...
Twenty-two Salon Pieces for Two Pianos (1996) at 11-13 Remington Street
in Cambridge, MA.
October 26, 1997
Hawthorne String Quartet performs ART: arias & interludes (1996,
rev. 1997) in Richmond, MA.
November 12, 13, 14 & 15, 1997*
Keith Lockhart conducts "Nursery Frieze" movement from Symphony No. 2
... "A Phantasmagorey Ballet" (1997)
with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall in Boston, MA.
November 22, 1997
Boston premiere performance of the Visconti-Sforza Tarot Cards ...
Twenty-two Salon Pieces for Two Pianos (1996) by the Reed Sisters at
Boston University.
December 8, 1997
Performance of Marimolin (1986) by marimbist Jessica Van Oostrom and
violinist So Yeon Ahn at Seully Hall, Boston Conservatory, Boston, MA.
February 23, 1998
Jazz gig featuring standards and original compositions by T. O. Lee and
members of the Moon Unit (TO Lee, Brad Hatfield, Bruce Gertz
& Grover Mooney) at Sandrina's Jazz Café, Somerville, MA.
March 8, 1998*
Max Hobart conducts premiere performance of Symphony No. 2 ... "A
Phantasmagorey Ballet" (1998) with the Civic Symphony Orchestra of
Boston in Jordan Hall at the New England Conservatory in Boston, MA.
March 16, 1998*
Diaz Trio premieres revised version of La Chimera Fantastica (1995,
rev. 1996) at Saint Mary's Chapel, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA.
April 3 & 4, 1998
Moving West Repertory Dance Theater presents a choreograhic premiere of
Visconti-Sforza Tarot Cards ... Twenty-two Salon Pieces for Two Pianos
(1996) featuring the Reed Sisters at Performing Arts Center of
MetroWest in Framingham, MA.
April 12, 1998
Trinca de chôros (1996) by Nancy Braithwaite at Sparrenheide in
Driebergen, the Netherlands.
April 19, 23 & 26, 1998*
The Arto Ensemble gives premiere performances of Yo Picasso (1997) in
the Netherlands - Amsterdam, 'Shertogenbosch & Bunnik.
April 29, 1998, 1998
Performance of Seven Jazz Pieces (1990-91) by the Hawthorne String
Quartet at The Country Club in Brookline, MA.
May 17, 1998*
Premiere performance of Forró (1998) by the Pro Arte Chamber
Orchestra in celebration of its 20th Season at Sanders Theater in
Cambridge, MA. Gunther Schuller, conductor.
June 5, 1998*
Premiere performance of new work for mezzo-soprano and organ, The
Ecstasy of Saint Teresa (1998), as part of the concert "Daniel
Pinkham Endowment for Music" at King's Chapel in Boston, MA.
June 6, 1998
Lydian String Quartet performs Seven Jazz Pieces (1990-91) in Slosberg
Hall at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA.
June 20, 1998
Trinca de chôros (1996) by Nancy Braithwaite at Fabriek Azijn in
's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands.
July 18, 1998
Hawthorne String Quartet performs Morango ... almost a tango (1983) at
the Hancock Shaker Village in Hancock, MA.
Premieres and performances: 1996-97 season
October
7, 1996
Jazz Concert at Boston College featuring standards and original
compositions by T. O. Lee and members of Departed Feathers : Lee
on flute, George Garzone on tenor, Brad Hatfield on piano, Bruce Gertz
on bass, and Grover Mooney on drums.
October 14, 1996
Gray Cliff Trio performs Piano Trio No. 1 ... "Tangos" (1994) at
Longy School of Music, Cambridge, MA.
November 15, 1996*
World premiere performance of the Visconti-Sforza Tarot Cards ...
Twenty-two Salon Pieces for Two Pianos (1996) at the Concord Community
Music School in Concord,
NH.
November 16, 1996
Performance of Castor & Pollux (1993, rev. 1996) at the Concord
Community Music School in Concord, NH.
March 8, 1997*
Premiere performance of Eight Tarot Cards for Madame Rubio (1997) by
Nancy Zeltsman and Janis Potter at the Juilliard School, New York, NY.
April 26, 1997
Performance of Eight Tarot Cards for Madame Rubio (1997) by Nancy
Zeltsman and Janis Potter at University of New Mexico, Alberquerque, NM.
April 27, 1997
Performance of Castor & Pollux (1993, rev. 1996) in Gasson Hall at
Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA.
May 2, 1997*
Premiere performance of Jack and the blues (1997) - a song cycle of
poems by Jack Kerouac - by Peggo Horstman Hodes and Peggy Senter at the
Concord Community Music School in Concord, NH.
May 7, 1997
Performance of Eight Tarot Cards for Madame Rubio (1997) by Nancy
Zeltsman and Janis Potter at the Salon, New
York, NY.
May 24, 1997
Performance of Eight Tarot Cards for Madam Rubio (1997) by Nancy
Zeltsman and Janis Potter at the Raritan River Music Festival in
Stockton, NJ.
May 31, 1997*
Mark Ludwig premieres viola version of Chôros, opus 61 (1994-95)
in the Chapel at Icicle Creek Music Center, Sleeping Lady, in
Leavenworth, WA.
June 29, 1997
Performance of Seven Jazz Pieces (1990-91) by the Hawthorne String
Quartet at Longfellow House in Cambridge, MA.
July 29, 1997
Performance of Eight Tarot Cards for Madam Rubio (1997) by Nancy
Zeltsman and Janis Potter in Paul Recital Hall at the Juilliard School
in New York, NY.
July 30, 1997
Performance of Seven Jazz Pieces (1990-91) by the Hawthorne String
Quartet at Curtisville Consortium series, Interlaken Congregational
Church in Stockbridge, MA.
Premieres and performances: 1995-96 season
September
9, 1995*
World premiere of Chôros, opus 61 (1994-95) by Daniel Stepner,
Slosberg Hall, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA.
October 17, 1995
Jazz Concert at Boston College featuring T. O. Lee on flute, Gray
Sargent on guitar, Brad Hatfield on piano, Bruce Gertz on bass, and
Grover Mooney on drums in Gasson Hall, Boston College, Chestnut Hill,
MA.
November 14, 1995
Daniel Stepner performs Chôros, opus 61 (1994-95) at 8th Annual
Celebration of Faculty Scholarship in Weston M. Jenks, Jr. Honors
Library, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA.
November 30 & December 2, 1995
Raphael Trio performs Piano Trio No. 1 ... "Tangos" (1994) at
Purdue University in LaFayette, IN.
February 22, 1996*
Díaz Trio premieres commissioned work La Chimera Fantastica
(1995) at Florida International University in
Miami, FL.
March 24, 1996*
Artaria Quartet of Boston gives premiere performance of commissioned
work ART: arias & interludes (1996)
in Gasson Hall, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA.
March 31, 1996
Artaria Quartet of Boston performs ART: arias & interludes (1996)
at Viterbo College in La Crosse, WI.
April 21, 1996
Gunther Schuller conducts the Boston Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra in the
Boston premiere of Symphony No. 1 ... "Fallen Angels" (1993, rev. 1995)
in Sanders Theater, Cambridge, MA.
April 22-24, 1996
New Music Festival 1996 at Viterbo College in La Crosse, WI.
Ray Shows performs Tunesmith ... An American Beauty Pageant (1993),
April 22
Artaria Quartet of Boston performs ART: arias & interludes (1996),
April 23
Laura Thielke and Ken Martinson perform Dark Angels (1990, rev. 1994),
April 24
April 27, 1996
Kristina Nilsson performs Chôros, opus 61 (1994-95) at St. Paul's
Episcopal Church in Brookline, MA.
May 2, 1996*
World premiere performance of Poema de Natal (1996) in Paine Hall,
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
May 30, 1996
Performance of Symphony No. 1 ... "Fallen Angels" (1993, rev. 1995) at
the Piccolo Spoleto Festival by the Charleston Symphony Orchestra, in
Charleston, SC.
June 8, 1996
Performance of Morango ... Almost a Tango (1984-string orchestra
version) by the Lexington Sinfonietta at the Museum of National
Heritage in Lexington, MA.
June 23, 1996
Steven Tramontozzi performs Hylidae ... The Tree Frogs (1984) with the
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Chamber Players at Davies Symphony
Hall in San Francisco, CA.
August 17, 1996
Premiere performance of Trinca de Chôros (1996) by Nancy
Braithwaite Wierdsma at the Church of Our Savior in Killington, VT.
Premieres and performances: 1994-95 season
September
23, 1994
Jazz gig with the Moon Unit - Tom Lee, flute; Brad Hatfield, piano;
Bruce Gertz, bass; Grover Mooney, drums - at the Willow Jazz Club in
Somerville, MA.
September 30, 1994
Tunesmith ... An American Beauty Pageant (1993) by the Paul
Chou-Paul Salerni duo , Gasson 100, Boston College,
Chestnut Hill, MA.
October 30, 1994
Raphael Trio premieres Piano Trio No. 1 ... "Tangos" (1994) alongside
piano trios by Shostakovich and Ravel at the Phillips Collection,
Washingtion, DC.
November 1, 1994
Raphael Trio performs Piano Trio No. 1 ... "Tangos" (1994) at the
Monmouth Arts Foundation in Lincroft, NJ.
November 14, 1994
Jazz gig with the Moon Unit - Tom Lee, flute; Brad Hatfield, piano,
Bruce Gertz, bass, Grover Mooney, drums - at the Willow Jazz Club in
Somerville, MA.
November 15, 1994
Jazz Concert at Boston College featuring compositions by T. O. Lee and
members of Departed Feathers : Lee on flute, George Garzone on
tenor, Brad Hatfield on piano, Bruce Gertz on bass, and Grover Mooney
on drums.
January 6, 1995
Lydian String Quartet performs Morango ... Almost a Tango (1983) at
Wigmore Hall in London, UK.
January 8, 1995
Raphael Trio performs Piano Trio No. 1 ... "Tangos" (1994) at the
Mill Valley Chamber Music Society in Mill Valley, CA.
January 10, 1995
Raphael Trio performs Piano Trio No. 1 ... "Tangos" (1994) in the
Eureka Concert Series in Eureka, CA.
January 18, 1995
Raphael Trio performs Piano Trio No. 1 ... "Tangos" (1994) at
Rockefeller University in New York City, NY.
January 29, 1995
Arcadia Wind Quintet premieres newly revised version of Waltzes, opus
26 (1984-94) at Emmanuel Church in Boston, MA.
February 14, 1995
Lydian String Quartet performs Morango ... Almost a Tango (1983) at
Miller Theater, Columbia University, in New York City.
February 27, 1995*
Andrés Díaz and Judith Gordon premiere cello and piano
version of Eurydice (1994-1995) at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, MA.
February 28, 1995
The Contemporary Music Ensemble at USC in Los Angeles, CA, gives West
Coast premiere of I Never Saw Another Butterfly (1991) for
mezzo-soprano, Bb clarinet and piano.
April 8, 1995
Raphael Trio performs Piano Trio No. 1 ... "Tangos" (1994) at the
Chamber Music Society of Logan in Logan, UT.
April 30, 1995*
World premiere of Eurydice ... A tone poem for cello and orchestra
(1995) by Andrés Díaz and the Civic Symphony Orchestra of
Boston, Regis College, Weston, MA.
May 23, 1995
Raphael Trio performs Piano Trio No. 1 ... "Tangos" (1994) at the
State Office Building in Juno, AK.
Premieres and performances: 1993-94 season
September 25, 1993
The Eos Ensemble in a concert of music by Dowland, Castelnuovo-Tedesco,
Imbrie, Webern, Villa-Lobos, Vivaldi, and the Boston premiere of Studio
54 (1992) for flute, Bb clarinet, violin, cello, and piano at the New
School of Music in Cambridge, MA.
September 28, 1993
The Eos Ensemble in a repeat performance of Studio 54 in the Knight
Auditorium at Babson College in Wellesley, MA.
November 2, 1993
Jazz Concert at Boston College featuring compositions by T. O. Lee and
members of Departed Feathers : Lee on flute, George Garzone on
tenor, Brad Hatfield on piano, Bruce Gertz on bass, and Grover Mooney
on drums.
November 16, 1993
Artaria Quartet of Boston performs newly-revised version of String
Quartet On B-flat (1989-90; rev. 1993) in Gasson Hall at Boston College
in Chestnut Hill, MA.
A four-movement work originally commissioned by the Harvard Musical
Association for the Manhattan String Quartet.
January 29, 1994
Lydian String Quartet in a program of Beethoven, Ornstein, and T. O.
Lee's String Quartet On B-flat in Slosberg Hall, Brandeis University,
Waltham, MA.
January 31, 1994
Soli Espri, featuring mezzo-soprano D'Anna Fortunato, clarinetist
Chester Bresniak, and pianist David Witten, in a program of Mozart,
Ponce, Poulenc, Berlioz, Schubert, and T.O. Lee's I Never Saw Another
Butterfly (1991) in Gasson Hall, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA.
February 19, 1994
Claring Chamber Players in a program of Mozart, Tchaikovsky, and the
world premiere performance of T. O. Lee's Dark Angels (1990; rev. 1994)
for viola and cello at the Unitarian Church in Montclair, NJ.
March 7, 1994
Lydian String Quartet, Chou-Solerni Duo, and Bartlett-Clarke Duo in
"An Evening of Music For Strings - Thomas Oboe Lee."
Dance Theater Workshop/Bessie Schonberg Theater
219 West 19th Street, New York, NY.
Program: Tunesmith ... An American Beauty Pageant
(1993)
Dark Angels (1990, rev. 1994)
Seven Jazz Pieces (1991-1992)
String Quartet On B-flat
(1989-90; rev. 1993)
Morango ... Almost a Tango (1983)
April 8, 1994
Performance of T.O. Lee's String Quartet On B-flat by the Artaria
Quartet of Boston at the Performing Arts Center Recital Hall, Winona
State University, Winona, MN.
April 13, 1994
Boston College Symphony Orchestra in a program featuring Beethoven's
Triple Concerto, and the world premiere performance of T. O. Lee's
three-movement Sinfonietta, opus 60 (1993-1994). Gasson Hall,
Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA.
April 15, 1994
Paul Chou-Paul Salerni duo performs Morango ... Almost a Tango
(1994-version for violin and piano) and Tunesmith ... An American
Beauty Pageant (1993) at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA. A
four-movement work commissioned by the Paul Chou-Paul Salerni duo.
April 22, 1994
Performance of T.O. Lee's String Quartet On B-flat by the Artaria
Quartet of Boston at the Swarthout Recital Hall, University of Kansas,
Lawrence, KS.
April 25, 1994
Performance of T.O. Lee's String Quartet On B-flat by the Artaria
Quartet of Boston at the White Concert Hall, Washburn University,
Topeka, KS.
May 3, 1994
Performance of T.O. Lee's String Quartet On B-flat by the Artaria
Quartet of Boston at the Fine Arts Center Recital Hall of Viterbo
College, La Crosse, WI.
May 6, 1994
Patti Shands and Peggy Senter premieres clarinet-piano version of
Tunesmith ... An American Beauty Pageant at
the Concord Community Music School in Concord, NH.
May 8, 1994
Sunrise Quartet performs Mozart, Shostokovich and T. O. Lee's Seven
Jazz Pieces at Unitarian Chuch, Palo Alto, CA.
May 9-27, 1994
Paul Chou-Paul Salerni duo takes Tunesmith ... An American Beauty
Pageant (1993) on a tour in mainland China.
May 15, 1994
Sunrise Quartet performs Seven Jazz Pieces at Maybeck Recital Hall,
Berkeley, CA.
June 5, 1994
Barbara Day Turner conducts the San Jose Chamber Orchestra in a
performance of Morango ... Almost a Tango (1984 string orchestra
version) in San Jose, CA.
July 9, 1994
Sunrise Quartet performs Mozart, Shostokovich and T. O. Lee's Seven
Jazz Pieces at Foothill College, Los Altos, CA.
August 22 & 23, 1994
Jazz gig with the Moon Unit - Tom Lee, flute; Brad Hatfield, piano,
Bruce Gertz, bas, Grover Mooney, drums - at the Willow Jazz Club in
Somerville, MA.