looking ahead to November - Everybody's Going to Reno
Nissim Schaul
I'll start with the exciting news - QNG-Quartet New Generation is
going to play Everybody's Going There on November 1st, at 7:30pm. In
Reno, Nevada. If you know anyone in Reno, send them along. The
details (including driving directions) are here:
http://www.unr.edu/pas/qng.htm
and on my website (http://www.nissimmusic.org/calendar.shtml)
QNG is here: http://www.quartetnewgeneration.com
Also on the program is music by contemporary composers Kazimierz
Serocki, Chiel Meijering, Fulvio Caldini, and Michiel Mensingh - and
Renaissance and Baroque works by Tarquinio Merula, Alfonso Ferrabosco
II, Cipriano de Rore, and John Bull.
tickets are $20 adults / $17 seniors / $12 students. The show is at
the Nightingale Concert Hall on the UNR campus.
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The month of October has been dedicated to finishing 4 harpsichord
preludes by November 1. The music is done, so I'm down to finishing
the details of notation, which is both frustrating and time-
consuming. Next I have to get back to writing for chorus, piano, and
violin. I can admit the name of the text now, since I have permission
from the publisher to use it - it's excerpts from Les Exercises de
Style by Raymond Queneau.
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Related to both the above pieces are two concerts already on the books
for February - save the dates! Feb. 10, in Stony Brook, the Baroque
trio Flying Forms (http://www.flyingforms.org) will play an
arrangement of the harpsichord preludes. And on February 22, the
Orfeo Duo (http://www.orfeoduo.com) and their Neighborhood Composers
Chorus will premiere Les Exercises de Style in NYC. I'll probably
also be giving a talk about Les Exercises de Style at some point
before the concert. Details on all will follow in their due time.
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That's about it for now. Enjoy your Toussaint vacation (oh, right,
only the French get that)
-Nissim