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Members of the Grossman Ensemble and guest artists perform _Dance Mobile (in memoriam Oliver Knussen)_ by CCCC Director and Founder Augusta Read Thomas on October 1, 2022 at the University of Chicago's Logan Center for the Arts in Chicago, IL.
Constance Volk, flute
Katherine Jimoh, clarinet
Taimur Sullivan, saxophone
Ben Roidl-Ward, bassoon
Paul Von Hoff, trombone
Greg Beyer, percussion
John Corkill, percussion
Daniel Pesca, piano
Hanna Hurwitz, violin
MingHuan Xu, violin
Doyle Armbrust, viola
Nick Photinos, cello
Adam Attard, bass
Stefan Asbury, conductor
Christopher L. Willis, audio recording and production
Mike Grittani, video production
Nimbus Music Publishing, publisher and licensor
https://cccc.uchicago.edu
Program note by the composer:
Music for me is an embrace of the world – a way to open myself up to being alive in the world in my body, in my sounds, and in my mind. I care deeply about musicality, imagination, craft, clarity, dimensionality, an elegant balance between material and form, and empathy with the performing musicians.
My works always spark and catch fire from spontaneous improvisations. It is music always in the act of becoming. I have a vivid sense that the process of the creative journey (rather than a predictable fixed point of arrival) is the essence. Poetry can give language to the ineffable. Music is, in an analogous way, akin to an infinite alphabet. Sounds can become like butterflies, hummingbirds, lights, rocks, trees, webs, gardens, and landscapes.
Three virtuosic dances, each lasting circa 4 minutes and 30 seconds, are, as if hanging on an Alexander Calder-like mobile, suspended so as to turn freely in the air; lively, sprightly, spry, energetic, vigorous; animated, traveling, flexible, versatile, changing, fluid, and on the move.
Commissioned by the Howard Hanson Institute for American Music in Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Eastman School of Music.
To be performed with dancers when feasible.
Members of the Grossman Ensemble and guest artists perform _Dance Mobile (in memoriam Oliver Knussen)_ by CCCC Director and Founder Augusta Read Thomas on October 1, 2022 at the University of Chicago's Logan Center for the Arts in Chicago, IL.
Constance Volk, flute
Katherine Jimoh, clarinet
Taimur Sullivan, saxophone
Ben Roidl-Ward, bassoon
Paul Von Hoff, trombone
Greg Beyer, percussion
John Corkill, percussion
Daniel Pesca, piano
Hanna Hurwitz, violin
MingHuan Xu, violin
Doyle Armbrust, viola
Nick Photinos, cello
Adam Attard, bass
Stefan Asbury, conductor
Christopher L. Willis, audio recording and production
Mike Grittani, video production
Nimbus Music Publishing, publisher and licensor
https://cccc.uchicago.edu
Program note by the composer:
Music for me is an embrace of the world – a way to open myself up to being alive in the world in my body, in my sounds, and in my mind. I care deeply about musicality, imagination, craft, clarity, dimensionality, an elegant balance between material and form, and empathy with the performing musicians.
My works always spark and catch fire from spontaneous improvisations. It is music always in the act of becoming. I have a vivid sense that the process of the creative journey (rather than a predictable fixed point of arrival) is the essence. Poetry can give language to the ineffable. Music is, in an analogous way, akin to an infinite alphabet. Sounds can become like butterflies, hummingbirds, lights, rocks, trees, webs, gardens, and landscapes.
Three virtuosic dances, each lasting circa 4 minutes and 30 seconds, are, as if hanging on an Alexander Calder-like mobile, suspended so as to turn freely in the air; lively, sprightly, spry, energetic, vigorous; animated, traveling, flexible, versatile, changing, fluid, and on the move.
Commissioned by the Howard Hanson Institute for American Music in Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Eastman School of Music.
To be performed with dancers when feasible.
