New Century Chamber Orchestra: Legacies and Concertos
2013-11-22
First Congregational Church
2345 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA
8:00 PM, Friday, November 22, 2013

[8:05 PM lights down, announcements]

1. [8:06 PM] Samuel Jones (b.1935): Elegy for Strings (1963)
   [work ends 8:12 PM; banter from NSS]

1. [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]

Anton Stepanovich Arensky (1861-1906): Variations on a Theme of Tchaikovsky, Op. 35a (1894)

1. [8:23 PM] Theme, Moderato
2. [8:00 PM] Variation I, Un poco più mosso
3. [8:00 PM] Variation II, Allegro non troppo
4. [8:00 PM] Variation III, Andantino tranquillo
5. [8:00 PM] Variation IV, Vivace
6. [8:00 PM] Variation V, Andante
7. [8:00 PM] Variation VI, Allegro con spirito
8. [8:00 PM] Variation VII, Andante con moto
9. [8:00 PM] Coda: Moderato
   [work ends 8:38 PM]

[8:59 PM lights down, announcements]

1. [9:01 PM] Clarice Assad (b. 1978): Dreamscapes (2009), featuring Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg: violin.
   [work ends 9:14 PM; video presentation by MD]

Michael Daugherty (b. 1954): Fallingwater for Solo Violin and Strings (2013) (World Premiere), Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg: violin.

1. [9:18 PM] Night Rain
2. [9:24 PM] On the Level
3. [9:28 PM] Prairie Psalm
4. [9:35 PM] Ahead of the Curve
   [set ends 9:40 PM]

• Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg: music director, violin;
  others vary slightly by performance, current list posted at http://ncco.org/about/musicians/

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Program notes are available online from the NCCO website

Elijah Ho posted an interview with Michael Daughety on the Mercury News website.

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