Chicago Contemporary Chamber Players; Episode 4, part two

The University of Chicago and the national educational radio network. Welcome you to another concert by the contemporary Chamber Players of the University of Chicago. Ralph shape the music director. On tonight's program we will hear four world premiers commissioned in honor of the seventy fifth anniversary of the University of Chicago. Included on the program will be works by Mario have a dot ski Ralphs AP easily Blackwood and George Rosberg Esther Glaser violin and the Pilgrim Soprano will be heard as soloists. The first work on tonight's program is inflections for 14 players by Mary dusky was born in Argentina in 1934 and studied composition and when a site he first visited the United States in one thousand fifty eight at Tanglewood and returned as an immigrant in 1960. Mr. Devon has received awards and commissions in Argentina and Europe as well as many in the United States. He has taught at Columbia University and the University of

Michigan. And is currently associate director of the electronic music center of Columbia and Princeton University's inflections for 14 players was commissioned by the frum foundation for the contemporary Chamber Players and was completed at the end of 1965 about the piece Mr Devil said quote After almost five years of composing only electronic music or compositions for instruments and electronic music inflections is the first piece that I have done that does not require electronically produced sounds. The basic structure of the piece. Remember to thank him for. The basic structure of the piece is determined by a series of rhythmic articulations which are once repeated following the original order but varying the spacing between them. This very basic scheme determines then the time structure of this composition.

The rest of the basic elements cannot be analyzed by the Nowadays usual procedure of note count or set identification. Since they were chosen by improvised or spontaneous decisions. This does not mean in any way chants music since all the musical events are fully composed. This world premiere of Mary would have a dark ski's inflections for 14 players. Will be conducted by Ralph shape the music director of the contemporary Chamber Players of the University of Chicago. Oh. Thanks. Now here is Ralph. Thank you thank you for director of the contemporary Chamber Players to conduct the world premiere of inflections for 14 players by Mario Davidoff ski.

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Thanks. For what you have just heard Mary a lot of adults these complex reports. Playing. A work commissioned by the problem found a from an honorable 72 anniversary of the University of Chicago. And played by the contemporary Chamber Players under the direction of Ralph. Thank you. The second work to be heard on tonight's program is the Partita for violin

and the 13 players by Ralph shaping. L-shape be born in 1921. Studied violin with the manuals that lend and composition with Stefan Volpe that he has been given many awards and most recently the National Institute of Arts and Letters award and a numbered foundation recording award for his rituals for symphony orchestra. Mr Safety has also received commissions from the from Music Foundation and the Dimitri metropolis on the Morgenthau and Koussevitzky music Foundation's an associate professor of music. He joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 1964. Partido for a violin and thirteen instruments which we are to hear tonight was commissioned by the University of Chicago for its seventy fifth anniversary. The solo violin part is composed in a traditional manner and displays the virtuosity of the soloist. The first movement opens with the solo violin stating the main

material in its manifold aspects. The movement consists of several sections of varied repetitions with each block of instruments superimposing the material against the embroidery of the violin the blocks of instruments employed are a string quartet a woodwind quintet a brass quartet and percussion instruments. The second movement employs the solo violin in a leg Otto delicate and song like expression. There are many times in which the range is so high that the instrument becomes almost inaudible. The accompanying figures consist of the basic harmonic structure as used in the first movement. The third movement begins with a renewal of the first movement material played by the string quartet and leading directly into a happy Randa like movement. The rondo is interrupted by a quasar condenser in the solo violin against a percussion ostinato. This in turn gradually moves back into the Rondo itself which leads into a final expression of the harmonic structure by the soloist in a brilliant display of

pyrotechnics. This is followed by a final motivic statement of the rondo theme which gradually retards and returns to the initial material of the first movement again played by the string quartet. The work ends with the soloist repeating the opening statement of the first movement. Our violin soloist tonight is Esther Glaser on our last program. She and easily Blackwood were heard in a performance of the sonatas for Violin and Piano by Charles II. Esther Glaser is a numbered Award winner and made her debut in Chicago at the age of nine. Her studies included a five year fellowship at the Juilliard School of Music and she has given concerts widely in America and Europe last year as a soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the University of Chicago. Miss Glaser presented the first Chicago performance of Schoenberg's violin concerto. She is the

wife of Irwin Hoffman who is the associate conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The work's being heard on tonight's program are four of eight which have been commissioned in honor of the University of Chicago seventy fifth anniversary. The first of the seventy fifth anniversary commissions to be performed was Richard Wernicke's Navia which was played by the University Symphony Orchestra in December of 1966 in May of this year the Rockefeller chapel choir of the University of Chicago with members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra will perform the Nativity by Virgil Thompson. This work also commissioned in honor of the university's seventy fifth anniversary. Richard Ekstrom will conduct. Finally the university has also commissioned orchestral works by Donald Martino Jr. and George Crum of the University of Pennsylvania.

These works to be performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in its spring concerts on the University of Chicago campus in 1967 and in 1968. The members of the contemporary Chamber Players of the University of Chicago have now returned to our stage to tune up for Raf's a piece Partita for violin and 13 players. The work is in three movements the first. Does you know my style saw a great jester. The second. I does your delicate of simple tenderness and the third. Eye does your my store saw a great gesture but it took on video of Happy Birthday. And does you know my store saw a great gesture.

Roughs AP will conduct his own composition and Esther Glazer will be the violin soloist. Thank. You. Bro. Thank you thank you. Escalating. Violence. And in just a moment you will hear Ralph say peace Partita for a violin and 13 players. There will be just a brief pause for Miss Glazer tunes to the orchestra. I am.

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