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-# New Century Chamber Orchestra at First Congregational Church, November 22, 2013 
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-[New Century Chamber Orchestra](http://ncco.org/): _Legacies and Concertos_   
-2013-11-22   
-[First Congregational Church](http://www.calperfs.berkeley.edu/)   
-[2345 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=2345+Channing+Way,+Berkeley,+CA&hl=en)   
-8:00 PM, Friday, November 22, 2013 
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-## Set One 
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-[8:05 PM lights down, announcements] 
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-### Samuel Jones: Elegy for Strings 
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-01. [8:06 PM] Samuel Jones (b.1935): Elegy for Strings (1963)   
-[work ends 8:12 PM; banter from NSS] 
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-### Tchaikovsky: Andante cantabile 
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-01. [8:15 PM] Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893): Andante cantabile for string orchestra with solo cello (1871); featuring Susan Babini: cello.   
-[work ends 8:22 PM] 
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-### Arensky: Variations on a Theme of Tchaikovsky 
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-Anton Stepanovich Arensky (1861-1906): Variations on a Theme of Tchaikovsky, Op. 35a (1894) 
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-01. [8:23 PM] Theme, Moderato 
-02. [8:00 PM] Variation I, Un poco più mosso 
-03. [8:00 PM] Variation II, Allegro non troppo 
-04. [8:00 PM] Variation III, Andantino tranquillo 
-05. [8:00 PM] Variation IV, Vivace 
-06. [8:00 PM] Variation V, Andante 
-07. [8:00 PM] Variation VI, Allegro con spirito 
-08. [8:00 PM] Variation VII, Andante con moto 
-09. [8:00 PM] Coda: Moderato   
-[work ends 8:38 PM] 
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-## Set Two 
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-[8:59 PM lights down, announcements] 
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-### Clarice Assad: Dreamscapes 
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-01. [9:01 PM] Clarice Assad (b. 1978): Dreamscapes (2009), featuring Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg: violin.   
-[work ends 9:14 PM; video presentation by MD] 
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-### Michael Daugherty: Fallingwater for Solo Violin and Strings 
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-Michael Daugherty (b. 1954): Fallingwater for Solo Violin and Strings (2013) (World Premiere), Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg: violin. 
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-01. [9:18 PM] Night Rain 
-02. [9:24 PM] On the Level 
-03. [9:28 PM] Prairie Psalm 
-04. [9:35 PM] Ahead of the Curve   
-[set ends 9:40 PM] 
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-## Performers 
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-* Hrabba Atladottir: first violin; 
-* Susan Babini: principal cello; 
-* Kathleen Balfe: cello; 
-* Robin Bonnell: cello; 
-* Jenny Douglass: viola; 
-* Jory Fankuchen: second violin; 
-* Candace Guirao: principal second violin; 
-* Dawn Harms: assistant concertmaster, first violin; 
-* Anna Kruger: principal viola; 
-* Anthony Manzo: principal contrabass; 
-* Robin Mayforth: second violin; 
-* Isaac Melamed: cello; 
-* Anna Presler: second violin; 
-* Jeremy Preston: second violin; 
-* Cassandra Lynne Richburg: viola; 
-* Kurt Rohde: viola; 
-* Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg: concertmaster, music director, first violin; 
-* Karen Shinozaki Sor: first violin; 
-* Iris Stone: first violin. 
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-## Notes  
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-I enjoyed tonight's concert quite a bit. The opening work, _Elegy for Strings_ was appropriately solemn and mournful, and served its function of telling the audience to put away everyday cares and tune in to the quiet and beauty of the moment. 
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-The following work, Tchaikovsky's _Andante cantabile_, was my favorite for the evening, but then, I'm a sucker for the cello. 
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-I think it was my first tie hearing Arensky's _Variations_, and while the connection to Tchaikovsky seemed audible to me, it was also pretty clear that Arensky had plenty of frsh ideas himself, cramming an introduction, eight variations and a coda into a scant fifteen minutes. No malingering there! 
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-I was happy to hear Clarice Assad's _Dreamscape_ again -- a reprise from ?2009? -- and somewhat surprised by how little I recognized it. In tonight's rendition, it seemed to me to evoke a sort of anguished, nervously foreboding nightmare -- a dreamscape of sorts, but not the sort that I want to remember! 
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-The finale, tonight's world premiere of Michael Daugherty's _Fallingwater_, a violin concerto, required an appropriately virtuousic performance from NSS, and she delivered in spades. This being a modern piece, much of that effort was aimed at adding screeches, trills, scrapes and other extended techniques unlikely to be found in much use in the standard repertoire. 
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-Program notes are available online from the [[http://ncco.org/concert-tickets/2013-2014-season/program2/program-notes/|NCCO website]] 
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-Elijah Ho posted an interview with Michael Daughety on the [[http://www.examiner.com/article/interview-with-composer-michael-daugherty|Mercury News website]]. 
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-{{tag>music New_Century_Chamber_Orchestra First_Congregational_Church Hrabba_Atladottir Susan_Babini Kathleen_Balfe Robin_Bonnell Jenny_Douglass Jory_Fankuchen Candace_Guirao Dawn_Harms Anna_Kruger Anthony_Manzo Robin_Mayforth Isaac_Melamed Anna_Presler Jeremy_Preston Cassandra_Lynne_Richburg Kurt_Rohde Nadja_Salerno-Sonnenberg Karen_Shinozaki_Sor Iris_Stone }} 
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