Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival is back! We are excited to share the news that this coming April, 2021, we will present three live concerts, with all of the composers and performers participating on stage, live at Symphony Space in the Thalia Theater. The concerts are listed below, and in the coming months I will share with you videos of the composers and performers in our monthly newsletters. If you are not already on our mailing list to receive these, please e-mail me at info@victoriabond.com so that I can add your name to our contacts.
Here are the upcoming concerts:
4.12.21
The Art of the 21st Century Trombone
Jorge Machain: Adelante
performed by Joseph Alessi, Principal Trombone, New York Philharmonic
Harrison J. Collins: The Beginning of Spring
performed by John Romero, Principal Trombone, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; Hanako Yamagata Greenberg, pianist
John Stevens: Kleinhammer Sonata
performed by Steve Norrell, Bass trombone, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Cullan Bryant, pianist
Kenneth Fuchs: Bass Trombone Concerto
performed by George Curran, Bass trombone, New York Philharmonic
Hanako Yamagata Greenberg, pianist
Anthony Barfield: Red Sky
performed by Colin Williams, Associate Principal Trombone, NY Philharmonic; Hanako Yamagata Greenberg, pianist
Victoria Bond: The Voices of Air
performed by JoDee Davis, Professor of Trombone
Univ. of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory
Hanako Yamagata Greenberg, pianist
4.19.21
Immigrant Dreams
Part I
Performed by Paul Barnes, piano; Ron Warren, Native American Flute
Ron Warren: Distances Between 2 for Piano (2018) (New York premiere)
performed by Paul Barnes, piano
Ron Warren: Beads for Native American Flute and Piano
performed by Ron Warren, Native American flute, and
Paul Barnes, piano
Philip Glass: Piano Quintet “Annunciation” (2018) (New York premiere)
Arranged for solo piano by Paul Barnes
Victoria Bond: Enite ton Kyrion (world premiere)
performed by Paul Barnes, piano
Part II
Performed by Percussia: Ingrid Gordon and Frank Cassara, percussion, Susan Jolles, harp; Margaret Lancaster, flute; Ljova, viola
Carlo Nicolau: Immigrant Dream
Alexis Lamb: Murmuration
Ljova (Lev Zhurbin): TBA (Premiere)
Victoria Bond: From the Atlas of Imaginary Places (Premiere)
4.26.21
Daring Women
Mrs. President
Victoria Bond, composer; Hilary Bell libretto
In honor of the 101st anniversary of Women’s Suffrage, Cutting Edge Concerts will present scenes from the opera, Mrs. President, about the first woman to run for President. The opera highlights Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for President of the United States. A true revolutionary, she fought for women’s rights and ran for the country’s highest office in 1872, before women had been granted the right to vote. She was branded “Mrs. Satan” by the press because she posed a threat to society, and jailed on election night. In the final scene, Woodhull, in her prison cell, silenced but not defeated, looks ahead to a future generation of women who will realize her vision of equality.
Sopranos Valerie Bernhardt and Keely Futterer; Mezzo-soprano Katie Hannigan; Tenor Scott Ramsay; Baritone Michael Kelly; Pianist Marc Peloquin
The Letters of Mademoiselle C.
Dalit Warshaw, composer
A protégée of Auguste Rodin, Camille Claudel (1864 –1943) was among the very few to blaze new pathways for women sculptors and gain recognition, flouting the bourgeois ideals that had determined the proper course of a woman’s life. Claudel was termed a “Woman of Genius,” yet her fall from grace was a disturbing and tragic ending to a young, brilliant career too soon cut short, as she fell into disrepute and ultimately into what her family characterized as madness. In this cycle, Camille Claudel’s story is narrated through a series of five musical “letters,” each addressed to a different significant figure in the artist’s life. The text is significantly inspired from the words of Camille, the sculptor Auguste Rodin, and her brother, the poet and diplomat Paul Claudel.
Nancy Allen Lundy, soprano; Dalit Warshaw, piano
Highlights from Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival 2019
Philip Glass, Paul Barnes and Victoria Bond at Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival.