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SUMMARY:Haydn’s The Clock
DESCRIPTION:Haydn’s The Clock\nJulius Williams makes his BPO conducting debut leading Haydn’s exuberant “The Clock” symphony and expressive violinist Tessa Lark’s performances of Dvořák’s Romance and Ravel’s Tzigane. The program also features the turn-of-the-century Rhapsodic Overture of Edmund Thornton Jenkins\, and the inspirational Moments of Arrival by Elena Roussanova. \nProgram\nJulius P. Williams\, conductor\nTessa Lark\, violin \nJENKINS  Rhapsodic Overture\nDVOŘÁK  Romance in F minor for Violin and Orchestra\nRAVEL  Tzigane for Violin and Orchestra\nELENA ROUSSANOVA  Moments of Arrival\nI. Moving Forward\nII. Reflection\nIII. The Moment of Arrival\nHAYDN  Symphony No. 101 in D major\, “The Clock”\nI. Adagio – Presto\nII. Andante\nIII. Menuet: Allegretto\nIV. Finale: Vivace \nAbout Tessa Lark\nViolinist Tessa Lark is one of the most captivating artistic voices of our time\, consistently praised by critics and audiences for her astounding range of sounds\, technical agility\, and musical elegance. A budding superstar in the classical realm\, in 2020 she was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Classical Instrumental Solo category. She is also a highly acclaimed fiddler in the tradition of her native Kentucky\, delighting audiences with programming that includes Appalachian and bluegrass music and inspiring composers to write for her. \nFollowing a busy summer that saw her perform with NY’s Carnegie Hall Citywide\, La Jolla Music Society SummerFest\, and the Ravinia Festival\, among many others\, highlights of Lark’s 2023-24 season include the world premiere of Carlos Izcaray’s Violin Concerto – written for her – under the composer’s baton with the Alabama Symphony; and concerts with the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker\, marking both her European orchestral debut and her first performances of Gang Chen and Zhanhao He’s Violin Concerto\, “Butterfly Lovers.” She reprises Michael Torke’s violin concerto\, Sky – also written for her\, and the 2020 recording of which earned her a Grammy nomination – with Oklahoma’s Signature Symphony and the Sarasota Orchestra; returns to South Carolina’s Greenville Symphony\, the Virginia Symphony\, and England’s City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; and performs as a chamber musician in duos with double bassist Michael Thurber and jazz guitarist Frank Vignola. \nLark’s newest album\, The Stradgrass Sessions\, released in spring 2023\, features an all-star roster of collaborators and composers including double bassist Edgar Meyer\, pianist Jon Batiste\, mandolinist Sierra Hull\, and fiddler Michael Cleveland. Album selections mix original compositions by Lark and her collaborators with a sonata by Eugène Ysaÿe\, a selection of Bartók’s violin duets arranged for violin and mandolin\, and the world premiere recording of John Corigliano’s STOMP. \nThe violinist has performed with orchestras and at recital venues and festivals around the world. She has appeared with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra; the Louisville Orchestra; and the Albany\, Indianapolis\, Knoxville and Seattle Symphonies; as well as being presented by Carnegie Hall\, New York’s Lincoln Center\, London’s Wigmore Hall\, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw\, the Music Center at Strathmore\, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston\, Cal Performances\, San Francisco Performances\, the Seattle Chamber Music Society\, Australia’s Musica Viva Festival\, and the Marlboro\, Mostly Mozart\, and Bridgehampton summer festivals. \nLark’s debut commercial recording was the Grammy-nominated Sky\, a bluegrass-inspired violin concerto written for her by Michael Torke and performed with the Albany Symphony Orchestra. Her discography also includes Fantasy on First Hand Records: fantasias by Schubert\, Telemann and Fritz Kreisler; Ravel’s Tzigane; and Lark’s own composition\, Appalachian Fantasy. Invention\, marking the debut album for the violin-bass duo of Lark and her fiancé\, Michael Thurber\, comprises arrangements of Two-Part Inventions by J. S. Bach along with original compositions by both duo partners. A live recording of Astor Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires was released in 2021 by the BPO in honor of Piazzolla’s centenary. \nLark is a recipient of the Hunt Family Award\, one of Lincoln Center’s prestigious Emerging Artist Awards\, as well as a 2018 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship and a 2016 Avery Fisher Career Grant. She was Silver Medalist in the 9th Quadrennial International Violin Competition of Indianapolis\, and winner of the 2012 Naumburg International Violin Competition. \nIn addition to her performance schedule\, Lark was recently named Artistic Director of Musical Masterworks\, a chamber music presenter in Old Lyme\, Connecticut. She champions young aspiring artists and supports the next generation of musicians through her work as Co-host/Creative of NPR’s From the Top\, the premier radio showcase for the nation’s most talented young musicians. She also serves as Mentor and board member of the Irving M. Klein International Strings Competition. \nLark is a graduate of New England Conservatory and completed her Artist Diploma at The Juilliard School\, where she studied with Sylvia Rosenberg\, Ida Kavafian\, and Daniel Phillips. Her primary mentors include Cathy McGlasson\, Kurt Sassmannshaus\, Miriam Fried\, and Lucy Chapman. She plays a c. 1600 G.P. Maggini violin on loan from an anonymous donor through the Stradivari Society of Chicago. \nAbout Julius Williams\nJulius P. Williams is an award-winning conductor\, composer\, recording artist\, educator\, author\, and pianist. Named one of Musical America’s Top 30 Professionals of the Year for 2022\, his career has taken him from his native New York to musical venues across the globe\, and has involved virtually every musical genre. He has conducted American orchestras in Dallas\, Oakland\, New Haven\, New Jersey\, Vermont\, Knoxville\, Sacramento\, Tulsa\, Savannah\, and more\, in addition to the Harlem Symphony\, Color of Music Festival Orchestra\, and New Works Orchestra. Career highlights include debuting at Carnegie Hall with the Symphony Saintpaulia; serving as Music Director of the Washington Symphony (1998-2003); and conducting the Pulitzer Prize-winning opera by Anthony Davis\, The Central Park Five\, premiering and preparing the work for Trilogy: An Opera Company (New Jersey). Williams’ other past positions include Artistic Director of the Costa del Sol Music Festival in Spain\, and Artistic Director of the School of Choral Studies at the NY State Summer School of the Arts for ten seasons. \nWilliams is currently Artistic Director of the Berklee Contemporary Symphony Orchestra\, and Professor of Composition at the Berklee College of Music in Boston\, as well as Music Director and conductor of Trilogy: An Opera Company. He is the immediate past president of the International Conductors Guild\, and Co-Chair of the League of American Orchestras’ Conductors Constituency. In the past\, Williams served as Assistant Conductor to Lukas Foss\, former BPO Music Director\, with the Brooklyn Philharmonic and the American Symphony in NY. Recently\, Williams conducted on tour with the Oberlin Conservatory Opera and the Cleveland Opera Theater\, receiving rave reviews for performances of Nkeiru Okoye’s opera\, Harriet Tubman. He was a guest conductor with the One World Festival Orchestra in Virginia\, and conducted a Gala performance with the Dallas Symphony at the Black Academy of Arts and Letters’ Riverfest Jazz Festival. In 2021\, he conducted the score for the Academy Award-eligible film\, Sky Blossom. This past season included conducting the Color of Music Festival Orchestra in Sacramento\, and the concert series at Boston’s Isabella Gardner Museum. In Europe\, Williams has performed and recorded with numerous esteemed symphonies. He has also been featured on national television\, profiled on CBS News’ Sunday Morning. \nA prolific composer\, Williams has created works for virtually every genre of contemporary classical performance\, including opera\, ballet\, orchestra\, chamber ensemble\, chorus and solo voice\, dance\, musical theatre\, and film. His music has been performed by countless orchestras including the New York Philharmonic\, Cleveland Orchestra\, Detroit Symphony\, St. Louis Symphony\, and Boston Pops. He has also served as Composer-in- Residence of Connecticut’s Nutmeg Ballet Company\, which premiered his ballet\, Cinderella. His opera\, Guinevere\, was performed at the Aspen Music Festival and at the Dubrovnik Summer Festival in Croatia. He composed the score for the film\, What Color is Love?\, and also scored the theatrical production to In Dahomey. Additionally\, Williams has served as a composer with the Boston Symphony’s Composer-In-Residence Project\, and as cover conductor for the Boston Pops Orchestra and the Rhode Island Philharmonic. His recordings are on the Albany\, Centaur\, Naxos and Videmus record labels. In 2024\, two new albums of orchestral music will be released on the Albany record label. \nIn addition to his conducting and composing careers\, Williams maintains a demanding schedule of speaking engagements\, consulting\, and academics. Williams is the recipient of many awards for musical and academic achievement: an Honorary Doctorate from Keene State College in New Hampshire\, the Detroit Symphony’s Emerging Composer Award\, the Gracie Allen Documentary Award\, the Distinguished Medal of Artistic Achievement from the Ecuador Youth Symphony Orchestra Foundation\, the Honorary Distinguished Alumnus Award from Langston University\, the Marquis Who’s Who Lifetime Achievement Award\, proclamations from the mayor and council of Newark for artistic contributions in 2023\, the National Culture of the Arts Award from the Association of Foreign Language Teachers of NY\, and  various ASCAP awards in composition for the past forty years.
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LOCATION:Kleinhans Music Hall\, 3 Symphony Circle\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14201\, United States
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SUMMARY:RAYLAND BAXTER W/ FLYTE- FALL TOUR 2023
DESCRIPTION:Twenty6 Productions Presents: Rayland Baxter w/ Flyte – FALL TOUR 2023 at Buffalo Iron Works on Sunday October 22nd\, 2023! \nRayland Baxter \nFor the making of his fourth album If I Were a Butterfly\, Rayland Baxter holed up for over a year at a former rubber-band factory turned studio in the Kentucky countryside—a seemingly humble environment that proved to be something of a wonderland. “I spent that year living in a barn with the squirrels and the birds\, on my own most of the time\, and I discovered so much about music and how to create it\,” says the Tennessee-bred singer/songwriter. “Instead of going into a studio with a producer for two weeks\, I just waited for the record to build itself. I’d get up and go outside\, see a butterfly and connect that with some impulsive thought I’d had three months ago\, and suddenly a song I’d been working on would make sense. That’s how the whole album came to be.” \nThe follow-up to 2018’s critically acclaimed Wide Awake\, If I Were a Butterfly finds Baxter co-producing alongside Tim O’Sullivan (Grace Potter\, The Head and the Heart) and Kai Welch (Molly Tuttle\, Sierra Hull)\, slowly piecing together the album’s patchwork of lush psychedelia and Beatlesesque pop. In addition to working at Thunder Sound (the Kentucky studio he called home for months on end)\, Baxter recorded in California\, Texas\, Tennessee\, and Washington\, enlisting a remarkable lineup of musicians: Shakey Graves\, Lennon Stella\, several members of Cage the Elephant\, Zac Cockrell of Alabama Shakes\, Morning Teleportation’s Travis Goodwin\, and legendary Motown drummer Miss Bobbye Hall\, among many others. In an especially meaningful turn\, two of the album’s tracks feature the elegant pedal steel work of his father\, Bucky Baxter (a musician who performed with Bob Dylan and who passed away in May 2020). Thanks to the extraordinary care and ingenuity behind its creation\, If I Were a Butterfly arrives as a work of rarefied magic\, capable of stirring up immense feeling while leaving the listener happily wonderstruck. \nBaxter’s debut release as a producer\, If I Were a Butterfly bears a dazzling unpredictability that has much to do with his limitless imagination as a collector and collagist of sound. “Sometimes the bullfrogs in the pond outside would pulse in a certain tempo and I’d apply that to a song\, or I’d hear a bird chirping and it would inspire me to add harmonica in a particular place\,” he says. “I could be walking around this massive building in the middle of the night and the air-conditioning would turn on\, and it’d give me the idea to include a synth part that holds a similar note. I’d wait for those moments to happen and whenever I tried to force anything\, the music usually rejected it.” \nA perfect introduction to If I Were a Butterfly’s elaborate sonic world\, the album-opening title track begins with a recording of a Baxter singing at age four\, then drifts into a delicately sprawling reverie ornamented with so many lovely details (lavish flute and cello melodies\, radiant horns\, the hypnotic harmonies of Lennon Stella and Baxter’s girlfriend\, Sophia Rose). “I liked the idea of the first voice on the record being me as a little kid\, not knowing where I’d be today\,” notes Baxter\, who embedded newly unearthed audio clips of himself and his older sister Brooke all throughout the album. Graced with the combustible guitar work of his bandmate Barney Cortez\, “Billy Goat” kicks up a potent tension with its restless grooves and hot-tempered gang vocals. “It’s a breakup song about being with someone who’s on a different life path—one side wants to influence the other\, and inevitably you part ways\,” says Baxter. From there\, the album takes on a feverish momentum with “Rubberband Man\,” a delightfully frenzied track channeling a wild and giddy freedom. “There’s rubber bands all over the property at Thunder Sound—in the earth\, in the concrete\, used as insulation for the studio\,” says Baxter. “I took a mishmash of images in my head and it turned into a song about staying flexible\, rolling with the punches.” \nIn its searching reflection on love and loss and striving for transcendence\, If I Were a Butterfly reaches a quietly glorious intensity on “Tadpole”: a piano ballad threaded with childhood memories at turns oddly tender (catching frogs and crawfish in a nearby toxic creek) and nightmarish (hearing the gunshot when an across-the-street neighbor took her own life). And on “My Argentina\,” If I Were a Butterfly closes out with a piano-driven and painfully raw outpouring\, its starkness intermittently broken by soulful strings and gospel-esque harmonies. “One time at the studio I stayed up all night and played that song maybe 100 times; we ended up using the last take\, which was recorded at about five in the morning\,” says Baxter. “It’s a song that represents the thoughts one might have about a perfect love life\, and I love how it ends the album in a big angelic cloud of reverb.” \nFor Baxter\, the act of self-producing such a sonically and emotionally expansive body of work proved both exhilarating and arduous. “It really wore me out to spend all that time alone at the studio\, editing the hell out of this record; my heart definitely suffered\,” he says. “But I also had the guidance of my dad\, who was in my dreams all the time—if I was moving too fast\, I’d hear him telling me to slow down.” Another profound influence on the album-making process: the 2018 deaths of Baxter’s close friends Billy Swayze (a musician whose parents owned the rubber band company that became Thunder Sound) and Tiger Merritt (the vocalist/guitarist for Morning Teleportation\, who worked with Swayze in constructing the studio). “Billy and Tiger had been going up there since 2015\, and finally they turned it into a legit recording studio\,” he says. “It’s a very special place to me\, so they’re two of the four angels I decided to dedicate this record to.” \nEven in its most somber moments\, If I Were a Butterfly wholly fulfills Baxter’s mission of imparting a certain purposeful joy. “It’s been a weird few years\, but I think the big picture is for us to just exist and find love and be loved\, and try to see that all the daily bullshit is simply bugs on the windshield\,” says Baxter. “I hope that this album makes people feel the way I do whenever I listen to my favorite records\, and that it gives them a platform to dream on.” \nBuffalo Iron Works \n49 Illinois St Buffalo\, NY 14203 \nTickets: $23 ADV/$26 DOS \nDoors: 7:00pm \nShow: 8:00pm \nAges: 18+
URL:https://bornbuffalo.com/event/rayland-baxter-w-flyte-fall-tour-2023/
LOCATION:Buffalo Iron Works\, 49 Illinois St\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14203\, United States
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