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Musical Jukebox on Tap for
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(April 14, 2005) - Yaddo composers and the role Yaddo has played in supporting and advancing American music will be in the spotlight at the 2005 Yaddo New York City Benefit to be held May 3 at Cipriani in The Toy Building. Composer, musicologist, and satirist Peter Schickele/P.D.Q. Bach, internationally recognized as one of the most versatile artists in the field of music, will emcee “The Yaddo Jukebox,” a varied program featuring selections from award-winning composers Paul Moravec, David Rakowski, Stewart Wallace, and Carolyn Yarnell. The music of Mr. Moravec – recipient of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in Music for Tempest Fantasy (listen), which was largely written at Yaddo – has been described as “openly and ebulliently attractive” and “richly melodic.” As the composer of orchestral, chamber, choral, and lyric compositions, as well as several film scores and electro-acoustic pieces, Mr. Moravec has been sought out by leading performing artists and ensembles. He currently is Music Department Chair at Adelphi University. Winner of the 2004 Elise Stoeger Prize from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Music (for Persistent Memory in 1999 and Ten of a Kind in 2002), Mr. Rakowski has composed four concerti, three symphonies, 60 piano etudes, three song cycles, and a large amount of chamber music for various combinations. Mr. Rakowski was a founder of the Griffin Music Ensemble of Boston. Currently, he is Professor of Composition at Brandeis University and is an adjunct professor of composition at New England Conservatory.
Mr. Wallace’s music is fueled by collaborations with such artists as Richard Foreman, Christopher Alden, Evelyn Glennie, Marc Ribot, Amy Tan, and librettist Michael Korie, with whom he’s written five operas. His unconventional and highly theatrical body of work is described as intensely rhythmic, melodic, irreverent, and emotionally compelling. Harvey Milk, Mr. Wallace’s fifth opera and most widely known score, premiered in 1995. Mr. Wallace’s next opera, set to premiere in the United States and China in 2008, is based on Ms. Tan’s bestselling novel, The Bonesetter’s Daughter. The two met at Yaddo in 1994 and she is collaborating on the libretto with Mr. Korie. In September, Jessye Norman will premiere the first aria from the opera in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong. Ms. Yarnell’s highly evocative and intensely emotional music has been performed worldwide and encompasses a broad spectrum of style and medium, ranging from orchestral works and electronic soundscapes to solo and chamber music performed on both modern and early instruments, computer music, multi-disciplinary works, and improvisatory techno/metal/jungle/psychedelic pieces. She just began a composer-in-residence position with the Albany Symphony Orchestra that continues through 2008. Also an accomplished painter and writer, Ms. Yarnell recently finished her autobiography, Baby Girl. Co-chairs of the May 3 event are Carl and Christine Bernstein and Joyce Siegel. Tickets are $350 (patron), $600 (benefactor), and $1,000 (guarantor). For ticket information and reservations, please contact Lynn Farenell, or telephone 518.584.0746
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