Jan 26-28, 2012
Newfound Music Festival IX
School of Music at Memorial University
Join us for three days of beautiful, cutting edge and surprising music. Each year we celebrate the diversity found in contemporary music with a festival of concerts, talks, and workshops.
Three Great Evening Concerts of fresh music
performed by School of Music faculty artists and students
Petro Canada Hall - 8 pm start time, Tickets $15/$10 at the door
Composer in residence Karim Al-Zand
The music of Canadian-American composer Karim Al-Zand (b.1970) has been called “strong and startlingly lovely” (Boston Globe). His compositions are wide-ranging, from settings of classical Arabic poetry to scores for dance and pieces for young audiences. His works explore connections between music and other arts, and draw inspiration from diverse sources such as 19th century graphic art, fables of the world, folksong and jazz. The themes of many of his pieces speak to his middle-eastern heritage as well. Al-Zand’s music has enjoyed success in the US, Canada and abroad and he is the recipient of several national awards, including the Sackler Composition Prize, the ArtSong Prize, the Louisville Orchestra Competition Prize and the “Arts and Letters Award in Music” from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
During the festival Al-Zand’s work will be featured in concerts on Friday and Saturday night in Petro Canada Hall. In addition, Al-Zand will give a presentation on his work during the day on Thursday.
SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE
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Thursday Jan 26 |
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Saturday Jan 28 |
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9:00 am |
Harmony in the Beatles: Choral Room |
Yoga for Musicians: |
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10:00 am |
Another World: Graphic Art as Musical Inspiration, |
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11:45 am to 12:15 pm 11:00 am to 7:30 pm |
In a Large Open Space - acoustic version with dancers |
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1 pm |
Student performers concert Petro-Canada Hall |
Surrounded by Obstacles, Karim Al-Zand |
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2 pm |
Nihonjin No Kokoro |
Composing for Band |
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3 pm |
Reveille Trumpet Collective Room 2025 |
Talk: In a Large Open Space Electronic Music Studio |
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7 pm |
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Student composer concert. |
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8 pm |
Evening Concert I |
Evening Concert II |
Evening Concert III |
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Thursday January 26 - Join us for a full day of talks, workshops,
and concerts at the School of Music
All daytime events are FREE
9 am
Harmony in The Beatles - Dr. Clark Ross (Choral Room)
Yoga for Musicians - Laura Murray (Instrumental Room)
10 am
Another World: Graphic Art as Musical Inspiration - Dr. Karim Al-Zand (Choral Room)
11 am
James Tenney's In a Large Open Space
This ethereal multi-site work includes an electroacoustic realization by composer Andrew Staniland, played throughout the School of Music from 11 am to 7:30 pm. An acoustic version will be performed by 75 members of the MUN Chamber Choir and Wind Ensembles in the Queen Elizabeth II Library atrium and adjacent tunnels from 11:45 am to 12:15 pm.Neighbourhood Dance Works and instrumental soloists will provide an improvisational counterpoint to the piece.Best way to experience it? Join us in the D.F. Cook lobby at 11 am!
In a Large Open Space was composed by James Tenney in 1994 after he visited the Minoritenkirche in Krems, Austria. In the score, the words appearing directly after the title are "within which the audience is able to move freely, for any 12 or more sustaining instruments". While they are spread out in the space, players of instruments which can play sustaining tones will choose, and softly play, pitches from a range selected by the composer. Because the audience is able to move about in the space, they can listen to the resulting sonic environment, which fills the space like light does, from a variety of perspectives.
1 pm
Surrounded by Obstacles: Constraints in Pattern Preludes and other works - Dr. Karim Al-Zand (Choral Music)
Student Recital - School of Music students perform works by Rak, Brouwer, Kleynians, Martin, Rasbach, Schudel, Crawley, and Greer (Petro-Canada Hall)
2 pm
Nihonjin No Kokoro (The Heart of the Japanese People) - The sounds and nationalist constructions around the Japanese popular music genre of enka . Dr. Chris Tonelli (Choral Room)
Composing for Band; Q+A session with Jason Caslor and the MUN Wind Ensemble, featuring the winning and runner-up compositions in the Canadian Band Association's 2011 Composition Competition (DF Cook)
3 pm
Getting started with new music: experiences with the Reveille Trumpet Collective - Dr. Aaron Hodgson (Room 2025)
Creating an Electroacoustic Realization of Tenney's In a Large Open Space - Dr. Andrew Staniland (electronic music studio)
EVENING CONCERTS
Thursday, January 26, 8 pm, Petro-Canada Hall Tickets $15/$10 available at the door
Rêve doux-amer/Bittersweet Dream: Music inspired by Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal
Stacie Dunlop, soprano, with Krista Vincent, piano:
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Friday, January 27, 8 pm, Petro-Canada Hall Tickets $15/$10 available at the door
Jane Leibel, soprano, with Maureen Volk, piano:
Clifford Crawley - Overheard at Mrs. Beeton's Kitchen Party (2011)
Eight songs with words (mostly) from Mrs. Isabella Beeton's Book of Household Management published in monthly installments 1859-61 and in a one-volume book in 1861.
Paul Bendzsa, Andrew Staniland, Chris Tonelli:
Leatherback
MUN Guitar Quartet (Elliot Butt, Steve Hoskins, Marijn Companjin, Aaron Rex):
Leo Brouwer - Cuban Landscape with Rain
Michael Lee:
Karim Al-Zand - Four Preludes (Bk1: 3, 4; Bk 2: 3, 4) from Pattern Preludes
Aaron Hodgson, tpt., with Kristina Szutor, pno:
David John Lang - Song Without Words
Michelle Cheramy, Paul Bendzsa, Yoon Haeyoung:
Karim Al-Zand - Four Fables
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Saturday, January 28, 7 pm, D.F. Cook Recital Hall, Free Admission
STUDENT COMPOSERS CONCERT -
Recital of works by students of Andrew Staniland and Clark Ross
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Saturday, January 28, 8PM, Petro-Canada Hall Tickets $15/$10 available at the door
Gillian Sheppard & Mitchell Hamilton (flutes) and Krista Vincent (piano):
Ian Clarke - Maya (2000)
Nathan Cook and Kristina Szutor:
Karim Al-Zand - Tableau and Details
Lauren Smee, violin:
Chan Ka Nin - Soulmate (1995)
Aaron Hodgson, trumpet:
Gabriel Dharmoo, Sung in a Rickshaw (2010)
Gregory Bruce, baritone saxophone:
Gregory Bruce - Chamber Suite
I - Two Finger Zen
II - Call Instead Son
Caroline Schiller and Phillip Roberts:
Karim Al-Zand - The Secret of Your Heart - 6 songs for mezzo and piano excerpted from “Tagore Love Songs.”
