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Music from Japan: March 9, 7pm Concourse Counterpoint: March 16, 3pm  Alex, Stephanie and Emilie at a hotel in Binghamton: Photo by Michael The Momenta Quartet has returned from a mini "tour" of Binghamton, NY and Great Barrington, MA, where we worked with student composers at SUNY Binghamton and performed a program of women composers at Bard College/Simons Rock with pianist Manon Hutton DeWys. We got a bit of a head start on Women's History Month, which is officially NOW! I hope you can join us for one or both of our March concerts, each of which features at least one woman composer: THIS Saturday, March 9, 7pm Music from Japan Festival 2024 Japanese Contemporary Music: Past and Present Scandinavia House 58 Park Avenue NY, NY 10016 The Momenta Quartet will perform two works by historic 20th century composers – a 1913 piano quintet Hochzeitsklänge (« Wedding Music ») by Kosaku Yamada (1886 – 1965) with pianist Taka Kigawa, and a late work by Ikuma Dan (1924 – 2001), Two Fragments in Black and Yellow (2001) with violinist Miho Saegusa. On the historic side, the program also features a duet for trombone and piano by Kikuko Kanai, the first Japanese woman to ever write a symphony! I will help bring the program to a raucous conclusion with the world premiere of Japanese woman composer Shion Sahara’s Great Pacific Garbage Patch (2024) for trombone and viola with Jen Baker on trombone. (We got the music kind of late, so Jen and I might add to the woman composer aspect of this, through our own interpretation of this wild score!) NEXT Saturday, March 16, 3pm Concourse Counterpoint presents the Momenta Quartet Music by Florence Price, Julián Carrillo and Franz Schubert The Andrew Freedman Home 1125 Grand Concourse Bronx, NY 10452 (D train to 167 or 4 train to 161 or 167) FREE ADMISSION! Program: Florence Price: Andante from String Quartet no. 2 Julián Carrillo: String Quartet no. 12 Franz Schubert: String Quartet in A Minor, D. 804 "Rosamunde" And another woman composer not included in our programming this March is me! If any of you are curious about my secret life as a composer, please tune into the YouTube premiere on the Composers Now "Impact" series on Thursday, March 14 at 7pm Eastern time. They haven't created the exact URL yet, but you can find it on March 14 on the Composers Now YouTube Channel.
Happy Spring-time, everyone, and I hope to see you all soon! Comments are closed.
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