Januibe Tejera
Flashforward I
Ensemble Intercontemporain
Dir. Baldur Brönnimann
Commande du Festival de Darmstadt

Flashforward I

FREC 3 (2016-2017)
pour flûte, violoncello, percussion, piano and live amplification.
Dur. 52:00
Commande de l'Auditori de Barcelona/Sampler Series 2015-16
Création : Agustí Fernández, piano. Almudena Vega, flûte. Miriam Fèlix, violoncello. Núria Andorrà, percussion. Ferran Conangla, amplification. Sampler Series/Auditori de Barcelona, Fundació Tàpies, 22.02.2017.
RECORDING : Ferran Conangla

FREC 3 (2016/17)- Fragment

A wide-ranging discussion of new music, culture, and saying something with music between Third Angle New Music Artistic Director Ron Blessinger, soprano Tony Arnold, and composer Gabriela Lena Frank.  Recorded live on 10/20/17 at Studio 2@N.E.W.

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Post-Concert Talk with Ron Blessinger, Tony Arnold, & Gabriela Lena Frank

musicians:
Deanna Badizadegan
Michael Barnhart
Genevieve Clarkson
Joseph Colombo
Sean Connors
Derek Drudge
Ben Eisenberger
Jon Fischer
Alexandros Fragiskatos
Ben Fraley
Ben Gribble
Paula Karolak
Leanna Keith
Mabel Kwan
Alexandra Lugten
Neb Macura
Tristan McKay
Nick Montopoli
Nick Norton
Min Park
KJ Redman
Ryan Rey
David Samas
Jerod Sommerfeldt
Kevin Villalta
Rachel Walker
Jon Yu

workbook (exercise no. 4)

(Culminating version, Oct. 21st, 2017 at the Gabriela Lena Frank Academy of Music -  subsequent tweaks expected.)

Please Me, Place Me is a work that calls into question 'who?' without further explanation.

Our soprano is at once in the process of storytelling and recollecting, both directing and reflecting, while at the same time communicating with the string quartet and you, the audience. Her identity is unknown, her experience of time is unsure, and she is grasping hold of what she can say with certainty. These words are those of Gertrude Stein: Stanza in Meditation, Part 3, no. 3. John Ashbery, speaking of this collection of poems, states:

'Perhaps the word that occurs oftenest in the Stanzas is the word "they," for this is a poem about the world, about "them..." Less frequently, "I" enters to assess the activities of "them," to pick up after them, to assert his own altered importance. As we get deeper into the poem, it seems not so much as if we were reading as living a rather long period of our lives with a houseful of people.'

The joy of making music is that there is never a 'me' alone. Music exists between people– and thus, I wonder who the 'me' is that I'm referring to in the title.

Please Me, Place Me (2017), for soprano and string quartet. Tony Arnold and Third Angle

Michael Edward Edgerton: "Sirene Segmenti"

Angela Wingerath, Solo-Sopran
AUDITIVVOKAL DRESDEN
Olaf Katzer, direction

Live-recording chor.com Dortmund 15. September 2017

Michael Edward Edgerton "Sirene Segmenti" Three Excerpts

Performed by Conference Ensemble: Barry Crawford (flute/piccolo), Benjamin Finland (bass clarinet), Adda Kridler (violin), Chris Gross (cello), Steve Beck (piano), Matthew Gold & Alex Lipowski (percussion), and James Baker (conductor).
A Commission from BMV

Please Me, Place Me (2017), for soprano and string quartet. Tony Arnold and Third Angle

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