Tombeau de Claude Debussy à Travers la Mer
Sunday 25 March 2018
Community Music Center @ 7:30 pm
Free — with reception following
PROGRAM
Texu KIM
300+ Microvariations on a Bach Theme (South Korea – 2015) **
solo piano
Christopher WICKS
A Sea Sonata, mvt. 3 & mvt. 2 (USA – 2010) *
solo piano
Theresa KOON
Sonnet to Orpheus (USA – 2017) *
mezzo-soprano & piano
Jeff WINSLOW
Across from 24 Square de l’Avenue Foch (USA – 2018) *
mezzo-soprano & piano
Denis FLOYD
Hommage à Claude Debussy (USA – 2014) *
wind quintet
Elizabeth BLACHLY-DYSON
Equinox (USA – 2017) *
wind quintet
INTERMISSION
Matthew Neil ANDREWS
“Hope” is the thing with feathers— (USA – 2017)
soprano & piano
William TOUTANT
En Hommage à Debussy (USA – 2017) **
violin & piano
Stephen LEWIS
“untitled” (USA – 2015) **
solo piano
David BERNSTEIN
Flux et Reflux (USA – 2017) *
solo piano
Claude DEBUSSY
Chansons de Bilitis (France – 1897)
mezzo-soprano & piano
* World Premiere
** PDX Premiere
CAST
Colleen Adent – piano
Matthew Neil Andrews – piano
Corrin Coffey – soprano
Asya Gulua – piano
Tatiana Kolchanova – violin
Stephen Lewis – piano
Hannah Penn – mezzo-soprano
Jeff Winslow – piano
Con Grazia Wind Quintet:
Rebecca Olson – flute
Victoria Racz – oboe
Jill Coykendall – clarinet
Wendy Peebles – French horn
Danielle Goldman – bassoon
Exuberance Catering – reception
On March 25th, 1918, Claude Debussy died after a long illness, as German shells from the biggest artillery of World War I exploded in the streets of Paris around his home. 100 years to the day later, and much more quietly, ten Cascadia composers will pay musical tribute to Debussy’s life, work, and influence, echoing “Tombeau de Claude Debussy,” his postwar memorial concert, from “across the sea.”
