World Premiere Performance of Meira Warshauer Symphony No. 1 "Living,
Breathing Earth" by South Carolina Philharmonic on March 24
The World Premiere performance of Meira Warshauer's Symphony No. 1 -
'Living, Breathing Earth' will be given by the South Carolina Philharmonic,
Nicholas Smith, Music Director, at 7 PM on Saturday, March 24, 2007 as
part of their Master Series 7 concert at the Koger Center for the Arts,
1051 Greene Street in Columbia, South Carolina.
This new work, commissioned by the South Carolina Philharmonic, Western
Piedmont Symphony of North Carolina, and the Dayton Philharmonic of Ohio
(their Premiere performances will be given on April 26 and 28), has been
described by the composer: 'the title, Living, Breathing Earth, came to
me in contemplating the image of the rainforests as lungs of the earth.
I felt our planet, alive with all variety of creatures and plants living
in symbiosis with each other, breathing in and out, and the planet as a
whole, pulsing with breath.' You can read Carson Cooman's Music & Vision
Daily interview with the composer about the new work at
http://www.mvdaily.com/articles/2007/01/meira-warshauer.htm.
Other works on the program include William Walton's Facade, Sally Smith,
Narrator and Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, Marina Lomazov, pianist.
Tickets for the March 24 concert are $40, $32, $23, $16 and $13. For
tickets and more concert information, please call the South Carolina
Philharmonic box office at 803-254-7445 or visit them online at
http://www.scphilharmonic.com/buynow.html.
Founded 42 years ago, the South Carolina Philharmonic has become one of
the leading orchestras in the southeast. The South Carolina Philharmonic's
mission is to continue providing quality symphonic music for their
audiences, broaden public awareness and enjoyment of symphonic music,
expand educational music programs for elementary, middle and high school
students, support their Youth Orchestra program that serves more than
200 young instrumentalists and collaborate with other local arts groups
to reach a more diverse audience. Maestro Nicholas Smith has been in
charge of orchestras and opera companies for more than thirty years on
both sides of the Atlantic. He has conducted orchestras in a dozen
countries, making him adept at communicating with few words. Many
concerts have been broadcast on radio and television and he has recorded
CDs with Finnish, British and Czech orchestras. Much more about him and
the orchestra at http://www.scphilharmonic.com/. For a list of season
sponsors, visit http://www.scphilharmonic.com/sponsors.html.
Meira Warshauer's compositions have been performed and recorded to
critical acclaim throughout the United States and in Israel, Europe, and
Asia. A graduate of Harvard, New England Conservatory of Music, and the
University of South Carolina, Dr. Warshauer studied composition with
Mario Davidovsky, Jacob Druckman, William Thomas McKinley, and Gordon
Goodwin. She has received numerous awards from ASCAP as well as the
America Music Center, Meet the Composer, and the South Carolina Arts
Commission. In 2000, she received the first Art and Cultural Achievement
Award from the Jewish Historical Society of S. Carolina.
Dr. Warshauer is a Visiting Lecturer at Columbia College, Columbia,
South Carolina. Her CDs include the soundtrack to the documentary Land
of Promise: The Jews of South Carolina and Spirals of Light, chamber
music and poetry (by Ani Tuzman) on themes of enlightenment, on the Kol
Meira label and "Revelation" for orchestra, included on the MMC CD Robert
Black Conducts. Her music is published by Oxford University Press, MMB
Music, World Music Press and Kol Meira Publications. Her latest Bracha
Newsletter, containing full program notes for Symphony No. 1, is online
at http://www.jamesarts.com/releases/jan07/MW_nws_010907.htm. You can
find much more about her at http://home.sc.rr.com/meirawarshauer/.
For more information about Meira Warshauer, please contact Jeffrey James
Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or [log in to unmask]
Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
Website: http://www.jamesarts.com
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