Adams Concerts at CMU
From Walter Morales, Director of the Carnegie Mellon Contemporary Ensemble
Dear friends and colleagues,
The School of Music of Carnegie Mellon University is presenting two free concerts featuring the music of John Adams.
We start our John Adams Week on Saturday, March 14 th with a Piano Recital featuring China Gates, American Berserk, and Hallelujah Junction with pianists Robert Frankenberry and Jack Kurutz. The program also includes Alan Hovhaness’ Mihr, Ko-ola-u, and Vijag with pianists Jack Kurutz and Billie Jo Miller. The recital on Saturday, March 14th is at 5 PM and it is free to the public.
The following weekend (March 21) Jack Kurutz, Robert Frankenberry and the Carnegie Mellon Contemporary Ensemble under the direction of Walter Morales will give the Pittsburgh Premiere of John Adams’ Grand Pianola Music.
The Carnegie Mellon Contemporary Ensemble concert on Saturday, March 21st will also feature the World Premieres of Sookyung Sul’s Cello Concerto and Chad Robinson’s Fools Cry. Also in the program is Arnold Schoenberg’s Verklaerte Nacht in its original string sextet version. The Contemporary Ensemble concert on Saturday, March 21st is at 5 PM and it is free to the public.
March 11, 2009 at 9:17 pm