| Program: |
International Alliance for Women in Music
Annual Concert
8 p.m. Thursday, March 1, 2007
Recital Hall
Zeitgeist:
Two Percussion, Piano, Clarinet and Electronics
Friday, March 2,
2007
7 p.m. pre-concert lecture
8 p.m. concert
Meng Concert Hall
International
Women’s Electroacoustic Listening Room Project
9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Saturday, March 3, 2007
Redfield Room (Performing Arts
-170)
Viv
Corringham, voice/electronics: ShadowWalks Lecture/Performance
3 p.m. Saturday,
March 3, 2007
Redfield Room (Performing Arts
170)
Lecture,
Panel and Discussion
4 p.m. Saturday,
March 3, 2007
Redfield Room (Performing Arts
170)
Meredith
Monk
8 p.m. Saturday,
March 3, 2007
Meng Concert Hall
University
Symphony Orchestra
with the St. Petersburg String Quartet and University
Singers
Preconcert lecture with Tania León,
composer
Sunday, March 4, 2007
3 p.m. pre-concert lecture
4 p.m. concert
Meng Concert Hall |
| Background: |
INNER VOICES: The 6th Annual Women
in New Music Festival is a celebration of women’s
voices in new music. Under the artistic direction
of Pamela Madsen, the festival brings together artists
from across the globe in a four-day gathering of performers,
composers, academia and audience members.
Pamela Madsen, director |
“Each year the Women
in New Music Festival has featured a different theme relating to the concept
of voices in music,” explains director Pamela Madsen. “Last year
the theme was ‘Voices on the Edge,’ a celebration of women composers
from all over the world. From the festival, the Listening Room Project traveled
extensively visiting festivals and centers for new music in San Francisco,
New York, Miami, Minnesota, Amsterdam, Montreal and New Mexico and received
invitations in Beijing, Shanghai, Japan and Greece.” “This year’s
theme,” she continues “was brought about from the careful
listening in my travels last year, and hearing women composers focusing on
inner landscapes, inner dialogues, reflections on life, sound and images—all
brought to fruition through their music. So this year, I chose to focus
on this concept of "inner voices."
Featured
artists this year include Meredith Monk, chosen for her pioneering work in
extended vocal techniques, combined with movement and media. Also participating
is contemporary chamber ensemble Zeitgeist, Cuban composer Tania León
and fellow composers Linda Dusman, Ann Millikan and Viv Corringham.
International
Alliance for Women in Music—Annual Concert features IAWM-member
performers and composers selected through an annual international call for
works. Performers include flutist/composer Jane Rigler, trombonist/composer
Monique Buzzarte and the Cal State Fullerton New Music Ensemble performing
works by Tania León and others. The concert is free.
Zeitgeist ensemble
(two percussion, piano, clarinet and electronics) is dedicated to contemporary
music that absorbs, stimulates and heartens by emerging and established composers
of our time. Their program offers two premieres, Ann Millikan’s “Cantando
Para A Onça,” and Madsen’s new multi-media electroacoustic
work “Sedna,” based on the transformative Inuit myth of the Artic
Sea Goddess, which features video projections by multimedia artists Snezana
Petrovic and Andrea Polli, and arctic photographer Camille Seaman. Also on
the program is Linda Dusman’s “O Star Spangled Stripes I.”
Zeigeist Ensemble |
“Zeitgeist
lives in a world of colors scarcely to be matched by symphony orchestras. It
lives onstage surrounded by instruments that look like the icons of a sonic
religion…”—The Philadelphia Inquirer. Concert tickets are
$20 ($12 with advance Titan discount) and the preconcert lecture is free.
International
Women’s Electroacoustic Listening Room Project features a nonstop
playback of works electroacoustic by women composers throughout the globe,
including Kristine Burns, Anne Laberge and Pamela Z. The Listening Room strives
to present a diverse sampling of different approaches to electronic music by
women composers and serves as a space for collective reflection. This is a
free event.
Viv Corringham, voice and electronics presents “ShadowWalks,” a
lecture/performance. Corringham blends improvisation, listening and soundscapes
in her works. Born in England and based
in Minnesota since 2004, she has performed and recorded internationally for
25 years. Her current project — ShadowWalk — reflects other
people’s special walks, repeated and sung by her. ShadowWalks was created
at Cal State Fullerton as part of her commissioned work from the American Composers
Forum and the McKnight Foundation. This is a free event.
Lecture,
Panel and Discussion offers the opportunity to pose questions and
discuss numerous musical topics with a variety of guest composers, including
Tania León, Linda Dusman, Ann Millikan, Viv Corringham, Pamela Madsen
and others. This is a free event.
Meredith
Monk composer, singer, filmmaker and director/choreographer, is a
pioneer in what is now called “extended vocal technique” and “interdisciplinary
performance.” Monk is the fourth generation singer in her family. Since
graduating from Sarah Lawrence College in 1964, she has created more than 80
music/theater/dance and film works. Awards have included the MacArthur Foundation
Fellowship, two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Brandeis Creative Arts Award, three
Obies (including an award for Sustained Achievement), two Villager Awards,
a Bessie for Sustained Creative Achievement, the 1986 National Music Theater
Award, 16 ASCAP Awards for Musical Composition and the 1992 Dance Magazine
Award. “When the time comes, perhaps a hundred years from now, to tally
up achievements in the performing arts during the last third of the present
century, one name that seems sure to loom large is that of Meredith Monk. In
originality, in scope, in depth, there are few to rival her.” —The
Washington Post. Concert tickets are $20 ($12 with advance Titan discount).
Meredith Monk |
University
Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Kimo Furumoto, offers a program
entitled “Soundscapes,” melding sounds from around the world. Joining
the orchestra is the acclaimed St. Petersburg String Quartet performing Schoenberg’s
Concerto for String Quartet (freely adapted from Handel’s Concerto Grosso
Op. 6, No. 7). In addition, they also will perform two movements from Shostakovich’s
String Quartet No. 8. Also on the program is guest composer León’s “Batá” and
Copland’s “Buckaroo Holiday.” Rounding out the concert, Fullerton’s
renowned University Singers, led by Robert Istad, join the orchestra in John
Corigliano’s “Fern Hill” and “Make Our Garden Grow” from
Bernstein’s “Candide.” Concert tickets are $35 ($20 with
advance Titan discount), and the preconcert lecture with León is free. |
