NEW YORK PREMIERE of Eric Moe’s Fled is that Music on Sunday Dec.13th
Posted by s21concerts in Concert AnnouncementFlutist Laura Falzon together with pianist Steve Beck perform the NEW YORK PREMIERE of Eric Moe’s Fled is that Music for flute and piano on Sunday, December 13th, 2009 at 5pm at the Nicholas Roerich Museum 319 W. 107 St. New York, NY
Eric Moe, composer of what the NY Times calls “music of winning exuberance” wrote this work in the summer of 1998 at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. He explains that although there were no nightingales there, the songs of orioles, and indigo buntings amongst other, found their way in the piece. Fled is that Music gets its title form the last verse of Keats’s Ode to a Nightingale. The work opens with a repeated chord in the piano marked “like the rolling of a bell” over which, a grieving flute melody floats. The second movement, Caprice, is as light as the first movement is heavy, although a few clouds drift across its sunny skies. Fanfare magazine described Fled is that Music as a “work with hints of Bartok and Stravinsky”. The work was originally written for Flutist Rachel Rudich.
Other works on the program include Pulitzer Prize and Grammy award winning composer Ned Rorem’s recent work for flute and piano titled Four Prayers, Mohammed Fairouz’s recent work Two Venetian Frescos, written for and premiered by flutist Laura Falzon this Fall at Le Poisson Rouge in NYC, and John Mayer’s Sri Krishna for flute, piano and tanpura who became known in avant-garde London circles for his work mixing Western and Indian classical music.
PROGRAM
New York Premiere performance of ERIC MOE‘S FLED IS THAT MUSIC for flute & piano
NED ROREM FOUR PRAYERS for flute and piano
MOHAMMED FAIROUZ TWO VENETIAN FRESCOS for flute & piano
JOHN MAYER SRI KRISHNA for flute, piano & tanpura
PERFORMERS
Laura Falzon, flute with Steve Beck, piano
Guest performer: Joseph Palackal, tanpura
Admisison is free–contributions are welcome
For more information:
www.laurafalzon.com
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