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Carnegie Hall Presents

Making Music

Series Events

Saturday, Oct 30, 2010 | 7:30 PM
Making Music: Evan Ziporyn
Zankel Hall

Performers

  • Carol McGonnell, Clarinet
  • David Krakauer, Clarinet
  • Evan Ziporyn, Bass Clarinet
  • Gamelan Galak Tika
    Evan Ziporyn, Director
  • Jeremy Geffen, Series Moderator
  • Signal
    Brad Lubman, Conductor
  • Theodore Schoen, Bass Clarinet
  • Vicky Chow, Piano

Program

  • EVAN ZIPORYN Tsmindao Ghmerto
  • EVAN ZIPORYN Hive (NY Premiere)
  • EVAN ZIPORYN In Bounds
  • EVAN ZIPORYN Bayu Sabda Idep (NY Premiere)

  • Program is approximately 1 hour, 40 minutes, including one intermission
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As a composer and performer, Bang on a Can All-Stars co-founder Evan Ziporyn has expanded the boundaries of clarinet playing. He has also explored the interaction of different musical cultures, forming in 1993 Gamelan Galak Tika to perform new music—including his own—that uses both Western and Balinese instruments by American and Balinese composers. Join Ziporyn and Carnegie Hall Director of Artistic Planning Jeremy Geffen as they discuss the virtuosity and cross-cultural interaction that has marked Ziporyn’s work over the last decade.
Ziporyn’s Tsmindao Ghmerto
Bang On A Can All-Stars / Evan Ziporyn,Clarinet 
Cantaloupe Music
Wednesday, Mar 2, 2011 | 7:30 PM
Making Music: James MacMillan
Zankel Hall

Performers

  • Brentano String Quartet
    ·· Mark Steinberg, Violin
    ·· Serena Canin, Violin
    ·· Misha Amory, Viola
    ·· Nina Lee, Cello
  • Cristina Zavalloni, Mezzo-Soprano
  • Eric Ruske, Horn
  • Inon Barnatan, Piano
  • James MacMillan, Conductor
  • Jeremy Geffen, Series Moderator
  • The Zankel Band

Program

  • JAMES MACMILLAN Piano Sonata
  • JAMES MACMILLAN Horn Quintet (US Premiere)
  • JAMES MACMILLAN Raising Sparks (US Premiere)
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MacMillan’s best-known works—from The Confession of Isobel Gowdie to his St. John Passion—are grand in scale with a powerful religiosity. But his music also has a degree of intimacy, a quality that comes through in the chamber music on this program. MacMillan will be on hand to discuss his music with Carnegie Hall Director of Artistic Planning Jeremy Geffen.
MacMillan Raising Sparks
Jean Rigby, Mezzo Soprano / Nash Ensemble / Martyn Brabbins, Conductor 
Black Box
Friday, Apr 15, 2011 | 7 PM
Making Music: Christopher Rouse
Zankel Hall

Performers

  • Bridget Kibbey, Harp
  • Calder Quartet
    ·· Ben Jacobson, Violin
    ·· Andrew Bulbrook, Violin
    ·· Jonathan Moerschel, Viola
    ·· Eric Byers, Cello
  • Commentary by Christopher Rouse
  • David Skidmore, Percussion
  • James Michael Deitz, Percussion
  • Jared Soldiviero, Percussion
  • Jeffrey Milarsky, Conductor
  • Jeremy Geffen, Series Moderator
  • John Ostrowski, Percussion
  • Molly Morkoski, Piano
  • Tara Helen O'Connor, Flute
  • Todd Palmer, Clarinet

Program

  • CHRISTOPHER ROUSE Ku-Ka-Ilimoku
  • CHRISTOPHER ROUSE Rotae Passionis
  • CHRISTOPHER ROUSE String Quartet No. 3 (NY Premiere, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall)
  • CHRISTOPHER ROUSE Compline
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A concert of chamber music by the Pulitzer Prize–winning composer. It includes what Rouse calls a “savage, propulsive war dance” in honor of a Hawaiian war god, and the New York premiere of his String Quartet No. 3, a Carnegie Hall co-commission.
Rouse Compline
Calder Quartet with Daniel Alexander, Flute / Sivan Magen, Harp / Alicia Lee, Clarinet 
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Christopher Rouse on Ku-Ka-Ilimoku and Compline
On April 15, Christopher Rouse's "Ku-Ka-Ilimoku" and "Compline" will be be performed during "Making Music", a celebration of the composer and his music. Here, the Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer discusses the background of the two pieces, including how he yearned to write some "beat the heck out of the drums pieces."

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