Composers Concordance 20th Anniversary!

Q: Is there any microtonality on this particular concert?

A: Not really. Only if they play poorly... :)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

20th ANNIVERSARY SEASON!

The Composers Concordance is presenting the first concert of its 20th
Anniversary Season on Friday November 14, 2003 at Christ & St.
Stephen's Church, 120 W. 69th St., 8:00 PM

Acclaimed new music oboist, Jacqueline LeClair will deliver a solo
oboe work, Memo 8 by recognized American composer Bernard Rands. In
this work Rands explores the expressive possibilities of the oboe
through a virtuosic setting.

Composers Concordance features as our two Meet the Composer
participants the young American composers Susan Harding and Aaron
Friedman. Susan Harding has gathered the dynamic percussion
quartet "Loop 243" for her piece, Maresia. She will be using
marimba, vibraphone, xylophone and orchestra bells in a mesmerizing
collection of sounds that echo her interest in the works of Morton
Feldman. Aaron Friedman's In Like Flynn, for clarinet, cello
and
piano tosses melodic elements between the instruments in a playful,
mercurial fashion.

We will feature the flute and guitar duo Ririko Okada, flute and
Patrick Durek, guitar in two pieces: a standard of the guitar
literature, Leo Kraft's Partita #5, a challenging and whimsical
work,
and a new premiere for this duo written by Joseph Pehrson, Flautando
which integrates the guitar technique "rasgueado" into a hip
fabric.

We are also bridging the international scene by presenting works by
two young Russian composers living in Moscow, Dimitri Capyrin and
Marina Shmotova. Capyrin is well known in Moscow circles and his
Chanson D'Automne for solo clarinet is a nice sampling of his
informed and forceful style. Shmotova, who is the director of her
own new music series in Moscow, brings a poetic sensibility to Christ
& St. Stephen's church with her Ballads of the White Sea for two
antiphonal flutes and bell. This work invokes a meditative mysticism
welcome in the heart of Manhattan.

Tickets are $15, $10 students and seniors. TDF vouchers accepted.
For more info. visit our up-to-the-minute website at
www.composersconcordance.org.