New York Woodwind Quintet Performs World Premieres of Elliott Carter's "Nine by Five" (2009, Commissioned by Juilliard) and "Retracing II" for Solo Horn (2009) on Thursday, February 11, 2010 at 8 PM in Juilliard's Paul Hall
Considerably Carter Program Also Includes American Premiere of the Composer's Quintet "Wind Rose"; Other Works Are Carter's "8 Etudes and a Fantasy," his Quintet No. 1, and Jean Francaix's Quintet No. 1
The New York Woodwind Quintet (Carol Wincenc, flute;
Charles
Neidich, clarinet; Stephen Taylor, oboe; Marc Goldberg,
bassoon; William
Purvis, French horn) performs two world premieres by American composer Elliott Carter on their Daniel
Saidenberg Faculty Recital on Thursday,
February 11 at 8 PM in Juilliard's Paul Hall (155 West 65th Street). Mr.
Carter, who recently turned 101-years-old, has been working busily on the new
pieces for the New York Woodwind Quintet. The first world premiere work is
entitled Nine by Five (2009) and was commissioned by Juilliard. The second world premiere work is Retracing
II (2009) for solo horn. The remaining pieces on the Considerably Carter program include the American premiere of Carter's Wind Rose (2008); Carter's
8 Etudes and a Fantasy
(1949-1950); Jean Françaix's Quintet No. 1 (1948); and Carter's Quintet No. 1 (1948). Mr.
Carter is a longtime friend of Juilliard and served on the composition faculty
from 1964-1984.
FREE tickets are available beginning January 27 at the Janet and Leonard Kramer Box Office at Juilliard, located at 155 West 65th Street. Box Office hours are Monday through Friday from 11 AM to 6 PM. For further information, call the Juilliard Box Office at (212) 769-7406 or go to www.juilliard.edu.
Elliott Carter's new woodwind quintet, Nine by Five, was composed expressly for the New York Woodwind Quintet and commissioned by Juilliard. After clarinetist Charles Neidich approached the composer about writing a new work, Mr. Carter said in his notes that he decided to follow the example of his friend, the late Italian composer, Goffredo Petrassi, who wrote a charming wind trio - Tre Per Sette, in which the players each have several instruments of the same type with different ranges. In Nine by Five, the flutist also plays piccolo, the oboist an English horn, and so forth. The work, largely linear, has solos, duets, and even a quintet. He adds that these sections are separated by a play of intervallic fragments. The work was composed during the last months of 2009 in NYC.
Carter's Retracing II (2009) for solo horn also receives its world premiere performance on this recital. The work is derived from the horn part in Mr. Carter's Quintet for Piano and Winds (1991). In the Quintet, the horn is notated to fit in with the other instruments. Retracing simplifies the notation and joins various sections.
One of Carter's most frequently-performed works, his 8 Etudes and a Fantasy (1949-1950), contains eight brief studies and a fantasy, which is a summation of the whole work.
Carter's Wind Rose was written for Tanglewood in the summer of 2008. Mr. Carter says in his notes that he thought it would be interesting to write a piece for strings that depended only on the density of textures with no linear material, no change of color or dynamics. With this in mind, he composed Sound Fields. When Mr. Carter's friend, composer/conductor Oliver Knussen heard this first performance at Tanglewood, where he was conducting many of Carter's pieces that summer, he suggested that he write a companion piece for winds. This led to Wind Rose.
Elliott Carter suggested that the New York Woodwind Quintet include the Jean Françaix Quintet No. 1 (1948) on their recital. Carter and Jean Françaix studied together with Nadia Boulanger. Françaix was one of her favorite students, and he wrote his quintet the same year - 1948 - as Carter. Mr. Carter's Quintet is dedicated to Nadia Boulanger.
The first performance of Carter's Woodwind Quintet (1948) was broadcast on February 21, 1949 in New York, with the first concert performance following six days later. In his notes, Mr. Carter remarked that in 1948 several woodwind players asked him to write a work for woodwind quintet. On looking over some earlier quintet works, he found the composers were in the habit of overlooking the fact that each of these instruments has a different sound. He was particularly struck by this, and so he decided to write a work that would emphasize the individuality of each instrument and that made a virtue of their inability to blend completely.
For almost 60 seasons, the New York Woodwind Quintet has maintained an active performance schedule in the United States and abroad while also teaching the next generation of woodwind performers. The Quintet has commissioned and premiered more than 20 compositions, some of which have become classics of the woodwind repertoire. They include Samuel Barber's Summer Music, and quintets by Gunther Schuller, Ezra Laderman, William Bergsma, Alec Wilder, William Sydeman, Wallingford Riegger, Jon Deak, and Yehudi Wyner. The Quintet has featured many of these in recordings for such labels as Boston Skyline, Bridge, New World Records, and Nonesuch. The Quintet's members also honor the legacy of departed members, including the late Samuel Baron, by continuing to perform his transcriptions of works such as Bach's Art of the Fugue and the Scherzo from Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream, and the late Ronald Roseman, by performing his Wind Quintet No. 2 and Sextet for Piano and Winds which was dedicated to the New York Woodwind Quintet and completed just before he died.
Current NYWQ members, flutist Carol Wincenc, clarinetist Charles Neidich, oboist Stephen Taylor, bassoonist Marc Goldberg, and French hornist William Purvis, all internationally recognized performers and teachers, continue the Quintet's now 15 year long residency at The Juilliard School, where they present eight seminars each year for student woodwind quintets and give regular coaching sessions.
2009-2010 DANIEL SAIDENBERG FACULTY RECITAL SERIES AT JUILLIARD
Tickets available at the Janet and Leonard Kramer Box Office at Juilliard, 155 West 65th Street, NYC
Box Office hours: Monday through Friday, 11 AM to 6 PM
(212) 769-7406 or www.juilliard.edu
Thursday, January 21, 8 PM, Paul Hall
Enescu Chamber Players
Donald Weilerstein, Violin
Jennifer Curtis, Violin
Nicholas Mann, Viola
Claire Bryant, Cello
Vivian
Weilerstein, Piano
Airs in Romanian Folkstyle for solo violin with Jennifer Curtis
Sonata for violin and piano, No. 3, Op. 25 (Dans le caractere populaire roumain) with Donald Weilerstein, and Vivian Weilerstein
Sarabande for solo violin (American premiere) with Donald Weilerstein
Piano Quintet, Op. 29
FREE tickets available beginning January 7 at the Juilliard Box Office
Thursday, February 11, 8 PM, Paul Hall
New York Woodwind Quartet
Monday, February 22, 8 PM, Paul Hall
Elliott Carter - 8 Etudes and a Fantasy (1949-1950)
Elliott Carter - Retracing II for solo horn (2009) (world premiere)
Elliott Carter - Wind Rose (2008) (American premiere)
Elliott Carter - Nine by Five (2009) (world premiere - commissioned by Juilliard)
Jean Françaix - Quintet No. 1 (1948)
Elliott Carter - Quintet No. 1 (1948)
FREE tickets available beginning January 27 at the Juilliard Box Office
Monday, February 22, 8 PM, Paul Hall
Juilliard String Quartet
Robert Mann, Viola
Felix Mendelssohn - String Quartet No. 3 in D Major, Op. 44, No. 1
Mario Davidovsky - String Quartet No. 5, Dank an Op. 132
W.A. Mozart - String Quintet in D Major, K. 593
Limited FREE tickets available beginning February 8 at the Juilliard Box Office
Wednesday, March 31, 8 PM, The Peter Jay Sharp Theater
Carol Wincenc: 40th ‘Ruby' Anniversary
Juilliard String Quartet and Stephen Gosling, piano
Students of The Juilliard School and additional artists to be announced
Antonio Vivaldi - Flute Concerto in D Major, "Il Gardellino"
Joan Tower - new work for flute and string quartet (world premiere)
Shih Hui Chen - Becoming for flute soloist, oboe, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, cello, and bass (world premiere)
Andy Thomas - Samba
FREE tickets available beginning March 17 at the Juilliard Box Office
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