Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem

A string band that celebrates both tradition and improvisation with original songs and a deep repertoire spanning 200 years of American music.

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Eve Kodiak: Dona Nobis Pacem in Eight Flavors

An interactive exploration of musical styles, from Mozart to Klezmer to Jazz, through an original work for piano solo.

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Gordon: XY
Sierra: Quintet "Triptico"
Roussel: Deux poemes du Ronsard
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in b minor, Op. 115

Soprano: Ilana Davidson; Violin: Adela Pena, Joel Pitchon; Viola: Jonathan Bagg; Cello: Rafael Popper-Keizer; Flute: Laura Gilbert; Clarinet: Steven Jackson; Guitar: Dan Lippel; Percussion: Douglas Perkins

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Gordon: XY
Sierra: Quintet "Triptico"
Featured vocalists perform an Elizabethan song set.
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in b minor, Op. 115

Soprano: Ilana Davidson; Mezzo-soprano: Janna Baty; Violin: Adela Pena, Joel Pitchon; Viola: Jonathan Bagg; Cello: Rafael Popper-Keizer; Flute: Laura Gilbert; Clarinet: Steven Jackson; Guitar: Dan Lippel; Percussion: Douglas Perkins

Comments by Howard Frazin and Melinda Wagner

Dowland/Purcell: songs
Respighi: Il Tramonto
Frazin: Song
Melinda Wagner: Four Settings

Soprano: Haleh Abghari, Ilana Davidson;
Mezzo-soprano: Janna Baty; Violin: Adela Pena, Joel Pitchon;
Viola: Jonathan Bagg; Piano: Donald Berman; Flute: Laura Gilbert;
Clarinet: Steven Jackson; Cello: Rafael Popper-Keizer; Guitar: Daniel Lippel; Percussion/Conductor: Douglas Perkins

This project has been made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts as part of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius.

Funded in part through Meet The Composer’s MetLife Creative Connections program.  Leadership support for Meet The Composers MetLife Creative Connections program is generously provided by MetLife Foundation.  Additional support is provided by The Amphion Foundation, Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund, BMI Foundation, Inc., Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc., The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, The James Irvine Foundation, Jerome Foundation, mediaThe foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and Virgil Thomson Foundation, Ltd.

Richard Wilbur: Poetry Reading

Six new songs on poems of Richard Wilbur by: James Bolle, Jonathan Elliott, Stephen Jaffe, Mark Kuss, Eric Moe, and Caroline Mallonee

Composers-in-residence: Jonathan Elliott, Mark Kuss, Stephen Jaffe, Caroline Mallonee, Eric Moe, James Bolle, Howard Frazin

Soprano: Ilana Davidson; Mezzo-soprano: Janna Baty; Violin: Adela Pena, Joel Pitchon; Viola: Jonathan Bagg; Cello: Rafael Popper-Keizer; Guitar: Daniel Lippel; Piano: Donald Berman; Flute: Laura Gilbert; Clarinet: Steven Jackson

Post-concert conversation with the artists.

This project has been made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts as part of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius.

Funded in part through Meet The Composer’s MetLife Creative Connections program.  Leadership support for Meet The Composers MetLife Creative Connections program is generously provided by MetLife Foundation.  Additional support is provided by The Amphion Foundation, Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund, BMI Foundation, Inc., Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc., The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, The James Irvine Foundation, Jerome Foundation, mediaThe foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and Virgil Thomson Foundation, Ltd.

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Borodin: String Sextet
Denisov: Quartet for Flute and Strings
Carter: Duettino
Wallen: North and Daedalus
Beethoven: String Quartet in G major, Op. 18 #2

Composer-in-residence: Errollyn Wallen; Violin: Ole Bohn, Gabriela Diaz, David Fulmer; Viola: Jonathan Bagg, Eric Nowlin; Cello: Christopher Gross, Rafael Popper-Keizer; Piano: Eve Kodiak; Flute: Laura Gilbert, Peter Evans, Trumpet, Carlos Homs, Piano

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Borodin: String Sextet
Denisov: Quartet for Flute and Strings
Carter: Duettino
Wallen: North and Daedalus
Beethoven: String Quartet in G major, Op. 18 #2

Composer-in-residence: Errollyn Wallen; Violin: Ole Bohn, Gabriela Diaz, David Fulmer; Viola: Jonathan Bagg, Eric Nowlin; Cello: Christopher Gross, Rafael Popper-Keizer; Piano: Eve Kodiak; Flute: Laura Gilbert, Peter Evans, Trumpet, Carlos Homs, Piano

Shirish Korde: Tenderness of Cranes
Composer, singer, pianist Errollyn Wallen: solo songs
Wallen: Beehive and Guru from cycle “Are You
    Worried About the Rising Cost of Funerals?”
Richard Strauss: Capriccio for string sextet
Ives: The Alcotts, from Concord Sonata
Peter Evans, trumpet, Carlos Homs, piano: Jazz set

Violin: Ole Bohn, Gabriela Diaz, David Fulmer;
Viola: Jonathan Bagg, Eric Nowlin;
Cello: Christopher Gross, Rafael popper-Keizer;
Piano: Carlos Homs, Eve Kodiak; Flute: Laura Gilbert; Jazz Trumpet: Carols Homs;
Soprano, Piano: Errollyn Wallen

Greenwood Music Camp Ensembles

Schubert: String Quintet in C, D. 956, with two cellos

Violin: Gabriela Diaz, David Fulmer; Viola: Eric Nowlin; Cello: Christopher Gross, Rafael Popper-Keizer

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Solo percussion
Bolle: String Quartet # 3
Brahms: String Quartet in B-flat, Op. 67
Mozart: String Quintet in g minor K. 516

iO Quartet (2009 Fellowship Ensemble); Viola: Eric Nowlin; Percussion: David Schotzko

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Bach: Prelude, Fugue, and Allegro, BWV 998 for guitar
Jaffe: Offering
Hindemith: Two Duets for Violin and Clarinet
Webern: Three Lieder, Op. 18
Beethoven: String Quartet in f, Op. 95 "Serioso"

iO Quartet (Violin: Steven Miahky, Christina McGann; Viola: Elizabeth Weisser; Cello: Christopher Gross); Violin: David Fulmer; Viola: Jonathan Bagg; Guitar: Dan Lippel; Flute: Laura Gilbert; Harp: Stacey Shames; Clarinet: Steven Jackson; Vocalist: Tony Arnold, soprano

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Martinu: Madrigals
Mozart: Oboe Quartet
Wuorinen: Spinoff
Lerdahl: Waltzes

Violin: Ole Bohn, Gerry Itzkoff; Viola: Eric Nowlin; Cello: Rafael Popper-Keizer; Bass: Robert Black; Oboe: Willa Henigman; Percussion: David Schotzko

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Bach: Lute Suite for guitar
Jaffe: Offering
Davis: Diving Bell
Lindroth: Music for Three
Hindemith: Two Duets for Violin and Clarinet
Webern: Three Lieder, Op. 18

Violin: David Fulmer; Viola: Jonathan Bagg; Guitar: Dan Lippel; Flute: Laura Gilbert; Percussion: Nathan Davis; Harp: Stacey Shames; Clarinet: Steven Jackson; Vocalist: Tony Arnold, soprano

This concert is co-presented by Monadnock Music and The Walden School.

Funded in part through Meet The Composer’s MetLife Creative Connections program.  Leadership support for Meet The Composers MetLife Creative Connections program is generously provided by MetLife Foundation.  Additional support is provided by The Amphion Foundation, Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund, BMI Foundation, Inc., Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc., The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, The James Irvine Foundation, Jerome Foundation, mediaThe foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and Virgil Thomson Foundation, Ltd.

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Mozart: Oboe Quartet
Lerdahl: Waltzes
Wuorinen: Spinoff
Beethoven: String Quartet in f minor, Op. 95

iO Quartet (2009 Fellowship Ensemble); Violin: Ole Bohn, Gerry Itzkoff; Viola: Eric Nowlin; Cello: Rafael Popper-Keizer; Bass: Robert Black; Oboe: Willa Henigman; Percussion: David Schotzko

Nathan Michel: Little Piece in Two Parts (2002) for marimba duo
Stuart Saunders Smith: Songs I-X (1981) for actor-percussionist
George Crumb: Madrigals, Bk. II (1969) for soprano, harp, percussion
Frederic Rzewski: Song and Dance (1976) for flute, bcl, doublebass, and vibraphone
Nathan Davis: Simple Songs of Birth and Return (2007) for mbira and electronics
George Crumb: Madrigals, Bk I (1965) for soprano, doublebass, and vibraphone
Minoru Miki: Marimba Spiritual (1983) for solo marimba and 2 percussion

Soprano: Tony Arnold; Piano: Emma Tahmizian; Percussion: Nathan Davis, Douglas Perkins,
David Schotzko; Flute: Laura Gilbert;
Clarinet: Steve Jackson; Bass: Robert Black;
Guitar: Daniel Lippel; Harp: Stacey Shames

This project has been made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts as part of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius.

Commentary by Scott Lindroth and Eric Moe

Lindroth: Music for Three (Monadnock Music 2009 commission)
Moe: Sonnets to Orpheus
Faure: Piano Quartet in g minor Op.45

Soprano: Tony Arnold; Violin: Ole Bohn, David Fulmer, Gerald Itzkoff; Viola: Jonathan Bagg, Eric Nowlin; Cello: Rafael Popper-Keizer; Guitar: Dan Lippel; Piano: Randall Hodgkinson; Oboe: Willa Henigman; Flute: Laura Gilbert

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Haydn: Symphony No. 104 (arr. Solomon)
Sibelius: Suite in A major for string trio (1889)
Brahms: String Quintet in F major, Op. 88

Violin: Curtis Macomber; Gerry Itzkoff; Viola: Jonathan Bagg, Tawnya Popoff; Cello: Rafael Popper-Keizer; Flute: Laura Gilbert

Borromeo Quartet

String Quartet in F Op. 59 #1
String Quartet in c-sharp minor, Op. 131

Commentary by Nicholas Kitchen

Philippe Castagner, tenor and
Emma Tahmiziàn, piano

Frauenliebe und -leben, Op. 42
Carnaval, Op. 9

Commentary by Sebastian Currier

Currier: Clockwork
Vaughan-Williams: On Wenlock Edge
Schumann: Quintet

Tenor: Philippe Castagner; Violin: Curtis Macomber; Gerald Itzkoff; Viola: Jonathan Bagg, Tawnya Popoff; Cello: Rafael Popper-Keizer; Piano: Emma Tahmizian

Funded in part through Meet The Composer’s MetLife Creative Connections program.  Leadership support for Meet The Composers MetLife Creative Connections program is generously provided by MetLife Foundation.  Additional support is provided by The Amphion Foundation, Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund, BMI Foundation, Inc., Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc., The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, The James Irvine Foundation, Jerome Foundation, mediaThe foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and Virgil Thomson Foundation, Ltd.