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WEDNESDAY, JULY 14
WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 11 AM | CIA AT COPIA
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Jennifer Grim, Flute Jillian Coscio, Flute Max Adler, Oboe Alejandro Dergal, Clarinet Sun Im, Bassoon Peter McFarland, Horn Daniel Seaman, Horn Bobby Gallagher, Trumpet Saori Kataoka, Trumpet
Aden Brooks, Trombone Jordan Crimminger, Bass Trombone Antek Olesik, Percussion Guillermo Ospina, Percussion Jenny Marasti, Percussion Sehee Park, Percussion Maureen Sheehan, Viola Kody Thiessen, Bass
NIGEL WESTLAKE (B. 1958)
Laudes for Brass Quintet (1971) ERWIN SCHULHOFF (1894-1942)
Concertino for Flute, Viola, and Double Bass (1925) ENDRE SZERVANSZKY (1911-1977)
Wind Quintet No. 1 (1953)
OMPHALO CENTRIC LECTURE
Nigel Westlake (b. 1958)
Nigel Westlake is an Australian composer, musician, and conductor who has received much recognition for his symphonies and film scores. His Op. 1 Omphalo Centric Lecture for percussion quartet is one of the most frequently performed works in the percussion repertoire. It was premiered by the Sydney-based percussion group Synergy.
LAUDES FOR BRASS QUINTET
Jan Bach (1937-2020)
Jan Bach was an American composer who taught at the University of Tampa and at Northern Illinois University. His primary performing instrument was the horn, and he was renowned among hornists for his horn pieces.
The four movements of Jan Bach’s Laudes for Brass Quintet express a wide variety of moods and tempo changes. The challenging second movement Scherzo, for example, is directed to be played “as fast as possible.” The work is dedicated to the Chicago Brass Quintet.
CONCERTINO
Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942)
Despite his essential Czech qualities, Erwin Schulhoff had considerable international influences. He was born in Prague and attended the conservatory there. He continued his studies at the Leipzig Conservatory and the Cologne Conservatory. He also studied with Debussy and Max Reger. The result was a highly sophisticated composer/pianist on the cutting edge of the avant-garde.
The Concertino for Flute, Viola, and Double Bass is a complex work filled with lovely and nostalgic melodies but also with great intensity and musical challenges. Nostalgia marks the first and third movements, but the second and fourth movements take on a livelier sense with suggestions of Bohemian dance tunes that might remind us of Dvořák.
FÚVÓSÖTÖS: WIND QUINTET NO. 1
Endre Szervánsky (1911-1977)
Hungarian composer Endre Szervánsky studied clarinet at the Budapest Academy of Music and later became a professor of composition there. He was given Israel’s Righteous Among the Nations Award that honors non-Jews who risked there lives to save Jews from the Nazis.
Szervánsky’s Wind Quintet No. 1 was one of the first wind quintets to receive public recognition. Composed in 1953, the work reflects the influence of Zoltán Kodály and Béla Bartók in its use of folk-inspired melodies and peasant rhythmic dance forms. It is one of the most expressive and passionate works for wind quintet.
