New Jersey Percussion Ensemble
Raymond DesRoches, Peter Jarvis, Gary Van Dyke - Directors
Thursday, January 26, 1989 at 7:30 pm

The Kathryn Bache Miller Theatre
at Columbia University New York City

presents

MUSIC UPTOWN
A CONTEMPORARY MUSIC GALA

Gunther Schuller, Master of Ceremonies

Program

Music for Brass Instruments – Ingolf Dahl (1912-1970)

Chorale Fantasy (Christ Lay in the Bonds of Death)

Intermezzo

Fugue

L’Histoire Naturelles – Maurice Ravel (1896-1937)

Bethany Beardslee, soprano – Robert Helps, piano

Piano Sonata No. 3 – Roger Sessions (1896-1985)                                                                           
            Adagio e misterioso – Sostenuto                                                                                         
            Molto allegro e con fuoco                                                                                                        
            Lento e molto tranquillo (In memorium: Nov. 22, 1963)                                                  

First and second movements played without intermediary pause

Alan Feinberg, piano

-INTERMISSION-

Dust of Snow – Elliot Carter (b.1908)

The Rose Family – Elliot Carter

White Moon – Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953)

Dozing on the Lawn – William Schuman (b.1910)

American Primitive – Warren Benson (b.1924)

The Sleeper – George Crumb (b.1929)

Jan DeGaetani, mezzo-soprano – Gilbert Kalish, piano

Pilgrimage – Andrew Imbrie (b.1921)

Speculam Musicae, Donald Palma, conductor

Ionisation – Edgard Varèse (1883-1965)

The New Jersey Percussion Ensemble, Peter Jarvis, conductor

This program is co-presented by the Alice M. Ditson Fund and the Fritz Reiner Center for Contemporary Music,
with additional assistance from the Boris and Eda Rapoport Fund in the Department of Music.

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