Music in the Shape of a Pear
New Music from Iowa
October 11-12, 2008
Luther College, Decorah, IA
questions/comments/corrections: brooke.joyce@luther.edu
Concert 1
10:30 am
Noble Recital Hall
Meg Spesia, Weather
Report: Five Pieces for Piano
1. Cloudy Song
2. A Beautiful Day
3. The Snowy Season
4. Rainy Day
5. A Windy Week
Sarah May, piano
Jordain Volkert,
Flying Birds
Nicole Gesch,Rachel Haug & Kristin
Johnson, flutes
Ashley Kendrick, Rainy
Day
Ralph Kendrick, piano
Danny White, Three Poems by Tu Fu
Sarah Walker, mezzo-soprano
Danny White, piano
Danielle Orihuela, Three Dances
1. Jete
2. Pas de Deux
3. Variations for Three
Brett Cooper, piano
*** intermission ***
Marilynn Etzel, Three
Pieces for Piano
1. Caliente & Frio
2. Melody of Dreams
3. Flight of the Falcon
Marilynn Etzel,
piano
Kathleen Ryan, Verbs
Kathleen Ryan, piano
Brooke Joyce, IOWA
Madeline Young, alto saxophone
Emily Pettit, marimba
Isaac Behrens, piano
Music Facilities Tour
2 pm
Meet in lobby in front of Noble Recital Hall
Concert 2
2:30 pm
Noble Recital Hall
Ray Songayllo, Sonata
for Flute and Piano
Anne Stein, flute
Ray Songayllo, piano
Steve Smith, Studies
in Light
Tana Field, soprano
Jerry Owen, Dialog
VIII, The Wick Dialog
Stacie Mickens, horn
Ralph Kendrick, Ooghedy Booghedy
Kristine Fletcher, bassoon
Jonathan Schwabe, The
End of Act I
Spencer Martin, viola
Xiao Hu, piano
*** intermission ***
Ted Moore, Stilled
Drops
Laura McCarty, cello
Jonathan Chenette, Grandmother’s Hymnal
Edwin Andereck, tenor
Jessica Paul, piano
Carl Schimmel, Towns
of Wind and Wood
Carol Hester, flute
Heather Armstrong, oboe
Jessica Vansteenburg, clarinet
Kristine Fletcher, bassoon
Stacie Mickens, horn
Presentation 1
4:30 pm
Choir Room
“Writing easier music is not necessarily easier”
Tracey Rush and Joshua Reznicow
Concert 3
8 pm
Noble Recital Hall
Warren Gooch, Three
Fauxmanian Dances
Meira Kim, violin
Carey Bostian, cello
Maurice Monhardt,
Each His Pair of Silver Doves
Virginia Strauss, violin
Ray Songayllo, Sonatine
Ray Songayllo, piano
John Rommereim, Into
the Still Hollow
Andrew Whitfield, baritone
Xiao Hu, piano
*** intermission ***
Steve Smith, 3
Murder Ballads
Michael Oxley, tenor
John Goodin, mandolin
George Hufnagl, Prairie
Spring
Karen Kanakis, soprano
Jessica Paul, piano
Joshua Reznicow, Rhapsody
no. 1
Carol Hester, flute
Jubal Fulks, violin
Carey Bostian, cello
Du Huang, piano
(reception to follow in lobby)
Presentation 2
11:00 am
Choir Room
“Chôro music”
Michael Eckert, Tony Guzmán, Maurita Mead
Round Table
1:15 pm
Choir Room
“Music and place: the creative identity of Iowa composers”
Moderator and participants TBA
Concert 4
2:30 pm
Center for Faith and Life, Main Hall
Warren Gooch, Light
of Shadow
Michael Geary, timpani
Jerry Owen, American
Celebration Overture
Luther College Concert Band
Fred Nyline, conductor
Daniel Raney, Kitt’n
in a Birdbath
Luther College Jazz Orchestra
Tony Guzmán, director
*** intermission ***
Bonnie Johansen-Werner, Non Nobis Domine
Luther College Chapel Choir and Ringers
Gregory Peterson, conductor
Philip Wharton, Verdant
Twilight
Luther College Chamber Orchestra
Daniel Baldwin, conductor
Marjorie Wharton, piano