Summer 2009
Northeastern University presents
the Chameleon Arts Ensemble in:
an evening of American chamber
music
Tuesday, July 7, 2009, 7:30 PM
Goethe-Institut, Boston,
170 Beacon Street
Join the Chameleons for a special free
concert of American chamber music to kick off Northeastern
University's 2009 Fusion
Arts Exchange program.
Admission is FREE. Tickets will be available at the
door.
Program:
Charles Ives
Piano Trio (ca. 1911)
Aaron Copland
Nocturne for violin & piano (1928)
Samuel Barber
Summer Music for wind quintet (1956)
George Crumb
Vox Balaenae "Voice of the Whale" for amplified flute, cello & piano (1971)
John Cage
Child of Tree for solo percussion (1975)
Nowth Upon Nacht for soprano & closed piano lid (1984)
Lou Harrison
Varied Trio for violin, piano & percussion (1986)
Libby Larsen
Songs from Letters from Calamity Jane to her daughter Janey for soprano & piano (1989)
Concert Personnel:
Deborah Boldin,
flute
Nancy Dimock, oboe
Whitacre Hill, French horn
Randall Hodgkinson, piano
Elizabeth Keusch, soprano
Joanna Kurkowicz, violin
William Manley, percussion
Kelli O'Connor, clarinet
Margaret Phillips, bassoon
Rafael Popper-Keizer, cello
About Northeastern University's Fusion
Arts Exchange
The Fusion Arts Exchange (FAX)
is an educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. Department
of States Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
A multinational group of 20 undergraduates from six nations
will spend more than five weeks in an intensive program studying individual and collaborative
music composition, individual musical coaching, instrument
- specific instruction, group lessons, American music history,
and individual and group performance opportunities. All students
will be in residence at Northeastern University in Boston.
In addition there are three educational study tours to New
York City, the Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox, MA, and Washington,
D.C.
The Chameleon Arts Ensemble
is proud to be part if this inventive program. In addition
to the opening concert, artists from the Ensemble will give
private instrumental & vocal instruction to the participating
students throughout the five weeks.
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