Concert I
OCTOBER SURPRISE
Sponsored by Hill Guitar Company
October ignites with a 40th season send-off of passion, fearless virtuosities and abundant beauty. Powerful musical testaments of very different kinds by late and living American composers make an evening’s fare of vying emotional forces.
Saturday, October 13, 2018
UCSC Music Center Recital Hall
Andy Strain, trombone and garden hose
Lori Rivera, voice
Andrew Scott Carter, tenor
NewMusicWorks Ensemble
22 American Folk Songs, by Ruth Crawford Seeger (1997/2018)
Larry Polansky and Giacomo Fiore, electric guitars
Coming Together (1971) Frederic Rzewski
Lori Rivera, voice
flute/piccolo; clarinet; tenor saxophone; violin; cello; double bass; piano; percussion
Anagnorisis (1964) Robert Hughes
Andy Strain, trombone, garden hose
Jim Kassis, percussion
Ritmicas: Homagò al Roldan (1965) Lou Harrison and Robert Hughes (world premiere)
flute, clarinet, French horn, bassoon
Five Songs from Cold Mountain (2010)
Bun-Ching Lam Text: Han Shan Baritone voice, flute, viola, harp
This event is supported in part by The Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation and Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County
Andrew Carter, tenor. Mr. Carter is a native of Newport Beach, CA, and an alumnus of the University of California at Santa Cruz. Prior to his recent return to Santa Cruz, Andrew sang with the Los Angeles Opera Chorus in their productions of Eugene Onegin, The Flying Dutchman and alongside Placido Domingo in Verdi’s Simone Boccanegra.
He has performed throughout the United States and Canada in both opera and in concert. Mr. Carter has sung under the baton of many noted conductors including Marin Alsop,James Conlon, Steven Crawford, and the late Randall Behr. Currently Andrew is the Director of Music Ministries at Foothill Presbyterian Church in San Jose, and is thrilled to making his debut with New Music Works.