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ACO Opener:
photo: Beowulf Sheehan
Orchestra Underground: We kick off the season with the world premieres of Milica Paranosic’s
multimedia The Tiger’s
Wife: Prologue based on the bestselling novel by Téa Obreht along with Narong Prangcharoen’s
The Migration of Lost Souls. We are
also excited to bring the US premiere of José Serebrier’s American Composers Orchestra (ACO) kicks off its 2012-13 concert season with Orchestra Underground: Dreams & Dances on Friday, October 26, 2012 at 7:30pm at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall. The concert, led by guest conductor José Serebrier, features music that draws inspiration from around the world – from the Balkans to Thailand, from South America to nostalgic New England – and includes two world premieres by up-and-coming composers Milica Paranosic (The Tiger’s Wife: Prologue) and Narong Prangcharoen (The Migration of Lost Souls). The program also includes the US premiere of Serebrier’s own Flute Concerto with Tango featuring Sharon Bezaly and Charles Ives’ iconic Symphony No. 3 (“Camp Meeting”) from 1910. (Gabriela Frank’s Manchay Tiempo, previously announced as part of this concert, has been postponed.). This concert program features:
Milica Paranosic:
photo: Gorazd Poposki
Milica
Paranosic
(b.
1968) is a New York City-based composer, sound designer, music educator, and
producer. A 2002 participant in ACO’s New Music Readings, she is also a regular
teaching artist in ACO’s educational outreach program in New York City public
schools – Music Factory. She has received grants from Meet the Composer,
American Music Center, Soros Foundation, Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg, among
many others. She is the resident composer and multimedia director of
VisionIntoArt, an interdisciplinary performance and production team; founder and
executive director of Give to Grow, an education and cultural exchange project
that brings technology to children in underdeveloped communities; and co-founder
of Beyond the Machine, a festival of electronic and interactive music at
Juilliard.
Paranosic’s new work,
The Tiger’s Wife: Prologue
for
Orchestra, Voice, Electronics and Visuals, takes as its inspiration a
bestselling novel of the same title by Téa Obreht, who, like Paranosic, was born
in Belgrade. Paranosic says, “Apart from obvious cultural and geographical
connection between Obreht and myself, there are numerous parallels in our
aesthetics, including mixing real and imagined, old and new, fantasy and
history, folk and pop, Serbian and English languages, and the use of symbols.”
Paranosic has partnered with librettist
David Chambers
on the
text; videographer
Carmen Kordas
and
photographer
Beowulf Sheehan
contribute original projections of imagery from Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia.
The Tiger's Wife: Prologue is commissioned and
premiered by ACO with the support of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton Inc.
Milica Paranosic: Zvrk for Violin,
Cello and Electronics
photo: Henrik Olund
Carmen Kordas was born in
Germany and has been based in New York since 1998. Her work has been exhibited
throughout the U.S. and Europe. Coming out of video installations, her work has
now developed into a wide range of disciplines: multimedia art and video
projection for theater, opera and performance. Her work has been exhibited in
VideoFestival in Munich, Freiberg, Berlin, Bochum, Dresden, and Arnheim,
Netherlands. Ms. Kordas holds a MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin
where she studied visual communication, digital editing, and three dimensional
video sculpting with Valie Export.
Beowulf
Sheehan is a New York-based photographer of the arts and
humanities, making commercial and conceptual images of
compelling figures and their stories. His work has been
published in the likes of Elle France, Esquire, L’Uomo Vogue, The
New Yorker, and Spin, made for Audi, Furla, Godiva,
and Random House, and exhibited at the International Center of
Photography. You are welcome to view his work at
www.beowulfsheehan.com.
Beowulf is grateful to his artist colleagues, to American
Composers Orchestra, and to Téa Obreht and her representatives
for the opportunity to celebrate her brilliant work.
David Chambers is a producer, director, and writer of theatre and opera. His productions have been seen in theaters in Europe, throughout the US, and in New York on and off Broadway, in the BAM Next Wave Festival, at Bard Summerscape and PS 122. He is Professor of Directing at The Yale School of Drama, has taught extensively in Russia and eastern Europe and holds an honorary degree from The University of the Lower Danube in Romania.
Narong Prangcharoen:
Narong Prangcharoen
(b. 1973) studied with Chen Yi and received his doctoral degree
from University of Missouri-Kansas City. His music has been
called “absolutely captivating” by the
Chicago Sun Times
and has been performed in Asia, Australia, Europe and the US.
Prangcharoen is the 2011 winner of ACO’s Underwood Emerging
Composer Commission. Of Prangcharoen’s winning piece
Pubbanimitta
(“Foreboding”), Underwood mentor composer Paul Chihara said,
“Mr. Prangcharoen writes music that reaches and moves his
listeners with soaring melodies and intense rhythmic dance
patterns.” His works have been heard at the Beijing Modern
Music, MoMA Music and Grant Park Festivals, the Chamber Music
Society of Lincoln Center, and at the Library of Congress. In
2007, the Thai government named Prangcharoen a Contemporary
National Artist and awarded him the Silapathorn Award. The Migration of Lost
Souls is commissioned by ACO with
the support of Paul Underwood.
Narong Prangcharoen: Pubbanimitta
(excerpt)
Charles Ives: Symphony No. 3
Charles Ives (1874-1954) is one of the most remarkable composers America has produced. Ives studied the organ and was a composition pupil of Horatio Parker at Yale University, from which he graduated in 1898. At an early age, he decided that he would not make music the means of earning his livelihood; he realized that it might be too difficult not to compromise his artistic ideals if his livelihood depended on his music. Accordingly, he entered the insurance business and made a fortune. His Yankee refusal to accept the usual way of combining sounds left him to explore many novel and often descriptive ways of putting sounds together, placing him far ahead of his time. Many of Ives’ explorations into new harmonic and contrapuntal possibilities antedated the work of Schoenberg and Stravinsky. A long list of compositions, most written before 1920, includes four symphonies, chamber music, two piano sonatas, five violin and piano sonatas, and many songs and choral pieces, as well as a number of other orchestral works. Ives described his Symphony No. 3 in his autobiographical notes: “The themes are mostly basedaround hymnsand from organ pieces played in Central Presbyterian Church around 1901.”
Jose Serebrier:
Flute Concerto with Tango
was commissioned for flutist Sharon Bezaly, who performed and recorded it with
the Australian Chamber Orchestra for the BIS label. Serebrier explains the
title, saying, “The fourth movement justifies the title of the work.
Traditionally, tangos end with a strong dominant chord followed by a brief,
barely audible tonic chord. I take this idea further, leaving my tango up in the
air in the middle of a phrase, so that the listener can make his own
conclusion.”
Jose Serebrier: Flute Concerto with Tango
(excerpt)
Sharon Bezaly
gave her début concert as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic
Orchestra conducted by Zubin Mehta when she was 14. Sharon went
on to study at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique
in Paris under Alain Marion, Raymond Guiot and Maurice Bourge,
winning the Academy’s first prizes for flute and chamber music.
Tickets & Info ACO performs at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall Friday, October 26, 2012, at 7:30pm. Tickets are $40 and $50, and may be purchased through CarnegieCharge at 212-247-7800, by visiting Carnegie Hall's website at www.carnegiehall.org, or at the Carnegie Hall box office, 57th Street at 7th Ave. |
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