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Music in Old Cabell Hall 
Nov. 6, 2000 -- The McIntire Department of Music at the University of Virginia presents New Music in Old Cabell Hall, Tuesday, Nov. 7, at 8:15 p.m. in Cabell Hall Auditorium. Formerly known as the New Music Ensemble, this ensemble now boasts a new name and showcases new faculty members. New Music in Old Cabell will feature two new U.Va. performance faculty members as soloists. Soprano Kara Harman will perform Samuel Barber's breathtaking "Knoxville: Summer of 1915" with conductor Eric Stassen and his U.Va. Chamber Orchestra. The Charlottesville-University Symphony Orchestra's new principal oboist Nicole Golay will perform Tison Street's lush Adagio for Oboe and Strings. The program also includes Chris Staefe's Changing Rain, and an improvisatory collaboration between trumpeter and U.Va. music faculty member John D'earth and graduate student Liam Mooney. U.Va. opera lovers may know Harman from her guest appearance last April in the Music Opera Workshop's performance of The Merry Widow, in which she played the title role. She received a Masters from SUNY Binghamton in Opera Performance, and has performed leading opera roles in Cosi fan Tutte, Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Amahl and the Night Visitors, and La Boheme with Binghamton's Tri-Cities Opera Resident Artist Training Program. Barber's masterwork, "Knoxville: Summer of 1915" is a brilliant setting of text from the opening of James Agee's most famous novel, A Death In The Family. The text vividly depicts childhood memories of beauty and vulnerability in a small southern town. Nicole Golay will make her debut appearance with New Music in Old Cabell with the Adagio of Tison Street. A violinist and composer residing in Boston, Street composed this work originally for oboe and string orchestra, and then arranged if for string quintet with oboe. It is a work with the poignancy of Barber's famous Adagio for Strings, but with a chromaticism more reminiscent of Mahler or Wagner. Golay will be performing with violinist Janet Orenstein of the Guild Trio, bassist and composer Peter Knell, and members of the Guild Trio's Chamber Music Performance Seminar. Golay received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from California Institute of the Arts under the mentorship of Allan Vogel and her Master of Music from Yale School of Music with Ronald Roseman. Golay has appeared as soloist with the Yale Chamber Players and has given recitals in New York, Connecticut and California, as well as in her home state of Idaho. She has performed with the Columbia Festival Orchestra, Jupiter Symphony, Princeton Chamber Symphony, Musica Antiqua amongst other ensembles. Currently, Golay is the Instructor of Oboe at U.Va., Principal Oboe of the Charlottesville and University Symphony Orchestra, performs with the Albemarle Ensemble and teaches privately. In their joint improvisatory collaboration, John D'earth and Liam Mooney will explore new sounds and new instrumentation. Mooney is known in the U.Va. Music Department for his imaginative performances on a set of miniature instruments of his own invention. These new sounds combined with the mastery of D'earth's improvisatory skill on the trumpet will yield a truly exciting musical event. As part of the ensembles enduring interest in having student works played, New Music in Old Cabell is presenting Christopher Staefe's Changing Rain, an octet that constitutes his thesis for a Master's degree in composition from the McIntire Department of Music. The title comes from his experiences with the elements during a camping trip in 1999. Specifically, after battling Hurricane Floyd in the mountains, they came down the next day to find the woods transformed by the storm. "It was remarkable to see how the forest looked as we descended," says Staefe. "Those were some of the most exotic sights I had ever seen. It was hard to imagine that the same rain that we grew to hate over the past sixteen hours could birth such wonderful beauty." Tickets for the New Music in Old Cabell are $6 general admission, $4 students and 4 ARTS$. For tickets or more information contact the Cabell Hall Box Office at 804-924-3984. CONTACT: Marcella Morgan Day, 924-6492, or mday@virginia.edu |
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