- Joelle Wallach, Composer

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Joelle Wallach's Fall 2012 Newsletter
October 17, 2013 10:45 AM
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The Dream of Now
Fall 2012
The Newsletter of Composer Joelle Wallach
Volume 4, Number 3
New Joelle Wallach CDs from 4Tay
Records
4Tay Records has issued two wonderful
new CDs of Joelle Wallach's songs,
chamber and solo piano music:
Joelle at Copland House
Joelle Wallach is one of eight composers
from five states that have been selected
for coveted, all-expenses-paid residencies
during the 2012-13 season at Aaron
Copland's National Historic Landmark
house in New York's lower Hudson Valley.
This year's jury, which included
composers Alvin Singleton (a former
Copland House Resident), Carman
Moore, and Pulitzer Prize-winner Paul Moravec, reviewed the applications
of 85 composers from 30 states.
The Door Standing Open
CD4034
The Door Standing Open celebrates
composer Joelle Wallach's ongoing
engagement with vocal music, with melody
and with her conviction of their connection
to the collective unconscious through folk
music and musical gesture. The songs
selected reach through several decades and
touch many interests and issues in
Wallach's life. The two non-vocal chamber
works grew directly from the songs
represented before them on the disk.
Performers are the University of North
Texas Conductors String Quartet; tenor
Stephen Alexander Carroll; soprano Marie
Therese Mattingly; mezzo-soprano Avis
Stroud; baritone Jeffrey Snider; violinist
Felix Olschofka, violist Susan Dubois, cellist
Nikola Ruzevic and pianist Pamela Mia
Paul.
You can purchase The Door Standing
Open at
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/joellewallach
and Amazon.com or digitally at Naxos Music
Library.
"This year's pool of applicants was especially impressive," noted Copland
House Artistic and Executive Director Michael Boriskin, "which made the
jury's work selecting only a small percentage that much more difficult. The
winners reflect a wide range of creative styles and personal backgrounds."
The residents will live and work, one at a time, at Copland's rustic, hilltop
home one hour north of midtown Manhattan for stays ranging from threeto eight-weeks. Joelle will be at Copland House for three weeks in Spring
2013.
Visit Copland House online at http://www.coplandhouse.org/.
2012-2013 Season Performances and
Premieres
2012-2013 has been and continues to be a very busy season for
performances of Joelle Wallach's music, including several World
Premieres. Fall highlights include:
Sunday, October 7 - World Premiere of Cassandra's Lament,
performed by the Vassar College Women's Chorus, Christine Howlett,
Conductor at The Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims in Brooklyn, NY. This
was part of the National Conference of the Jane Austen Society.
The Nightwatch
CD4035
To be released in early December, this
collection of songs, solo piano and chamber
works commemorates Joelle's time as
Visiting Professor of Composition at the
College of Music of the University of North
Texas at Denton, and celebrates her
ongoing engagement with melody and
melodic counterpoint. It features
performances from among her favorite
performers from the University of North
Texas and beyond.
Performers are tenor Sam McKelton,
soprano Maria Therese Mattingly, mezzosoprano Isabelle Ganz, pianists Elizabeth
Rodgers, Chie Watanabe, Chrisdtopher
Vassiliades and Eva Polgar, vibraphonist
William Trigg and bassoonist Gines DidierCano.
You can purchase The Nighwatch at
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/joellewallach2
and Amazon.com or digitally at Naxos Music
Library.
About Joelle Wallach
Joelle wrote, "Cassandra's Lament, commissioned by the Jane Austen
Society of North America, is a collage of melodies and words, elements of
Cassandra Austen's psychic soundscape at the time of her sister Jane's
death...brief excerpts from the traditional, serene Anglican Requiem chant
are juxtaposed with phrases from Cassandra's distraught and poignant
letters, lines from Jane's formal prayer, hanging at St. Nicholas' Church,
Steventon, and the simple, agonized words Jane uttered on her
deathbed."
The piece was also performed on November 3 by the Vassar College
Women's Chorus at the Colleges' Skinner Hall of Music in Poughkeepsie,
NY.
Wednesday, October 10 - Lagrimas y Locuras, Mapping the Mind of a
Madwoman was performed by pianist Ana Cervantes at 12:00 noon at
Salon del Consejo Universitario and at 8:00 PM at Casa del Pozo, both in
Guanajuato, Mexico. The Salon del Consejo Universitario performance
was part of Monarca Week at the International Cervantino Festival.
Joelle has written of the piece, "Lagrimas y Locuras doesn't recount the
story of La Llorona, but instead imagines La Llorona's reflections,
recollections and her inner monologue as she walks, eternally distraught
along the banks of innumerable Mexican waterways."
The piece was commissioned by Ana Cervantes and her Song of the
Monarch Project.
Thursday, October 11 - World Premiere of Scalerica d'oro for cello and
percussion, performed by cellist Regina Mushaba and percussionist
William Trigg at The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in the City of
New York.
Joelle wrote about the piece, ""Scalerica d'oro, for cello and middle
Eastern percussion, was commissioned in 2012 by the Shearith Israel
League, for premiere by cellist Regina Mushaba at the historic Spanish
and Portuguese Synagogue of the City of New York. Scalerica d'oro
combines Middle Eastern percussion patterns, based on Arabic rhythmic
modes with melodies and gestures of the Jewish Mediterranean. They
interact and exuberantly engage to create an exhilarating vision of hope,
joy and reconciliation."
Joelle Wallach composes music for
orchestra, chamber ensembles, solo voices
and choruses. Her String Quartet 1995
was the American Composers Alliance
nominee for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize in
Music. The New York Philharmonic
Ensembles premiered her octet, From the
Forest of Chimneys, written to celebrate
their 10th anniversary; and the New York
Choral Society commissioned her secular
oratorio, Toward a Time of Renewal, for
200 voices and orchestra to commemorate
their 35th Anniversary Season in Carnegie
Hall. Wallach's early training in piano, voice,
theory, bassoon and violin included study at
the Juilliard Preparatory Division. In 1984
the Manhattan School of Music, where she
studied with John Corigliano, granted her its
first doctorate in composition. Much more
about her at www.joellewallach.com/.
QUICK LINKS
Joelle Wallach
www.joellewallach.com/
CD Baby
http://www.cdbaby.com/
New York Philharmonic
www.nyphil.org
Dallas Symphony
www.dallassymphony.com/
For more about Joelle Wallach, contact
Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
45 Grant Avenue
Farmingdale, NY 11735 USA
Tel: 516-586-3433
E-mail: jamesarts@att.net
Website:
www.jamesarts.com
The cello and piano version of Joelle's Shadow, Sighs and Songs of
Longing, (originally a concerto for cello and orchestra) was also on the
program.
November 11 - World Premiere of Quietus for treble choir and string
orchestra by the Colorado State University Women's Chorus, Stacy Miller,
conductor and the CSU Concert Orchestra, Leslie Stewart, conductor in
the Organ Recital Hall at the University Center for the Arts, Colorado State
University in Fort Collins.
The performance was conducted by CSU Director of Orchestras Wes
Kenney.
And, coming right up:
December 2 - Let Evening Come, performed by soprano Danielle
Freeman as part of her 8:30 PM performance at Drom NYC, 85 Avenue A
in Manhattan.
The song is based on
one of poet Jane
Kenyon's final poems,
written as Kenyon
came to accept her
rapidly approaching
death. She observes
life's abundance of
beauty and blessings
as she comes to see
her own death as a
natural and inevitable
part of life's lush
landscape.
Drom NYC
It has been recorded as part of Joelle's recent The Door Standing Open
CD on 4Tay Records.
For directions and more about Drom, visit http://www.dromnyc.com/.
2012-13 Lectures
Joelle Wallach
continues to be a
popular and indemand speaker
about the world of
classical music for the
New York
Philharmonic and
Dallas Symphony.
On October 18, 19, 20
and 21, she presented
Dvorak: Bohemia,
New York City's Lincoln Center
London and New
York lectures for the
Dallas Symphony's Performance Preludes series at Meyerson Symphony
Center in Dallas, TX.
Then, on November 8, 9, 10 and 13, she spoke about
Brahms' Melancholy Search for Family for the New York Philharmonic
Pre-Concert Lecture Series at Lincoln Center's Avery Fischer Hall.
Coming up:
Tuesday, December 18 at 6:30 PM
Wednesday, December 19 at 6:30 PM
Thursday, December 20 at 6:30 PM
Friday, December 21at 6:30 PM
Saturday, December 22 at 6:30 PM
G. F. Händel - Messiah
The New York Philharmonic Pre-Concert Lectures
Avery Fischer Hall, Lincoln Center
Information and tickets available through the New York Philharmonic 212-875-5656 or www.nyphil.org.
and in March:
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 at 5:30 PM
Thursday, March 21, 2013 at 6:30 PM
Friday, March 22, 2013 at 1:00 PM
Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 7:00 PM
Bach, Time and Timelessness
The New York Philharmonic Pre-Concert Lectures
Avery Fischer Hall, Lincoln Center, NYC
Information and tickets available through the New York Philharmonic
212-875-5656 or www.nyphil.org.
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