Yellow Barn's 2020 Summer Season
SUMMER ARTIST RESIDENCIES
While we are not able to gather our entire Yellow Barn family this year, we have created a series of Summer Artist Residencies, allowing some of our musicians to be here as representatives of the whole. The first residency program in this country for professional musicians, Yellow Barn’s Artist Residencies offer an unforeseen model for this time.
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Join us for weekly conversations about each of the 2020 summer programs, moderated by Artistic Director Seth Knopp, with musicians from the performances. Tuesdays from 4:30-5:45pm EDT, September 1st-October 27th. Find out more
Friday, July 10, 2020
Opening Night
Charles Ives (1874-1954) Piano Sonata No. 2 “Concord, Mass., 1840–60” (c.1911-15)
Gilbert Kalish, piano
Brief intermission
Stephen Coxe (b.1966) Entstehung Heiliger Dankgesang (Emergence of the Holy Song of Thanksgiving) (2020)
World Premiere
Alice Ivy-Pemberton, Emma Frucht, violins; Roger Tapping, viola; Coleman Itzkoff, cello; Eduardo Leandro, percussion
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) String Quartet in A Minor, Op.132 (1825)
Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit,
in der lydischen Tonart
(Holy song of thanksgiving of a convalescent to the Deity,
in the Lydian mode)
Alice Ivy-Pemberton, Emma Frucht, violins; Roger Tapping, viola; Coleman Itzkoff, cello
This program is approximately 90 minutes in length.
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Saturday, July 11, 2020
Summer Artist Residency Concert
Lei Liang (b.1972) Trans for solo percussion and audience (2013)
Eduardo Leandro, percussion
Anton Webern (1883-1945) Five Movements for String Quartet, Op.5 (1909)
Emma Frucht, Alice Ivy-Pemberton, violins; Roger Tapping, viola; Coleman Itzkoff, cello
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Elegy for Solo Viola (1930)
Roger Tapping, viola
Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) Bagatelles, Op.47 (1878)
Emma Frucht, Alice Ivy-Pemberton, violins; Coleman Itzkoff, cello; Seth Knopp, harmonium
Frederic Rzewski (b.1938) To The Earth (1985)
Eduardo Leandro, percussion
This program is performed without intermission and is approximately 60 minutes in length.
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Thursday, July 16, 2020
Summer Artist Residency Concert
A Tribute to David Wells On His Birthday
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007
Aaron Wolff, cello
Suite No. 4 in E-flat Major, BWV 1010
Gabriel Martins, cello
Suite No. 5 in C Minor, BWV 1011
Cantata, BWV 93 (1724)
Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten (Whoever lets only the
dear God reign)
Natasha Brofsky, Michael Katz, Gabriel Martins, Aaron Wolff, cellos
This program is performed without intermission and is approximately 60 minutes in length.
Saturday, July 18, 2020
Summer Artist Residency Concert
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Glory, Glory (spiritual)
Odetta
Suite No.2 in D Minor, BWV 1009
Natasha Brofsky, cello
Suite No.3 in C Major, BWV 1009
Michael Katz, cello
Brief intermission
Suite No.6 in D Major, BWV 1012
Gabriel Martins, Natasha Brofsky, Michael Katz, Aaron Wolff, cellos
This program is approximately 70 minutes in length.
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Thursday, July 23, 2020
Composer Portrait: Mario Davidovsky (1934-2019)
Mario Davidovsky (1934-2019)
Synchronisms No. 3 for Cello and Electronic Sounds (1964)
Coleman Itzkoff, cello
Synchronisms No. 6 for Piano and Electronic Sounds (1970)
Seth Knopp, piano
Synchronisms No. 9 for Violin and Electronic Sounds (1988)
Alice Ivy-Pemberton, violin
Synchronisms No. 11 for Contrabass and Electronic Sounds (2005)
Lizzie Burns, double bass
Synchronisms No.12 for Clarinet and Electronic Sounds (2016)
Yasmina Spiegelberg, clarinet
With words from Mario and remembrances from Curtis Macomber, Susan Narucki, and Shulamit Ran
This program is performed without intermission and is approximately 60 minutes in length.
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Saturday, July 25, 2020
Summer Artist Residency Concert
John Cage (1912-1992) Solo for Voice 39 from Song Books (1970)
Lucy Shelton
Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Ganymed, D.544 (1817)
Text by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Lucy Fitz Gibbon, soprano; Seth Knopp, piano
Amy Beth Kirsten (b.1972) yes I said yes I will Yes. (2012)
Text by James Joyce
Lucy Fitz Gibbon, soprano; Lizzie Burns, double bass
Travis Laplante (b.1982) The Obvious Place (2020)
World Premiere
Travis Laplante, saxophone
Toshio Hosokawa (b.1955) Windscapes (1996)
Ayano Kataoka, Eduardo Leandro, percussion
Beethoven Walks at Greenwood Trail and Hannum Trail
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Andante from Bagatelles, Op.126 No.3 in E-Flat Major (1825)
Seth Knopp, piano
This program is performed without intermission and is approximately 60 minutes in length.
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Thursday, July 30, 2020
Summer Artist Residency Concert
Stephen Coxe (b.1966) The Very Hungry Caterpillar (2005, rev.2020)
Text by Eric Carle
Elaine Daiber, narrator; Curtis Macomber, violin; Ayano Kataoka, marimba
Ayano Kataoka, Eduardo Leandro, percussion
Fredrik Andersson (b.1973) The Lonelyness of Santa Claus (1994)
Ayano Kataoka, Eduardo Leandro, marimbas
This program is performed without intermission and is approximately 45 minutes in length.
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Saturday, August 1, 2020
Summer Artist Residency Concert
John Cage (1912-1992) Solo for Voice 22 from Song Books (1970)
Lucy Shelton
Georges Aperghis (b.1945) Récitation No. 9 for Female Voice (1978)
Elaine Daiber, soprano
Liza Lim (b.1966) Inguz (1996)
Yasmina Spiegelberg, clarinet; Coleman Itzkoff, cello
John Cage (1912-1992) Solo for Voice 23 from Song Books (1970)
Anthony Marwood and Walter Van Dyk
Matthew Aucoin (b.1990) Dual (2015)
Coleman Iztkoff, cello; Lizzie Burns, double bass
Philippe Manoury (b.1952) Le Livre des Claviers II (1987-88)
Ayano Kataoka, Eduardo Leandro, marimbas
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Partita No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1002 (1720)
Alice Ivy-Pemberton, Adelya Nartadjieva, violins
This program is performed without intermission and is approximately 60 minutes in length.
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Friday, August 7, 2020
Summer Artist Residency Concert
György Kurtág (b.1926) Kafka Fragments (1987)
Tony Arnold, Elaine Daiber, Lucy Fitz Gibbon, sopranos; Alice Ivy-Pemberton, Adelya Nartadjieva, Mark Steinberg, violins
This program is performed without intermission and is approximately 70 minutes in length.
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Saturday, August 8, 2020
Season Finale
John Cage (1912-1992) Solo for Voice 43 from Song Books (1970)
Lucy Shelton
Philippe Hersant (b.1948) In The Dark (2006)
Yasmina Spiegelberg, clarinet
Dimitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) Seven Romances on Poems of Alexander Blok, Op.127 (1967)
Tony Arnold, soprano; Mark Steinberg, violin; Coleman Itzkoff, cello; Seth Knopp, piano
Osvaldo Golijov (b.1960) Tenebrae (2002)
Lucy Fitz Gibbon, soprano; Yasmina Spiegelberg, clarinet; Adelya Nartadjieva, Alice Ivy-Pemberton, violins; Mark Steinberg, viola; Coleman Itzkoff, cello
James MacMillan (b.1959) Angel (1993)
Seth Knopp, piano
This program is performed without intermission and is approximately 90 minutes in length.
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