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Storm King Music Festival
A Celebration of Classical Music and New Technology
2001
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Friday, June 22 through Sunday, July 1, 2001
Summer 2001, our Festival took place from Friday, June 22 through Sunday, July 1, 2001. We explored the naturalism of composers like Stefania de Kenessey and Elisenda Fabregas, and the experimental use of new technologies by Rand Steiger and Anne La Berge, and how they influence each other. The Festival also presented an exhibition, performance, and installation on the theme of "Emigration" that extends the cross-disciplinary collaboration between Sidney Corbett, Bruce Wands, and Barbara Siesel that was started in 2000-- and now includes the contributions of social documentary photographer, Clemens Kalischer. Kalischer's works were on exhibition at the Ogden Gallery.
The Festival spanned two weekends on either side of a week-long composers and performers residency. The first weekend included two concerts. The opening concert, entitled "Parallel Lines", presented early 20th Century works by composers such as Ives, Cowell, Copland, Thomson, and others whose compositions reflect bold experimentation in musical forms as well as trends in other disciplines. In the second concert, held in the Odgen Gallery of the Museum of the Hudson Highlands in conjunction with a photography exhibition on the theme of emigration, the Festival presented works by composers who upon arriving in America moved classical music further in the direction of modernism, including Schoenberg and Hindemith, among others.
June 22, 2001: Parallel Lines - works by Copland, Gershwin, Thomson, Ives, MacDowell, Mrs. Beach, Arthur Berger at the Cornwall Presbyterian Church on Hudson Street. Performers included: Barbara Siesel, David Holzman, Emily Faxon, James Rensink, Ruthanne Schempf, and George Whetstone.
June 23, 2001: Displaced Composers - works by Hindemith, Wolpe, Stravinsky, at the Ogden Gallery on the Boulevard, performed with the photography exhibit "Displaced Persons", by Clemens Kalischer. Performers included David Holzman, John Thomas, and George Whetstone.
June 27 & 28, 2001: The third and fourth concerts in the Festival followed in the tradition of our previously successful "Composer Nights," and featured the works of composers in residence at the Storm King Music Festival. Composers included: Stefania de Kenessey, David Dramm, Joshua Fried, Jessica Krash, Anne La Berge, Bruce Lazarus, Donald Martino, Carman Moore, Judith Shatin, Eric Somers and Raymond Torres-Santos.
June 29 & 30, 2001: The last two concerts on the second weekend moved towards a full artistic expression of the cumulative and collaborative process of the Storm King Music Festival.
June 29: Friday's concert featured cross-disciplinary works of a highly technological nature by Anne La Berge, Raymond Torres-Santos, and others whose compositional and performance style is most influenced by their participation in the development of and experimentation with new technology.
June 30: On Saturday night, flutist and Artistic Director, Barbara Siesel previewed"Lineage" a recital-installation piece work-shopped during the 2000 Season at Storm King with composer Sidney Corbett and visual artist Bruce Wands. This evening-length work, also on the theme of emigration, incorporates some of the photographic works on exhibition at the Ogden Gallery with other elements of video, film, and photography. The piece narrates the story of one family's experience during the Holocaust, and is unique in its mixing of a traditional recital with the tools of new technology and computer animation.
1. As in the previous two Festivals, a Composers Round Table that includes all the artists in residence at Storm King was convened. Since 2001's Festival showcased an unusual number of collaborative and cross-disciplinary world premieres (those incubated at Storm King, as well as new commissions developed at the Bronx River Art Center), the Round Table emphasized the many challenges facing composers when they journey in new directions beyond the composition of purely musical works.
Continuing the Festival's broad view of the development of new technologies,
including advancements in the development of new instruments, Anne La Berge
hosted a lively workshop-demonstration showcasing the Brannen/Kingma quarter-tone
flute. She is known for her masterful performances on this innovative instrument
of music by composers such as Brian Fernyhough, Jay Allan Yim, and herself among
others. Other workshops were run by Carman Moore, Wendy Griffiths and Yuzuru
Sadashige, Eric Somers and Raymond Torres-Santos.
An exhibit of works by photographer Clemens Kalischer, taken of Holocaust survivors and other refugees upon their arrival in New York, was installed at the Ogden Gallery of the Museum of the Hudson Highlands. These photographs relate and reference the installation-recital previewed by Barbara Siesel and Sidney Corbett at the Walter Reade, Jr. Theater at the Storm King School. They were also the impetus for the concert in the Ogden Gallery of works by European refugee composers.
The computer lab was open to the public for experimentation and the viewing of select musical and visual arts sites that reflect the vitality of performances and exhibitions on-line. Art Culture & Technology (ACT) invited several leading curators of digital media to identify outstanding examples of new media for this virtual exhibition.
We look forward to sharing the wonderful music that lies ahead. Hope to see you soon.
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