“After 34 years, the major force for contemporary music in Dallas
is still the modern music ensemble, Voices of Change.”
Celebrating
Another Extraordinary Season
— 2008-2009 —
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Complete Listing of Concerts:
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Sept. 24, 2008 Wednesday
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Olivier Messiaen Symposium
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Caruth Auditorium at SMU
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featuring Olivier Messiaen's
Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant Jésus
Christopher
Taylor, piano
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This special concert celebrates the
100th Birthday of Olivier Messiaen
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Oct. 12, 2008 Sunday
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Stockhausen |
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Undermain Theater MAP
7:30 PM concert
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featuring Karlheinz Stockhausen's
Stimmung (1967)
Joseph
Klein, music director
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Tracey Deen, soprano I
Heidi Dietrich Klein, soprano II
Katrina Burggraf-Kledas, alto
Kevin Sutton, tenor I
Ryan Lungwitz, tenor II
Tim Johnson, bass
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Sept. 14, 2008 Sunday
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Pasatieri Premieres |
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Contemporary Theater of Dallas
MAP
6:30 PM pre-concert forum
with
Thomas Pasatieri, Robert Frank
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Laurie Shulman
7:30 PM concert |
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world premieres of Pasatieri's
Lady Macbeth
Lauren
Flanigan, soprano
Rhapsody for Double Bass and Piano
Jeff Bradetich, bass |
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also featuring string ensembles
of
Jay Greenberg and Robert Frank |
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Nov. 16, 2008 Sunday
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Sounds From The Southwest |
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Lake Highlands Presbyterian
Church MAP
6:30 PM pre-concert forum
with
Jerod Tate, Anne Strickland
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Laurie Shulman
7:30 PM concert |
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Dream World
Jerod
Tate (b. 1968)
Dante Dances
Dan
Welcher (b. 1948)
Invisible Ink world
premiere/commission
Anne
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Jan. 25, 2009 Sunday
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Chinese Love Songs |
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Caruth Auditorium at SMU
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6:30 PM pre-concert forum
with
Bright Sheng & Laurie Shulman
7:30 PM concert |
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featuring works by Bright
Sheng (b. 1955)
Three Chinese Love Songs
Jeanine Thames, soprano
Barbara
Sudweeks, viola
Bright
Sheng, piano
The Stream Flows
Maria
Schleuning, violin
Four Movements for Piano Trio
Bright
Sheng, piano
Maria
Schleuning, violin
Jolyon
Pegis, cello
String
Quartet #4
Maria
Schleuning, violin
Kaori
Yoshida, violin
Barbara
Sudweeks, viola
Jolyon
Pegis, cello
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March 8, 2009 Sunday |
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Transformations:
A Musical Entertainment |
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Rosewood Center MAP
6:30 PM pre-concert forum
with
Laurie Shulman
7:30 PM concert |
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Adult-content
operetta based on Grimm’s Fairy Tales
Transformations for 8 singers and piano (1973)
by Conrad Susa (b. 1935) |
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Brandi Icard
Gina Browning
Laura Mercado
Allan
Glassman
Jamin Flabiano
David
Adams
Christian Bester
Jeffrey Snider
Directed by Linda Brand
Joe Illick, music director & pianist |
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May 3, 2009 Sunday
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Dreamcatcher |
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Caruth Auditorium at SMU
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6:30 PM pre-concert forum
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Augusta Read Thomas & Laurie Shulman
7:30 PM concert |
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presenting the world premiere:
Dreamcatcher
by Augusta Read Thomas (b. 1963)
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also featuring works by
Stephen Hartke
including winners of the
Young Composers Project
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About Voices of Change
Voices of Change is the Southwest's premiere professional chamber music ensemble
dedicated to the performance of music of our time. Now in its 35th year, Voices
of Change fills a unique niche in the music world by performing small ensemble
works by 20th and 21st century composers, encouraging and preserving the impulse
of musical creativity and imagination.
Founded in 1974 by pianist Jo Boatright and clarinetist Ross Powell, Voices of Change is one of the longest-lived
and most distinguished new music ensembles in the United States. In 1999,
Voices of Change was a finalist for the prestigious Grammy Award for Best
Performance by a Small Classical Ensemble. The CD,
Voces Americanas,
features works of five living composers of Hispanic descent. The Grammy nomination
is a first for any Dallas/Fort Worth area chamber music ensemble. Voices of
Change has been awarded the annual ASCAP Award for Adventuresome Programming
an unprecedented five times and has recorded LPs and CDs on the CRI, Crystal,
Innova, Albany, Centaur, and Redwood labels.
The artists are top-quality professional musicians playing music written by well-known and
up-and-coming professional composers. The music of living composers is challenging and requires the skill and dedication of accomplished classical musicians to be played.
The ensemble has been privileged to host 87 composers who have come to hear,
discuss, and often participate in the performance of their pieces. Voices
of Change has presented over 60 world premieres (more than 25 of which were
commissioned by the ensemble), performed music by over 300 composers, and
made numerous recordings, including 5 CDs. Voices of Change is also dedicated
to commissioning new works and recording them. The ensemble co-produces an
annual young composers competition to introduce and support the music of promising
college and high-school composers.
Voices of Change is supported by: The City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs,
Aaron Copland Fund for New Music, the EPIK Foundation, TACA, The 500, Inc.,
The Dallas Foundation, the NEA (National Endowment for the Arts), Times Ten
Cellars and WRR-101.1 FM.
“The Beethoven, the Debussy, the Corigliano of tomorrow – they are all
out there. We deserve to hear them, and they deserve to be heard …Voices of
Change, Dallas’ enduring new-music chamber music ensemble, has built its reputation
and educated area audiences with an eclectic approach, programming a strong
mixture of 20th-century classics and new, innovative works by living composers.”
— Wayne Lee Gay, FW Star Telegram
