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6:00 PM SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2018
BENNETT GORDON HALL
LUCY SCHAUFER,
mezzo-soprano
†
HUW WATKINS,
piano
†
The Class of 1938
WILLIAM BOLCOM
I Feel Good
from
Minicabs
*
JOAN TOWER
Or like a … an Engine
*
Huw Watkins
JOHN HARBISON
Late Air
from
North and South
, Book
*
CHARLES WUORINEN
Twang
*
HEDY WEST
“Five Hundred Miles”
(arr. Brourman)
WILLIAM BOLCOM
People Change
from
Minicabs
*
JOHN CORIGLIANO
e Passionate Shepherd to His Love
***
WILLIAM BOLCOM
Food Song No.
from
Minicabs
*
WILLIAM BOLCOM
Graceful Ghost Rag
from
ree Ghost Rags
Huw Watkins
FREDERIC RZEWSKI
War Song No.
*
Huw Watkins
GORDON LIGHTFOOT
“Black Day in July”
(arr. Brourman)
PETER YARROW
“Sweet Survivor”
(arr. Brourman)
JOHN CORIGLIANO
Metamusic
*
Dodecaphonia
Marvelous Invention
End of the Line
WILLIAM BOLCOM
Finale: Mystery of the Song?
from
Minicabs
*
.
†
Ravinia debut
*
First performance at Ravinia
***
US premiere
THE CLASS OF 1938
Where composer vintages are concerned, 1685
is a hard year to beat, but 1938 certainly has its
points, having produced the nine varied voices
here, all within North America. If we think we
need an explanation, perhaps it could be found in
the musical upheavals happening during the stu-
dent years of this generation, with the boost that
records and radio gave to new song styles—rock
and roll, folk-rock, soul—and, within the sphere of
art music, numerous radical departures. The world
was changing. Anything could happen.
WILLIAM BOLCOM
I Feel Good
from
Minicabs
A composer with his ngers on many di erent
pulses, classical and popular, Bolcom between
the mid- s and the mid-
s composed
cabaret songs to lyrics by Arnold Weinstein. In
– , some while a er Weinstein’s demise,
he picked out from his old friend’s papers
one-liners to set as mini-cabaret songs, or
Mini-
cabs
.
is note is already taking longer to read
than any of these icks of wit takes to sing, and
so had better stop here.
William Bolcom
(photo: Philip Brunnader)
Joan Tower
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