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EVENTS
ENSEMBLE DAL NIENTE
ANNOUNCES 2010-11 SEASON! Dates TBA.
SEASON OPENER: HOW ABOUT NOW? Named after Nico Mulhy's piece, Dal Niente's season opener features music by up-and-coming composers of varying styles. Marcos Balter: NEW WORK (ensemble dal niente commission) Nico Muhly: How About Now? Anthony Cheung: Centripedalocity Eliza Brown: Uneasy Michel van der Aa: Rekindle (North American Premiere) featuring Shanna Gutierrez, flute
DARK CROSSING: NOVEMBER
2010
Renewing the collaboration between dal niente
and former CSO composer-in-residence Mark-Anthony Turnage, this concert features two major works alongside killer ensemble
works.
Mark-Anthony Turnage: Dark Crossing
Mark-Anthony Turnage: Slide Stride
Louis Andriessen: Hout
John Adams: Shaker Loops
RAMIFICATIONS: WINTER 2011
dal niente revives its string orchestra, but with a twist...
György Ligeti: Ramifications
Kirsten Broberg: NEW WORK
for solo horn, strings and percussion (ensemble dal niente commission)
Luciano Berio: Chemins IV featuring Ryan Muncy, saxophone
DAL NIENTE PLAYS DILLON ensemble dal niente trucks to Minneapolis
to work with James Dillon, internationally renown Scottish composer, whose works are known for their vitality and nuance.
Afterward, we return for home ground for a Chicago performance. featuring J. Austin Wulliman, violin
UNBOUND: A FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN MUSIC
This four-part festival presented in spring, 2011, is designed to celebrate the imagination and skill
of contemporary American composers, observing thecontributions of master composers as well as the new generation of emerging American masterpieces. Each concert is
thematically sculpted, allowing thelistener to follow a distinct musical concept as it relates to the identity of ‘American’
music.
REICH @ 75
Pendulum Music (1968)
New York Counterpoint (1985)Violin
Phase (1967)
Typing Music from ‘The Cave’ (1993)
Triple Quartet (1998)
featuring Anubis Quartet
George Crumb: Vox Balanae (1971) Augusta Read Thomas: Capricious Angels (2009) Kirsten Broberg: the Waters of Time (2010) Aaron Travers: Afield (2004) Joshua Fineberg: Broken Symmetries (2001) Jacob Druckman: Dances with Shadows (1989) featuring Axiom Brass Quintet
VOODOO
John Zorn: Forbidden Fruit (1986)
Frank Zappa:
G-Spot Tornado (1986/2009) arr. Lewanski
Frank Zappa: The
Duke of Prunes (1966/2009) arr. Wulliman
John Cage: The
Perilous Night (1943-44)
John Cage: But what about the noise
of crumpling paper which he used to do in order to paint the series of “Papiers froisses” or tearing up paper
to make
“Papiers dechires” Arp was stimulated
by water (sea, lake, and flowing waters like rivers), forests (1985)
Alvin Lucier: Nothing is Real; Strawberry Fields Forever (1990)
Sublime: Under My Voodoo (1994) arr. Lewanski
SEASON FINALE: JUNE 2011
dal niente closes its season by climbing to heights of terrifying virtuosity and with music
by old friends.
Brian Ferneyhough:
Terrain for violin and winds
Augusta Read Thomas: Dancing Helix Rituals
Drew Baker: NEW WORK (ensemble dal niente commission)
Gyorgy Ligeti: Piano Concerto
featuring J. Austin Wulliman, violin and Winston Choi, piano
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