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CARNEGIE HALL PRESENTS MAKING MUSIC: GEORGE CRUMB
MONDAY, OCTOBER 27 AT 7:30 P.M. IN ZANKEL HALL
All-Crumb Program Features the New York Premiere of
Voices from the Morning of the Earth (American Songbook VI)
On Monday, October 27 at 7:30 p.m., Carnegie Hall presents composer George Crumb in an evening of music and conversation as part of its Making Music series in Zankel Hall. Moderated by Carnegie Hall’s Director of Artistic Planning, Jeremy Geffen, the all-Crumb program includes The Sleeper, Vox Balaenae and the New York premiere of Voices from the Morning of the Earth (American Songbook VI). Featuring Orchestra 2001 under the baton of Artistic Director James Freeman, the evening will include performances by Broadway’s Ann Crumb and baritone Randall Scarlata, pianists Marcantonio Barone and Molly Morkoski, flutist Tara Helen O’Connor, and cellist Priscilla Lee.
Now in its 12th season, Carnegie Hall’s Making Music series focuses on contemporary composers, many in conversation about their musical points of view, and includes performances of their own works, often featuring premieres. Moderated by Carnegie Hall’s Director of Artistic Programming Jeremy Geffen, this season’s Making Music concerts feature George Crumb, Elliott Carter (December 12), and Peter Eötvös (January 29).
George Crumb's reputation as a composer of hauntingly beautiful scores has made him one of the most frequently performed composers in today's music world. The winner of a 2000 Grammy Award and the 1968 Pulitzer Prize in Music, he was born in Charleston, West Virginia, on October 24, 1929. Crumb studied at the Mason College of Music in Charleston and the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, under Eugene Weigel. He continued his studies under Boris Blacher at the Hochschule für Musik, Berlin, from 1954–55 and received the D.M.A. in 1959 from the University of Michigan. Crumb's early compositions include Three Early Songs (1947), for voice and piano; Sonata (1955) for solo violoncello; and Variazioni (1959) for orchestra. In the 1960s and 1970s, he produced a series of highly influential pieces many of which were vocal works based on the poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca, including Ancient Voices of Children (1970); Madrigals, Books 1–4 (1965,69); Night of the Four Moons (1969); and Songs, Drones and Refrains of Death (1968). Other major works from this period include Black Angels (1970), for electric string quartet; Vox Balaenae (1971), for electric flute, electric cello, and amplified piano; Makrokosmos, Volumes 1 and 2 (1972, 73) for amplified piano; Music for a Summer Evening (1974) for two amplified pianos and percussion; and Crumb's largest score—Star-Child (1977), for soprano, solo trombone, antiphonal children's voices, male speaking choir, bell ringers, and large orchestra. George Crumb’s most recent works include Eine Kleine Mitternachtmusik for solo piano (2001), Otherworldly Resonances for two pianos (2002), and American Songbook (Unto the Hills, A Journey Beyond Time, The River of Life, The Winds of Destiny, Voices from a Forgotten World) (2001–2007).
Singer-actress Ann Crumb has originated numerous leading roles on Broadway and London’s West End including Aspects of Love, The Goodbye Girl, Nine, Les Misérables, Chess, and Anna Karenina, for which she received a Best Actress Tony Award nomination. She is also the recipient of a Barrymore Award, a Broadway National Theater Award nomination for Best Actress and an Arts Recognition Award. Ms. Crumb sang “Three Early Songs” on George Crumb’s 70th Birthday Album which received a 2000 Grammy Award, and Bridge Records has just released her new album Unto the Hills. She has just recorded her father’s "The River of Life" and is working on a new jazz album, Goodbye Mr. Jones.
Baritone Randall Scarlata has appeared as soloist with the Minnesota Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, National Symphony, Birmingham Symphony, California Symphony, Eugene Symphony, Brooklyn Philharmonic, American Symphony, and many others. In recital, Mr. Scarlata has performed with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at Alice Tully Hall, at Seattle Chamber, at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, and in concerts for the Vocal Arts Society in Washington, DC, as well as New York’s Morgan Library, Merkin Hall, and Weill Recital Hall. Abroad, he has performed in major concert halls of Vienna, Salzburg, Hamburg, Nice, and Caracas, and at the Edinburgh International Festival with pianist Richard Goode.
The award-winning ensemble Orchestra 2001 (O2001) was founded in 1988 as ensemble-in-residence at Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, PA. In June 2007, the League of American Orchestras and ASCAP recognized O2001, and Artistic Director James Freeman, as outstanding leaders of new music in the United States with their Awards for Adventurous Programming. Throughout its 19 years of performances, O2001 has had an enormous impact on the cultural life of Philadelphia, not to mention the impact that it has had on the lives of composers, young and old. O2001 has demonstrated a dedication to the performance of American contemporary music with over 80 world premieres, 105 Greater Philadelphia premieres, 205 works by 125 American composers, of which more than 135 works were by 60 Philadelphia-area composers.
Artistic Director James Freeman founded Orchestra 2001 in 1988. In 1990 Mr. Freeman was given the Philadelphia Music Foundation’s first award for Achievement in Classical Music. Other honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the German Government, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and Harvard University’s Paine Traveling Fellowship. He spent the spring of 1991 as a Fulbright Scholar, guest conductor, and lecturer on American music at the Moscow Conservatory. In the past few years, Mr. Freeman’s guest conducting assignments have taken him to the Salzburg Festival, Ljubljana (the National Symphony of Slovenia), Taipei (the National Symphony of Taiwan), the Colorado Music Festival, the University of British Columbia, the Syracuse Society for New Music, and with Orchestra 2001 to St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Copenhagen, and to the Huddersfield (England) International Contemporary Music Festival.
Program Information
Monday, October 27 at 7:30 p.m.
Zankel Hall
MAKING MUSIC: GEORGE CRUMB
Commentary by George Crumb
Ann Crumb, Vocalist
Randall Scarlata, Baritone
Marcantonio Barone, Piano
Molly Morkoski, Piano
Tara Helen O’Connor, Flute
Priscilla Lee, Cello
Orchestra 2001
James Freeman, Artistic Director and Conductor
Jeremy Geffen, Series Moderator
GEORGE CRUMB The Sleeper
GEORGE CRUMB Vox Balaenae
GEORGE CRUMB Voices from the Morning of the Earth (American Songbook VI) (NY Premiere)
Bank of America is the Proud Season Sponsor of Carnegie Hall.
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Ticket Information
Tickets, priced at $30, are available at the Carnegie Hall Box Office, 154 West 57th Street, or can be charged to major credit cards by calling CarnegieCharge at 212- 247-7800 or by visiting the Carnegie Hall website, www.carnegiehall.org.
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