[scimembers] Illuminations & Reflections: First Annual Symposium on Music in the 21st Century

[Hubert Ho]

If you're in the SF / Northern California area, please join us for what promises to be a weekend full of rich musical dialogue and performances of 20th-21st Century music. 

The
symposium comprises two days of paper presentations and concerts by emerging and established composers and scholars.

Illuminations & Reflections: First Annual Symposium on Music in the 21st Century (details in the following link):

http://musicdance.sfsu.edu/compsymposium

The College of Creative Arts at San Francisco State University
announces a symposium on music in the 21st century, to take place at
the SF State School of Music and Dance this upcoming weekend, February 6-7, 2009.  

Elliott Carter and Olivier Messiaen must be counted among the most
important and enduring influences on European and American music since
1945. Born one day apart in 1908, Messiaen on December 10, Carter on
December 11, these two prolific composers each developed a unique
musical language, producing musical works of commanding expressive
power and originality characterized by new understandings of tonality
and atonality, rhythmic stratification, and orchestration.
Individually, their use polyrhythmic surface and formal features, as
well as their gestural and harmonic worlds, have had a pervasive
influence on those who have followed.

Composer Richard Festinger, founder of the Earplay ensemble, and a
member of the San Francisco State faculty since 1990, has been an
important force in contemporary American music for more than 3 decades.
Recipient of many major awards and commissions, his music has been
variously described as kaleidoscopic, panoramic, closely argued,
dramatic, balanced between delicacy, introspection, and rhythmic
vivacity. Critics have spoken of an “expressive melodic impulse that
springs from vocal utterance”, of “beauty of design and superb
craftsmanship”, and of music that “projects a sweeping strength while
managing to retain an enticing intimacy”, which, “like a multi-stage
rocket – ignoring gravity – traverses the earth’s atmosphere.” 

The symposium is presented by the SF State College of Creative Arts,
with co-sponsorship by its International Center for the Arts, School of
Music and Dance, and Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts
Department.

SCHEDULE:Friday, February 6, 2009
9:30 AM-1 PM—Open Rehearsal of works selected for Saturday composers concert
1-3:45 PM—Paper Presentations: European Music
1:00 Sandra Yang: Structure and Meaning in Messiaen's Visions de l'Amen: the last word in his musical revelation?1:30 Sivan Eldar: Yo Ma Ka: invented syllables in Messiaen's Cinq Rechants2:00 Coffee break2:15 Emiliano Ricciardi: Twelve-Tone Music in Fascist Italy: the cases of Rome and Milan2:45 Hubert Ho: Analyzing Diss(ent/onance) in Ballade for solo piano by Czech composer of Marek Kopelent3:15 Jessica Balik: Romantic Subjectivity and West German Politics: Wolfgang Rihm’s Jakob Lenz
4-5:30 PM—Panel Discussion: Expanding the Concert Hall in the Digital Age
Jeffrey Babcock, chair,  Executive Director, International Center for the ArtsJenny Bilfield,  Artistic and Executive Director, Stanford Lively ArtsJohn Kieser,  General Manager, San Francisco SymphonyEllen Primack,  Executive Director, Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary MusicTodd Vunderink,  Director, Peermusic Classical
8 PM—Concert I: 60th Birthday Retrospective of works by SF State composer Richard Festinger

Alissa Deeter, soprano • Daniel Kennedy, percussionist • Cyrus Ginwala, conductor • Adorno Ensemble • Afiara String Quartet
A Serenade for Six (1993)Peripeteia (1999)String Quartet No. 2 (2005)Insect Voices (2008)Legerdemain (2008)
Saturday, February 7, 2009
9 AM-12:15 PM—Paper presentations: American Music
  9:00 Christian Carey: Conflict and Colloquy in Carter's Late Concerti  9:30 Bruce Bennett: Music as Theater: Character and characterization in Carter's Second String Quartet10:00 Robert Morris:  Carter's Harmony Book and the Theory of Compositional Spaces10:30 Coffee break10:45 Dean Suzuki: Minimalism in American Text-Sound Composition11:15 Jonathan Grasse: Revisiting Lou Harrison's works for American Gamelan featuring western instruments11:45 Erik Ulman: Notes Toward an Aesthetic: a Composer's View
1 PM—Concert II: Competition Concert

Works chosen through an international competition

 Adorno Ensemble • Afiara String Quartet • San Francisco State performance faculty
Yohanan Chendler: RomanceroTan Hainu: Sound of WindChing-Mei Lin: Beyond the ShadowSam Nichols: CrankCarl Schimmel: Rite - ApotheosisSuzanne Sorkin: String TrioTolga Yayalar: Beyond Time
4-5:30 PM—Panel discussion: Carter and Messiaen at 100
Ronald Caltabiano, chair,  Composer, SF State Faculty, Acting Associate DeanClifford "Kip" Cranna,  Director of Music Administration, San Francisco OperaRobert Morris,  composer/theoristSusan Narucki,  sopranoHarvey Sollberger,  conductor/composer
8 PM—Concert III: Carter and Messiaen at 100

Susan Narucki, soprano • Harvey Sollberger, conductor • Alexander String Quartet • sfSoundGroup
Messiaen: Poémes Pour Mi (1937)Carter: Three Poems of Robert Frost (1942)Carter: String Quartet No. 2 (1959)Carter: Triple Duo (1983)Messiaen: Piece for String Quartet and Piano (1991)Carter: Tempo e Tempi (1999)



      
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