Press Release for June 6 2009 concert:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Performing Arts at CAM presents the Composers Concordance Spring 2009 concert Wednesday, June 10, 7PM (NOTE TIME) at the Chelsea Art Museum, home of the Miotte Foundation, 556 West 22nd Street at 11th Avenue. For this second concert of the 2008-2009 season, the Composers Concordance will present a program in which On the Moon and Beyond, the theme of a multi-media summer exhibition at the museum celebrating the 40th anniversary of the first human walk on the moon, will be reflected in new pieces written for flute, clarinet and piano. The program will feature new and recent works, including three world premieres, by the directors of Composers Concordance and music by Otto Luening, a composer long-associated with the organization. There will also be large-scale projections of the visuals and video by Astrid Steiner behind the performers: Margaret Lancaster, flute/piccolo, Esther Lamneck, clarinet, Michiyo Suzuki, bass clarinet and Paul Hoffmann, piano. Compositions include Otto Luening's Moonflight for tape-recorded flute (1968) transcribed for flute & live electronics by Dan Cooper (2009) and performed by Margaret Lancaster, Gene Pritsker's Galileo Starry Messenger for flute, clarinet, & piano (2009) (premiere) performed by Lancaster, Lamneck and Hoffmann, Patrick Hardish's Sonorities VI for vibraphone (1998) performed by Peter Jarvis, Dan Cooper's Trio for flute, clarinet, & piano (2003) performed by the three players, and Joseph Pehrson's new Lunar Tunes for flute, clarinet, & piano (2009) (premiere), also for Lancaster, Lamneck and Hoffmann. Otto Luening's Chords at Night for solo piano (1988) played by Paul Hoffmann will conclude the moon and star-studded program. Tickets are $15/ $10 students/seniors and are available at the door on the evening of the concert.

Composers Concordance
P.O. Box 3620548
New York, NY 10129-0548, USA
212-564-4899 (phone and fax)
info@composersconcordance.org
www.composersconcordance.org

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