THESE HILLS OF GLORY

THESE HILLS OF GLORY
the chamber music of Wayne Horvitz
featuring Carla Kihlstedt and odeonquartet

November 4, 7:30 pm

Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall
Benaroya Hall
200 University Street
Tickets: $29-$19

Seattle Symphony, in collaboration with the 2009 Earshot Jazz Festival, presents These Hills of Glory, for string quartet and improvising soloist, with violinist Carla Kihlstedt (Tin Hat, Fred Frith's Cosa Brava,Two Foot Yard, John Zorn) and odeonquartet, a world-renowned string quartet featuring members of the Seattle Symphony.

The program will also include two world premieres - For Piano Alone in Four Parts (2009), composed by Wayne Horvitz and performed by pianist Cristina Valdes, and Carry Over (2009), composed by Robin Holcomb, performed by odeonquartet.

Also featured on the program are Horvitz' works, Thursday, At Dusk, in Spokane, Washington, for clarinet and piano, and Inside Morning, for flute and piano. The concert will conclude with an improvisation by Horvitz and Carla Kihlstedt. A discussion with the composer, moderated by composer/writer Chris DeLaurenti, will precede the performance.

This project has been made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts as part of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius, and was funded in part through Meet The Composer's MetLife Creative Connections program. Additional support was provided by 4Culture, Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs and Artist Trust.

Special thanks to Earshot Jazz, The Seattle Symphony, Seattle Chamber Players, Cornish College of the Arts, The Frank Agency, Centrum and The Blue Mountain Center.

WACO - Earshot Jazz Festival

WACO
with guest clarinetist
Beth Fleenor

October 27 / 7:30 pm

Chapel Performance Space /4649 Sunnyside Ave

Tickets: $15

Earshot Jazz and Nonsequitur present the Washington Composers Orchestra (WACO) in an evening of music specially suited for the Chapel Performance Space.

Approaching the traditional jazz big band as a "pocket orchestra," this evening's program will feature four extended compositions by composer Robin Holcomb, Wayne Horvitz's concerto for clarinet "River of Whiskey," featuring guest clarinetist Beth Fleenor, and Chris Stover's "The Murderess." The program will also include the Seattle premiere of "Laredo," written for saxophone quaret by Robin Holcomb, originally commissioned by the Rova Saxophone Quartet.

For more information please visit:

www.waynehorvitz.net

FIGEATER

FIGEATER

October 20 / 9 pm

Rendezvous Jewel Box Theater

2322 2nd Ave

Performing Unit: Special Fig

"Clarinetist/composer Beth Fleenor bases her cargo-cult band on the arrival of unhinged, uncorked, unkempt provocations from a small, raucous band of collaborators. Expect some wailin', some keening, and some siren-singing, too." - Earshot Jazz

Disjunctive, raucous, soaring, and powerful - Figeater is a textural, tribal exploration of organic movement, instigated by clarinetist/composer Beth Fleenor.

Improvisations are punctuated, buttoned and launched by original compositions and songlike psychedelic episodes, with an emphasis on enviornmental participation. It has been called sonic spelunking - or an all improvised fun time.

"Daringly, {Figeater} was down right pretty, not a term often associated with free improv...while later it was visceral, convulsive and more than a bit creepy..." - Seattle Weekly

For more information please visit:

www.myspace.com/figeaterparty