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)...