Guitar Chamber Music, December 6, 2017

Robert Blocker, Dean

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Guitar Chamber Music

Benjamin Verdery, Director Wednesday, December 6, 2017 • 7:30 pm Morse Recital Hall

Yale School of Music

Guitar Chamber Music December 6, 2017 • Morse Recital Hall

Gulli Björnsson b. 1991

Suite for electric guitar, string quartet, and electronics (2017) World Premiere II. Frostwork III. Slow Heavy IV. You Are All of Them V. We Like to Dance in the Dark Sam Seyong Um, percussion Gregory Lewis, violin Emily Switzer, violin Hayaka Komatsu, viola Bo Bae Lee, cello Gulli Björnsson, guitar

Antonio Giacometti b. 1957

“Jeux à deux” for flute and guitar (2003) Helen Park, flute Nicoletta Todesco, guitar

Sergio Assad b. 1952

Jobiniana No. 1 (1986) Aaron Cardenas, Tyler Rhodes, guitar intermission

Guitar Chamber music

Niccolò Paganini 1782–1840

Sonata concertata, Op. 61 Allegro spirituoso Adagio, assai espressivo Rondo. Allegretto con brio, scherzando Dongsoo Cha, violin Igor Lichtmann, guitar

Javier Farias b. 1973

Cortada fue la tierra (2014) based on “Los Conquistadores” of Canto General

by Pablo Neruda Drake Duffer, Nate Huvard, guitar

David Lang b. 1957

death speaks (2012) You Will Return Mist is Rising Pain Changes Addy Sterrett, soprano Bora Kim, violin Elizabeth Faure, electric guitar Alishan Gezgin, piano

As a courtesy to the performers and audience, silence electronic devices.

Please do not leave the hall during selections. Photography or recording of any kind is prohibited.

Upcoming Events New Music for Orchestra december 7 Yale Philharmonia/New Music New Haven Conducting fellow David Yi leads the Yale Philharmonia in a program of new orchestral works by the School’s graduate-student composers Woolsey Hall | Friday | 7:30 pm Tickets start at $7 • Yale Faculty/Staff $5 Students $3 $3 surcharge for purchases at the door Preview Concert: Reflections from the Second Viennese School december 11 Yale in New York This year’s Yale in New York series features music from Schoenberg’s Society for Private Musical Performance. The second concert in the series, Reflections from the Second Viennese School, features Webern’s arrangement of Schoenberg’s innovative Chamber Symphony No. 1 and Schoenberg’s arrangements of waltzes by Johann Strauss II, with faculty members Wendy Sharp, violin, and Melvin Chen, piano Morse Recital Hall | Monday | 4:30 pm free admission

Yale Brass Ensemble december 11 YSM Ensembles A program featuring students from YSM’s trumpet, horn, trombone, and tuba studios Morse Recital Hall | Monday | 7:30 pm free admission Hung-Kuan Chen, piano december 13 Horowitz Piano Series Faculty pianist Hung-Kuan Chen performs Beethoven’s visionary “Hammerklavier” Sonata and works by Schubert and Messiaen Morse Recital Hall | Wednesday | 7:30 pm Tickets start at $13 • Students $7 Preview Concert: Impressions on the French Tradition december 15 Yale in New York This year’s Yale in New York series features music from Schoenberg’s Society for Private Musical Performance. The final concert in the series, Impressions on the French Tradition, features Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune and Ravel’s String Quartet, with faculty mezzo-soprano Janna Baty and the Rolston String Quartet, YSM’s fellowship quartet-inresidence Morse Recital Hall | Friday | 4:30 pm free admission

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Robert Blocker, Dean