Saturday, February 27 at 12, 1 & 2 pm
Adam Marks, piano, Electronics & Voice
Saturday, February 27 at 4, 5 & 6 pm
Michael Kelly, baritone & Brad Moore, piano
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Adam Marks, piano, Electronics & Voice
Program
Set 1 (12 pm)
MARCOS BALTER (b. 1974) – Dream Catcher (2018)
L J WHITE (b. 1984) – Space (2012) text: David Ebenbach
CAROLINE SHAW (b. 1982) – Gustave Le Gray (2012)
ELIZABETHB A. BAKER (b. 1988) – BLACK ON BLACK ON BLACK ON BLACK radical revolutionary rejuvenation within the void (2021) World Premiere
Set 2 (1 pm)
ALEX SHAPIRO (b. 1962) – Spark (2011)
ANSELM McDONNELL (b. 1994) – Building the Tower (2020) text: Euan Tait
inti figgis–vizueta (b. 1993) – a bridge between starshine and clay (2018)
MEREDITH MONK (b. 1942) – Quarry Waltz (1976)
MEREDITH MONK – Window in 7’s (1986)
ANTHONY DAVIS (b. 1951) – Middle Passage (1983)
Set 3 (2 pm)
MARCOS BALTER (b. 1974) – Dream Catcher (2018)
L J WHITE (b. 1984) – Space (2012) text: David Ebenbach
CAROLINE SHAW (b. 1982) – Gustave Le Gray (2012)
ELIZABETHB A. BAKER (b. 1988) – BLACK ON BLACK ON BLACK ON BLACK radical revolutionary rejuvenation within the void (2021) World Premiere
Michael Kelly, baritone & Brad Moore, piano
Program
WINDOWS
Daylight
HOLST (1874–1934) – Ushas
PARRY (1848–1918) – From a City Window
MARTIN/BLANE – “The Boy Next Door” from Meet Me In St. Louis
BOWLES (1910–1999) – A Little Closer Please
NEWMAN (b. 1943) – I Think It’s Going To Rain Today
BUCCHINO (b. 1952) – Not A Cloud In the Sky
MINTZER (b. 1953) – All Is Quiet (arr. Elling)
Midnight
BJÖRK (b. 1965) – Cover Me
AUCOIN (b. 1990) – A Clear Midnight
COLLIER (b. 1994) – In the Real Early Morning
ELLINGTON (1899–1974) – Something To Live For
MUSTO (b. 1954) – Echo
GUETTEL (b. 1964) – Saturn Returns
New Light
ELLINGTON – I Like the Sunrise (arr. Elling)
SOO (b. 1990) – “Times Are Hard For Dreamers” from Amélie
GORDON (b. 1956) – We Will Always Walk Together
HEGGIE (b. 1961) – To a Stranger
SCHWARTZ/TEBELAK – “Beautiful City” from Godspell (1970)
BROWN (b. 1970) – All Things In Time
HERMAN/LAWRENCE/LEE – “Open a New Window” from Mame (1966)
MUSICAL STOREFRONTS
Through mid-March, 2021
Artists and programs will be announced at the storefront on the day of the performance.
This winter, Kaufman Music Center brings live music back to NYC’s Upper West Side with a new pop-up concert series featuring more than 100 of our city’s finest performers, including chamber musicians, soloists, Broadway stars from Hamilton, Tootsie and Company, and artists you’ll know from the Merkin Hall stage. Presented in partnership with the Alphadyne Foundation, Musical Storefronts provides work to artists severely impacted by the cancellation of live performances in a format that takes into account all necessary health and safety measures for both artists and audiences.
To limit crowd size and ensure social distancing, artists and programs will be announced at the storefront on the day of performances. We can’t reveal the UWS location, but it won’t be hard to find!
Special thanks to Jay Dweck, Steinway & Sons, the Lincoln Square Business Improvement District and Milstein Properties.
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When Kaufman Music Center asked me to create a program for their Musical Storefront series, Brad and I got right to work. The place to begin was fairly obvious, to consider what it means to FINALLY get to perform for a live audience after all this time, and also about how we’d like to connect with the audience. We’ve all been through so much this year, and I have a feeling that our individual stories and experiences intersect in many ways. Feelings of fear, loneliness, confusion, and loss have somehow managed to commingle with joy, contentment, connectivity, and above all else, love. None of these feelings came without cost and they all arose from unexpected places, but the one unifying factor is that most of them reverberated through me while in my living room with a pane of glass between me and the rest of the word. We have all been existing in a protective fishbowl, cohabitating with these emotions, looking out from the inside at all of life’s possibilities.
And, here we find ourselves, sharing music and words for the first time in a year, with this pane of glass that still separates us.
I started imagining what a window represents. How light passes through it. How it protects us from the elements. The dangers perceived and unknowable. All the many things you can see through it. People passing by. Seasons changing. Birds flying past and landing on my fire escape. How windows create a frame for a world on the other side of that thin piece of glass, fragile and strong all at once. And how so much can change in your environment by opening or closing one. Such a clear duality.
“Windows” is my story; a year inside, all while looking out through my very own window. Through all the love, the fear, the sorrow and the hope, the days have kept on coming and going, of course. It has all looked very different than I ever could have imagined, and I think it will continue to lack in resemblance to the past. I have worked tirelessly during this time to maintain my craft in order to get to where we find ourselves today, all together, connecting through music.
The program is separated into three sections, both for logistical reasons as well as being a device to tell my story through a purposeful lens. Daylight is a collection of songs that showcase the many coping mechanisms that I employed in the early days of quarantine. These songs capture my intense longing to be with friends and family once again, and my meditative mornings to keep fear at bay. I also found myself during this time called to acts of service and started using my art to help my fellow man through these challenging times, organizing charitable fundraising events and benefit concerts for social justice. Midnight is a journey through the utter weirdness of nighttime and the COVID fatigue we all experienced. Time seemed to hold little meaning for a while. I chose songs that represent the eagerness to break through to the other side of this nightmare and to have something more to look forward to than just long days and nights in solitude. New Light is about what’s next; letting go of the past and finding new pathways to love and light in our everyday lives. So much seems possible. There is endless “new” on the horizon, and we can have it through our collective efforts and encouragement.
Thanks for being with us today and passing by our window.
— M. Kelly
Brad Moore has conducted the world premieres of The House Without a Christmas Tree (Ricky Ian Gordon) and Some Light Emerges (Laura Kaminsky) at Houston Grand Opera, and has led the company’s revival of The Little Prince, as well as performances of Tosca, L’elisir d’amore and The Magic Flute. Mr. Moore has conducted Ariadne auf Naxos, Dead Man Walking, The Cunning Little Vixen and The Crucible at the Miami Music Festival, and Madama Butterfly at the Castleton Festival. He has been Associate Music Director at the Houston Grand Opera, and an assistant conductor at the Metropolitan Opera, Salzburg Festival, Opéra National de Paris, Canadian Opera Company and Los Angeles Opera.
Mr. Moore has performed in recital with many of the world’s great singers including Susan Graham, Renée Fleming, Jamie Barton, Christine Goerke, Angela Meade and Eric Cutler. His discography includes The House Without a Christmas Tree (Gordon/Vavrek) and a recital of American songs with soprano Melody Moore for Pentatone, a recital with Mr. Cutler on the EMI Classics Debut Series, a recital with clarinetist Julian Bliss on Signum Classics, and a recital of songs by American composer Daron Hagen on Arsis Audio.
He has been a piano soloist with orchestras including the National Symphony Orchestra and the Buffalo Philharmonic. He performed the Martinu Concerto for Harpsichord with the San Francisco Ballet for the world premiere of Mark Morris’ Beaux, and has been heard as a recitative accompanist and continuo player with the Met Orchestra, Wiener Philharmoniker, Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Met Chamber Ensemble.
