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Tuesday, Nov 9, 2010 | 8:30 PM
Brad Mehldau's Highway Rider
Zankel Hall

Performers

  • Brad Mehldau, Piano
  • Jeff Ballard, Percussion
  • Joshua Redman, Saxophone
  • Larry Grenadier, Bass
  • Matt Chamberlain, Percussion
  • The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
    Scott Yoo, Conductor

Program

  • BRAD MEHLDAU Highway Rider (NY Premiere)

  • Program is approximately 2 hours, 40 minutes, including one intermission
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7:30 PM pre-concert performance with The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
SHOSTAKOVICH (arr. Barshai) Chamber Symphony in F Major, Op. 73a (arrangement of the String Quartet No. 3)

He made his name as a jazz pianist, but Brad Mehldau—the first jazz artist to hold Carnegie Hall’s Richard and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair—also writes music that is stunning and delicate. Highway Rider is his latest work; critics responding to the recording of this 11-piece suite released in January have heralded it as his most mature artistic statement to date. Hear Mehldau, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and guests bring this piece to life in Zankel Hall.
Brad Mehldau Highway Rider
Brad Mehldau, Piano
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Friday, Dec 17, 2010 | 7:30 PM
A Tribute to Toru Takemitsu
Zankel Hall

Performers

  • coba, Accordion
  • Daisuke Suzuki, Guitar
  • Kazumi Watanabe, Guitar
  • Tomohiro Yahiro, Percussion

Program

This concert, curated by his daughter Maki Takemitsu, features improvisations on Takemitsu’s film music, including selections from Dodes'ka-den and Face of Another, among others.
Monday, Jan 31, 2011 | 7:30 PM
eighth blackbird
Zankel Hall

Performers

  • eighth blackbird
    ·· Tim Munro, Flutes
    ·· Michael J. Maccaferri, Clarinets
    ·· Matt Albert, Violin and Viola
    ·· Nicholas Photinos, Cello
    ·· Lisa Kaplan, Piano
    ·· Matthew Duvall, Percussion

Program

  • MISSY MAZZOLI Still Life with Avalanche
  • PIERRE BOULEZ Dérive 1
  • PHILIP GLASS Music in Similar Motion
  • PHILIPPE HUREL …à mesure
  • THOMAS ADÈS Catch, Op. 4
  • STEPHEN HARTKE Meanwhile, Incidental Music to Imaginary Puppet Plays

  • Program is approximately 1 hour, 30 minutes, including one intermission
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They’re theatrical, alluring, irreverent. eighth blackbird bring their distinctive energy to music written specifically for them, such as Missy Mazzoli’s Still Life with Avalanche, which the composer calls “a pile of melodies collapsing in a chaotic free fall,” and Stephen Hartke’s piece, which has its roots in the composer’s own interest in Asian court music.
Wednesday, Mar 23, 2011 | 7:30 PM
Midori
Charles Abramovic
Zankel Hall

Performers

  • Charles Abramovic, Piano
  • Midori, Violin

Program

  • HUW WATKINS Coruscation and Reflection
  • BRETT DEAN Berlin Music (NY Premiere)
  • TOSHIO HOSOKAWA Vertical Time Study III
  • JAMES MACMILLAN After the Tryst
  • JOHN ADAMS Road Movies
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This brilliant program of music by living composers highlights both the vibrant diversity of contemporary composition and Midori’s stellar skills. In addition to music by the British Watkins, the Scottish MacMillan, and the Japanese Hosokawa, Midori performs the rumbling, swinging Road Movies, a piece that to Midori is “quintessential John Adams.”
Adams Road Movies (I. Relaxed Groove)
Leila Josefowicz, Violin / John Novacek, Piano
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