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American Music Center ‘Letter of Distinction’ in honor of significant contributions to the field of new American Music, 2010
New York State Governor’s Arts Award, 2001
Winner of Chamber Music America/ASCAP Programming Awards for 1988-89, 1991-92, 1994-95, 1996-97
American Composers Alliance 'Laurel Leaf' Award, 1994
Society News
43rd season 2014-15
e-mailed to the listserve and available on the Society’s web site
THE PURCHASE OF MANHATTAN
by BRENT MICHAEL DAVIDS
with libretto by JOSEPH BRUCHAC
The revised/expanded version of POM was
premiered Nov. 20, 2014 at Marble Collegiate Church,
NYC, the site of the so-called ‘purchase’ in 1626. This
was presented by the Lenape Center with support from
Intersections International. The Society for New Music
partnered with these organizations, since the premiere of
the original version took place Nov. 10, 2013 in
Syracuse. The Syracuse premiere was a collaboration
with SNM, S.U. Arts Engage, La Liga, and Syracuse
Symposium/Syracuse Humanities Center, with support
from an IDEAS Implementation grant.
Many of the same Syracuse musicians, and 3 of
the Native Singers performing, were from the Hendricks
Chapel premiere of Nov. 2013. Berlin/Rosen provided
PR on behalf of Marble Collegiate Church and it was
terrific. Here is the link for the NY Times article, but there
were many more, plus lots of radio & TV interviews.
For details: www.purchaseofmanhattan.com
The Sale of Manhattan, Retold From a Native
American Viewpoint By JAMES BARRON NOV. 18, 2014
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/19/arts/music/the-saleof-manhattan-retold-from-a-native-americanviewpoint.html?_r=0
POM was
commissioned by
the Lenape
Center in
Manhattan
with
support
from the
Collegiate
Church of
NY and
funded in
part by the
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian’s
Expressive Arts program, the Indian Arts Research Center of
the School for Advanced Research with support from the
Ronald and Susan Dubin Artist Fellowship, the Native Arts &
Culture Foundation’s Artist Fellowship, & ongoing support from
Sharon Doty Davids.
VOLUME 30, NO. 2, January 2015
2014-15 season highlights
The 2014-15 winter season began with Upstate
Treasures at the Everson Set. 21, featuring music by
Israel winner John Liberatore, ‘Doctuh’ Mike Woods,
Charles Fussell, Sam Pellman, Doug Cuomo, and
Jonathan Pieslak. There was a New York Times
review of the Pieslak CD that appeared simultaneously,
but the SNM audience heard this music live at the
Everson played by none other than Rob Auler, an
Upstate treasure.
Of Jonathan Pieslak: 'Shards: Piano Music of
Jonathan Pieslak,' Corinna da Fonseca Wolheim wrote
in The New York Times, "This beautiful recording of the
piano music of Jonathan Pieslak (Albany CD), played
with extraordinary rhythmic clarity and expression by the
pianist Robert Auler, spans extremes. . . . But what
comes through in the title track and in the 11 movements
that make up “American Atmospheres” is above all an
assured, instantly communicative musical language,
fluidly and lovingly rendered by Mr. Auler.“
Rob Deemer’s music for the classic silent film
Safety Last!, a collaboration with the Syracuse International Film Festival and LeMoyne College, was reviewed
on John Herr's blog Oct. 8 – “And the feature, Harold
Lloyd's classic 1923 Safety Last, with a score written &
conducted by Rob Deemer, who led a [Society for New
Music] 7tet of musicians. Lloyd's onscreen antics & the
perfectly-matched music brought the near-capacity
crowd to their feet.”
Nov. 2 featured the world premiere & second
performance of Zhou Tian’s commissioned Morning
after the Deluge. In addition to music by Pulitzer winner
Zhou Long, and Guo Wenjing, Dan Asia’s Amichai
Songs were beautifully sung by Eastman faculty member
Robert Swensen, who had premiered the cycle. The
program concluded with the second performance of
Rob Deemer’s SNM commissioned Cantos, with video
by Courtney Rile. A real winner!
On Nov. 9, music by Dexter Morrill, Sam
Pellman (premiere), Zhou Long & Guo Wenjing was
performed before a large, enthusiastic audience at
Hamilton College.
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COMPOSERS NIGHT OUT !
Feb. 5, 8pm Chapel
Hobart-William Smith
Colleges, Geneva, NY
Music by Mark
Olivieri D = RxT, 2014
Jonathan Pieslak Shard, 2008
Sam Pellman Recursive Fury, 2014
Douglas Cuomo Slowly she turns, 2010
Krzysztof Penderecki Cadenza, 1987
Marc Mellits Paranoid Cheese, 2001
Katherine Hoover Winter Spirits, 1997
Dana DiGennaro, Blagomira Lipari
Arvilla Rovit, Rob Auler
Rob Bridge, Sam Pellman
Feb. 25, 12:30pm
Utica College
Library Concourse
Utica, NY
The music of Tyler
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and Arvo Part
for horn, echo horn,
electronics, multimedia
and film
March 29, 3:30pm
Colgate University Chapel
The Society for New Music’s annual fundraiser this
year will be held on Thursday May 14, 2015 and linked
with the American Composers Forum’s National
Composer Night Out (NCNO) in celebration of their 40th
anniversary. ACF is coordinating a nation-wide series of
events that will be connected through a Google Hangout
and Twitter.
SNM’s concert gala event will feature world
premieres of short works written by CNY based and/or
CNY linked composers, accompanied by food, of course.
Tying this local event into the national event will allow
SNM to showcase the talent in the Central New York
community as well as highlight the national reach of the
Society.
Composers throughout the United States will be
connected physically and virtually in a tapestry of events
designed to raise awareness and foster a sense of
community for the
composers and others who
create new music in their
area. SNM’s fundraiser will
be part of an ACF Musical
Paper Chain and be
included on ACF’s
interactive map to showcase
all of the activities and help
promote them to the public.
Composer Chris Cresswell will be the point
person for this event, coordinating with the Benefit
Committee, chaired by Diana Brownlie. Former SNM
commissioned composers, Israel winners, and Upstate
New York composers will be invited to write 2-5 minute
works to be premiered at the May 14th gala.
Hamilton, NY
WORLD MUSIC
Music by Bela
Bartok Contrasts, 1938
Olivier Messiaen Louange a l’Éternité de
Jesus, 1942 (from Quartet for the End of Time)
Lou Harrison Varied Trio, 1987
Douglas Cuomo Slowly she turns, 2010
Zhou Tian Morning after the Deluge,
2014 (3rd perf.) commissioned by SNM
Ann McIntyre, Blagomira Lipari
Kit Dodd, Greg Wood, John
Friedrichs, Sar Strong, Rob Bridge
“Not only masterfully crafted but a true masterpiece” —
Classical Voice of New England
Society for New Music’s Mission Statement:
Founded in 1971, the Society’s purpose is to act as a catalyst
for the continued growth of the CNY musical community by
1. commissioning and recording new works by regional
composers
2. advocacy, e.g. Society News & Fresh Ink
3. featuring guest composer/performers alongside
regional composers
4. providing regional musicians an opportunity to perform
the music of their peers in order to gain new skills and
techniques
5. encouraging young composers via the Israel Prize,
Rising Stars, Young Composers Corner, and workshops
6. bringing new music to as broad an audience as
possible, through recordings, performances, broadcasts,
the weekly Fresh Ink program on WCNY and on the web
Brian M. Israel Prize Winners
2014 John Liberatore*, Michael Boyman+, HM: Ross
Scott Griffey & JunYi Chow
2013 Juan Pablo Contreras*, Amit Gilutz +, HM: Ross Scott Griffey,
Nathan Heidelberger, Eric Allen
2012 Ted Goldman*, Joseph Nathaniel Rubinstein+ HM: Justin Paul
Jaramillo, Brandon Luis Ridenour, Haralabos Stafylakis, & Amit
Menachem Gilutz
2011 Thomas Healy*, Bret Bohman+ HM: Thomas Arthur Murphy, Jessica
Lynn Rudman & Evan Antonellis
2010 Matthew Gilbertson*, Chris Rogerson+ HM: Lembit Lepasaar
Beecher & Evan Antonellis
2009 David Crowell*, Samson Young+ HM: Elizabeth Lim, Evan
Antonellis & Matthew Barson
2008 Baljinder Singh Sekhon II*, Eleanor Aversa+, Andy Akiho*;
HM: Dillon Kondor, Gity H. Razaz, Daniel Wohl, Scott Wollschleger,
Sheridan Seyfried, Sundar Subramanian, David Salvage
2007 Nicholas Omiccioli* & Eric Nathan+ HM: Eleanor Aversa, Gity
Razaz, Shogo Samata, Ryan Carter, Jeff Myers
2006 Christopher Doll *, Ryan Gallagher + HN: John Paul Brabant,
Chris Rogerson, Robert Singley
2005 Patrick Castillo*, Eric Schwartz + HM: Christopher Tignor
2004 Adam Schoenberg *, Jesse Wright-Fitzgerald+ HM: Vera Ivanova,
Peter Kim & John Arrigo-Nelson
2003 Evan Johnson*, Philip Rothman+
2002 Huang Ruo
2001 Winnie Wing-Yee Cheung
2000 Mark Dennis McConnell
1999 Rob Paterson
1998 Damon Lee
1997 Derek Bermel; HM: Ann Lathan
1996 Yuzuru Sadashige
1995 Anna Weesner
1994 Michael Sidney Timpson
1993 Sally Lamb; HM: David Lefkowitz
1992 Michele Frida Green; HM: David Lefkowitz
1991 Kent Marks; HM: Nolan Gasser
1990 Alton Howe Clingan; HM: Sean MacLean
1989 Betsy L. Schramm; HM: Stephen Taylor
1988 Ronn Yedidia
1987 Christopher Keyes; HM: Robert C. May & Jeremy Beck
1986 Donald Sloan; HM: Linda Bouchard & Lowell Liebermann
1985: Matthew Harris; Honorable Mention: Michael Torke, Dan May
* SNM winner
+NY Federation of Music Clubs winner
Please check the individual composer’s website for updates,
or the Society for New Music’s website.
ISRAEL WINNERS UPDATE
Dramatic music by living composers was heard
on an SNM program at OCC Sept. 19th, part of the Arts
Across Campus series. Featured was former Israel winner
Juan Pablo Contreras’s very moving Silencio en Juarez,
2011, plus music by Zhou Long, Guo Wenjing, and
Sam Pellman (with video). The attentive audience was a
healthy mix of students and the general public.
Nicholas Omiccioli won the Boston New Music
Initiative and will have his push/pull, 2014 performed at
the Lilypad in Boston April 16, 2015.
Recently awarded First Prize by the prestigious
Luxembourg International Composition Prize, Huang Ruo
has been cited by the New Yorker as “one of the most
intriguing of the new crop of Asian-American composers.”
He is working with Candace Chong on an opera, The
Weeping Camel. Ms. Chong was also the librettist for his
successful opera, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen.
CAZ COUNTERPOINT 2015
The Cazenovia Counterpoint committee has been
making plans for the 2015 festival, the 35th season of
new music in the historic village. The dates are:
July 15 – 25, 2015
A special feature will be a month-long interactive
sound/sculpture installation at Stone Quarry Art Park Hilltop Pipe Dreams. This collaborative project
involves visual artists, composers, sound designers, and
performers, led by Steve Carpenter, Edward
Ruchalski, Rob Bridge, and Lorne Covington.
These 100 organ pipes, varying in size from 7’ to
6”, would be grouped among the trees and the large
bronze Rodger Mack sculptures there in the permanent
collection (all the Mack sculptures are related to music).
The pipes can be struck with various mallets to
produce soft sounds. A tape of those sounds, plus the
ambient natural sounds, will be used as the basis for
music to perform with live musicians during Family Arts
Day.
Some of the pipes will have sensors placed
inside them, read by a laptop via infrared sensors. In
addition to making sounds by striking the pipes, people's
movements will trigger tones from the pipes.
Visitors to the park during July will be invited to
sketch the installation, write poetry, record the sounds
for a brief composition, then invited to share their
creative efforts during Family Arts Day at the Park on
July 25.
The 100 acre Art Park is #2 on National Geographic's
Top 10 Sculpture Parks & Trails.
Once again opera will be performed at Caz
Theater, the old opera house in the village. Michael
Torke’s Strawberry Fields will be directed by Victoria
King, performed by professionals, aspiring singers &
chamber ensemble.
Rising Stars lunch hour concerts will return to
St. Peter’s Episcopal. These SRO programs feature
young prize-winning performers and composers, and
include premieres of works written especially for these
gifted musicians.
Young Composers Corner, in connection
with Cazenovia Public Library, will take place the first
week of the festival. High school and middle school
students who wish to compose music in any style are
invited to join these mentoring sessions, then have their
completed works performed by SNM musicians during
Family Arts Day.
There will be concerts of music by Malcolm
Lewis, Joan Tower, young composer and Syracuse
native George Nick Gianopoulos, and others. Also
back is the successful Writers Corner series, in
cooperation with the Syracuse Downtown Writers Group.
Regional Arts Exhibit at various venues in the
village during the month of July. Art Exhibit Reception
and Gallery Walk with artist demonstrations & live new
music.
From Syracuse: “You should be so proud of Cazenovia
Counterpoint. What you have accomplished is amazing.”
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SNM presents music inspired by an ancient Mayan
goddess, Hell’s Kitchen and rice bowls, for chamber
ensemble and 6 percussionists!
Robert Xavier RODRIGUEZ Xochiquetzal, 2014
(NYS premiere – 2nd performance)
Lou HARRISON Varied Trio, 1987
Rob PATERSON Hell’s Kitchen, 2014
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The Society receives requests each year re:
membership. The Society is not a membership organization,
because there is no staff to service the needs of members -only Board members who donate time & energy to promote
new music and inform the general public about that music &
those creating it.
Society News, a part of that outreach, is published
twice each season by the Society, a 501 C 3 organization. The
Board asks that interested persons either subscribe to one of
the Society’s series, or send a donation to support on-going
activities. Both are greatly appreciated.
A copy of the latest annual financial report is available on
request from the Society or from the Office of the NYS Attorney
General, Charities Bureau, 120 Broadway, NY, NY 10271.
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born on or after May 1, 1985
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Recital Hall, Onondaga Community
College, Syracuse, NY
plus performances on the 2015 - 2016 season.
May 1, 2015 deadline. SASE
Kelly Covert, John Friedrichs, Blagomira
Lipari, Greg Wood, Sar Strong, Rob Bridge
Chelsea Catalone, Bennett Coughlin
Mikaela Derby, Michael Pitzeruse
Nick Shafer, Jimmy Spagnola
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1. Anonymous submission. The composer’s name is not to
appear anywhere on the manuscript itself, nor on any accompanying
recording. A composer may submit only one work.
2. Online registration. Go to this online form to provide
required information: http://tinyurl.com/y9u55mm.
3. Works should be concert music for one to seven
performers, in any combination of instruments, tape, and/or solo
voices. Choral music will not be considered.
4. The Society for New Music assumes no responsibility
for the safety of the submitted materials. Materials will be returned
only if accompanied by SASE and sufficient postage.
5. Submissions not complying with the rules of the
competition will be disqualified, as will scores not meeting minimum
professional standards of notation.
For guidelines:
http://academics.hamilton.edu/music/spellman/Israel_Prize.pdf
For other questions, contact: [email protected]
Society News print edition has been
discontinued, unless you request a hard
copy. To receive your copy via e-mail,
sign up on the web site, or email
[email protected]. You
may also request a PDF via e-mail.
SNM COMMISSIONED COMPOSERS
Greg Levin
Roberto Sierra
Earl George
Malcolm Lewis
Howard Boatwright
Augusta Read Thomas
Franklin Morris
Zhuang Liu
George Rochberg
Dana Wilson
Brian Israel
Robert Keefe
Richard Wernick
Christopher Hopkins
Nicholas D'Angelo
Rob Smith Continental Harmony
Robert Palmer
Elizabeth Alexander
Burrill Phillips
Ping Jin
Steven Stucky
Dan Trueman
Christopher Rouse
Marc Mellits
Ron Caltabiano
Nicolas Scherzinger
Ann Silsbee
Sally Lamb McCune
Harris Lindenfeld
Robert Morris
Sam Pellman
Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez
Dexter Morrill
Edward Ruchalski
James Willey
Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon
Daniel S. Godfrey
Mark Olivieri
Joseph Downing
‘Doctuh’ Michael Woods
Paul Brantley
Gregory Wanamaker
Melinda Wagner
Rob Deemer
Syd Hodkinson
Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann
David Liptak
Zhou Tian
(For updates, go to the Society for New Music’s website
or the individual composer websites.)
COMMISSIONED COMPOSERS UPDATE
DANIEL GODFREY’s Chamber Music America
commissioned work will be performed by the Cassatt
Quartet at the Chamber Music America Conference in
NYC in January.
MALCOLM LEWIS died
Dec. 15 in Ithaca, NY,
following a lengthy illness.
He was born in 1925 in
Cuba, NY, & earned his BS,
BM and MM degrees at
Ithaca College. He continued his studies at
Juilliard, NYU & Eastern
Montana. At Cornell he
studied with Robert Palmer. Mac taught at Ithaca
College for 26 years until his retirement in 1988. Lewis
received numerous Meet the Composer awards, as well
as commissions for works in various media, including his
Society for New Music commission. He wrote for solo
instruments, voice, ensembles, band, orchestra and
chorus. His music has been performed throughout the
U.S., Canada and in Europe, and is published by Trombone Assoc. Needham/Dorn, Augsburg and Ensemble
Musie (Lyceum Press). Recordings are available through
Redwood, MMC and Golden Crest.
Malcolm’s music was performed regularly over
the years by SNM, in addition to his commissioned work,
which was included on the 5-CD set of music by 29
commissioned composers on innova.
Malcolm was also an accomplished visual artist,
gourmet cook, art connoisseur, history buff & raconteur.
At the families’ request Steve Heyman and Neva
Pilgrim performed at the Dec. 20th celebration of his life
at the Unitarian Church of Ithaca, in addition to Sar
Strong via CD. In lieu of flowers, the family asked that
donations in Mac’s memory be made to the Society for
New Music, Ithaca Unitarian Church, or Gadabout in
Ithaca.
DEXTER MORRILL’s music was featured on a
Society for New Music concert at Hamilton College,
Clinton, NY on Nov. 9th. The well-attended Wellin Hall
concert also included works by SAM PELLMAN, one
being the premiere of his Recursive Fury with video.
Music by Zhou Long & Guo Wenjing completed the
program - a bit of 'drama', sound explorations of the
planets, plus terrific performers.
ROBERTO SIERRA’s Sinfonia #4, recorded by
the Nashville Symphony on Naxos, is up for a Grammy.
STEVEN STUCKY’s The Classical Style received its
NYC premiere in Dec. The New York Times review was
glowing: We’re Nothing but Busts, Mozart. Busts! ‘The
Classical Style,’ an Opera Buffa at Zankel Hall By ANTHONY
TOMMASINI
DEC. 5, 2014
Highlights of the review: “This scene at the bar got
a big laugh from the delighted audience that packed
Zankel Hall on Thursday night for the New York prem-iere,
a witty operatic entertainment of the sort that doesn’t get
written very often. Now, admittedly, “The Classical Style”
will be best appreciated by a niche audience, those who
know enough to enjoy the humor of turning the harmonic
relationship between the tonic, dominant and subdominant chords (and yes, a mezzo-soprano soon
appears in the scene as Subdominant) into a comic drama
about an interdependent threesome.
The inspiration for this 70-minute piece was the
seminal 1971 book “The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart,
Beethoven,” by pianist and scholar Charles Rosen. Those
three composers are characters in the opera, along with
Rosen, who died at 85 in 2012 and surely would have
loved this piece.
Mr. Stucky has written a pastiche score, though
with mystical modernist stretches and spiky, charged
episodes. There are evocations galore and many direct
quotes from Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and more. The
score could easily have been clunky and obvious, but Mr.
Stucky’s music is subtle, sly and vividly colorful.”
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SNM BOARD MEMBER/PERFORMER News
At the August 2014 SNM board meeting, the
following were invited to join the board: George S.
Bain, Dr. Leslie Kohman, composer Beth May, plus
student reps Kaziah White, graduate student at S.U.,
Alex Ganes, undergrad composer at S.U. (2nd year).
This season for the first time, SNM has added
high school composer reps to the board, partly at their
request, so they could see how new music works from
the inside out. They are: Gregg Welcher, HS senior at
Baldwinsville HS, and Sachin Schukla, sophomore at
Fayetteville-Manlius.
Percussionist Mike Compitello, also one-half of
New Morse Code, will perform at the CMA Conf. in NYC.
On Aug. 22 SNM performed a program at Upstate
Golisano Children’s Hospital which was open to patients,
families & broadcast on the hospital’s local TV channel.
Music by Ralph D’Mello, David McBride, Douglas Cuomo,
Petar Christoskov and an arrange-ment by Rob Bridge of a
Shona Traditional tune was performed. Following the
program a few of the children tried out the instruments
and the sounds they could make in a mini-instrument
petting zoo.
Travis Newton’s series of podcasts, MAKING ART
WORK, featured an interview with Neva Pilgrim Nov.
30. Neva is host and producer of WCNY Classic FM's
"Fresh Ink." She is also a noted soprano, voice teacher and
artist-in-residence at Colgate University. Neva is a
longtime performer and supporter of new music, and a
founding member of the Society for New Music, with
which she continues to be very active. Neva and Travis
discussed the important role of the Society for New Music
in the community, tips for grant writing, and much more.
The interview is also available in streaming audio
at http://www.wcny.org/radio. And, of course, tune in
every Sunday at 2 PM for the latest in contemporary music
on "Fresh Ink"!
Composer/sound artist Christopher Cresswell,
Cazenovia native & S.U. alum, is starting up a composition studio to teach lessons. Anyone looking to study
composition privately should contact Chris via his web
site. He can offer lessons both in person and via Skype, so
it is open to students wherever they are located. There is a
link on his website for those interested in lessons.
www.chriscresswellmusic.com Twitter: GrizwaldMusic
JT Lee has put together a 5-minute video on the
Society for New Music’s premiere production of Charles
Lupia’s THE UGLY DUCKLING (Caz Counterpoint 2011,
directed by Gerard Moses. You can view it on JT's Youtube
channel: Jaytea36
This footage was taken from the staged world
premiere of the children's musical, The Ugly Duckling,
set in the Adirondacks a little west of Lake George, over
a year in the early 2000s, & based on Hans Christian
Andersen's folk tale.
Board member Richard Fields, Education
Coordinator, has arranged for 2 composers in the
Syracuse City schools: Beth May at LeMoyne
Elementary on the north side, and Diane Jones at Ed
Smith in the Syracuse University area. Check the website
for progress and August Society News for a final report.
Blogs of note . . . . Join the discussion . . .
Melinda Johnson – http://blog.syracuse.com/arts/
Diane Jones - http://composerjones.wordpress.com/
David Abrams - http://blog.cnycafemomus.com/
From our performers and audience:
From a Rising Star: “(you) preserved the beauty of
collaborative theater . . . working on your opera was a lifechanging event for me as a performer and a person. Not only
did we perform an amazing show, but I was able to witness
first-hand the wonderful effect theater has on a community.”
From Jamesville: “Thank you so much for giving me
numerous opportunities this summer!” (Rising Star)
From Virginia: “Thank you for all that you have done over the
years as a champion of music of our time.”
The Society for New Music is funded in part by grants from
the Copland Fund, NYS Council on the Arts, with the support
of Gov. Cuomo & the NYS Legislature, Alice M. Ditson Fund of
Columbia University, the Richard Shineman Foundation
(Oswego), Amphion Foundation, Gladys Krieble Delmas
Foundation, Syracuse Sounds of Music Assoc., Inc., John Ben
Snow Foundation, Jim & Juli Boeheim Foundation, County of
Onondaga, administered by CNY Arts, Richard Mather Fund, &
private donations.
From SNM’s audience and critics:
From Rochester: “great group!” (Nov. 2, 2014 concert)
From Baldwinsville: “ it (Nov. 2 concert) was spectacular.”
From Syracuse: “ Rob's (Deemer) score was marvelous.”
From a visiting composer: “As many have observed,
Syracuse is fortunate to host a new music ensemble of such
integrity.”
FRESH INK
2015
19th season
Sundays at 2pm on WCNY-FM
91.3 (Syracuse), 90.9 WJNY-FM (Watertown) & 89.5
WUNY-FM (Utica) or worldwide on the web at WCNY.org.
Programs are drawn from CDs sent to the Society & from composers,
performers & recording companies around the world. Submissions
welcome. Produced by Neva Pilgrim with generous assistance from
Classic FM staff: Details at: www.societyfornewmusic.org
Jan. 4
VISIONARY MUSIC
MSR
Naxos
Composer
Haskell Small Visions of Childhood, 2011
Kenneth Fuchs (b. 1956) Falling Trio
Zhou Tian Night-Shining White, 2014
Red Trees, Wrinkled Cliffs , 2012
Libby Larsen Song
DRAMATIC MUSIC
Eric Nathan Spires
Peter Van Zandt Lane Hackpolitick: the
donning of masks
Jonathan Pieslak Shard (Rob Auler)
ALL-AMERICAN MUSIC
Wm. Averitt Afro-American Fragments
K. Fuchs String Qt. No. 5 (American)
Tadeusz Kasdatti By Gaslight
DRAMATIC MUSIC, Part II
Maria Newman Sonata for piano “A
Maskil of David”
Per Norgard Momentum/Cello Concerto No 2
Jonathan Pieslak Prednisomnia
AMERICAN ATMOSPHERES (Super Bowl)
J. Pieslak American Atmospheres
Regina Baiocchi e.e. cummings Songbook
Persis Parshall Vehar The Four Directions
ON THE NATURE OF THINGS
R.X. Rodriguez De Rerum Natura, 2013
J. Pieslak bhakti (1), unburdening
J. Cloud this is the garden: colors come & go
Jean Felix Mailloux Calliope, 2013
AN AMERICAN STORY
Maria Newman The Complete Ballet:
Centaur
Jan. 11
Mirari
Innova
Albany
Jan. 18
MSR
Naxos
PM
Jan. 25
Arts House
ACD
Albany
Feb. 1
Albany
Centaur
Composer
Feb. 8
Albany
Albany
Centaur
MAM
Feb. 15
Arts House
Emma McChesney, Traveling Saleswoman
PM
Feb.22
Ceora
Ceora
MAM
Ecstatic
Innova
March 1
Centaur CD
Ecstatic CD
SNM perf.
SNM perf.
March 8
Centaur CD
Ceora CD
Ecstatic CD
SNM perf
March 15
SNM perf.
BIS CD
BIS CD
Roland Szentpali Pearls
FRAGMENTS
Robert Muczynski Fragments
S. Revueltas Cinco Canciones Para Ninos
Jean F. Mailloux Dans la Tete de M. Sakamoto
Michael Torke selections Miami Grands
A. Berne selections Self Referentials, II
FANTASIES, FURIES & TROLLS
Jocelyn Hagen: love songs
Michael Torke selections Miami Grands
Sam Pellman Recursive Fury (Premiere)
Dexter Morrill Fantasy, 2013
BETWEEN SUNSETS
Hilary Tann Between Sunsets
Jenni Brandon Spider Suite
Michael Torke selections Miami Grands
Zhou Long Pianogongs, 2005
DRAMATIC MUSIC
Guo Wenjing Drama, 1995 (1, 5 & 6)
Andrew Smith Kyrie: Cunctipotens Genitor
Richard Rodney Bennett A Colloquy with God
BIS CD
BIS CD
MSR CD
SNM perf.
Navona CD
March 22
Centaur CD
MSR CD
MSR CD
MSR CD
MSR CD
March 29
ACD CD
MSR CD
MSR CD
MSR CD
MSR CD
April 5
MSR CD
MSR CD
BR CD
Starkland
April 12
Gabriel Jackson (b. 1962) Ite Missa Est
Jackson Hill Ma Fin est mon Commencement
Pierre Jalbert (b. 1967) Toccata, 2001
John Liberatore She rose & let me in, 2013
Alex Freeman Night on the Prairies
SPRING SONGS
Christine Donkin 3 Cummings Songs
Colin Mawby By the waters of Babylon
Peter Hurford Litany to the Holy Spirit
Christopher Theofanidis All Dreams
begin with the Horizon, 2007
Jeffrey Holmes Continuum, 2012
MERCY ENDURES
Arne Nordheim Tenebrae/Concerto
Malcolm Archer My Song is Love Unknown
Claude Means Savior, like a Shepherd
Justin Merritt Chaconne: Mercy Endures
Harald Genzmer Sonate for tpt & Orgel
PRAYERS REMAIN FOREVER
Jeffrey Holmes Herald Emeritus Fanfare
Patrick Schulz Fanfare for tpt & organ, 2012
Anne Van Schothorst When we were trees
Martin Bresnick Ishi’s Song, 2012
Going Home–Vysoke, My Jerusalem, 2010
Prayers Remain Forever, 2011
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April 19
MSR CD
MSR CD
Navona
April 26
Navona
SNM perf.
SNM perf.
SNM perf.
SNM perf.
BR CD
May 3
Starkland
ENCHANTED GARDENS
Richard Danielpour Enchanted Garden, 2009
Jean-Francois Michel Suite pour brass, 1994
Chris Arrell Narcissus/echo
21st CENTURY MUSIC
Eric Nathan Wing over Wing, 2011
Marc Mellits Paranoid Cheese, 2001
Jonathan Pieslak (b. 1974) Shard, 2008
‘Doctuh’ Mike Woods Libations, 2011
Douglas Cuomo Slowly she turns, 2010
Anne Van Schothorst Let Her Go
MOVING ON
Martin Bresnick A Message from the
Emperor, 2010 (Mike Compitello & Ian Rosenbaum)
BR CD
Anne Van Schothorst Raven’s Departure
SNM perf.
Tyler Ogilvie Zero Point; laugh;
ber• serk• er (w/Icelandic folksong The Raven)
NCD CD
Erich Stem Moving On, 2012
May 10
CHILD’S PLAY (Mother’s Day)
FR CD
Adam Schoenberg Bounce, 2013
FR CD
James Matheson Cretic Variations
Potenza Cd
Nathan Daughtrey Coming Home, 2013
May 17
Ethereal Waves
NCU CD
Diego Vega Divertimento, 2008
FR CD
Adam Schoenberg Picture Etudes, 2013
Potenza CD
Stephen Barr Ethereal Wave, 2010
Potenza Cd
Nathan Daughtrey Spitfire, 2013
May 24
DYNAMIC DUOS
MSR CD
Randall E. Faust Horn Call; Fantasy on
“Von Himmel Hoch”, 2001
LP Classics
Braam van Eeden (b. 1989) Sonata
FR CD
Tom Flaherty Airdancing, 2013