Judith Lang Zaimont's Wind Quintet No. 2 "Homeland" To Be Given World
Premiere by Bergen Woodwind Quintet at University of Minnesota's Ted
Mann Hall on November 21
Judith Lang Zaimont's Wind Quintet No. 2 "Homeland" will be given its
World Premiere by the renowned Bergen Woodwind Quintet on Thursday,
November 21, 2002 at 7:30 PM at the University of Minnesota's Ted Mann
Hall on the school's West Bank Campus, 2126 4th Street South in Minneapolis.
This concert is free and open to the public. For directions or other
concert information, please contact the Public Relations office of the
University of Minnesota School of Music at 612-626-1094 or visit them
on the net at http://www.music.umn.edu.
The Bergen Woodwind Quintet is one of Scandinavia's leading chamber
music groups, performing to great acclaim the world over. The quintet
consists of the principal winds of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra,
one of the world's oldest orchestral institutions. Visit them on the net
at http://www.max.no/kultur/bwq/andre.html.
Judith Lang Zaimont has supplied the following notes about "Homeland"and
its movements - I: Forest into Fields II: Echo - Intermezzo III:
Meditation and Dance:
"To transmute a geographical site of compelling promise and
appeal into a homeland means making adjustments over time -- on
the part both of the pioneers and the land itself. Over time the
land becomes imbued with the qualities, character and emphases
of its 'folk', and an identifiable people/place relation is
formed that is encompassed in the word 'homeland'.
In musical terms, this quintet concerns a similar
transmutation/resolution over time of an initial tense sonority
and clear rhythmic motifs. The tense sonority is unambiguous:
it's the first sound played, occurs at sectional divisions
throughout the first movement, and in the work's final bars (by
which point it should be well accepted). The piece features a
wide variety of articulations and textures throughout: Forest
into Fields presupposes 'orchestral' sounds - the original
'blare' dispersed over a wide register, with much blowing,
balanced by a sequence of 'flecked' chords -- changing gradually
into a true tune. Echo-Intermezzo focusses sound down to a sinewy
single line primarily in horn and oboe, although layered and
echoed by the other instruments. Meditation and Dance begins by
re-weaving various strands (with inserted spaces), then works
itself into a cellular, insistent and modal dance (fast and
tripleted) a bit raw and wild.
Composed in the summer of 1991, the "Homeland" Quintet was
commissioned by the Minnesota Commissioning Club for the Bergen
Wind Quintet."
Judith Lang Zaimont's music is widely performed throughout the U.S.
and Europe and has been recorded for the Koch International Classics,
Arabesque, Milken Family Foundation, Albany, Jeanne, Leonarda, Northeastern,
and 4Tay labels. She was awarded First Prize in the international 1995
McCollin Competition for Composers (for "Symphony No. 1", performed by
the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1996) and the 1995 Recording Award - First
Prize awarded by the International Alliance for Women in Music (for the
Arabesque CD "Neon Rhythm"). Several other Zaimont compositions have
been honored by selection for competition repertoire lists, including
works for the Carnegie - Rockefeller competition for interpreters of
American vocal music and the 2001 Eleventh Van Cliburn International
Piano Competition. Her music appears on two Century lists (Chamber Music
America; Piano & Keyboard Magazine), and is the subject of many articles,
book chapters and several dissertations.
An Electronic Dialogues interview with Judith Lang Zaimont can be read
at the Internet Classical Music Magazine Sequenza 21 -
http://www.sequenza21.com/Zaimont.html. You can read the latest issue
of her "reSOUNDings" newsletter at
http://www.jamesarts.com/releases/aug02/JZ_nws_080702.htm.
More information about Ms. Zaimont is available at her website
http://www.jzaimont.com/.
She is represented by Jeffrey James Arts Consulting, who can be contacted
at 516-797-9166 or at [log in to unmask]
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