Date/Time
Date(s) - 01/25/2020
7:30 pm - 10:30 pm
Location
Center for New Music
Category(ies)
Ensemble for These Times performs the World Premiere of Chinese composer Weiwei Miao’s “Blooming Flowers, Full Moon” for piano trio, along with works by 9 women composers:
Pulitzer-winning (first in music for a woman) Ellen Taafe Zwillich (b. 1939): “Lament” for cello and piano; American Academy of Arts and Letters’s Walter Hinrichsen Award and Miriam Gideon Prize Victoria Bond (b. 1945): “Binary” for solo piano; American Academy of Arts and Letters Chen Yi (b. 1953): “Ji Dong Nuo”; Opera America Discovery Grant Lori Laitman (b. 1955): selections from “The Metropolitan Tower and Other songs”; Kronos Fifty for the Future Aleksandra Vrebalov (b. 1970): “Passion Revisited”; Connecticut Artist Fellow Jessica Rudman (b. 1982):”Times of Speaking and Silence”‘ Theatre composer Ellen Mandel (b. 1957): songs; Emerging New Zealand composer Gemma Peacocke: “Steppe Lands; Audrey Call (1905-2001): “The Witch of Harlem. Musicians: Nanette McGuinness, soprano; Anne Lerner-Wright, cello; Dale Tsang, piano; and guest violinist Ilana Blumberg.
