November 13 - Student, Alumni, and Faculty Composers Concert


Swarthmore College
Department of Music and Dance
The Friends of Music and Dance at Swarthmore

Student, Alumni, & Faculty
Composers Concert

The eighth annual Student, Faculty, and Alumni Composers Concert
honors Jane Lang Professor of Music Gerald Levinson
in celebration of his 65th birthday
and 40 years of teaching at Swarthmore College
Sunday, November 13, 2016, 7:30pm
Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore College


INTRODUCTION

48 (2016)..... David Barns '88 & Stephen Coxe '88

     audio recording: David Barnes, piano; Stephen Coxe, Rhodes piano

Delirious Phosphenes excerpt (2014)..... Alejandro Sills '13

     audio midi realization

Mal de amores excerpt (2016)..... arr. Ben Thomas '92

     video recording: Ben Thomas, vibraphone


Mark and Jerry Go to the CVS, Op. 259 (2016)..... Mark Alburger, '79
(Scherzo for Orchestra, November 10, 2012)

     video recording: Mark Alburger, performer


Piano Miniature (2016)..... Ben Kapilow '13

     video recording: Ben Kapilow, Piano

Chorale for Nanine, with Birds (2015)..... Gerald Levinson
(Hommage a Messiaen)

     Marcantonio Barone, piano


Levinson Fanfare (2016)..... Thomas Whitman '82

     Thomas Whitman, cello; Marcantonio Barone, piano


Preemptive Coronation (2016)..... Bradley J. Carter '15

     Bradley J. Carter, Tenor; Elliot Nguyen '18, piano


The Book of Flowers: I. Hibiscus (2016)..... Jeremy Rappaport-Stein '14

     Mark Loria '08, piano


Ringing Changes (2016) East Coast premiere..... Levinson

     Marcantonio Barone, piano; Charles Abramovic, piano


BRIEF INTERMISSION


Mallets & Mutes: Etude No. 1 GE(r)A(l)D (2016)..... Deborah H. How '89

     Deborah H. How, piano

Crepuscular Waltz (2016)..... Nathan Scalise '16

     Iris Chan '17, piano


Here of amazing most now (1999): Miniature No. 11..... Levinson

     Samuel Lorber '89, alto saxophone; Becky Nordling-Ruggles '17, gongs


Midnight Dream (after "Round Midnight" by Thelonius Monk) (2001)..... Levinson

     Mark Loria, piano


Duo (winds of light) (1973): Movement III..... Levinson

     Barbara Govatos, violin; Marcantonio Barone, piano


June 21st, 2016, 11:59PM (2016)..... James Matheson '92

      Samuel Lorber, alto saxophone; Thomas Whitman, cello
     Mark Loria, piano; Deborah H. How, piano


Time for Bells (2016)..... James Freeman

     James Freeman, piano


Bronze Music (1980)..... Levinson

     Marcantonio Barone, piano; Charles Abramovic, piano


Please join us in the Upper Lobby of Lang for a reception following the concert

***


What a


day,


northwest


on


US 1,


south 476,


Baltimore Pike,


Swarthmore and Morton Avenues to Chamber Memorial Presbyterian Church,


with


a


brilliant


sermon

and music --


looking


over


the


Library /


Fellowship room


various


divisions


of


the


old


Sunday


School


up and


down,


the former


choir room,


and


George's


extensive


art


studio


(an


amazing


collection


of


works)


thereafter,


eventually


with 


scrapple brunch at


Antonia's


and


a


tour


of


the


College's


namesake


downtown


+


South


Campus,


including


Dana / Hallowell,


Wharton,


Clothier


Memorial


Tower,


Parrish,


Scott


Arboretum...


reversing course


past ginko trees,


the Amphitheatre,


and Danowell,


viewing the


Observatory,


Sharples,


Crum Woods,


Crum Ledge


Lane,


and


the


convenient


and


wonderful


new


Inn,


which


includes


a


spacious


restaurant


 

(+ rather unQuakerly / unboroughly bar! -- welcome to the 20th / 21st centuries)



and


a


shining


campus


-community


Bookstore:


all


very


impressive,


indeed. 


From


here,


a


walkabout


around


the


north


side,


subsequently


back --


via


Chester Road,


Baltimore Pike,



476,


and


US


1


(detouring for


donuts)


to


Bette


and


George's


for


a


late-


afternoon


stroll


to


the


pond


and


environs,


then


returning


to


Lang Concert Hall



for


the


fabulous concert. 


Slightly warmer (60 locally and in Philadelphia), with home having the 236th day of summer (75... Oakland, 68; Los Angeles, 88)...