Concert Program, Program Notes, Biographies

Meet the Experimentalists (6:45 PM) - Prelude concert

Works:

John Chowning (b. 1934)) - Phone (1981)
Jean Eichelberger Ivey (1923-2010) - Aldebaran (1972)*
     Scott Woolweaver, viola
Jean-Claude Risset (1938-2016) - Sud (1985)
     Parts I and II

All Those Americans (8:00 PM)

Works:

Robert Parris (1924-1999) - Metamorphic Variations (1986)*
Samuel Headrick (b. 1952) - Remembrance (1987)**
Gloria Coates - Music in Microtones (1987)
David John Olsen (b. 1953) - Quartet: Cirque Noir (1986)*
John Sharpley (b.1955) - Episodes for Tuba and Chamber Ensemble (1986)*
     Charles Villarrubia, tuba

All works for the 8:00 PM concert written for ALEA III

*Boston premiere.
Works resulting from the National Endowment of the Arts Consortium Commissioning Program.

**World Premiere

Performers:

Susan Downey, flute
Disa English, oboe
Diane Heffner, clarinet
Hillary Schmidt, clarinet
Jonathan Saylor, bassoon

Ellen M. Martins, horn
Joseph Foley, trumpet
Robert Couture, trombone

Judy Saiki, harp
Rebecca Plummer, piano
RIchard Flanagan, percussion
James Smith, percussion

Tison Street, violin
Beth Welty, violin
Scott Woolweaver, viola
Mark Simcox, violoncello
Michael Gorman, double bass