The Generous Ensemble commissions highly entertaining, challenging music and is determined to bring these important works to the widest possible audience. Based in Hartford Connecticut, they are designed to be a development lab for the most talented, persnickety, and exciting young composers in the world.
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016 is a new music ensemble based in Hartford, CT. Why 016? The name is a reference to the three-note cell perhaps better known as {0,1,6} in musical set theory, a three-note cell common in a great deal of twentieth century music.
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The Hartford Independent Chamber Orchestra is a Hartford-based ensemble devoted to enrichment through superb artistry. The ensemble forges its unique path through the canon of musical literature, engaging audiences across Greater Hartford and beyond with programming aimed at broadening understanding of chamber music.
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All concerts presented free of charge
Friday, October 11th, 2013
Charter Oak Cultural Center, 8:00 pm FREE
Crusher for Guitar and Piano
Michael Schelle, U.S. premiere
Additional selections to feature Neely Bruce, Michael Schelle and local composers.
016 is a new music ensemble based in Hartford, CT. Why 016? The name is a reference to the threenote cell perhaps better known as {0,1,6} in musical set theory, a three-note cell common in a great deal of
twentieth century music. We are, in fact, dedicated to performing the works of contemporary composers in the
classical music tradition. The Ensemble has been chosen to represent an equal representation of our resident
composers as an introduction via chamber music as well as highlighting Hartford’s local composers.
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Sunday, October 13th, 2013
Charter Oak Cultural Center, 12pm – 11:59pm One Man Marathon Concert FREE
Racing with Rabbits
Michael Schelle
Meticulous (…comfort…)
Max Wanderman, world premiere
Box Piece
Meredith Gilna
This is Not A Drum
Joshua Morris
The Inevitable Sum of What Life has Done to Me
Scott Comanzo, world premiere
Grig no. 4
Zane Merritt, world premiere
To Bono, With Love
Matthew Kennedy, world premiere
blocks (or bricks)
Brooks Frederickson, world premiere
Kevin Good is a percussionist/composer based in the Hartford area who specializes in interdisciplinary performance art. In his most grueling challenge to date he will perform a marathon concert/fast at the Charter Oak Cultural Center Gallery, multi-tasking an homage to the New York Armory show of 1913, the 50th anniversary of fluxus and Michael Schelle’s passion for teaching young composers to experiment and go “off the charts.” Along with our 1913 anniversary, 2013 is also the anniversary of the Fluxus Manifesto written by George Maciunas. Seven young professionals and former students of Michael Schelle from Hartford and around the country have contributed pieces of music that will stretch your imagination in an homage to the spirit of 1913 and the spirit of Fluxus that has been lost in the art and culture of present day United States.
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Thursday, October 17th, 2013
Charter Oak Cultural Center, 7:30 pm FREE
I wanted to destroy something beautiful
Dan Morel, world premiere
Syrinx
Claude Debussy
Through the Bright Lights of Hell
Michael Schelle, world premiere
The first world premiere from our resident composers performed by combined ensembles The Hartford Independent Chamber Orchestra and The Generous Ensemble comes from Michael Schelle, accompanied by a world premiere for the Generous Ensemble written by Hartford resident Dan Morel, and from the year 1913 a ground breaking solo flute piece by Debussy performed by the Generous Ensemble’s Mary Matthews.
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Friday, October 18th, 2013
Trinity College Chapel, 8:00 pm
compositions by Wesleyan alumni who worked with Neely Bruce
Gathering Light
Benjamin Broening
Companion
Edward Jessen
Theme and Mutations
Brett Terry
The Lonely Chant
Walter Frank
From the Diary of an Organaut
Keith Moore
Aurora Borealis
Liang Liang
INTERMISSION
Skin
Judy Dunaway
Solo organ work TBA
Brian Parks
L’orgueilleux
Chris McDonald
Two movements from Garden
Chris Jonas
This Concert Features The West End String Quartet
Benjamin Broening, Chair, Music Department, University of Richmond (B.A. Wesleyan, late 80’s)
Edward Jessen, Professor of Composition, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music (M.A. Wesleyan, late 90’s)
Brett Terry, Principal Analyst, Sonanalysts Inc., Waterford, CT (B.A. Wesleyan, late 80’s)
Walter Frank, a native of Argentina. Teaches music at various schools in Buenos Aires (M.A. Wesleyan, early 2000’s)
Keith Moore, Profesor of Theory and Composition, University of Indianapolis, Athens (Greece) Campus (M.A. Wesleyan, early 90’s)
Liang Liang, Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Texas Austin (M.A. Wesleyan, late 90’s)
Judy Dunaway, Visiting Lecturer, Massuchusetts College of Art, Boston (M.A. Wesleyan, late 90’s)
Brian Parks, Instructor, Naugatuck Valley Community College. Director of Music, First Church of Church Congregational, Suffield, CT (two M.A.’s Wesleyan, 2010, 2013)
Chris McDonald, Freelance Music Producer and Visual Artist (B.A. Wesleyan, 2006)
Chris Jonas, Founding Director, Littleglobe (M.A. Wesleyan, early 90’s)
Neely Bruce’s influence on the musical life of Central Connecticut is often overlooked as his students have traveled and settled around the world. This second progeny concert of the festival once again features the craft passed down and extreme variation of musical expression in a unique performance space of the Trinity College Chapel.
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The Unanswered Question
Charles Ives
The Spite of Thokk
Lief Ellis
Antiphonies for Charlie
Neely Bruce, world premiere
The second world premiere from our resident composers performed by combined ensembles The Hartford Independent Chamber Orchestra and The Generous Ensemble comes from Neely Bruce, accompanied by a 1913-era piece by the focus of Neely Bruce’s piece – Charles Ives – and a solo Bass piece written by Hartford resident Lief Ellis performed by the Generous Ensemble’s Evan Runyon.
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Antiphonies for Charlie
Neely Bruce
Through the Bright Lights of Hell
Michael Schelle
A final opportunity to hear these Pulitzer-worthy new works by the most exciting composers of their generation who have generously graced Hartford with their immense talents and transformative music.
