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Friday, June 21 through Sunday, June 30, 2002

Storm King Music Festival 2002 will take place from Friday, June 21 through Sunday, June 30, 2002.

Recent compositions have increasingly embraced music of other cultures, styles and artistic disciplines. This year, the Festival will consider the idea that all of these new ways of composing are some type of cross-over - hence Cross-Over Redefined is our theme for 2002. Over ten days, we will hear, see, and discuss the many ways that composers are working in this context; we will explore our theme through the lens of nature, the visual arts, and the environment. In programming the seven concerts and other activities of the Festival, we hope to expand the narrow definition of Cross-over from popular forms to classical and back again. Thus we shall acknowledge a broader definition of the term Cross-over, and the outstanding contribution to an expanded repertoire that many of our guest composers are making.

The Concerts

Concert I- Family/children's concert - "Cross-Over In American Song"

The opening concert will present an evening of American song, featuring the works of 19th and 20th century composers including Ives, Stephen Foster, Billings, Louis Gottchalk, Gershwin, Dana Suisse, Virgil Thomson, Duke Ellington and others. Designed with a format to delight and educate a young audience and their family members, the pieces will be selected to reflect the American tradition of "Cross-Over" in which folk songs, theater music, and jazz have contributed to the classical repertoire. This concert helps to illustrate in an accessible way the Festival theme, and serves as a gateway into the discussion of multiple forms of Cross-Over in contemporary classical music and opens our program to children and their parents. Performers are: Cristina Fontanelli, Soprano, Daniel Pincus, Tenor and David Holzman, Piano. Program

Concert II - "Rearranging Tradition, Musical Transcriptions"

In every century composers have approached previous masterworks and arranged them for smaller ensembles - sometimes to understand them better or to study a brilliant musical mind, or to make them more accessible to the public when large ensembles were beyond their reach. The program includes Strauss Waltz's arranged by Schoenburg and the Eisler/ Debussy arrangement of Afternoon of a Faun.

In addition, the Storm King Music Festival will commission alumni composer Raymond Torres-Santos to write a new arrangement of a 20th century masterwork by Hector Villa Lobos. Dr. Torres-Santos will conduct this entire concert. This concert is the Festival's first opportunity to invite composers who conduct to conduct chamber works. Program

Concert III - "The Scholarly Composer"

This concert explores "Cross-Over" from the point of view of the composer as theorist and scholar.
Program

Concert IV & V - "Composers' Concert"

As in previous years, the Festival's composers' concerts reinforce our mission to present works by contemporary classical composers in residence at Storm King. Our goal is to heighten the public's understanding of new music that is influenced by the past and inspired by the desire to develop new forms. We will again feature works that engage new technology and adopt a cross-disciplinary approach. Composers include Bob Bralove, Elizabeth Brown, Sidney Corbett, Tom Constanten, Dean Drummond, Harold Farberman, Stefania de Kenessey, Wendy Griffiths, Ping Jin, Bruce Lazarus, Carman Moore, Yuzuru Sadashige, Brian Taylor, Jim Theobald and Raymond Torres-Santos.

Program Composers' Concert I
Program Composers' Concert II

Concert VI - "What's New Becomes Newer"

Newband presents

ELIZABETH BROWN Botanical Obsessions premiere
JOHN CAGE Haikai
DEAN DRUMMOND Incredible Time & Mars Face
DEAN DRUMMOND/GARY SCHALL Zonix
LOU HARRISON Ariadne
HARRY PARTCH Two Studies on Ancient Greek Scales

Dean Drummond-conductor, zoomoozophone
Stefani Starin-flutes
Tom Chiu-violin
Martin Goldray-synthesizer
Michael Lipsey-zoomoozophone, juststrokerods, percussion
Tom Kolor-zoomoozophone, digital drums, percussion
James Pugliese-zoomoozophone, juststrokerods, percussion

Program

Concert VII - "Cross-Over Redefined: Changing Perceptions"

Featuring Dose Hermanos - Tom Constanten & Bob Bralove (of the Grateful Dead) and Nuove Musiche: Sarah Pillow, voice, John Goodsall, guitars, Percy Jones, bass, Frank Katz, drums, Marc Wagnon, vibraphone, midi-vibes, keyboard, percussion, and sampler. Program

Followed by our Closing Reception

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Roundtable Discussions, Workshops and Apprenticeships

Storm King Music Festival 2002 will offer a series of educational programs for composers in residence and the general public that dovetail with the concerts, and reinforce the Festival's mission and theme: Cross-Over Redefined. These include lecture demonstrations where composers in residence will share their current work with each other. As in previous years, both audience and participants will continue to consider the fundamental questions that pertain to the future direction of classical music.

The Festival will end with its traditional Roundtable Discussion that will examine the theme of Cross-Over Redefined -Defying Definition, from a national and international perspective. Where are composers going from here in the eclectic musical environment which we live in today.

We look forward to sharing the wonderful music that lies ahead. Hope to see you soon.

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