Season Schedule | Store and Tickets | Sound Horizons | Archives | Listen | About NMW | Support Us
2007 - 2008 SEASON AT A GLANCE SOUND HORIZONS (September 6) KERNIS @ THE KEYS (October 6) NOSFERATU (October 30) KOREAMERICA II (January 31) NIGHT OF THE LIVING COMPOSERS (March 8) AVANT GARDEN PARTY (June 8)		NEW MUSIC WORKS 29th SEASON Philip Collins, Artistic Director Rowland and Patricia Rebele, Season Sponsors Kernis @ the Keys Music of Aaron Jay Kernis and Terry Riley Music Center Recital Hall, UCSC, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz SATURDAY, October 6, 8pm, 2007 TICKETS: General $18, Senior $15, Students $10 UCSC Box Office, 831/459-2159; S.C. Civic Box Office 420-5260 www.santacruztickets.com 7:15 pm Pre-concert talk with Aaron Jay Kernis and Philip Collins 8:00 pm Concert A line up of REALLY extraordinary new works by two of America’s most celebrated living composers, performed by a bi-coastal gathering of stellar performers!! THE PERFORMERS Aaron Jay Kernis, Pulitzer prize-winning composer, and frequent guest to the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, steps into the limelight as pianist to perform three of his own works. David Tanenbaum world renowned guitarist, and longtime Kernis collaborator, performs on classical and National Steel Guitar for works by both composers. Axel Strauss, violinist, winner of the Naumburg Violin Award in 1998 and Professor of Violin at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music performs music by both Kernis and Riley. Ann Moss, award-winning soprano performs the West Coast premiere of Kernis’ Two Awakenings and a Double Lullaby. Jennifer Culp, cello, member of Kronos Quartet for seven years performs Kernis’ Meditations, a Tribute to John Lennon. Ariose Singers, Michael McGushin, conductor, perform two Kernis works. THE REPERTOIRE The musical worlds of New Yorker Aaron Jay Kernis and Californian Terry Riley are as far apart aesthetically as they are geographically. Guitarist David Tanenbaum, an enduring collaborator with both composers, provides the link that brings these two powerful musical forces into one concert. PROGRAM ORDER I Can Not Dance, Oh Lord (1998)— Aaron Jay Kernis Dorma Dor (2000)— Kernis Ariose Singers, Michael McGushin, Conductor Quando Cosas Malas Caen del Cielo (2003) — Terry Riley (When Bad Things Fall from the Sky) David Tanenbaum, National Steel Guitar National Broadstreet March La Melodia que se sienta solo (The Melody that feels alone) Corrente directa Quando Cosas Malas Caen del Cielo Air for Violin and Piano (1995) — Kernis Axel Strauss, violin; Aaron Jay Kernis, piano Intermission Meditation (in memory of John Lennon) (1981) cello and piano — Kernis Jennifer Culp, cello; Aaron Jay Kernis, piano Llanto and Canto Desierto for violin and guitar (1996, arr. 1998)— Riley Axel Strauss, violin; David Tanenbaum, guitar Two Awakenings and a Double Lullaby (2006) — Kernis Ann Moss, soprano; Axel Strauss, violin; David Tanenbaum, guitar; Aaron Jay Kernis, piano To see the program notes & deatiled history for all the pieces being performed in this concert click here. This project is supported, in part, by a grant from the Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County, the Copland Fund for Music; Newman’s Own, the Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County, and the Ann and the Gordon Getty Foundation