Voices & Strings – April 18, 2015
Voices and Strings
Works by Peggy Lee and Mary Margaret O’Hara, Linda Bouchard, Linda Catlin Smith, and Jay Schwartz
Saturday, April 18, 2015; 8PM
Free pre-show chat at 7:15PM
Orpheum Annex (823 Seymour Street, 2nd floor)
Vancouver New Music invited Linda Bouchard, Peggy Lee and Mary Margaret O’Hara to create new works that consider the idea and form of a rich and variable musical form: the song. From the original canzona, Lied, chanson, up to the most creative assemblage or paradoxical expression, this flexible, fluid and omnipresent form has been an inspiration the world over for centuries. Works by Linda Catlin Smith and Jay Schwartz complement the program.
Featuring Peggy Lee (cello) and Mary Margaret O’Hara (voice) with a string ensemble of some of Vancouver’s finest string players performing their new piece 2 cans and a string thing.
Programme:
Linda Catlin Smith – Les fleurs anciennes (2000, 10′)
Conductor: Giorgio Magnanensi
Violin 1: Cam Wilson, Domagoj Ivanovic, Yun Jung, Molly MacKinnon
Violin 2: Elyse Jacobson, Janna Sailor, Erin Dorfer
Viola: Reg Quiring, Manti Poon, Peter Ing
Cello: Marina Hasselberg, Stefan Hintersteininger
Double Bass: Laurence Mollerup
Jay Schwartz – Music for Orchestra III (2010, 20′) **
Conductor: Giorgio Magnanensi
Violin 1: Cam Wilson, Domagoj Ivanovic, Yun Jung, Molly MacKinnon
Violin 2: Elyse Jacobson, Janna Sailor, Erin Dorfer
Viola: Reg Quiring, Manti Poon, Peter Ing
Cello: Marina Hasselberg, Stefan Hintersteininger
Double Bass: Laurence Mollerup, Anne Duranceau
Linda Bouchard –Réfraction (2015, 20′) *†
Conductor: Giorgio Magnanensi
Violin 1: Cam Wilson, Domagoj Ivanovic, Yun Jung, Molly MacKinnon, Meghan Van Cleave, Boris Ulanowicz
Violin 2: Elyse Jacobson, Janna Sailor, Erin Dorfer, Zuzana Uskovitsova, Meredith Bates
Viola: Reg Quiring, Manti Poon, Peter Ing, John Kastelic
Cello: Marina Hasselberg, Stefan Hintersteininger, Finn Manniche, Doug Gorkoff
Double Bass: Laurence Mollerup, Anne Duranceau
Peggy Lee & Mary Margaret O’Hara – 2 cans and a string thing (2015, 25′)*
Conductor: Giorgio Magnanensi
Voice: Mary Margaret O’Hara
Cello Solo: Peggy Lee
Violin 1: Cam Wilson, Domagoj Ivanovic, Yun Jung, Molly MacKinnon, Meghan Van Cleave, Boris Ulanowicz
Violin 2: Elyse Jacobson, Janna Sailor, Erin Dorfer, Zuzana Uskovitsova, Meredith Bates
Viola: Reg Quiring, Manti Poon, Peter Ing, John Kastelic
Cello: Marina Hasselberg, Stefan Hintersteininger, Finn Manniche, Doug Gorkoff, Peggy Lee
Double Bass: Laurence Mollerup, Anne Duranceau
* World premiere
** Canadian premiere
† Commissioned by Vancouver New Music with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts Commissioning of Canadian Composers program.
Note: Programme order may be subject to change.
