The Composers Concordance will present the final concert of its 20th Anniversary Season Thursday, May 27th, 2004 at 8PM in the NYU Frederick Loewe Theater, 35 W. Fourth Street (between Washington Square East and Greene Street).

We will be featuring tenor Paul Sperry in the jazz-hued, French-influenced, Five Songs by the early 20th-century American composer Theodore Chanler, as well as Leonard Lehrman's Five Duets for soprano Helene Williams, tenor and piano which explore the range of Lehrman's expressive language. "I Went Looking For My Soul," #3 of the 5 duets, based on a poem by Charles Bernstein, will receive its world premiere.

Composer John Eaton will be in the audience for his Fantasy Romance for cello and piano as rendered by Jeffrey Shaw, cello and Paul Hoffmann, piano. Eaton, recipient of the 1990 MacArthur "genius" award is a master and pioneer of the use of microtones, and here, like a living genie, he integrates them into a mysterious and arresting musical fabric.

Clarinetist Esther Lamneck will showcase a new piece by Patrick Hardish for solo clarinet, Sonorities VII, one in his continuing series of reflections on the sound possibilities and distinctive timbres of individual instruments.

Composers Concordance mentor and advisor, the distinguished American composer Otto Luening, will be remembered through his famous electronic piece Gargoyles, for violin and tape, performed by the masterful new music enthusiast, violinist Lynn Bechtold, with audio support by Luening disciple, composer Dan Cooper. A mainstay of the "classical electronic" literature, Gargoyles evidences Luening's concern with taking traditional forms and instruments into the "space age…"

Continuing our new electronic directions in sound, percussionist-composer Tom Beyer will premiere a piece RE which shows his performing prowess as percussionist.

And, the percussion/electronic theme will continue, as vibraphonist extraordinaire, Peter Jarvis, propels his mallets into a new work by Art Krieger, Rainsticks for vibraphone and recording. Krieger is the man known for bringing the Jamaican "pan" into the contemporary music literature.

The concert will conclude with William Anderson's Sometimes for solo vibraphone, a challenging work written expressly for Jarvis with many varied meters and moods.

Tickets are $15, $10 students and seniors, TDF accepted. For further information visit our website www.composersconcordance.org (or 212-564-4899). See you there!