23-25 November 2016. Around the New World in Eighty Years: A Chamber Music Concert preceded by a Lecture-Recital and a Masterclass in Bologna, Italy.
Classical Music Adventure: Around the New World in Eighty Years - Un giro nel Nuovo Mondo in ottant'anni. Three American-Music events for clarinet-violin-piano trio, and for the three instruments in different formations, in Bologna, Italy, November 23-25, 2016. ICAMus sponsors and contributes to a triple chamber music event. Gabrielle Baffoni (clarinet), Brandon Christensen (violin) and Anna Quaranta (piano) perform a program of Daniel Gregory Mason, Leonard Bernstein, Harold Schiffman, Jeanne Singer, Charles E. Ives and Béla Bartók. Co-sponsored by the University of Bologna and the Museo Internazionale e Biblioteca della Musica di Bologna.
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE PERFORMERS:
GABRIELLE BAFFONI, clarinet - Southeast Missouri State University
BRANDON CHRISTENSEN, violin - Southeast Missouri State University
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT PIANIST ANNA QUARANTA, BOLOGNA, ITALY.
AROUND THE NEW WORLD IN EIGHTY YEARS - UN GIRO NEL NUOVO MONDO IN OTTANT'ANNI.
THREE AMERICAN-MUSIC EVENTS FOR CLARINET-VIOLIN-PIANO TRIO, AND FOR THE THREE INSTRUMENTS IN DIFFERENT FORMATIONS, IN BOLOGNA, ITALY.
TRIPLE EVENT PROGRAM, NOVEMBER 23, 24, AND 25, 2016.
Wednesday 23 November 2016, 5:00 PM
Salone Marescotti del Dipartimento delle Arti, University of Bologna
Via Barberia 4, Bologna
Gabrielle Baffoni (clarinet), Brandon Christensen (violin), Anna Quaranta (piano)
Lecture-recital: Come funziona "Contrasts" di Béla Bartók?
Within the research and educational event series of "Centro La Soffitta".
Thursday 24 November 2016
Liceo musicale “L. Dalla” di Bologna
Via del Riccio 5, Bologna
Gabrielle Baffoni (clarinet), Brandon Christensen (violin)
Chamber music workshop with the students
Friday 25 November 2016, 9:00 PM
Museo Internazionale della Musica di Bologna
Strada Maggiore 34, Bologna
Gabrielle Baffoni (clarinet), Brandon Christensen (violin), Anna Quaranta (piano)
Chamber Music Concert:
Daniel Gregory Mason (1873-1953), Pastorale (1913), for clarinet, violin & piano
Leonard Bernstein (1918-2000), Sonata (1943), for clarinet & piano
Harold Schiffman (1928), Duo concertante (1993), for violin & clarinet
Jeanne Singer (1924-2000), From the green mountains (1975), for clarinet, violin & piano
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Charles E. Ives (1874-1954), Largo (comp. c. 1907?; publ. 1953)
Béla Bartók (1881-1945), Contrasts (1938)
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Admission to the concert and to the lecture-recital is free and open to the public.
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PLEASE FIND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND UPDATES ON THIS PROGRAM, AS WELL AS FLYER AND PROGRAM TO VIEW AND DOWNLOAD, HERE AND HERE.
VIEW AND DOWNLOAD THE TRIPLE-EVENT PROGRAM, A PROGRAM NOTE, AND THE PERFORMERS' BIOGRAPHIES (PDF).
VIEW THE NOVEMBER 25TH AMERICAN CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT IN THE WEBSITE OF MUSEO INTERNAZIONALE E BIBLIOTECA DELLA MUSICA DI BOLOGNA.
DISCOVER AMERICAN COMPOSER AND MUSIC CRITIC DANIEL GREGORY MASON (1873-1953).
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN COMPOSERS HAROLD SCHIFFMAN (born in 1928) AND JEANNE SINGER (1924-2000):
Jeanne Singer - Profile, New York Women Composers, Inc.
The Editions of the Sonata for Clarinet & Piano by Bernstein.
Leonard Bernstein, Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1943), Cover pages of the new Revised Editions, based on manuscript sources. Left: New York: Leonard Bernstein Music Publishing: Boosey & Hawkes; Milwaukee, WI: distributed by H. Leonard Corp., 2010; Issued with companion CD of a full performance by clarinetist Todd Levy and pianist Jeannie Yu; as well as accompaniment-only tracks. Right: New York: Leonard Bernstein Music Publishing: Boosey & Hawkes; Milwaukee, WI: Distributed by H. Leonard Corp., c 2012. The first edition of the Sonata was published in 1943 (New York: M. Witmark & Sons, and Warner).
