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Santa Fe New Music ends 2009-2010 season with “The Music of Lewis Spratlan”
Santa Fe New Music concludes its 2009-2010 season with its seventh annual “Living Composer Portrait” collaboration with the Santa Fe Opera. The chamber music of composer Lewis Spratlan will be featured on Friday, June 25 in Albuquerque, and Saturday June 26, in Santa Fe.
Spratlan’s opera Life is a Dream will premiere at the Santa Fe Opera in July. The concert version of this piece won the composer the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in music. Spratlan is praised for the high dramatic impact and brilliant scoring of his music. SFNM’s concert will feature three of the composer’s most compelling recent works with leading guest artists, including a rapturous song cycle on Finnish poems, which features Spratlan’s fluid vocal writing.
Streaming (2004)
for violin, viola, cello, and piano
Wonderer (2005)
for solo piano
Of Time and the Seasons (2001)
for solo soprano with violin, cello, flute, clarinet, percussion and piano
Featuring Kiera Duffy, soprano (www.keiraduffy.com/live/)
Judith Gordon, piano (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Gordon)
Members of the SFNM Ensemble
John Kennedy, conductor
Leading soprano Kiera Duffy will make her New Mexico debut, under SFNM’s Artistic Director, fresh off his appearances at Spoleto Festival USA, where he conducted the American Premiere of Wolfgang Rihm’s new opera Proserpina. Pianist Judith Gordon, familiar to New Mexico audiences through SFNM as well as the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, is a colleague if Spratlan’s in Amherst, Massachusetts, and will be featured throughout the program as soloist and chamber artist.
SFNM’s Artistic Director John Kennedy notes that audiences look forward to this event, which closes SFNM’s season while anticipating the summer season at the Santa Fe Opera. “We find that this collaborative programming brings new audiences to both organizations, and gives Opera audiences a chance to anticipate the voice of a major composer as it spans genres from chamber music to opera.
There are two opportunities to hear this concert. On Friday, June 25 at 8:00 p.m., the concert takes place at the El Rey Theater in Albuquerque. Tickets for this performance are $10, available at Bookworks, Encore Music, Newsland, and Get Tix.net (1-866-I-GET-TIX).
The following evening, Saturday, June 26, the performance will take place at Stieren Hall on the Santa Fe Opera campus at 6 p.m. Please note a reduced ticket price for this concert of $10. Tickets for the Santa Fe performance are available at Nicholas Potter Booksellers, 211 East Palace Avenue, or at the door.
Through concerts, commissions, and educational events, Santa Fe New Music promotes understanding of, enthusiasm for, and participation in the music of our time, serving as an advocate for new classical music and its future. SFNM was founded by Artistic Director John Kennedy in 2000. Santa Fe New Music is a 501(c)3 corporation.
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