Chamber Music by Judith Shatin in Wintergreen, Virginia on July 23 and Cazenovia, New York on July 24
Posted by s21concerts in Concert Announcement
New York, NY – Chamber music by Judith Shatin will be presented on July 23 and 24 at the following locations:
Friday, July 23 – 7:30 PM, her Fledermaus Fantasy for solo violin with viola, cello, contrabass and piano will be given its American Premiere in this instrumentation at the Wintergreen Summer Music Festival at Wintergreen Resort in Wintergreen, Virginia. Ms. Shatin is Composer-in-Residence of WSMF.
The composer writes about the work, “I have composed Fledermaus Fantasy around four numbers from the operetta: the introduction, the aria, the Czárdás that Rosalinde sings in her disguise as an exotic Hungarian, and the tick-tock tune that accompanies Gabriel’s attempt to seduce his own wife. Fledermaus Fantasy layers a virtuosic froth, extensions, and inventions around the original melodies.” More about it at http://www.judithshatin.com/detail.php?compid=63. Other works on the program will be Erich Zeisl’s String Quartet #2, songs by Zeisl and Schoenberg and Schoenberg’s arrangement of Johann Strauss II’s Kaiserwalzer.
For more about this program and the Wintergreen Summer Music Festival, call 434-325-8292 or visit http://www.wintergreenperformingarts.org/.
Saturday, July 24 – 4:00 PM, Ms. Shatin’s For the Birds, for amplified cello and electronic playback will be presented by the Society for New Music at Stone Quarry Art Park, Stone Quarry Rd. in Cazenovia, New York.
For the Birds, for amplified cello and electronics, is an homage to the birds of the Yellowstone region as well as a play on Cage’s book of that name. Rather than imitate the sounds of the natural world in music, the composer includes them, sometimes clearly, sometimes digitally transformed beyond recognition. More about it at http://www.judithshatin.com/detail.php?compid=103. Other works on the program include Harris Lindenfeld’s From the Garden of the Dead, Alex Coronado’s untitled, William Schuman’s XXV Opera Snatches and Daniel Dorff’s Trees.
This program is free and open to the public. For more information, visit http://www.societyfornewmusic.org/concerts.cfm.
Visit Judith Shatin at http://www.judithshatin.com.
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