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CLASSICAL MOVEMENTS:
Moving the Music, Changing the World
with
15 Brand-New Commissions!
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American Christopher Theofanidis - The Game
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"Three snappy minutes of colorful, expertly crafted orchestral rock"
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Baltimore Sun
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- Last of 10 total works by American composers, celebrating Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s 100th anniversary season
- World premiere: June 15, 2017 at Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall (Baltimore, Maryland); Marin Alsop, conductor
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American Billy Childs - In Gratitude
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"A
poem that acknowledged gratitude for love, then pain, and finally the gift of song"
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- For Los Angeles Master Chorale, in honor of the 20th anniversary of Morten Lauridsen’s Lux Aeterna
- World premiere: June 17, 2017 at Chorus America (Los Angeles, California); Grant Gershon, conductor
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Haitian-American
Sydney Guillaume
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Ansanm-Ansanm
(All Together We Sing)
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Watch maestro Habermann lead all 13 Serenade! choirs in Guillaume's
Ansanm-Ansanm, live from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
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- For the combined choirs of the 2017 Serenade! Washington, D.C. Choral Festival, celebrating JFK's centennial and the Peace Corps
- World premiere: July 3, 2017 at Kennedy Center Concert Hall (Washington, D.C.); Joshua Habermann, conductor
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Latvian Ēriks Ešenvalds - High Flights
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Live from Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage, watch this a cappella sextet from Riga perform Ešenvalds' setting of WWII aviator/poet John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
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- For frequent collaborator, Latvian Voices, to perform during Serenade! Washington, D.C. Choral Festival: A JFK 100 Celebration
- World premiere: July 2, 2017 at Holy Trinity Catholic Church (Washington, D.C.)
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Spanish Bernat Vivancos - L'ametller (The Almond Tree)
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"The boys offered letter-perfect Western choral singing,
with two sturdy and lyrical soloists
– Washington Post
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- For former ensemble, Escolania de Montserrat, to perform during Serenade! Washington, D.C. Choral Festival: A JFK 100 Celebration
- World premiere: July 3, 2017 at Kennedy Center Concert Hall (Washington, D.C.); Llorenç Castelló, conductor
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Indian Madhup Mudgal - Vasudhaiva Kutumbkam
(The World is One Family)
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- For present ensemble, Gandharva Choir, to perform during Serenade! Washington, D.C. Choral Festival: A JFK 100 Celebration
- World premiere: July 1, 2017 at Church of the Epiphany (Washington, D.C.)
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American Con Fullam - Under One Sky
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- For present ensemble, Pihcintu, to perform during Serenade! Washington, D.C. Choral Festival: A JFK 100 Celebration
- World premiere: July 2, 2017 at Patterson Park (Baltimore, Maryland)
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Bulgarians Milena Jeliazkova, Milena Roudeva - Orissiya (Destiny)
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"Larger than life...they indulged in love, gossip and other assorted pleasures with enormous enthusiasm" – Washington Post
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- For present ensemble, Balkanes, to perform during Serenade! Washington, D.C. Choral Festival: A JFK 100 Celebration
- World premiere: July 2, 2017 at Castleton Festival-Theatre House (Castleton, Virginia)
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Mongolians Egschiglen - Freedom of the Steppe
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"With stolid mien and a clutch of instruments, [Egschiglen] made some sounds I’ve never heard from a human voice" – Washington Post
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- Arrangement by Uuganbatar Tsend-Ochir, lyrics by Janlav Tumursaikhan, to perform during Serenade! Washington, D.C. Choral Festival: A JFK 100 Celebration
- World premiere: June 29, 2017 at St. Anne's Episcopal Church (Annapolis, Maryland)
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Zimbabweans Insingizi - Bom Bom Jeys
(It is important to know who we are and where we come from,
so that we know where we are going)
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Watch Insingizi's on-air performance (in Ndebele)
at Voice of America studios.
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- Performed by Vusa Mkhaya, Dumisani Moyo, Blessings Nqo Nkomo during Serenade! Washington, D.C. Choral Festival: A JFK 100 Celebration
- World premiere: June 28, 2017 at Emmanuel Episcopal Church (Baltimore, Maryland)
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Indians Madras Youth Choir - Musical Tribute to JFK
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- Performed by Madras Youth Choir during Serenade! Washington, D.C. Choral Festival: A JFK 100 Celebration
- World premiere: June 30, 2017 at Kennedy Center-Millennium Stage (Washington, D.C.); Saradlatha Unnikrishnan and Neeraja Chandrasekaran, conductors
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Argentinian Oscar Escalada - Misa para el Tercer Mundo
(Mass for the Third World)
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- For Quinto de Cantares, to perform during Melodia! South American Choral Festival
- World premiere: July 12, 2017 at Municipalidad de La Plata-Salón Dorado (La Plata, Argentina)
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South African Mokale Koapeng - Wings of Peace and Love: Reflections on Bheki Mseleku
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- For Choir of the College of William & Mary and Botetourt Chamber Singers
- World premiere: May 19, 2017 at University of Pretoria-Musaion Theatre (Pretoria, South Africa); James Armstrong and Jamie Bartlett, conductors
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German Christoph Göbel – TBA
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Stay tuned for a big announcement regarding our first-ever composer-in-residence, Kinan Azmeh, too!
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Since founding the Eric Daniel Helms New Music Program 12 years ago, Classical Movements has commissioned composers from some 25 different countries to create more than 60 new works. Alumni include both choral and orchestral, male and female voices: John Corigliano, Joan Tower (twice), Christopher Rouse, Stephen Paulus, Michael Gordon and Caroline Shaw, as well as Paquito D’Riviera, Tania Leon, Bright Sheng (twice, too), Piret Rips-Laul, Oscar Escalada and Mokale Koapeng (both twice, yet again). Premiered everywhere from Carnegie Hall to Kennedy Center to Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, combined, Helms-commissioned composers have won 5 Grammys, 4 Pulitzers, 1 Oscar and 1 MacArthur. Named after Neeta Helms’ late father, the Eric Daniel Helms New Music Program is yet another way Classical Movements demonstrates its commitment to both its clients, as cutting-edge artists, and to the wider world of classical music—promoting the creation of fresh, exciting work that encourages international collaboration.
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CLASSICAL MOVEMENTS
Moving the Music,
Changing the World
1-703-683-6040
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