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“Writing for Dawn Upshaw has alwaysencouraged me to try new things.” With that,John Harbison captures the essence of afruitful and inspiring composer/singercollaboration as Upshaw joins Lorin Maazeland the New York Philharmonic on 23February for the premiere of Milosz Songs. The30-minute orchestral song-cycle is Harbison’sfirst New York Philharmonic commission andthe fourth piece he has written for Upshaw.

The work centers on 11 poems of 20th-century Lithuanian Nobel LaureateCzeslaw Milosz. The “new things” that Harbison refers to is his very specific stagesetting of the work. “This piece surrounds the singer with a concertino group ofsix players. This concertino plays an important, varied role in every song. Ithought of these players as satellites revolving around the orbiting path of thesinger...Milosz’s poems are Epilogues for the 20th century. He was a witness to itsmost harrowing events.” The poet’s life traversed the war-torn terrain of WorldWar II and led him to settle in Berkeley, CA. “Milosz draws us, unready, as he wasinto the great sweep of history. Always, he reacts not ‘in sorrow, but in wonder.’”

“Milosz Songs”

Dawn Upshawcredit: Dario Acosta, courtesy New York Philharmonic

According to the Chinese calendar,the “Year of the Dog” began on 29January.

On 23 February, the PhiladelphiaOrchestra rings in the Chinese NewYear with their premiere of BrightSheng’s Concerto for Orchestra:Zodiac Tales, conducted byChristoph Eschenbach. “When thePhiladelphia Orchestra approachedme with this commission,” Sheng

recalls, “they told me they also wanted to reach out to the local Chinesecommunity. For some time, I had been planning to write a piece based on theChinese zodiacs — which was an idea my father suggested to me — and Irealized that this was the perfect opportunity to do so.” The 25-minute, six-movement work is dedicated to Eschenbach. Movement No. 5 — “The Tombof the Soulful Dog” — was written inmemory of the composer’s mother whowas born in the “Year of the Dog,” andpassed away a year ago.

“Every Chinese,” Sheng notes, “is bornin a year of a specific animal whichaccompanies the person throughout theirlife...Throughout the years, the Chinesehave gradually changed some of theiconic animals to the ones that were part of their daily lives, except for thedragon. Although many legends of these cosmic animals were writtenthroughout Chinese history, it is not my intention to tone-paint these stories.Instead, some of the most vivid images of these largely fictional tales gave meinspiration as point of departure to compose.”

New York City Ballet has appointedBright Sheng as its composer inresidence. Sheng’s term began on 1January and runs through 2007.Sheng is the first composer to take upthe post in NYCB’s six-year-oldartist-in-residence program, and as

Sheng Takes Center Stage...

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4. The Elephant-Eating Serpent5. The Tomb of the Soulful Dog

6. The Flying Horses

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...in New York

“Ezra Laderman has been enthusiastically elected president of the AmericanAcademy of Arts and Letters.” Thus proclaims Louis Auchincloss — chair of theAcademy’s Nominating Committee — on Laderman’s three-year term, whichbegan on 18 January. Laderman, a member of the Academy since 1991 and thesixth composer to serve as president in its 108 years, is “delighted with thisopportunity to serve the organization which holds great meaning for me in itsfostering of work by younger artists.”

Professor of Music and former Dean at the YaleSchool of Music, Laderman has composedmusic in all genres, much of which appears onAlbany Records. Critic Allen Gimbel notes ofAlbany’s “Music of Ezra Laderman” series,“Laderman’s stylistic language [is] a well-absorbed blend of tonal and non-tonal elements,employed with great freedom and expressiverange.” A series of duets occupies him currently;recent works include Variations on a Passacaglia(Concerto for Cello and Orchestra), Brass Trio,and Samurai Song for soprano and tenor. Justoff-press are his Violin Duets (HL 50485858).

President Laderman

credit: Dorothy Alexander, courtesy American Academy of Arts and Letters

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John AdamsShaker Loops★ Producer of the Year: Tim HandleyBournemouth Symphony/Marin AlsopNaxos CD 8559031

George AntheilSymphony No. 3, “American”★ Best Orchestral PerformanceFrankfurt Radio Symphony/Hugh WolffCPO CD 777040 2

Craig ArmstrongRay (original motion picture score for film directed by Taylor Hackford)★ Best Score SoundtrackAtlantic/Rhino/WEA/WMG

Carlos ChávezComplete Chamber Music, Volume 3Cantos de Mexico; Cuatro de Melodias Tradicionales Indias delEcuador; Lamentaciones; Toccata for Percussion; Tres Exagonos; Otro Tres Exagonos; Xochipilli★ Best Classical Album★ Best Small Ensemble Performance (with or without conductor)Southwest Chamber MusicCambria Master Recordings CD 8852

Philip GlassSymphonies Nos. 2 and 3★ Producer of the Year: Tim HandleyBournemouth Symphony/Marin AlsopNaxos CD 8559202

John HarbisonWorld Premiere recordingMottetti di Montale★ Best Small Ensemble Performance (with or without conductor)Janice Felty and Margaret Lattimore, mezzo-sopranosCollage New Music/David HooseKoch International Classics CD 7545

Dmitri ShostakovichSymphony No. 13, “Babi Yar”★ Best Classical Album★ Best Orchestral PerformanceSymphonie-Orchester und Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks/Mariss JansonsEMI Classics 7243 5 57902 2 4

2006 Classical Grammy Nominations

Denyce Graves as Margaret Garner

credit: Philip Gorshong, courtesy Cincinnati Opera

This month, mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves portrays the title role ofMargaret Garner for a third time in a year, as the Opera Company ofPhiladelphia mounts six performances of Richard Danielpour’s acclaimedfirst opera. With a libretto by Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison, MargaretGarner was co-commissioned by Opera Company of Philadelphia with leadpresenter Michigan Opera Theatre (who premiered it in May 2005) and theCincinnati Opera, who offered their staging last summer. Kenny Leon andStefan Lano both return respectively as stage director and conductor.

Graves reprises Margaret Garner in April, when Opera Carolina mounts threeperformances.

Garnering Attention

part of his residency, he will compose two new ballets that will premiere in2007 and 2008, to be choreographed by Christopher Wheldon and PeterMartins. Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux will create a new ballet to some of Sheng’sexisting music, which premieres this spring (with Sheng conducting) as part ofNew York City Ballet’s Diamond Project Festival.

“New music and the commissioning of scores is traditionally a vital element inthe life of New York City Ballet,” notes music director Andrea Quinn. “We arevery proud and honored to have the world-renowned composer Bright Shengjoin the music staff as composer in residence. Bright’s music is characterized byextraordinary beauty and textural exoticism as well as rhythmic drive, and weare truly looking forward to having such an experienced and exciting composeras part of our team.” Sheng will also conduct the company’s orchestra, takepart in educational activities, and participate in the New York ChoreographicInstitute — the Ballet’s training program for choreographers and composers.

Sheng is no stranger to the dance world. His music was previouslychoreographed by Bonnefoux in “Zoomin’” for the North Carolina DanceTheatre, and Helgi Tomasson and the San Francisco Ballet created the ballet“Chi-Lin,” which toured to New York City in a production conducted bySheng.

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Kaija SaariahoL’Amour de Loin

L’Amour de Loin is one of Kaija Saariaho’s mostimpressive scores — powerful, evocative, andchallenging. Even at its most modernist — andthere is a preponderance of such,...the musicremains accessible, and at times quite lyrical andimpassioned. This is due largely to the basicallytonal character of the vocal writing, as well as toSaariaho’s interweaving elements of Debussy,Messiaen, and even French baroque.

…Water is one of two main factors in thisminimalist, Peter Sellars-directed production (thestage is literally covered with it). The other isdarkness, with sparse lighting on the bare set...Esa-Pekka Salonen (who appears in wet-boots at thecurtain calls) conducts masterfully, leading theFinnish National Opera Orchestra and Chorus (which has a prominent role) ina powerful performance. The video quality is first rate, while the audio is up toDVD standards, with excellent bass response, an important element inSaariaho’s subterranean-based score. All told, this is an effective and engagingpresentation of this highly interesting new work.

Victor Carr, Jr., ClassicsToday.com

Review

World Premiere DVDDawn Upshaw (soprano);

Monica Groop (mezzo-soprano);

Gerald Finley (baritone)Finnish National Opera

Orchestra andChorus/Salonen

Deutsche GrammophonDVD B0004721-09

10 September 2008 marks the centennial of maverick musician RaymondScott. Just in time to celebrate Scott’s one-and-only, inimitable andimaginative voice, two titles — Huckleberry Duck and The Penguin, botharranged by Robert Wendel — are now available from our rental library.

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The Penguin 4'2+pic.2.2.2/4.3.3.1/timp.perc/str

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Scott entries:

Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals 3'2+pic.1+ca.22/432+btbn.1/timp.dms.xyl.glock.tam-tam.perc/str

Powerhouse 4'2(pic)222/4331/timp.3perc/pf/str

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New Raymond Scott

Raymond Scott

credit: Paul Gordon

Sofia Gubaidulina

credit: © The Japan Art Association, The Sankei Shimbun

This month, Tan Dun “maps” his wayaround the world. He jets Down Under toconduct the Australian premieres of The Mapand the Paper Concerto; flies to Germany fortwo separate performances — the Philhar-monisches Staatsorchester’s concert of TheMap followed by the BachakademieStuttgart’s Water Passion after St. Matthew,and then heads south again for the NewZealand Arts Festival’s presentation of Tea.

The Map, Tan’s multimedia cello concerto, has charted its own course sinceTan conducted the world premiere in 2003 with Yo-Yo Ma and the BostonSymphony. Since then, The Map has traveled worldwide with over 18performances in six countries, extensive tours through China and Japan, andbeen a featured work at the Amsterdam China Festival, the Kennedy CenterChina Festival, Tanglewood, Carnegie Hall, and the 2005 World Expo.

Around the World in 28 Days

“It seems to me that the title of this piece isjustified,” Sofia Gubaidulina affirms about herlatest work, which premieres 15 – 19 February, asSir Simon Rattle, its dedicatee, leads thePhiladelphia Orchestra. “...many people in our time recognize and sense thecalamity overtaking mankind, the lowering of the moral level of society and thebuildup of hatred in our souls. The contrast — between this picture of diseaseand the fact that a large segment of people want nothing more than to feast andmake merry — creates a condition of the spirit from which it is impossible toescape...But this is only the most superficial level of the composition. The pointof the piece consists not so much in the expression of that condition of the spirit,as in the creation of a purely musical metaphor comparable to that condition.”

Co-commissioner Pittsburgh Symphony unveils Feast During a Plague locally on1-3 December, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis and then presents the New Yorkpremiere two days later at Carnegie Hall. The composer will attend theperformances and be the subject of a Making Music evening.

En route to Philadelphia, Gubaidulina makes a stop in Winnipeg on the 11thto attend the 15th Annual Centara International New Music Festival, wherecellist Ivan Monighetti performs And: The Festivities at Their Height with theWinnipeg Symphony, led by Andrey Boreyko. 2006 is Gubaidulina's 75thbirthday and the festivities are just beginning.

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On TourTan DunFebruary 2, 4The Map: Concerto for Cello, Video and OrchestraPaper Concerto for Paper Instruments and OrchestraSydney Symphony Orchestra/Tan DunSydney, Australia

February 12, 13The Map: Concerto for Cello, Video and OrchestraHamburg Philharmonic Orchestra/Tan DunHamburg, Germany

February 18Water Passion after St. Matthew Bach Academy Festival/Tan DunStuttgart, Germany

February 25, 27, March 1Tea: A Mirror of SoulNew Zealand Arts Festival, Wellington, NZNew Zealand Symphony Orchestra/Tan Dun

1 John HarbisonMirabai Songs (chamber version) premiered 1984

2 Henry CowellString Quartet No. 1 premiered 1926

3 Philip GlassSymphony No. 6 premiered 2002

5 Elliott CarterConcerto for Orchestra premiered 1970

6 Stephen Albert born 1941

7 Tan DunOut of Peking Opera premiered 1988

8 Virgil ThomsonFour Saints in Three Acts premiered 1934

10 George AntheilSymphony No. 6 premiered 1949

12 Mel Powell born 1923

13 William SchumanPrayer in Time of War premiered 1943

15 John Adams born 1947

16 John Corigliano born 1938

17 Lee Hoiby born 1926

18 Thea MusgravePhoenix Rising premiered 1998

19 Morton GouldSpirituals for Orchestra premiered 1941

20 Anthony Davis born 1951

22 Paul CrestonSymphony No. 1 premiered 1941

23 Leon KirchnerPiano Concerto No. 1 premiered 1956

24 Walter PistonSymphony No. 5 premiered 1956

26 Elliott CarterString Quartet No. 1 premiered 1953

27 Peter LiebersonHorn Concerto premiered 1999

28 John HarbisonSymphony No. 3 premiered 1991

Anniversaries Richard Danielpour poses with seminar students at the Curtis Institute ofMusic, which fetes him with a 50th-birthday concert on 8 February.

This month, Choreographer James Sewell of theJames Sewell Ballet joins forces with the SaintPaul Chamber Orchestra for the premiere of his

new ballet Schoenberg Serenade.

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Sierra (GS) "Celebration," fromTropicalia(February 5)Quad City Symphony/Harvey FelderDavenport, IA

Tan Dun (GS) Concerto for StringOrchestra and PipaOshkosh Symphony/William JonesOshkosh, WI

Gordon (RP) GothamLight Is CallingWho By FireBill Morrison, film director; TACTUS/Patti MonsonManhattan School ofMusicNew York City

Tanaka (CH) Techno Etudes Junko Ueno Garrett, piano Claremont, CA (February 8)Pasadena, CA

Corigliano (GS) Gazebo Dances for BandUniversity of MichiganSchool of Music/Andrew GeorgeAnn Arbor, MI

Rodríguez (GS) A Colorful Symphony(February 9, 10, 14)Kansas City Symphony

50th Birthday ConcertDanielpour (AMP) As Night Falls onBarjeantaneSpirits in the WellString Quartet No. 4:ApparitionsSweet TalkCurtis Institute of MusicPhiladelphia, PA

Kernis (AMP) Musica Celestis(February 11)Cincinnati Symphony/William Eddins(February 10 - 12)Detroit Symphony/Mark Wigglesworth

Loeffler (GS) La Mort de TintagilesJerusalem Symphony/Leon BotsteinJerusalem, Israel

Tanaka (CH) Song of Songs(February 10 - 12)Shauna Rolston, cello Peggy Baker DanceToronto, Ontario, Canada(February 16 - 18)Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Danielpour (AMP) Margaret Garner(February 12, 15, 18, 24, 26)Opera Company ofPhiladelphia/Stefan LanoKenny Leon, stage director

Corigliano (GS) Snapshot: Circa 1909Corigliano QuartetLivermore, CA

Gubaidulina (GSR) “And: The Festivities atTheir Height” (CelloConcerto)Winnipeg Symphony/Andrew BoreykoWinnipeg, Manitoba,Canada

Schnittke (GSR) "Menuet and Fugue," fromThe Suite in Old StyleEnsemble "RussianCarnival"/Tamara VolskayaCarnegie HallNew York City

Sheng (GS) La’i (Love Song)Kansas University WindEnsemble and DanceCompany/John LynchLawrence, KS

Soundstreams CanadaTan Dun (GS) Ghost Opera ★★

Accordes String QuartetToronto, Ontario, Canada

Dorman (GS) Udacrep Akubrad(Chamber version)Maraca2 EnsembleWiltshire, England

Gubaidulina (GSR) Feast During a Plague★★★

(February 16 - 19)The PhiladelphiaOrchestra/Simon Rattle

Shostakovich (GSR) Cello Concerto No. 1Symphony No. 11, “TheYear 1905” (February 16)Enrico Dindo, celloToronto Symphony/Peter Oundjian

Corigliano (GS) Fantasia on an Ostinato(February 17)Pierre-Laurent Aimard,pianoSinfonieorchester desBayerischenRundfunks/David ZinmanMunich, Germany

Weir (CH) Tiger Under the TableUniversity of Pittsburgh

Carter (AMP) Variations for Orchestra(February 17, 18)New York Philharmonic/Lorin MaazelLincoln CenterNew York City

Kernis (AMP) Sarabanda in Memoriam(February 17)Minnesota Orchestra/Osmo VanskaMinneapolis, MN

Schoenberg (WH) Serenade, NewChoreography ★★★

(February 18)James Sewell Ballet; Saint Paul ChamberOrchestra/Scott YooSt. Paul, MN

Corigliano (GS) To MusicGorecki (CH) Three Pieces In Old StyleWest Virginia University/Harvey FelderMorgantown, WV

Glass (DUN) Violin ConcertoWinnipeg Symphony/Andrew Boreyko

Cowell (AMP) Hymn and Fuguing TuneNo. 10Ellington (TPO) The RiverThe Prairie Ensemble/Kevin KellyChampaign, IL

Schnittke (GSR) Moz-Art à la HaydnWilfrid Laurier University/Jerzy KaplanekWaterloo, Ontario, Canada

Scott arr. by RobertWendel (MS) Powerhouse(February 19)Greenville Symphony/Edvard TchivzhelGreenville, SC

Surinach (AMP) Ritmo Jondo(February 19)San Juan Symphony/Arthur PostFarmington, NM

Nyman (CH) Pawn to King Four fromMan Who Mistook HisWife for a Hat(February 18)Margaret Leng Tan, toypianoNoguchi Museum, NewYork City

Schuller (AMP) Journey into JazzPro Arte ChamberOrchestra/Gunther SchullerCambridge, MA

Harbison (AMP) The Most Often UsedChords Buffalo Philharmonic/Robert FranzBuffalo, NY

Harbison (AMP) Milosz Songs for Sopranoand Orchestra ★★★

(February 24, 25, 28)Dawn Upshaw, soprano;New York Philharmonic/Robert SpanoLincoln CenterNew York City

Sheng (GS) Concerto for Orchestra:Zodiac Tales ★★★

(February 24 - 26)The PhiladelphiaOrchestra/ChristophEschenbach

Tavener (CH) "Folding," Choreographyafter Last Sleep of theVirgin (February 24, 25)Shen Wei Dance ArtsMontreal, Quebec, Canada

Thomas (GS) Shakin' ★★★

Memphis Symphony/David LoebelMemphis, TN

Dorman (GS) Udacrep Akubrad(Chamber version)Maraca2 Adrian Boult Hall,Birmingham, England

Lutoslawski (CH) Concerto for OrchestraSpokane Symphony/Eckart PreuSpokane, WA

Shchedrin (GSR) Concerto No. 1 forOrchestra, “NaughtyLimericks” (February 25)Utah Symphony/Keith LockhartSalt Lake City, UT

Corigliano (GS) Salute ★★★

Glass (DUN) Hymn to the Sun from“Akhnaten”Brooklyn Philharmonic/Michael ChristieBrooklyn Academy ofMusic, NY

Rozsa (B&H) Violin Concerto Augusta SymphonyAugusta, GA

Adams (AMP) The Chairman DancesRichmond Philharmonic/Erin FreemanRichmond, VA

Kernis (AMP) New Era DanceGreen Bay Symphony/Reischl Green Bay, WI

G. Schirmer Selected Performances February ’06

credit: © Rahav Segev/Photopass.com

Harbison (AMP) Remembering Gatsby(February 14)Winston SalemSymphony/Robert MoodyWinston Salem, NC

Tower (AMP) Purple RhapsodyPro Musica ChamberOrchestra/ThomasBattenburgColumbus, OH

Gordon (RP) Weather I (Sextet)Lang (RP) Cheating, Lying, StealingSweet AirWolfe (RP) LickMusica Nova; EastmanSchool of Music/Brad LubmanRochester, NY

Sheng (GS) Concerto for Orchestra:Zodiac Tales ★

Philadelphia Orchestra/Christoph EschenbachCarnegie HallNew York City On 25 February, Michael

Christie inaugurates hisBrooklyn Philharmonicdirectorship with John

Corigliano’s new concertopener Salute.

Husa (AMP) String Quartet No. 4,“Poems”(February 22)Fama Quartet Prague, Czech Republic

Tower (AMP) Fanfare for theUncommon Woman, No. 1(February 7)University of Washingtonat Bothell/M. WeitzelBothell, WA

Thomas (GS) Sun Songs ★★★

(February 28)Percussion Plus Project;DePauw UniversityGreencastle, IN

Harbison (AMP) Concerto for Oboe,Clarinet and StringsErie Philharmonic/Hugh KeelanErie, PA

Harris (AMP) Symphony No. 3Wilmington Symphony/Steven ErranteWilmington, NC

Revueltas (GS) SensemayáBrazos ValleySymphony/BussikiBryan, TX

Husa (AMP) Smetana FanfareEastman Wind Ensemble/Mark ScatterdaySchoenberg (GS) Chamber Symphony No. 2Eastman School ofMusic/Clay GreenbergRochester, NY

Kernis (AMP) Air for Violin andOrchestraOrchestra London London, Ontario, Canada

Wolfe (RP) Dark Full RideSan FranciscoContemporary MusicPlayers/David Milnes

Focus Festival 2006Ali-Zadeh (GSR) Khazar ★★★

Wallin (CH) The Age of Wire andStringNew Juilliard Ensemble/Joel SachsNew York City

Ellington arr. and orch.by Jeff Tyzik (EMI) Ellington PortraitOrchestre Symphoniquede Laval/Jean-FrancoisRivestLaval, Quebec, Canada

Corigliano (GS) Concerto for Violin andOrchestra (The RedViolin)Anne Akiko Meyers, violinDanielpour (AMP) Urban DancesSchuman (AMP) American FestivalOverture(February 4)Rochester Philharmonic/Jeff TyzikRochester, NY

Sheng (GS) The Stream FlowsTibetan DanceShostakovich (GSR) Sonata for Violin andPianoShem Guibbory, violin;Lino Gomez, clarinet;Molly Morkoski, pianoLincoln CenterNew York City

Composer in ResidenceCorigliano (GS) Circus Maximus(Symphony No. 3 forLarge Wind Ensemble)Michael Haithcock, cond.Concerto for Piano andOrchestraPromenade OvertureUniversity of MichiganSchool of Music/Kenneth KeislerAnn Arbor, MI

Adams (AMP) The Chairman DancesKansas City, MO

Tilson Thomas (KON) Island MusicYale School of MusicNew Haven, CT

UK TourNyman (CH) Perpetua(February 4 - April 1)Shobana Jeyasingh DanceCompany

On TourBalada (GS) Voices No. 1Dutch National Student Choir

February 18: Maastricht, NetherlandsFebruary 19: Nijmegen, NetherlandsFebruary 23: Delft, NetherlandsFebruary 24: Utrecht, NetherlandsFebruary 25: Groningen, Netherlands

Made In AmericaTower (AMP) Made in America

February 4: San Angelo Symphony/David PhillipsSan Angelo, TX

February 4, 5: University of Virginia/Carl RoskettCharlottesville, VA

February 5: Evanston Symphony/Larry EckerlinEvanston, IL

February 5: Greenwich Village Symphony/Barbara YahrNew York, NY

February 7: Walla Walla Symphony/Yakov BergmanWalla Walla, WA

February 12: Civic Orchestra of Minneapolis/Cary John FranklinMinneapolis, MN

February 12:Whatcom Symphony/Roger BriggsBellingham, WA

February 19: Bryan SymphonyBryan, TN

February 19: Tennessee Tech University/Dan AllcottCookeville, TN

February 20: Florence Symphony/Terry RobertsFlorence, SC

credit: courtesy Sheridan Seyfried

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MaxOpus.com, Peter Maxwell Davies’ pioneeringwebsite, offers a number of major recordingsavailable for purchase through MaxOpus Music.Launched in 2004, MaxOpus Music providesdownloads via MP3 files or the CD Builderprogram which may be used to create customaudio CDs that are shipped via mail. Recentreleases include Resurrection, Maxwell Davies’1987 wickedly comic opera, which satirizes the

follies of modern society, and two newworks — Beacons of Hope (for militaryband) and the string quartettranscription A Sad Paven for TheseDistracted Tymes.

Judy Arnold, Maxwell Davies’manager notes, “Max started the sitebecause he wanted to make recordingsof his music available to everyone —wherever they might be in the world

— who has access to the Web. By having this site, people who want to obtain[his] recordings can be sure that they will be there, not just for this week orthis year, but for all the years in the future...”

Arnold adds, “In the early days, by far the largest number of customers wentdown the CD route, but as the months have gone on, the customers areequally balanced between downloads and CDs…[and] the site has been a greatsuccess. We now have 96 recordings, covering the whole spectrum ofsymphonies, operas, chamber operas, concertos, orchestral works, oratorios,choral and instrumental works, and works [for] young performers.”

Maxwell Davies’s Naxos String Quartet series continues with the 10 Marchpremiere of Quartet No. 8 by the Maggini Quartet, as part of the “SoundsNew” Festival in Canterbury, England.

News from MaxOpus

Joan TowerInstrumental Works

Joan Tower’s chamber music has much thesame emotional intensity and gestural ferocityas her orchestral works. Her primarily angularharmonic language, with its predominantlydissonant cast, evokes a sense of agitationbordering on rage...In Memory (in a stunningrendition by the Tokyo String Quartet) beginsquietly...then builds to a gripping climax. The music’s emotions areparticularly raw and acute, as the composer was inspired by the death of aclose friend, and then the 9/11 attacks that occurred shortly after.

Big Sky has somewhat softer contours. It begins and ends in a subdued,melancholy atmosphere, while the climactic central section jars with itsabrupt syncopations fleshed our in a robust, quasi-romantic piano writing.

Island Prelude is the most surprising piece in this collection, as it featurespassages of genuine consonance and even lyricism, as well as somecharacterful writing for solo oboe...Of course, all of this is woven intoTower’s free-flowing, volatile musical style, which quite often catches youoff-guard — the very thing that makes her music compelling.

No Longer Very Clear is a set of four piano pieces, the titles of which arelines taken from the John Ashbery poem of the same name. This veryintimate encounter with Tower’s art reveals a composer of imagination andingenuity, and one who possesses a profound emotional sensitivity. Thewriting is brilliant and ranges from Scriabinseque passion of the mysteryand exotic beauty found in Messiaen....This release marks an importantdocument of the composer.

Victor Carr, Jr., ClassicToday.com

ReviewIn Memory, Big Sky, Wild

Purple, No Longer Very Clear,Island Prelude

Chee-Yun, violin; AndréEmelianoff, cello; Paul

Neubauer, viola; RichardWoodhams, oboe; MelvinChen, Ursula Oppens and

Joan Tower, pianoNaxos CD 8559215

Congratulations to“Musician of theYear” Esa-PekkaSalonen, whosephoto graces thecover of the 2006Musical AmericaInternationalDirectory of thePerforming Arts.

Perpetua — Michael Nyman’s latestdance score for the Shobana JeyasinghDance Company’s new ballet “Exit NoExit” — premieres on 3 February inLondon. Based on rhythmic patterns ofspeech, and choreographed by Jeyasingh,the 25-minute work is scored for stringquartet and bass clarinet. After the firstperformance, Perpetua receives anextensive UK tour that runs throughApril. This is Nyman’s third collaboration

with Jeyasingh, having previously created “Configurations” (for which Nymanwrote his seminal String Quartet No. 2 ) which was followed by last year’selectronics and media-infused piece “Flicker.”

Like Maxwell Davies, Nyman has also launched his own CD label — MNRecords. The first two releases are: “The Piano Sings” — a solo piano albumfeaturing Nyman performing tracks from his film scores Wonderland, The Endof the Affair and The Piano, and his chamber opera Man and Boy: Dada,performed by the cast of the 2004 Almeida Opera production. Upcoming discsinclude: the vocal chamber work Acts of Beauty performed by CristinaZavalloni, new recordings by the Michael Nyman Band, and previouslyunreleased and otherwise unavailable recordings.

Nyman in Perpetua

credit: John Batten

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John HarbisonChaconneAndrew ImbrieReminiscenceMark Teischolz, guitarSpring FeverNew Music Ensemble of the San FranciscoConservatory of Music/PaiementAlbany/Troy CD 766

David DiamondDon’t CryEpitaphMusic, when soft voices dieHelene Williams, soprano; Leonard Lehrman, pianoAlbany/Troy CD 817

Augusta Read ThomasWorld Premiere recordingsIncantationPulsarMoves Pogossian, violinAlbany/Troy CD 810

Judith WeirThe Consolation of ScholarshipJanice Felty, mezzo-sopranoKing Harald’s SagaJudith Kellock, sopranoMusicians Wrestle EverywherePiano ConcertoXak Bjerken, pianoEnsemble X/StuckyAlbany/Troy CD 803

New CDs

ReviewElliott Carter“Get Carter!” Festival

Energy was the keyword.…

Orchestra players danced throughwhirlwinds of notes and conflictingmetres. In this weekend of his music,everyone had to be fighting fit to keeppace with Elliott Carter,inextinguishable at 97.

...time and again the difficulties ofCarter’s music were trampled by itsabundant rewards, never more so thanin the BBC orchestra’s triumphantaccount on Saturday of the orchestral Variations.

Altogether, an inspiring weekend.

Geoff Brown, The Times (London)

A Symphony of Three Orchestras 17'Orch I: 0000/322+btbn.1/timp/str(8.0.4.3.2);

Orch II: 002(bcl)+Ebcl.0/0000/chm.vib.xyl/mba/str(2.0.0.3.1);

Orch III: 2+pic.2+ca.02+cbn/2000/perc/str(8.0.4.0.2)

BBC Symphony/Robertson

Double Concerto 23'Harpsichord, Piano

Two Chamber Orchestras:1(pic)11(Ebcl)1/2110/4perc/str(1.0.1.1.1)

14 January

Variations for OrchestraLondon Sinfonietta/Knussen

15 January 2006; Barbican Center, London, England

ReviewPeter LiebersonNeruda Songs 30'

Peter Lieberson’s new set of love songs to hiswife is a thing of silvery, 3 a.m. beauty. In thehalf-light and glimmer of the orchestra, amelody leaps languidly upward like a dancer onthe moon. This is music of untethered lyricism,born of the voice — specifically, the burnished-copper mezzo of its dedicatee, Lorraine HuntLieberson.

...[Lieberson’s] setting of the Chilean poet PabloNeruda’s sonnets is a blushingly romanticoffering to Lorraine, who sang them with a concentrated glow. They are, ofcourse, tailored for her voice, but more important, being married to a singer hastaught the composer to think in song...

Justin Davidson, New York Newsday

New York PremiereSpanish texts by Pablo Neruda

Mezzo-soprano;2(pic).1+ca.2(bcl).2/2200/

2perc.hp.pf/strLorraine Hunt Lieberson,

mezzo-sopranoBoston Symphony/Levine

28 November 2005; Carnegie Hall, New York City

credit: Richard Termine

Peter Lieberson, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, and James Levine

John CoriglianoPied Piper Fantasy for Flute and OrchestraFull score 50483399 $35.00

Dmitri KabalevskyEasy Variations, Op. 40 (piano solo)Score 50486179 $5.95

Easy Variations on Folk Themes, Op. 51 (piano solo)Score 5086180 $5.95

Variations on Folk Themes, Op. 87 (piano solo)Score 50486181 $5.95

Aaron Jay KernisChoral Selections from “Garden of Light”No. 1: HomeFor Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Tenor, Baritone soloists; SATBOctavo 50485938 $1.70

No.2: “The Light of Heaven”For Soprano, Tenor; SATBOctavo 50485939 $1.70

No. 3, “Is There a Place?”Octavo 50485940 $1.70

No. 4, “In Search of Hope”Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Tenor and Baritone; SATBOctavo 50485941 $1.70

No. 5, “In Our Children’s Embrace”Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Tenor, Baritone; SATB, TrebleWomen’s ChorusOctavo 50485942 $1.70

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Leonardo BaladaNo-Res

The howling ofdesperate wolves opensLeonardo Balada’s “No-res,” or “Nothing,” ableak cantata aboutdeath...Using text (byFrench writer Jean Paris)from several languages,tapes of animals,smashing glass and uprooted trees, the work’sharrowing look at death would make a worthyHalloween counterpart to Handel’s Messiah. Itsimpetus and immediacy stem from the death of thecomposer’s mother. First lamenting it, thenprotesting it, the chorus jabs and punches as muchas sings, the narrator speaks with awful hardness,and the orchestra thrashes about — all harrowingand even touching.

Andrew Druckenbrod, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Review

Denis Raftner, narratorMadrid Community Chorus

Madrid CommunityOrchestra/Encinar

Naxos CD 8557343

“Epilogue: from Winter”, the penultimate song from JohnHarbison's Milosz Songs. World premiere: 23 February 2006.Dawn Upshaw, soprano. New York Philharmonic, conducted byLorin Maazel. Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, New York City.Copyright 2006 by Associated Music Publishers (BMI). NewYork, NY. International Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved.Used by permission.

John CoriglianoConcerto for Violin andOrchestra (“The Red Violin”) 38'

...Mr. Corigliano is amaster of orchestralcoloration and effects,and he uses themunabashedly to evoke pictorial, even panoramicimagery, or to manipulate emotions with anefficient directness. All that was, in fact, the originalbusiness of the music that became Mr. Corigliano’sViolin Concerto, the roots of which can be found inhis film score for “The Red Violin.”

Allan Kozinn, New York Times

ReviewViolin;

3(2pic,afl).2.2(bcl).2(cbn)/4.2([pictpt]).3.1/

timp.4perc/pf(cel).hp/strJoshua Bell, violin

New York Philharmonic/Nott13 January 2006; Lincoln

Center, New York City

What once was great, now appeared small.

Kingdoms were fading like snow-covered bronze.

What once could smite, now smites no more.Celestial earths roll on and shine.

Stretched on the grass by the bank of a river,As long, long ago, I launch my boats of bark.

— ©2003 by Czeslaw Milosz, reprinted with the permission of the Wylie Agency Inc. Translated by Czeslaw Milosz.

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