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The Southern Exposure New Music Series and pianist Marina Lomazov, music, will team up April 25 for a Sunday afternoon of contemporary American music.
The free concert, Marina & Friends, will feature guest artists and USC music faculty and will begin at 3 p.m. in the School of Music Recital Hall. Before the concert, the final of the 2003–04 season, guest composer Pierre Jalbert will discuss his work at a free public lecture from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. in the School of Music, Room 210.
“All of the works are fairly recent and represent the diversity of American musical voices,” said John Fitz Rogers, an assistant professor of composition in the School of Music and artistic director of the Southern Exposure series.
The concert will open with "Hallelujah Junction" (1996), by composer John Adams, featuring Lomazov, an assistant professor of piano, and Joseph Rackers, of Rochester, N.Y., on piano.
“The piece harkens back to an earlier kind of minimalist composition,” Rogers said. “It’s a very exuberant piece. The title is taken from the name of a town on the California-Nevada border.”
Lomazov, William Terwilliger, an associate professor of violin, and Norbert Lewandowski, of the Charleston Symphony, on cello will perform Jalbert’s “Trio” (1998).
“It’s a deeply moving piece,” Rogers said. “The second movement is dedicated to the work of Mother Teresa. It’s a very heart-felt composition and very beautiful.”
Jalbert, currently the composer-in-residence with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and a member of the composition faculty at Rice University in Houston, received his musical training at Oberlin Conservatory and the University of Pennsylvania. He has received numerous awards for his compositions, including a Guggenheim fellowship, BMI and ASCAP awards, a Society of Composer's Award, the Bearns Prize in Composition, and a Tanglewood Music Center fellowship. He received the Rome Prize for 2000–01. He also won the Masterprize from the BBC, a worldwide competition for new orchestral works that attracts thousands of entries.
Following the intermission, Lomazov will perform a solo piano work titled "Touches: Chorale, Eight Variations, and Coda" (1981), by Leonard Bernstein, which was written for the 1981 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.
The concert will end with "Eleven Echoes of Autumn, 1965" (1966), by George Crumb, featuring music professors Constance Lane on alto flute and Douglas Graham on clarinet and Terwilliger, violin, and Lomazov, piano. The piece also will feature special lighting.
“It’s a very evocative piece that uses unusual sounds from all the instruments,” Rogers said. “The concert will feature a range of pieces, all very different in character. I’m very pleased to have Marina Lomazov’s participation in both organizing and performing, as well as our guest artists and faculty members.”
Plans for the 2004–05 Southern Exposure New Music Series include a performance by the So Percussion Quartet from New York City in the fall; a concert co-organized with Reginald Bain, an associate professor of composition, for electronic and computer media; and a concert with pianist Phillip Bush, who recently moved to Columbia.
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