51st Season | Three Concerts at Tenri Cultural Institute
Sunday, December 11, 2022, 8pm
Juxtapositions
Eminent composers with whom Da Capo has worked closely for decades will be juxtaposed with young, budding talents and recent discoveries:
Tenri Cultural Institute, West 13th Street, NYC
Amy Williams – First Lines (2006)
Lei Liang – Gobi Canticle (2004)
Davidovsky – Quartetto No. 4 (2005)
Charles Wuorinen – Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano (1983)
Robert Martin – Nighttime (1979)
Jason Eckardt – After Serra (2000)
GUEST ARTISTS
James Baker, conductor
Lois Martin, viola
Yoshi Weinberg, flute
TICKETS
Single tickets: $30 ($15 students/seniors)
Subscriptions to all three events: $45 ($25 students/seniors)
Sunday, February 26, 2023, 8pm EDT
Women and Jazz
Tenri Cultural Institute, West 13th Street, NYC
Belinda Reynolds – coming around... (1995)
Barbara White – Learning to See (2004)
Eleanor Hovda – Ariadne Music (1984)
David Sanford – “time isn’t holding us” (2022)
(incorporating jazz references)
50th Anniversary commission, World Premiere
TICKETS
Single tickets: $30 ($15 students/seniors)
Subscriptions to all three events: $45 ($25 students/seniors)
Sunday, June 11, 2023, 8pm EDT
Young Composers Abound III
Tenri Cultural Institute, West 13th Street, NYC
Jessica Mays – Look Again (2013)
Wang Lu – Trinkets (2013)
Andile Khumalo – Schaufe[r]inster II (2014)
Katherine Balch – Prelude (2019)
Matthew Ricketts – Enclosed Position (2014)
TICKETS
Single tickets: $30 ($15 students/seniors)
Subscriptions to all three events: $45 ($25 students/seniors)
This concert series of the Da Capo Chamber Players is made possible in part with public funds from:
New York State Council on the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts which believes that a great nation deserves great art
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
They are also made possible with private funds from: The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Alice M. Ditson Fund, Amphion Foundation, Hulbert Charitable Trust, Zethus Fund, and generous individuals.
Da Capo is a Presenter Partner of Composers Now, www.composers-now.org
Da Capo Bridges—50th Anniversary Season
Premieres written for the occasion by 3 major composers
Merkin Concert Hall Kaufman Music Center
129 West 67th Street, NYC
This concert series was live-streamed.
Wednesday, April 6, 2022, 8pm EDT
Bridging Cultures
Chamber works honoring musics and cultures from around the globe.
Shirish Korde – The Conference of the Birds II*
World Premiere. Written for Da Capo’s 50th Anniversary
Shulamit Ran* (Israel) – Mirage*
Tania León (Cuba) – One Mo’ Time*
George Walker (African-American) – Music for 3
Eric Moe – Spirit Mountain (based on a Nepalese offering song)
Hannah Kendall – Tan-Tan (a Caribbean tale)
*Written for the Da Capo Chamber Players
GUEST ARTISTS
Lucy Shelton soprano
Ariadne Greif soprano
Yoshi Weinberg flute, alto flute, bass flute and piccolo
Jacqueline Leclair oboe, English horn
Nanci Belmont bassoon
Michael Lipsey percussion
Tuesday, May 10, 2022, 8pm EDT
Bridging Styles
Diversity of styles — the ultimate contrasts
Judith Shatin – Gregor’s Dream (chamber work with electronics)
Jason Eckardt – Rendition (new complexity)
Erica Lindsay – Further Explorations (jazz). Written for Da Capo, NY Premiere
Elliott Carter – Con leggerezza pensosa (old complexity)
Steve Reich – Double Sextet (minimalism)
GUEST ARTISTS
Oliver Xu percussion
Caroline Davis alto saxophone
Erica Lindsay tenor saxophone
Mark Helias acoustic bass
Allan Mednard drums
Thursday, June 9, 2022, 8pm EDT
Bridging Eras: Then and Now
Eminent composers with whom Da Capo has collaborated from the beginning of its half-century of music-making, plus exciting new voices
Bruce Adolphe – Portraits World Premiere
Written for Da Capo’s 50th Anniversary
George Perle – Sonata a quattro*
Joan Tower – Looking Back*
Younger composers | Recent collaborations
Shen Yiwen – Guo Shang: Hymn to the Fallen and Li Hun: Recessional*
Sid Richardson – Astrolabe* NY Premiere
*Written for the Da Capo Chamber Players
GUEST ARTIST
James Baker percussion
This concert series of the Da Capo Chamber Players has been made possible in part with public funds from:
New York State Council on the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts – which believes that a great nation deserves great art
They are also made possible with private funds from: The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, The Alice M. Ditson Fund, The Amphion Foundation, Hulbert Charitable Trust, Zethus Fund, and generous individuals.
Da Capo is a Presenter Partner of Composers Now, www.composers-now.org
Musical Offerings for Human Rights
Building awareness with the universal language of music
A series of three online events combining performances from the ensemble’s digital archives with current conversations.
Each anchored by our shared conviction that the more we explore, experience, and understand cultural differences and varying viewpoints as captured in music, the more we honor and celebrate every individual's right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
Works by composers Luciano Berio, Valerie Coleman, Kyle Gann, Wendell Logan, Chinary Ung, Chou Wen-chung
Bruce Adolphe, Carman Moore, Harvey Sollberger, hosts
Kyle Gann, Michael Lipsey, David Rakowski, David Sanford, Whitney Slaten, Chinary Ung, speakers
Patricia Spencer, curator
SEE & HEAR all three events in this series
Tuesday, April 27, 2021, 7 pm EDT
Hearing the African-American Experience
Wendell Logan’s Runagate, Runagate, a musical embodiment of the spirit and determination to be free, and Berio’s tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., O King
Carman Moore, host
David Sanford, David Rakowski, Da Capo's Patricia Spencer and Steven Beck, speakers
Wendell Logan – Runagate, Runagate (1989)
Robert Mack, tenor soloist | Curtis Macomber, violin | ChrisGross, cello | Patricia Spencer, flute and piccolo | Marianne Gythfeldt, clarinet and bass clarinet | Christopher Oldfather, guest piano | Michael Lipsey, guest percussion | Marcus Parris, conductor
Performance from: February 12, 2020 at Merkin Hall, Kaufman Music Center, NYC
Luciano Berio – O King (1968)
Lucy Shelton, soprano | Curtis Macomber, violin | Chris Gross, cello | Patricia Spencer, flute | Meighan Stoops, clarinet | Steven Beck, piano
Performance from: May 1, 2017 at Merkin Hall, Kaufman Music Center, NYC
Tuesday, May 25, 2021, 7 pm EDT
Asian Echoes
Chinary Ung’s Child Song, delighting in and preserving Cambodian song in a time when it was forbidden, plus Chou Wen-chung’s Ode to Eternal Pine, a musical reflection of the Chinese terms “tian di ren – heaven, earth, and humanity”
Harvey Sollberger, host
Chinary Ung, Michael Lipsey, members of Da Capo Chamber Players, speakers
Chinary Ung – Child Song (1985)
Patricia Spencer, flute | Curtis Macomber, violin | Chris Gross, cello |
Steven Beck, piano
Performance from: June 5, 2019 at Merkin Hall, Kaufman Music Center, NYC
Chou Wen-chung – Ode to Eternal Pine (2009)
Curtis Macomber, violin | Chris Gross, cello | Patricia Spencer, flute | Nuno Antunes, guest clarinet | Steven Beck, piano | Michael Lipsey, guest percussion
Performance from: June 5, 2019 at Merkin Hall, Kaufman Music Center, NTC
Lia Di Stefano, images | Andrés León, video
Tuesday, June 22, 2021, 7 pm EDT
Paean To Merging Cultures
Exploring sounds of Native American history — merged with African American history in Valerie Coleman’s Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes — and as memorialized in Kyle Gann's Hovenweep.
Bruce Adolphe, host
Kyle Gann, Whitney Slaten, Curtis Macomber, Patricia Spencer, speakers
Valerie Coleman – Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes (2014)
Curtis Macomber violin | Chris Gross cello | Patricia Spencer flute | Marianne Gythfeldt clarinet | Steven Beck piano
Performance pre-recorded for August 13, 2021 virtual National Flute Association Convention. Recorded on June 11, 2021, Oktaven Audio, Mount Vernon, NY, by Judith Sherman and Charles Mueller.
Kyle Gann – Hovenweep (2000)\
Curtis Macomber, violin | Chris Gross, cello | Patricia Spencer, flute | Marianne Gythfeldt, clarinet | Margaret Kampmeier, guest piano
Performance from: March 10, 2020 at The László Z. Bitó ’60 Conservatory Performance Space, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Hovenweep is an ancient, highly developed, and well-preserved village on the Utah-Colorado border, occupied by the Anasazi from 500 BC to 1300. The Anasazi (the “Ancient Ones”) are thought to be ancestors of the modern Pueblo Indians.
Consultants for Musical Offerings for Human Rights
Amy Roberts Frawley, producer; Hemsing Associates, public relations , Andrés León, technical director; Lia Di Stefano, graphic designer, Sarah Elia, social media
Background music: Petroushkates (1980) by Joan Tower, founding pianist of Da Capo Chamber Players, commissioned by the ensemble in honor of its 10th anniversary – performance by Da Capo Chamber Players at Bard College, September 10, 2014
This series is dedicated to the memory of Bernard Hulbert, MD
This concert series of the Da Capo Chamber Players was made possible in part with public funds from:
National Endowment for the Arts – which believes that a great nation deserves great art
They are also made possible with private funds from: The Aaron Copland Fund, The Alice M. Ditson Fund, The Amphion Foundation, Hulbert Charitable Trust, Zethus Fund, and generous individuals
