FEBRUARY 17 - 23, 2020
Mark your calendars for this week's concerts, events and lectures!
Wednesday, February 19, 2020 at 7:00 p.m.
Conrad Prebys Music Center Experimental Theater
General Admission: $15.50
Faculty/Staff/Alumni: $10.50
Students: FREE
Remembering Chou Wen-chung

One of the 20th century’s most important musicians, Professor Chou Wen-chung died at the end of October, leaving behind a wealth of extraordinary music, and a legacy of stewardship. He paved the way for many young composers, especially those with roots in Asia, and his abiding devotion to the music of his mentor, Edgard Varèse, changed the way many of us heard this great composer of the 20th century. 

Beginning with one of his most ambitious pieces, Echoes from the Gorge for percussion quartet, red fish blue fish pays tribute to Chou Wen-Chung. We will also perform music by two of his most important students, our colleagues, Chinary Ung and Lei Liang. Edgard Varèse, paterfamilias of American experimental music, will also make an appearance. Through this and other music, we will hear the many ways that Chou Wen-chung lives on. 

PROGRAM: 
Part 1: Echoes - Roger Reynolds, comments from the stage
Chou Wen-Chung - Echoes from the Gorge
Steven Schick, James Beauton, Fiona Digney, and Garrett Mendelow
Chinary Ung - Cinnabar Heart 
Rebecca Lloyd-Jones, marimba
Lei Liang - Trans (Quartet Version)
Michael Jones, Rebecca Lloyd Jones, Matthew LeVeque, and Steven Schick
Consulting artist, Yao Lu
Part 2: Rain - Steven Schick Comments from the Stage (5-8’)
Michael Pisaro - ricefall  
Edgard Varèse - Poème Electronique
Friday, February 21, 2020 at 7:00 p.m.
Conrad Prebys Concert Hall
FREE
On her 1st oboe DMA recital: vortexes , Juliana will be collaborating with great colleagues and friends: Rebecca Lloyd Jones- percussion and Kathryn Schulmeister- bass.

PROGRAM:
Sequenza VII (1969) - Luciano Berio
Karura for oboe solo (2007) - Akira Nishimura
Ming Qi (bright vessel) (2000) - Liza Lim
Vortex (2020) - Juliana Gaona-Villamizar and Kathryn Schulmeister
Saturday, February 22, 2020 at 7:00 p.m.
Conrad Prebys Music Center Experimental Theater
FREE
Alternate spaces:

This computer music concert will feature: improvised electronic music with real-time analysis to drive lights, piano with electronics, 16-channel fixed-media pieces, modular paired with analog video feedback and more. All the pieces created for this concert were created by UC San Diego alumni or current students. UC San Diego SElectOr is an open creative arts group focused on the use of technology for musical expression.
UPCOMING FEATURED CONCERTS
Wednesday, February 26, 2020 at 7:00 p.m.
Conrad Prebys Concert Hall
General Admission: $15.50
Faculty/Staff/Alumni: $10.50
Students: FREE
Aleck Karis leads the Palimpsest Ensemble in a program honoring Pulitzer-Prize winning composer Mario Davidovsky. In 1959, the Argentine born composer emigrated to America at the behest of Aaron Copeland, with whom studied at the Berkshire Music Center (now Tanglewood). There he met Milton Babbitt, who encouraged Davidovsky’s move to New York City where he eventually became director of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. In honor of Davidovsky, who passed away last August, Aleck Karis has chosen a program including: Flashbacks , Sefarad, Pennplay, and Biblical Songs , featuring Susan Narucki , soprano. The program will also highlight Milton Babbitt’s Composition for 12 Instruments , from which a new “palimpsest” composition with the same ensemble will be created by UC San Diego graduate composer Yi-hsien Chen .
Wednesday, March 4, 2020 at 7:00 p.m.
Conrad Prebys Concert Hall
General Admission: $15.50
Faculty/Staff/Alumni: $10.50
Students: FREE

*Tickets for the February 5th concert will be honored at the door, or may be refunded or exchanged by emailing boxoffice@music.ucsd.edu or calling: 858-534-3448
suddenly drenched with dawn

Soprano Susan Narucki will present an evening of music that celebrates the human voice in its most
intimate, lyrical and exuberant. The recital takes place at UC San Diego Department of Music’s Conrad
Prebys Concert Hall on March 4, 2020 at 7 p.m. Narucki, will be joined by guest artists Aleck Karis
(piano), Pablo Gomez (guitar), Kirsten Ashley Wiest (soprano), Teresa Diaz-de-Cossio (flute) and Sean
Dowgray (percussion).

The concert includes two distinctive works of modern vocal chamber music: Kaija Saariaho’s Adjö for
voice, flute and guitar and Karin Rehnqvist’s Puksånger/Lockrop for two voices and percussion.
Saariaho’s work is an exquisite setting of Solveig von Schoultz’s poem celebrating the return of the sun
after months of darkness; Rehnqvist’s extended work incorporates Finnish proverbs about women, and
traditional folk texts, and utilizes a traditional (and spectacular) vocal “herding-call” technique.

Two elegiac works for voice and guitar are included on the program: Hosokawa’s Renka I and songs by
the English composer John Dowland. Both works speak to parting and loss through unique and elegant
compositional styles separated by centuries.

Francis Poulenc’s lyrical masterwork for voice and piano, Tel Jour, Telle Nuit , is the other connecting
thread of the program. Composed in 1937 with texts by surrealist poet Paul Éluard, the cycle of nine
songs traverses a landscape of the unusual and beautiful, describing a journey less to a specific
destination than to a place within, suddenly drenched with dawn.

Susan Narucki is a Professor of Music at UC San Diego and leads the Arts and Community Engagement
Initiative for the Division of Arts and Humanities. Her most recent recording “The Edge of Silence: Vocal
Chamber Music of György Kurtág” has been nominated for a 2020 Grammy Award as Best Classical
Vocal Album.
*** Please note: The Richard Descalzo concert on Wednesday, March 4th has been canceled, to be rescheduled in the 2020-2021 season. All tickets will be refunded or honored for any upcoming Wednesday at 7 concert. For more infomration contact: Sherry An at xuan@ucsd.edu ***
Saturday, March 7, 2020 at 7:00 p.m.
Conrad Prebys Concert Hall
FREE
The Duo of Dresser Davis performs a wide range of music from the lyrical to the political. It features the music of both celebrated composers, pianist Anthony Davis and contrabassist Mark Dresser .

The music is a commentary on today from the political and dramatic, with works like “The Central Park Five” to the whimsical, “I Can Smell You Listening” and “Heil Twitler.” Informed by four decades of collaboration, these two master improvisers engage the full spectrum of Jazz and Improvised music.
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