Cabrillo Festival Orchestra
Francisco Valero-Terribas, conducting


Excerpt from "Green Go To Me"

Octet by Alex Weiser
Live at MASS MoCA 8/1/14
Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival

Matt Evans
Melanie Walters
Chuck Furlong
Jacob Abela
McKenzie Camp
Sarah Goldfeather
Karoline Hegge
Zan Berry
Tristan Kasten-Krause

People often criticize Mendelssohn for writing too many notes, forcing his performers to saw away for minutes at end in high drama; the same criticism is often leveled at some of the so-called minimalist composers. Like Mendelssohn's work, my own Octet is full of broad gesture, rich textures and narrative sweep, though here combined with a maximalist-minimalist's love of activity, counterpoint, and speed. It also has lots of notes. Central to the work's drama is the combination of a swirling, chromatic flurry with clarion horn calls that pierce the mystery of darkness and, perhaps, herald something more powerful, poignant, and clear.

Octet - Performed by Bang on a Can Fellows Summer 2014

Chamber Symphony 
by Arnold Schoenberg 
arranged by Anton Webern 

performed by Cantata Profana 
Jesse Han - Flute
Bixby Kennedy - Clarinet
Jacob Ashworth - Violin
Hannah Collins - Cello
Lee Dionne - Piano

Audio by Noriko Okabe

Kettle Corn New Music, May 27th, 2016 at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music

www.KettleCornNewMusic.com

Kettle Corn New Music: Cantata Profana May 27 2016 (MP3)

Chamber Symphony by Arnold Schoenberg (arranged by Anton Webern)

In Quake I tried to create a musical landscape that feels on the brink of exploding. Intricate rhythms tightly bind the instruments to one another as they pull apart and erupt into music, raucous and resonant with open strings.

Quake - Performed by JACK Quartet

When I write music I am often trying to create a special place that the listeners and performers can go to. Some place that brings together questions I have and things that I am curious about. In Somewhere I am searching for a place that brings together some of my favorite music. Sound travels throughout the orchestra as the music pulses with changing rhythms. Impassioned melodies begin but can’t quite find their footing. The orchestra rumbles plaintively. Throughout the piece different textures are explored and juxtaposed and by the end my hope is that through searching for the place where these elements and ideas can coexist, we realize that we have been there all along.

Somewhere - Performed by the NYU Symphony Orchestra

Lisa Moore performs "Mad Rush" by Philip Glass at Spectrum on March 21st, 2013. Presented by Kettle Corn New Music.

Philip Glass - Mad Rush

Lisa Moore performs Vantages II. "I move to keep things whole" by Paul Kerekes at Spectrum on March 21st, 2013. Presented by Kettle Corn New Music.

Paul Kerekes - Vantages II. "I move to keep things whole"

Lisa Moore performs "Ishi's Song" by Martin Bresnick at Spectrum on March 21st, 2013. Presented by Kettle Corn New Music.

Martin Bresnick - Ishi's Song

Kettle Corn New Music is about sharing music with friends. During our college years, we often played our favorite music for one another, sitting in our dorm rooms, passing around a big bag of kettle corn. We frequently found these listening sessions to be a rewarding alternative to more formal, traditional concerts, and we want to bring this experience to a public forum.

We feel passionately that contemporary classical music of the highest quality can be shared in a relaxed and welcoming environment. We go to movies to enjoy ourselves, even when our minds are challenged and stimulated. In the same way, Kettle Corn New Music presents music drawn from a broad range of styles and aesthetic backgrounds in an atmosphere where it can be heard as both entertaining and thought-provoking. Kettle Corn New Music isn't about a particular style or a group of composers. Rather, it's an approach to listening that embraces music as both art and entertainment.

Chamber Symphony by Arnold Schoenberg (arranged by Anton Webern)

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