- Joelle Wallach, Composer
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- Joelle Wallach, Composer
Jeffrey James Arts Consulting <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Reply-To: [email protected] Joelle Wallach's Winter 2011-2012 Newsletter October 17, 2013 10:49 AM Having trouble viewing this email? Click here The Dream of Now The Newsletter of Composer Joelle Wallach Winter 2011-2012 Volume 4, Number 2 Joelle Wallach New Honors and Appointments Joelle Wallach has received several prestigious honors and appointments, among which are: 2011-2012 Season Performances 2011-2012 has been and continues to be a very busy season for performances of Joelle Wallach's music, especially in New York, Virginia and Texas. Some Fall highlights included: University of North Texas College of Music 1. She has been invited to become Artistic Director of Voces Intimae, a Dallas-based organization for the performance of art songs (www.vocesintimae.org/). 2. She has been nominated for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Music for her Runes and Ritual by both the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and New Music for Young Ensembles. 3. She was named Music Advisor to the Solendar Funds for Music of the UJA-Federation. 4. She was appointed to the Fellows Council of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (www.vcca.com/main/index.php) Sunday, September 11 - The Firefighters' Prayer for baritone and strings performed by Jeffrey Snider, Baritone and the Bancroft String Quartet with Lauren Pierce, contrabass at the University of North Texas' 9/11 Commemoration Ceremony in Denton. The Prayer was also performed that day by the Bach Vespers players and soloist Joseph Chappell at Lincoln Center Firehouse in Manhattan. Sunday, October 9 - Voices of Change performed Wallach's A Revisitation of Myth for piano, viola and mezzo-soprano, Runes and Ritual for piano quartet and Spiritual, based on the words of Langston Hughes at Caruth Auditorium in the Owen Arts Center of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX. Sunday, October 16 - Toward a Time of Renewal for orchestra, chorus & four solo voices was performed by The Old Dominion University Concert Choir, Nancy Klein, Director at Old Dominion University Orchestra, Lucy Manning, Director at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. It was repeated on Friday, October 21 by the same performers at the National Conference of the College Music Society in Richmond, VA. 5. She has been appointed to the Advisory Board of New Music for Young Ensembles. Wednesday, October 26 - Runes and Ritual was featured in a UNT faculty recital by Pamela Mia Paul, piano and Nikola Ruzevic, cello at the College of Music, University of North Texas. Special guests were faculty artists Felix Olschofka and Susan Dubois. New Publications Saturday, October 29 - The Door Standing Open: Faculty Recital: Vocal Music of Joelle Wallach - the program included 12 of her songs, including Spiritual for mezzo soprano and piano, Epistolary, Close Your Eyes and Making Love to the Milkman for soprano and piano, The Cloths of Heaven, The Nightwatch, Assurance and BrokenFaced Gargoyles for tenor and piano, Let Evening Come for mezzo and piano, The Door Standing Open for baritone and piano, two songs from Meow Mix for soprano and piano, When Lost in the Forest (Stand Still) and From the Almanac of Last Things for mezzo and soprano. Joelle's Loveletter, Postmark San Jose, a rhapsody for euphonium and strings was published by Just for Brass in November 2011. Newly expanded biographical articles and entries by Sarah Eyerly will be appearing in the Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd edition and Oxford Music Online (www.oxfordmusiconline.com). About Joelle Wallach Her Runes and Ritual for piano quartet was included as well in this concert at Voertman Hall of UNT's College of Music in Denton. See the concert on YouTube at www.youtube.com/watch? v=OcFjWtcJLzM. Thursday, November 16 - The New York Premiere of Lagrimas y Locuras, Mapping the Mind of a Madwoman - A Lisztian look at La Llorona, performed by pianist Margaret Mills at Manhattan's Church of the Transformation. The piece was commissioned by Ana Cervantes and the Monarca Project. Sunday, December 11 - Lagrimas y Locuras was performed by pianist Ana Cervantes at the Byron House and Museum in Marfil, Guanajuato, Mexico. and, coming in 2012: Saturday, March 3, 6:00 PM New Vocal Work - World Premiere Concert for the Animals, a benefit for the Fairbanks Animal Shelter Fund, performed by The Fairbanks (Alaska) Choral Society at Pioneer Park Centennial Theater. In cooperation with the Fairbanks Parks and Recreation Department. Joelle Wallach is Visiting Professor of Composition at the University of North Texas College of Music music.unt.edu/faculty-andstaff/detail/275. She composes music for orchestra, chamber ensembles, solo voices and choruses. Her String Quartet 1995 was the American Composers Alliance nominee for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize in Music. The New York Philharmonic Ensembles premiered her octet, From the Forest of Chimneys, written to celebrate their 10th anniversary; and the New York Choral Society commissioned her secular oratorio, Toward a Time of Renewal, for 200 voices and orchestra to commemorate their 35th Anniversary Season in Carnegie Hall. Wallach's early training in piano, voice, theory, bassoon and violin included study at the Juilliard Preparatory Division. In 1984 the Manhattan School of Music, where she studied with John Corigliano, granted her its first doctorate in composition. Much more about her at www.joellewallach.com/. QUICK LINKS Joelle Wallach www.joellewallach.com/ University of North Texas College of Music music.unt.edu New York Philharmonic www.nyphil.org Dallas Symphony www.dallassymphony.com/ For more about Joelle Wallach, contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting 45 Grant Avenue Farmingdale, NY 11735 USA Tel: 516-586-3433 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.jamesarts.com Friday, April 20, 8:00 PM Lagrimas y Locuras, performed by pianist Margaret Mills Biennial Convention of the National League of American Pen Women L'Enfant Plaza Hotel, Washington, DC. Monday, April 23, 6:00 PM Doctoral Recital of Pianist Eva Polgar, performing Ms. Wallach's Voices of the Iron Harp and Lagrimas y Locuras - Recital Hall, College of Music, University of North Texas Free Admission - Information at music.unt.edu. Saturday, October 6, 8:00 PM Cassandra's Lament - World Premiere - Commissioned by the Jane Austen Society of North America, Vassar College Women's Chorus, Katherine Lubin, conductor The Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims - 75 Hicks Street, Brooklyn, NY - Information at 718-624-4743 or [email protected]. 2012 Lectures and Events Joelle Wallach continues to be a popular and in-demand speaker about the world of classical music for the New York Philharmonic, Dallas Opera and Dallas Symphony. 2012 engagements include: Tuesday, February 28 at 7:00 PM - Great Conversations - University of N. Texas Honors College Information: 940-565-3305 or [email protected]. New York City's Lincoln Center Thursday, March 15 at 6:30 PM Friday, March 16 at 11:30 AM Tuesday, March 20 at 6:30 PM Saturday, March 27 at 7:00 PM Beethoven and Hartmann - Heroic Responses to Tyranny The New York Philharmonic Pre-Concert Lectures Avery Fischer Hall, Lincoln Center Information and tickets available through the New York Philharmonic 212-875-5656 or www.nyphil.org. Thursday, April 12 at 7:00 PM Friday, April 13 at 7:00 PM Saturday, April 14 at 7:00 PM Sunday, April 15 at 1:30 PM Grieg and Sibelius, Depression, Isolation, Addiction and Creativity Dallas Symphony Performance Preludes Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas, TX Complimentary admission with concert tickets Tickets & information: [email protected] or 214-692-0203 Wednesday, June 20 at 6:30 PM Thursday, June 21 at 6:30 PM Friday, June 22 at 6:30 PM Saturday, June 23 at 6:30 PM The Mature Mozart The New York Philharmonic Pre-Concert Lectures Avery Fischer Hall, Lincoln Center Information and tickets available through the New York Philharmonic 212-875-5656 or www.nyphil.org. Forward email This email was sent to [email protected] by [email protected] | Update Profile/Email Address | Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribeâ„¢ | Privacy Policy. Jeffrey James Arts Consulting | 45 Grant Avenue | Farmingdale | NY | 11735 THIS IS A TEST EMAIL ONLY. 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