Seventh Annual Festival Collaborates with
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
and People Inside Electronics
Friday
, Saturday and Sunday-
April 28, 29 and 30, 2017
Seating is limited.
The seventh annual HEAR NOW Music Festival brings you music by the great composers living and working in Los Angeles including: Friday evening electroacoustic concert in collaboration with PIE, Saturday evening chamber concert in collaboration with LACO, and Sunday afternoon chamber concert. Some of Los Angeles' leading performers take part in HEAR NOW which spotlights the wealth of musical imagination in our city.
'...rapturous chamber music...' (Mark Swed, LA Times)
Friday, April 28 at 8:00 p.m.
Electroacoustic Concert
In collaboration with People Inside Electronics (PIE)
At Throop Hall of the Unitarian Universalist Church in Pasadena
The Hear Now/PIE collaboration continues to bring new and exciting composers and performers into the festival. This year, the festival presents works by A
lexander Elliott Miller, Ian Dicke, Anthony Paul Garcia, Dominique Schafer, Wen Liu, and Mu-Xuan Lin performed by the vibrant
Brightwork newmusic. The superb artistic and tech crew from PIE provides seamless blending of the concrete and the fantastical.
Miller Dicke Garcia
Schafer Liu Lin
"The level of composition and performance was equal to any fine contemporary music concert in the world today." (Russell Steinberg blog)
Saturday, April 29 at 8:00 pm
Chamber Music Concert
In collaboration with Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
at First Lutheran Church of Venice
A tribute to Jeffrey Kahane, LACO Music Director and Conductor
for having consistently commissioned and programmed pieces by living Los Angeles composers during his tenure with the orchestra
The program includes works by two of the many Los Angeles composers commissioned by LACO under Jeffrey Kahane's musical leadership,
Ted Hearne and Andrew Norman
. Plus you'll hear composers
David Lefkowitz, David Hertzberg, Russell Steinberg,
and
Thomas Kotcheff
. As a special gift,
Jeffrey Kahane
performs
Gabriel Kahane's
piano solo
Works on Paper;
Lyris Quartet -
the Hear Now resident quartet,
Brightwork newmusic
and other musicians complete the artist roster.
Photo: Michael Burke
Hearne Norman Kahane Lefkowitz
Hertzberg Steinberg Kotcheff
"A diverse display of new music it was, spanning nearly four generations of living Los Angeles composers and a cross-section of idioms.... the performances were technically top-notch, often reaching deep into the music for that something extra..." (Richard Ginell, Out of the West)
Sunday, April 30 at 5:00 pm
Chamber Music Concert
First Lutheran Church of Venice
Flash, electric currents, poetry, cultural shifts, staying alive, unease, a speaking cellist, interconnectedness -- words the composers use to describe their pieces in this concert. Works by
Mark Weiser, Evan Beigel, Juhi Bansal, Saad Haddad, Michael Lee, Xavier Muzik, Hugh Levick, Sean Heim. With the fearless Lyris Quartet, Cecelia Tran, Joanne Pearce Martin, Vicki Ray and many other of our outstanding Los Angeles musicians performing.
Weiser Beigel Bansal Haddad
"...a host of L.A.'s finest composers and musicians ... a very successful Hear Now Music Festival ..." (Rodney Punt , LA Opus)
Program:
Friday, April 28 at 8:00 pm
In collaboration with People Inside Electronics (PIE)
Throop Hall, Unitarian Universalist Church
300 S. Los Robles, Pasadena
ALEXANDER ELLIOTT MILLER:
To....Oblivion (Part 1: Belmont Tunnell) with guitar
IAN DICKE:
Latest and Greatest (LA Premiere) with mixed ensemble
ANTHONY PAUL GARCIA:
if it stops (LA Premiere) with mixed ensemble
DOMINIQUE SCHAFER:
Cendre with bass flute
WEN LIU:
Echoes in the Petals Falling (LA Premiere) with flute, cello, bass
MU-XUAN LIN:
Pale Fire with piano
Saturday, April 29 at 8:00 pm
A Tribute to Jeffrey Kahane
In collaboration with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
First Lutheran Church of Venice
815 Venice Blvd.
TED HEARNE: By-By Huey for sextet
ANDREW NORMAN: Mine, Mime, Meme for sextet
GABRIEL KAHANE: Works on Paper for piano
DAVID LEFKOWITZ: Love Fragments for mezzo, harp, viola
DAVID HERTZBERG: Méditation Boréale (WC Premiere) for string quartet
RUSSELL STEINBERG: Subterranean Dance (WC Premiere)
for mixed ensemble
THOMAS KOTCHEFF: scratch cradle for string quartet
Sunday, April 30 at 5:00 p.m.
Chamber Music Concert
First Lutheran Church of Venice
MARK WEISER:
Flash (LA Premiere) for saxophone and piano
EVAN BEIGEL:
Oscillatore (WC Premiere) for string quartet
JUHI BANSAL:
Begin for soprano and piano
SAAD HADDAD:
Kaman Fantasy (WC Premiere) for violin and piano
MICHAEL LEE:
Farewell (WC Premiere) for string quartet
XAVIER MUZIK:
The Surface for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon
HUGH LEVICK:
The Messiah (World Premiere) for solo cello
SEAN HEIM:
Rarrk (US Premiere) for flute, horn, violin, cello, piano
Tickets
$90 - Festival Pass
$35 - Single tickets
$30 - Senior tickets
$20 - Student tickets with valid ID (1 ticket per ID)
Locations:
Throop Hall, Unitarian Universalist Church: 300 S. Los Robles Ave., Pasadena (at Del Mar, 1/2 mile east of the Arroyo Parkway).
Click here for map.
Hugh Levick, Artistic Director
Gernot Wolfgang, Associate Director
Jason Heath, Associate Director
Heidi Lesemann, General Manager
Timothy Loo and Aron Kallay, Musicians Contractors
The HEAR NOW Music Festival is supported by the NEA/Artworks program, City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles County Supervisors through the County Arts Commission, Colburn Foundation, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the SAG-AFTRA Intellectual Property Fund, Berklee College of Music, the Consulate-General of Austria in Los Angeles, and from contributions from wonderful people like you! Every donation - large or small - makes a difference. Please support our programs!
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