Unending Winter: Dinosaur Annex's 2nd concert of 50th Anniversary Season
$30 ($15 student/senior, $5 EBT card holder)
- Diane Heffner, clarinets
- Jonathan Russell, clarinets
- Amy Advocat, clarinets
- Seychelle Dunn-Corbin, saxophones
- Donald Berman, piano
- Piero Guimaraes, percussion
- Lilit Hartunian, violin
- Rafael Popper-Keizer, cello
Yoon-Ji Lee — Unending Winter for clarinet, violin, and percussion (world premiere)
Lewis Spratlan — When Crows Gather for sextet
Anthony R. Green — Dhakira: A Middle-Eastern Reflection
Jacob Ter Veldhuis (Jacob TV) — Buku for saxophone and electronics
Jeff Nichols — A Fuller Tune (world premiere; 50th Anniversary Tribute)
Arthur Levering — Little Garland (world premiere; 50th Anniversary Tribute)
Rodney Lister — Dinosaur Song (world premiere; 50th Anniversary Tribute)
Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble continues its 50th Anniversary Season with "Unending Winter," mixing a world premiere of a newly commissioned work with longstanding Dino Annex classics from the vault.
Guggenheim Fellow Yoon-Ji Lee's new composition, Unending Winter—a piece "dedicated to the plight and lives of so-called Korean 'comfort women'"—, receives its world premiere under the auspices of the Fromm Foundation at Harvard University. We revisit When Crows Gather (1986), by the late Lewis Spratlan—a strikingly original sextet featuring three clarinets who mutter and screech, amid echoes of jazz, hymn tunes, and ragtime—also commissioned and premiered by Dinosaur Annex. Granite Coast by our co-founder Scott Wheeler draws inspiration from Rockport, MA, a coastal city known for its granite quarries. Saxophonist Seychelle Dunn-Corbin, one of Dino's newest members, presents two key works from that instrument's repertoire: Anthony Green's dhakira, a reflection on the sounds of the Middle Eastern world; and JakobTV's Buku, a tribute to alto sax "giants" Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderley, and Art Pepper.
Special birthday tribute compositions from long-time composer collaborators Rodney Lister (and Dino co-founder), Jeff Nichols, and Arthur Levering will be included as well!
About Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble
Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble is a leading presenter of classical music of the 20th and 21st Centuries. The ensemble was founded in 1975 as part of New England Dinosaur Dance Theater, and has been independently incorporated since 1977. Under the artistic directorship of Hubert Ho and Felicia Chen, Dinosaur Annex is passionately dedicated to bringing cutting-edge music of living composers to a diverse public and maintaining an outlet for music that is otherwise unheard. The ensemble aims to foster appreciation of contemporary music through exposure to the work of living composers; and to promote understanding of contemporary music through educational events, composer commissions, multi-media collaborations, performances, and recordings.
Dinosaur Annex's history reflects more than 45 years of high-level music-making, and consistently rave reviews. Dinosaur Annex showcases a variety of composers and frequently invites guest conductors and soloists. The many composers promoted by Dinosaur Annex include John Harbison, Yu-Hui Chang, Elena Ruehr, Lee Hyla, Gunther Schuller, Keeril Makan, Tamar Diesendruck, Evan Ziporyn, Ezra Sims, Charles Shadle, Eve Beglarian, Scott Wheeler, and Lewis Spratlan. Dinosaur Annex is especially proud of its role in effecting a Pulitzer Prize for Spratlan's previously unknown opera, Life Is A Dream.
https://www.dinosaurannex.orgAbout Diane Heffner, clarinets
https://handelandhaydn.org/about/musicians/orchestra-and-chorus/diane-heffner/