Composers Workshop III
Sunday, April 3, 2022 at 7:30p in the Concert Hall
Program
Graves Under Foot |
Sean HARKEN |
| Oliver Bostian, violin Hsin-Hui Liu, piano |
Not 1 |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozartaggravated by Mark RHEAUME |
| Matt Mason, piano |
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This is Mozart's first piano sonata: sabotaged, erased, copied, pasted, blasted, wrung out, gutted, flush, faded, pilfered, leaking, lurching, keeling, bitter, littered, dwelling, domed, wide, naked, pulped, mossed over, etc. |
String of Buttons |
M DENNEY |
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M Denney, electric guitar |
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For a period of several years, including the first year of COVID, I kept a notebook with the common and scientific names of interesting cacti and succulents that I would come across. I titled every piece of electronic music I made in that period after one of the plants in that book. String of Buttons is the last of these pieces, and the only one for “acoustic” instruments. The piece consists of two cycles of different lengths; one harmonic, one rhythmic; and simply places those cycles in motion until they meet together at the end. String of Buttons was originally written for vibraphone and glockenspiel, though this version can serve as an exploration of the guitar in the context of more traditional percussion instruments. |
In the Abyss… Sheening… Weathering |
Ziang HAN |
| Kelly Hilil, mezzon soprano John Manning, tuba John Reyna, tuba Ghadeer Abaido, prepared piano Myron Peterson, conductor |
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In the Abyss... sheening... weathering... is inspired by one of my recent compositions for tuba and saxophone Gazing at Ephemerality in My Broken Shadow. I was intrigued by the colorful possibility of sound articulated from tuba played in the Voxman concert hall, so I want to write something for it. I originally planned to write for 3 tubas, but as I know more people from music school, I decide to change it to 2 tubas (John Reyna the tuba student, John Manning the tuba professor) 1 prepared piano and mezzo soprano (Ghadeer Abaido and Kelly Hill, they are friends) |