Live Performance by the University of Chicago New Music Ensemble
Fulton Recital Hall, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
November 6th, 2016

Jessica Aszodi, soprano; Emma Hospelhorn, flute; Katie Schoepflin, clarinet; Doyle Armbrust, viola; Russell Rolen, cello; Daniel Pesca, piano;  Doug Perkins, percussion; Barbara Schubert, conductor

Program Note:
This setting of a poem by Mary Kaiser explores contradictions between opaqueness and clarity, tangible experience and insubstantial memory, and inky, black night  and morning light. The ensemble begins in a homogenous, blended mass. Individual instrumental strands emerge as the singer begins to question the solidity of the vision she describes. After the dreamy haze completely dissipates, the ensemble reforms into a new kind of homogeneity: a single melodic line punctuated by chimes unfurls during the speaker’s final reflections.

"He Dreams a Mother" by Mary Kaiser, from The Paradiso Shuffle, © 2011 Mary Kaiser�. Poem used by permission of the author. All rights reserved.

He Dreams a Mother (2016)

I sat down with dynamo, Jacqueline Taylor, out in Vail, Colorado last summer before and after we shared breakfast at the Little Diner (so good).  She is the Director of Artistic Planning at Bravo Vail and we talk about our Inuksuit project, her work in Vail, as well as her many amazing projects when she worked at Lincoln Center, the 92nd St Y, Town Hall, and more.  A must list for anyone with passion and curiosity about how to do great things as a producer and presenter. She is the best!

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