[Dixielandjazz] Childhood & Music

[Gary Kiser]

For those in the Boston area, I got the following from Eli Newberger.  I 
fear the HTML won't pass on the list.  If you don't see anything after 
the "Eli Newberger wrote:" then try this link.

http://bostonclassicalorchestra.org/schedule/program4.html

All the best, Gary


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> *Childhood & Music  
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> A Girl and Her Horn (painting by Carolyn Newberger) 
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> A Girl and Her Horn (painting by Carolyn Newberger)
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> *Friday, March 16 at 8 pm
> Sunday, March 18 at 3 pm*
> Faneuil Hall
> Free pre-concert lecture one hour before each concert.
> Free post-concert discussion with composer Howard Frazin immediately 
> following each concert.
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> March's program offers a delightful mix of music about (and by!) 
> children. Two generations of Mozarts are represented: Wolfgang by his 
> sparkling "Eine kleine Nachtmusik," and his father Leopold by the 
> witty "Toy Symphony." Two generations of tuba players join forces as 
> Boston Symphony principal *Mike Roylance* 
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> and pediatrician/jazz musician *Eli Newberger * 
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> the world premiere of *Howard Frazin's* 
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> "Theme and Reverberations," a neo-Classical work that musically traces 
> childhood development and the resilience of personality. Debussy's 
> suite of evocative miniatures calls up the nursery and the playroom.
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> Plus, Mike & Eli promise a little jazz to close out the concert!
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> This concert marks the BCO debut of Roylance and Newberger.
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> *World Premiere "Themes & Reverberations for Two Tubas & Orchestra" by 
> Howard Frazin*
> Howard Frazin 
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> Howard Frazin
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> In 2003 composer Howard Frazin 
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> wrote The Voice of Isaac, an oratorio for children's chorus, soloists, 
> and chamber orchestra --- a retelling of the story of Abraham and 
> Isaac from the child's perspective. One of the performances was a 
> benefit for a child welfare organization, and a symposium was 
> organized around issues of child abuse and intergenerational violence. 
> The panel included Frazin and pediatrician Eli Newberger --- the first 
> time the two had met. Steve Lipsitt learned that the two had begun 
> discussing a possible tuba concerto --- Steve had known Howie's music 
> for several years, and was a big fan Eli's tuba playing with the New 
> Black Eagle Jazz Band --- and immediately expressed interest. When 
> Mike Roylance was appointed principal tuba of the Boston Symphony, and 
> Howie and Steve learned that Mike and Eli were old friends, the 
> project took on a life of its own.
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> Howard Frazin 
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> makes the following observations: "What I am interested in as a 
> creative artist is a strong, expressively nuanced statement that is 
> challenging but also immediately engaging to an average listener --- 
> engaging in part because it interacts with tradition to create 
> something new. Theme and Reverberations considers as its premise the 
> notion of the tuba as the acoustic fundament of the orchestra and 
> childhood experience as the psychological foundation for adult life. 
> The idea has been to write an abstract piece of music whose drama and 
> expression are manifestations of a structured psychological 
> description (in a sense,
> similar to the way Classical sonata form was originally derived from 
> rules of rhetoric)."
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> The score bears the dedication "To Amelia" --- Mike and Amanda 
> Roylance welcomed their first child during the period of collaborative 
> preparation for these premiere performances.
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> /T//his piece was commissioned by the Boston Classical Orchestra with 
> partial funding provided by a generous grant from John & Harriet Carey. /
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